ABSTRACT Parties are thought to organise democratic legislatures by influencing the voting behaviour of individual legislators. We examine whether parties and party coalitions influence the behaviour of legislators in Kenya. Ethnicity has been seen as the driver of party and electoral politics in Kenya and therefore Kenya provides a hard test of the proposition that political parties organise the legislature in Africa. Analysing roll-call voting in the 11th Parliament (2013–2017), we find that both political parties and coalitions induce structure to roll-call voting, although clientelism and ethnicity continue to influence the behaviour of MPs.

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政党对肯尼亚议会唱名投票的影响

摘要 政党被认为通过影响个别立法者的投票行为来组织民主立法机构。我们研究政党和政党联盟是否影响肯尼亚立法者的行为。种族一直被视为肯尼亚政党和选举政治的驱动力，因此肯尼亚为政党组织非洲立法机构的命题提供了严峻的考验。分析第 11 届议会（2013-2017 年）的唱名投票，我们发现政党和联盟都诱导了唱名投票的结构，尽管仆从主义和种族继续影响国会议员的行为。