Replication Data for: Partisan Portfolio Allocation in African Democracies

What determines partisan portfolio allocation in African democracies? Despite the vast literature on govern-ment formation in Europe and Latin America, there have been no studies of partisan portfolio allocation inAfrica. Although coalition governments are increasingly common in Africa, most studies focus on nationalleaders, and, thus, we know little about how ministerial posts are divided among cabinet parties. Using anoriginal dataset of coalition governments in Africa from 1990 to 2014, we show that existing theories of par-tisan portfolio allocation can be successfully applied to African democracies. We find that African partiesreceive ministerial portfolios in rough proportion to their size, that formateur parties in Africa receive moreministerial portfolios than their European counterparts, and that the ‘formateur bonus’ is greater in Africa’spresidential democracies than in its parliamentary ones. Our analyses suggest that scholars can benefit frompaying more attention to both coalition governments and legislatures in their analyses of African politics.