Afro barometer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan polling institute that conducts surveys on topics such as democracy, governance and the economy in Africa . The head office is in Accra , Ghana .

history

Three independent research projects led by the co-founders of the Afrobarometer, Michael Bratton, Robert Mattes and Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, merged to form the Afrobarometer in 1999. The three core partners are: Michigan State University , the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) and the Center for Democratic Development in Ghana (CDD-Ghana). Michael Bratton was the first managing director of the Afrobarometer. As of 2020 Gyimah-Boadi is Executive Director of the Afrobarometer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Ghana .

In 2004 Afrobarometer received the "Best Data Set Award" from the American Political Science Association .

Presentation of survey results

The institute, which is also known as the research network, has carried out six rounds of surveys in up to 37 African countries since 1999. The focus of the surveys is on reform-oriented or democratic countries such as Benin , Ghana , Kenya , Mali , Nigeria , Senegal , South Africa and Tanzania . Opinion poll results are shared with decision makers, policy advocates, educators, journalists, researchers, donors and investors, as well as active citizens.

According to its own information, the Afrobarometer currently covers 21 survey topics: conflict and crime, democracy, elections, gender equality, governance, identity, macroeconomics and markets, political participation, poverty, public services, social capital, tolerance, access to justice, citizenship , China, Energy Supply and Pan-Africanism / Regionalism.

Afrobarometer is rated as one of the world's best institutional collaborations between two or more think tanks in the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, published by the Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the Afrobarometer survey 2018 in Johannesburg. November 28, 2018, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Christopher Coenen, Ulrich Riehm: Development through networking: Information and communication technologies in Africa . edition sigma, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8360-8126-9 ( google.com [accessed April 4, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi: Democratic Reform in Africa: The Quality of Progress . Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004, ISBN 978-1-58826-246-2 ( google.com [accessed April 4, 2020]).
  4. ^ Robert Mattes | Afro barometer. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ E. Gyimah-Boadi | Afro barometer. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Our history | Afro barometer. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ The Independent: COMMENT: Insights into Afrobarometer polling. In: The Independent Uganda :. May 31, 2017, Retrieved April 10, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ Countries | Afro barometer. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Results of the Afrobarometer survey 2018 in Johannesburg. November 28, 2018, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Michael Bratton, Robert Mattes, E. Gyimah-Boadi: Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa . Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-60291-4 ( google.com [accessed April 4, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Briefing papers | Afro barometer. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Survey topics | Afro barometer. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  13. ↑ African think tanks make their mark. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .