Nomination Violence in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement

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Abstract Institutional explanations of intra-party violence rarely address political economy dynamics shaping the institutions in question, and therefore they fail to understand their emergence stability. Specifically, focusing on institutional factors alone does not enable a nuanced understanding candidate nomination why some constituencies are peaceful while others violent. This article theorizes dominant-party systems sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing settlement theory, it examines nature Uganda’s October 2015 National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries. We argue that is constitutive part under NRM. Nomination procedures remain weak order for NRM ruling elite include multiple factions compete access being able intervene election process when needed. means, turn, tends become particularly prominent characterized by proxy wars, where competition between local candidates reinforced conflict among central-level elites president’s inner circle. call war thesis be tested case studies other dominant parties’ processes.

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عنوان ژورنال: African Affairs

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1468-2621', '0001-9909']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adab013