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% |
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| Missouri B | Missouri A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Squidward Community College | SIUE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL H2O | WUSTL XYZ | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |