1. Introduction: institutions and ethnic politics

Part I. Accounting for the Ethnic Cleavage Structure: 2. Accounting for Zambia's ethnic cleavage structure I: the emergence of tribal identities in colonial northern Rhodesia

3. Accounting for Zambia's ethnic cleavage structure II: the emergence of language identities in colonial northern Rhodesia

Part II. Accounting for Ethnic Coalition-Building Choices: 4. Ethnicity and ethnic politics in post-independence Zambia

5. Explaining changing patterns of ethnic politics

Part III. Testing the Model: 6. Competing explanations

7. Ethnic campaigning: testing the observable implications of the model for elite behavior

8. Ethnic voting: testing the observable implications of the model for mass behavior

Part IV. Beyond Zambia: 9. Regime change and ethnic politics in Africa

10. Beyond regime change, beyond Africa

Appendix A: Native authorities and tribal identifications

Appendix B: Survey and focus group methodologies

Appendix C: Tribal affiliations of parliamentary candidates

Appendix D: Tribal demographies of electoral constituencies.