Populist Strategies in African Democracies

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Where this source is used

• Resnick classifies Michael Sata's 2006 campaign as a populist strategy that combined anti-elite appeals to urban poor voters with other appeals intended to build a wider electoral coalition.

  • supports · pp. 15–22, Zambia case

• Resnick reports that Sata linked incumbent elites and Chinese investors to poor labor conditions and exclusion during the 2006 campaign.

  • supports · pp. 17–20

• The 2001–2008 Patriotic Front case supports a bounded strategy classification; it does not make urban poverty, anti-Chinese rhetoric, or personal leadership sufficient definitions of populism.

  • supports · pp. 4–6 and 15–22