cleavages - 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial

Question

In studying the political salience of these divisions, D. N. Posner argued that the Chewa and Tumbuka are allies in Zambia but adversaries in Malawi due community size relative to the national political arena. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these large-scale sociocultural divisions which align with differing political interests. In 1967, Lipset and Rokkan found that these divisions determined party systems and voter alignment in Western Europe.

ANSWER: cleavages

[10e] Accounting for “political relevance,” Posner found that ethnic fractionalization correlates inversely with this variable in Africa. This variable is calculated as the percent rate of increase in GDP.

ANSWER: economic growth

[10m] Factoring out the Kalanga and San gives this wealthy country zero politically-relevant fractionalization. In Why Nations Fail, this country’s successfully-managed diamond industry is contrasted with Zimbabwe’s failures.

ANSWER: Botswana

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	20.00	80%	100%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	3	20.00	67%	67%	67%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Oxford	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Durham	10	10	10	30
Warwick	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Bristol	0	10	10	20