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SUMMARY:When There’s No Party\, Nobody Comes: Campaign Rally Attendance 
 in Rural Tanzania - Dan Paget\, (Oxford)
DTSTART:20160302T130000Z
DTEND:20160302T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Convening campaign rallies is thought to be something that pol
 itical parties can do in the absence of strong party organisation. Existin
 g work by Jeremy Horowitz contends that presidential candidates’ rallies
  can be deployed as substitutes for campaigning by local party organs and 
 low-level electoral candidates. Consequently\, parties use their president
 ial candidate rallies to plug the gaps by concentrating them in swing area
 s where their party is organisationally weak. In this paper\, using qualit
 ative data from the 2015 Tanzanian general election campaign\, I show that
  parliamentary candidates behave the other way around. To be precise\, the
 y concentrate their rallies where their party is organisationally strong. 
 I present evidence in three parts to show that this pattern of rally dispe
 rsion arises in response to the risk of low rally attendance. Firstly\, pa
 rliamentary candidates’ rallies are vulnerable to dynamics of crowd non-
 formation and crowd dispersion that occur at rallies in Tanzania. Secondly
 \, local party organs can protect rallies from those dynamics by mobilisin
 g attendance. Thirdly\, parliamentary candidates concentrate their rallies
  where they are organisationally strong to protect them from the risk of h
 aving no audiences.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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