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SUMMARY:Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian
  Voter Records - Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsi
 n - Madison)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250211T170000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250211T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Following a democratic transition\, new political identities a
 nd cleavages can emerge or those repressed under autocracy can re-emerge. 
 In new democracies\, groups that were repressed often punish political act
 ors associated with the ancien regime. Examining the first municipal elect
 ions after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia\, we find that tribal
  identities – marginalized under authoritarian rule – (re)emerged as a
  politically salient identity. Despite decades of policies designed to sup
 press tribes\, our findings demonstrate that tribal identity influenced re
 cent electoral politics. Based on an analysis of the complete universe of 
 Tunisian voters and candidates\, we find that lists running candidates who
  share a common tribal identity with the underlying local population recei
 ved a greater share of the vote. Counterintuitively\, the country’s main
  authoritarian successor party\, Nidaa Tounes\, disproportionately benefit
 ed from the tribal advantage. We theorize that this is the result of an in
 formational advantage that authoritarian successor parties have over their
  rivals. While the main parties ran tribal candidates at roughly equal rat
 es\, Nidaa Tounes was the only party to place tribal candidates on its lis
 ts at higher rates in areas on the administrative periphery where the elec
 toral payoff was largest.\nSpeakers:\nAssociate Professor Steven Brooke (U
 niversity of Wisconsin - Madison)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (MEC Boardroom\, Kirdar Building\, 68 Woodsto
 ck Road)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/44ece8da-9d7a-40b8-92aa-0b25bae08ca8/
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