Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303214 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/24/018
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The objective of the paper is to investigate the legitimacy of the African Union by examining the socio-demographic determinants of citizens' support of African integration. To do this, we use Rounds 4, 5, 6 and 8 of the Afrobarometer survey data corresponding to more than 110 000 respondents. Using logistics regressions, we find that individual characteristics such as living area, education, employment status, political membership, freedom, living condition and Living Poverty Index (LPI) are significantly related to the probability of supporting African integration. The findings are largely robust to dynamics of regional integration, the African Union and Regional Economic Communities (RECs). Thus, since African citizens' trust in the unification could be considered as a condition of legitimacy in the process, our results suggest that more efforts should be done to gain credibility, especially as it pertains to the benefits of African integration.
Subjects: 
Institutional support
Afrobarometer survey
African Union
JEL: 
C23
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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