Publications

Primus, S., Gyimah-Boadi, E. (2018). Dedicated Democrats against the Global Trend? Attitudes towards Democracy in Africa. International Reports (Ai) 2018 (4): 48-59.

El-Malik, S. S., & Kamola, I. A. (Eds.). (2017). Politics of African anticolonial archive. Rowman & Littlefield.

Schwartz, S. (2021). Return without Refoulement: How states avoid hosting refugees after recognition. In Paper presented ?n Authors workshop at Centre of Global Cooperat?on Research (Vol. 27).

Schwartz, S. (2019). Home, again: Refugee return and post-conflict violence in Burundi. International Security, 44(2), 110-145.

Schwartz, S. (2019). Sending refugees back makes the world more dangerous. China Watch, https://foreignpolicy. com/2019/11/27/sending-refugees-back-makes-the-world-more-dangerous/(accessed January 2020).

Schwartz, S. (2018). Homeward bound: Return migration and local conflict after civil war. Columbia University.

Straus, S. (2023). Introduction: Rwanda Twenty Years after the Genocide. African Affairs, 122(487), e27-e29.

Straus, S. (2023). The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914-2020. Cambridge University Press

Straus, S. (2019). The limits of a genocide lens: Violence against Rwandans in the 1990s. Journal of Genocide Research, 21(4), 504-524.

Straus, S. (2019). The order of genocide: Race, power, and war in Rwanda. Cornell University Press.

Straus, S. (2015). Making and unmaking nations: War, leadership, and genocide in modern Africa. Cornell University Press.

Straus, S. (2012). Wars do end! Changing patterns of political violence in sub-Saharan Africa. African affairs, 111(443), 179-201.

Straus, S. (2005). Darfur and the genocide debate. Foreign Aff., 84, 123.

Straus, S., & Driscoll, B. (2021). International studies: global forces, interactions, and tensions. CQ Press.

Straus, S., & Waldorf, L. (Eds.). (2011). Remaking Rwanda: State building and human rights after mass violence. Univ of Wisconsin Press.

Liu, S. X. (2022). How war-related deprivation affects political participation: Evidence from education loss in Liberia. Journal of Peace Research, 59(3), 353-366.

Zonszein, S., & Grossman, G. (2022). Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters. OSF Preprints. July, 5.

Postcolonialism, the politics of ethnic and religious identity, and the role of women in African society and politics have become important, and often connected, foci in African studies. Here, fifteen chapters explore these themes in tandem. With essays that span the continent, this volume showcases the political histories, challenges, and promise of contemporary Africa. Written in honor of Crawford Young, a foundational figure in the study of African politics, the essays reflect the breadth and intellectual legacy of this towering scholar and illustrate the vast impact Young had, and continues to have, on the field. The book’s themes build from his seminal publications, and the essays were written by leading scholars who were trained by Young.

One of the most consistent findings on UN peace operations (UNPOs) is that they contribute to peace. Existing scholarship argues this is because UNPOs' peacekeeping troops solve the security dilemma that inhibits combatant disarmament and prevents their political leaders from sharing power. We argue that existing scholarship's focus on peacekeeping troops overlooks UNPOs’ role in enabling governments to implement redistributive power-sharing reforms contained in peace agreements, along with their broader peace processes. While peacekeeping troops can help belligerents refrain from violence, military force alone cannot explain how political elites implement redistributive reforms that threaten their status. We argue that UNPOs that have predominant peacebuilding (as opposed to peacekeeping) mandates help sustain political elites’ commitment to implementing peace agreement reforms and, thus, contribute to inclusive peace (increased political inclusion and reduced violence). We test our argument using a data set on UNPO mandates and original fieldwork on three sequential UNPOs in Burundi.

Coen, T., Hughes, S. M., Ribar, M., Valletta, W., & Velyvis, K. (2019). Evaluation of the Irrigation and Water Resource Management Project in Senegal: Interim Evaluation Report. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research.

Curtice, T. (2023). Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda. Journal of Peace Research, 60(3), 395-409.

Curtice, T. (2021). How repression affects public perceptions of police: evidence from a natural experiment in Uganda. Journal of Conflict resolution, 65(10), 1680-1708.

Curtice, T. B., & Behlendorf, B. (2021). Street-level repression: Protest, policing, and dissent in Uganda. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 65(1), 166-194.

Devereaux Evans, T. (2023). Conflict and Coalition: Securing LGBT Rights in the Face of Hostility. Comparative Political Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231193012

Devereaux Evans, T., Van de Walle, N. (2019). The impact of foreign aid. in Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa ed. Gabrielle Lynch and Peter VonDoepp. Routledge Handbooks Online.

Dunning, T., Grossman, G., Humphreys, M., Hyde, S. D., McIntosh, C., & Nellis, G. (Eds.). (2019). Information, accountability, and cumulative learning: Lessons from Metaketa I. Cambridge University Press.

Gerzso, T. (2023) Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102653

Gerzso, T., & van de Walle, N. (2022). The politics of legislative expansion in Africa. Comparative Political Studies, 55(14), 2315-2348.

Gerzso, T., van de Walle, N. (2022) The expansion of African legislatures threatens to undermine parliaments. Africa at LSE (27 Apr 2022). Blog Entry.

Goyal, T. (2021). Representation from below: how women mobilize inside parties (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oxford).

Goyal, T. (2020) Not My Role Model: How Gender Norms Overturn Symbolic Effects. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4023697

Goyal, T. (2020). Local female representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India. Available at SSRN 3590118.

Goyal, T. (2020). How Women Mobilize Women Into Politics: A Natural Experiment in India. SSRN.

Goyal, T., & Harding, R. (2021). Do Voters in Local Elections Prefer Campaign Promises About Attributable Policies?. Available at SSRN 3886411.

Lightcap, T. L. (2022). Reshaping Court Systems: Issue Environments and the Establishment of Drug Courts. Justice System Journal, 43(3), 412-431.

Lightcap, T. (2019). The Metastasis of Torture: How Torture Develops In Law Enforcement Agencies In Democracies.

Lightcap, T. L. (2017). Academic governance and democratic processes: The entrepreneurial model and its discontents. In Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy (pp. 62-76). Routledge.

Lightcap, T. (2010). To Be or Not to Be: Torture, American Politics, and America's Future. New Political Science, 32, 2.

Lightcap, T., & Pfiffner, J. (Eds.). (2014). Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression. Springer.

and Expectations of Police Bias. Comparative Political Studies. Forthcoming.

Foreign Influence in Libya. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2: 1-57.

Lyons, T. (2020). From victorious rebels to strong authoritarian parties: prospects for postwar democratization (vol 23, pg 1026, 2016). DEMOCRATIZATION, 27(8), 1557-1557.

Lyons, T. (2007). Conflict-generated diasporas and transnational politics in Ethiopia: Analysis. Conflict, Security & Development, 7(4), 529-549.

Lyons, T. (2005). Demilitarizing Politics: elections on the uncertain road to peace. Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Lyons, T. (2004). Post-conflict elections and the process of demilitarizing politics: the role of electoral administration. Democratization, 11(3), 36-62.

Lyons, T., & Samatar, A. I. (2010). Somalia: State collapse, multilateral intervention, and strategies for political reconstruction. Brookings Institution Press.

Same-Sex Rights in Uganda. Comparative Political Studies, 56(5): 694-725.

Paulsen, T., Scheve, K., & Stasavage, D. (2023). Foundations of a new democracy: schooling, inequality, and voting in the early republic. American Political Science Review, 117(2), 518-536.

Samore, T., Fessler, D. M., Sparks, A. M., Holbrook, C., Aaroe, L., Baeza, C. G., ... & Wang, X. T. (2023). Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies.

Yamanis, T., Carlitz, R., Gonyea, O., Skaff, S., Kisanga, N., & Mollel, H. (2023). Confronting chaos': a qualitative study assessing public health officials' perceptions of the factors affecting Tanzania's COVID-19 vaccine rollout. BMJ open, 13(1), e065081.

I assess the efficiency of transport networks for every country in Africa. Using spatial data from various sources, I simulate trade flows over more than 70,000 links covering the entire continent. I maximise over the space of networks and find the optimal road system for every African state. My simulations predict that Africa would gain 1.3% of total welfare from reorganising its national road systems, and 0.8% from optimally expanding it by a tenth. I then construct a dataset of local network inefficiency and find that colonial infrastructure projects significantly skew trade networks towards a sub-optimal equilibrium today. I find suggestive evidence that regional favouritism played a role sustaining these imbalances.

Azarya, V., & Chazan, N. (2018). Disengagement from the State in Africa: Reflections on the Experience of Ghana and Guinea. In Africa (pp. 110-136). Routledge.

Banerjee, V., & Holmes, C. E. (2020). Checking trust: observing social capital at the individual level. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 58(2), 213-234.

Bauer, V., Platas, M. R., & Weinstein, J. M. (2022). Legacies of Islamic rule in Africa: Colonial responses and contemporary development. World Development, 152, 105750.

Chlouba, V. (2022). Liberation Wars as Critical Junctures: Colonial Heritage and the Persistence of Inequality. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 3(2), 149-181.

Chlouba, V. (2022). The Politics of Respect: Norms-Based Compliance and Traditional Governance in Namibia [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1650531857353061

Chlouba, V., Smith, D. S., & Wagner, S. (2022). Early statehood and support for autocratic rule in Africa. Comparative Political Studies, 55(4), 688-724.

Chlouba, V., Pierskalla, J. H., & Wibbels, E. (2023). Historical Exposure to Statehood, Ethnic Exclusion, and Compliance with the State. Journal of Historical Political Economy, 3(1), 125-160.

Chlouba, V., Mukim, M., & Zaveri, E. (2023). After Big Droughts Come Big Cities: Does Drought Drive Urbanization?.

Razakamaharavo, V. (2021) Implications of Emerging Technologies on Peace and Security in Africa, Conflict Trends 21.2

Razakamaharavo, V. (2020). Exploring the conflict-readiness of parties: the dynamics of proclivity towards violence and/or conflict in Madagascar. African Journal on Conflict Resolution 20.2: 37-64.

Razakamaharavo, V. T. (2019). Exploring the Roles Metanarratives Play in the Dynamics of Conflict Recurrence in Madagascar: 1947-2016. Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, 42, 80-104. https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.42.4

Wang, V., Muriaas, R. L., & Bauer, G. (2023). Funding demands and gender in political recruitment: What parties do in Cabo Verde and Ghana. International Political Science Review, 44(1), 77-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/01925121211049096

van den Boogaard, V., & Santoro, F. (2023). Co?financing community?driven development through informal taxation: Evidence from south?central Somalia. Governance, 36(2), 499-531.

Fokum, V. Y., Fonjong, L. N., & Adams, M. J. (2020, May). Increasing women's representation in the Cameroon parliament: Do numbers really matter?. In Women's Studies International Forum (Vol. 80, p. 102369). Pergamon.

Sandholtz, W. A., Carroll, P., Nielson, D. L., Myamba, F., Price, J., & Roessler, P. (2022). Can loss aversion increase savings? Experimental evidence from Tanzania. Experimental Evidence from Tanzania.

Sandholtz, W. A., Carroll, P., Nielson, D. L., Myamba, F., Price, J., & Roessler, P. (2022). Can loss aversion increase savings? Experimental evidence from Tanzania. Experimental Evidence from Tanzania.

Reinicke, W. H. D., Witte, F., Benner, J. M., Whitaker, T., & Beth Gershman, J. (2001). Critical choices: The United Nations, networks, and the future of global governance.

Nomikos, W. G. (2022) Impartiality among UN Peacekeepers is key to ending communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa at LSE (30 Sep 2022). Blog Entry.

Nomikos, W. G. (2022). Peacekeeping and the enforcement of intergroup cooperation: Evidence from Mali. The Journal of Politics, 84(1), 194-208.

Nomikos, W. G., ?ener, ?. E., & Williams, R. (2023). UN Peacekeeping and Varieties of Violence.

Nomikos, W. G., Sener, I., & Williams, R. (2021). Does UN Peacekeeping Protect Civilians? Evidence from the Border Between Burkina Faso and Mali.

Rahn, W. M., Krosnick, J. A., & Breuning, M. (1994). Rationalization and derivation processes in survey studies of political candidate evaluation. American Journal of Political Science, 582-600.

Reno, W. (2023). The international factor in African warfare. In Africa in World Politics (pp. 121-140). Routledge.

Reno, W. (2023). The Changing Foundations of Governance by Armed Groups. In Armed Conflict Survey 2017 (pp. 50-61). Routledge.

Reno, W. (2021). How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond.

Reno, W. (1998). Warlord politics and African states. Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Reno, W. (1995). Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone. In Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone. Cambridge University Press; African Studies Series, 83.

Reno, W. (2000). Shadow states and the political economy of civil wars. Greed and grievance: Economic agendas in civil wars, 43-68.

Reno, W. (2011). Warfare in independent Africa (Vol. 5). Cambridge University Press.

Reno, W. (2000). Clandestine economies, violence and states in Africa. Journal of international affairs, 433-459.

Wang, X., Pearson, M. M., & McCauley, J. F. (2022). Foreign direct investment, unmet expectations, and the prospects of political leaders: Evidence from Chinese investment in Africa. The Journal of Politics, 84(3), 1403-1419.

Biberman, Y., & Turnbull, M. (2018). When militias provide welfare: Lessons from Pakistan and Nigeria. Political Science Quarterly, 133(4), 695-727.

Brel-Fournier, Y., & Morrison, M. K. (2021). The Predicament of Europe's Last Dictator'. International Area Studies Review, 24(3), 169-192.

Pengl, Y. I., Cederman, L.-E. (2022). Digging Deeper: On the Role of Grievances in African Mining Conflicts. In Natural Resources, Inequality and Conflict, eds. Hamid E. Ali and Lars-Erik Cederman. Palgrave Macmillan.

Pengl, Y. I., & Roessler, P. (2022). The Economic Foundations of Powersharing: Evidence from Africa.

Pengl, Y. I., Roessler, P., & Rueda, V. (2022). Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa. American Political Science Review, 116(1), 181-199. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000782

Morse, Y. L. (2012). The era of electoral authoritarianism. World Politics, 64(1), 161-198.

Morse, Y. (2022). Authoritarian regimes rely on candidate selection to constrain legislatures. Africa at LSE

Morse, Y. L. (2022). Pathways to power in authoritarian regimes: civil service, multipartyism and legislative selection in Cameroon. Government and Opposition, 57(3), 490-507.

Morse, Y. L. (2021). The legislature as political control: change and continuity in Cameroon's National Assembly (1973-2019). The Journal of Modern African Studies, 59(4), 485-506.

Morse, Y. L. (2020). Rebuilding, rebranding, and competitive landscapes: a set-theoretic analysis of authoritarian successor parties. Democratization, 27(8), 1477-1495.

Morse, Y. L. (2019). Elite interviews in the developing world: finding anchors in weak institutional environments. Qualitative Research, 19(3), 277-291.

Zhou, Y. Y., Grossman, G., & Ge, S. (2022). Inclusive refugee-hosting in Uganda improves local development and prevents public backlash.

van der Meulen Rodgers, Y., Bebbington, A., Boone, C., Dell'Angelo, J., Platteau, J. P., & Agrawal, A. (2020). Experimental approaches in development and poverty alleviation. World development, 127, 104807.

Kaufman, Zachary D., (2021). BLM and International Human Rights Law: The Challenge of Systemic Racism. American Society of International Law Proceedings 277-88 Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4070741

Kaufman, Z. D. (2020). Legislating Atrocity Prevention. Harv. J. on Legis., 57, 163.

Kaufman, Z. D. (2019). Lessons from Rwanda: Post-genocide law and policy. Stanford Law & Policy Review Online.

Kaufman, Z. D. (2019). United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (Nadya Nedelsky & Lavinia Stan editors, 2nd edition)(Forthcoming).

Mai-Bornu, Z. (2020). Dynamics of Leadership Styles within the Ogoni and Ijaw Movements in the Niger Delta. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(2), 823-850.