Publications

Shella, K. (2022). Internal and External Party Crises, Intersectionality, and the Rise of Ethnic Minority Women Leaders in the West. Midwest Political Science Association

Shella, K. (2021). Divide & Conquer: Rising Defections and the Emergence and Disappearance of Stable, Competitive Party Systems in Africa. American Political Science Association

Tang, K. (2023). The political economy of special economic zones: the cases of Ethiopia and Vietnam. Review of International Political Economy, 30(5), 1957-1983.

Tang, K. (2023). In Crafting Special Economic Zones, Ethiopia and Vietnam Learned from China and Taiwan. The China-Global South Project

Tang, K. (2021). Development Finance and Distributive Politics: Comparing Chinese and World Bank Finances in sub-Saharan Africa. Available at SSRN 3836779.

Tang, K., & Shen, Y. (2020). Do China-financed dams in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the region's social welfare? A case study of the impacts of Ghana's Bui Dam. Energy Policy, 136, 111062.

Dionne, K. Y., Seay, L. (2015). Perceptions about ebola in America: othering and the role of knowledge about Africa. PS: Political Science and Politics, 48(1), 6-7. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43284692

Dionne, K. Y., Dulani, B., Ferree, K. E., Harris, A., & Shi, W. (2022). Politics and Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from Malawi. Chicago, IL.

Berg, L. A. (2022). Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector. Oxford University Press.

Berg, L. A. (2020). Elite bargains and external influence: security assistance and civil-military relations in post-war Liberia and Sierra Leone. Civil Wars, 22(2-3), 266-288.

Berg, L. A., & Levy, N. (2020). When aid builds states: party dominance and the effects of foreign aid on tax collection after civil war. International Interactions, 46(3), 454-480.

Villalon, L. A. (2023). The Politics of Democratization and the State of the State in the Sahel. In Africa in World Politics (pp. 182-200). Routledge.

Villalon, L. A. (2021). Editor's Introduction: Framing the Sahel: Spaces, Challenges, Encounters.

Villalon, L. A. (1995). Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: disciples and citizens in Fatick.

Villalon, L. A., & Huxtable, P. A. (Eds.). (1998). The African state at a critical juncture: between disintegration and reconfiguration (p. 3). Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Villalon, L. A., & Bodian, M. (2021). Education, Citizenship, and National Identity in the Sahel.

Aalen, L., Muriaas, R. L. (2018). Manipulating Political Decentralization: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats. Routledge.

Arriola, L., Koter, D., Wilfahrt, M. (2023). The Political Effects of Caste in Senegal

Benabdallah, L. (2022). A Relational Approach to Gift-Giving: China's Aid Exchanges in the Global South. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(4), ksac071.

Benabdallah, L. (2021). Frozen in time: China-Algeria relations from socialist friendship to pandemic opportunism. In Routledge Handbook on China-Middle East Relations (pp. 192-204). Routledge.

Benabdallah, L. (2020). Power or Influence? Making Sense of China's Evolving Party-to-party Diplomacy in Africa. African Studies Quarterly, 19.

Benabdallah, L., & Large, D. (2023). The Key to solving all problems'? Unpacking China's development-as-security approach in Mali. Third World Quarterly, 44(1), 211-229.

Bottkj r, L., & Justesen, M. K. (2021). Why do voters support corrupt politicians? Experimental evidence from South Africa. The Journal of Politics, 83(2), 788-793.

Bradberry, L., De Maio, J. (2018). Learning By Doing: The Long-Term Impact of Experiential Learning Programs on Student Success. Journal of Political Science Education. 15. 1-18. 10.1080/15512169.2018.1485571.

Carruth, L. Smith, L. (2022). International migration for Ethiopian women can mean more than seeking economic security. Africa at LSE

Carruth, L., & Smith, L. (2022). Building one's own house: power and escape for Ethiopian women through international migration. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 60(1), 85-109.

Martin, L. E. (2023). Strategic Taxation: Fiscal Capacity and Accountability in African States. Oxford University Press.

Martin, L. E. (2021). All Sins are not Created Equal: The Factors that Drive Perceptions of Corruption Severity. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 8(1), 15-25.

Martin, L., Seim, B., Camacho, L., & Hoellerbauer, S. (2021). Marketing Taxation? Experimental Evidence on Enforcement and Bargaining in Malawian Markets.

Berge, L. I. O., Bjorvatn, K., Galle, S., Miguel, E., Posner, D. N., Tungodden, B., & Zhang, K. (2020). Ethnically biased? Experimental evidence from Kenya. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(1), 134-164.

Benstead, L. J., Muriaas, R. L., Wang V. (2023).Explaining Backlash: Social Hierarchy and Men's Rejection of Women's Rights Reforms. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 496-524, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac037

Bartels, L. M., Daxecker, U. E., Hyde, S. D., Lindberg, S. I., & Nooruddin, I. (2023). The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding. International Studies Review, 25(2), viad019.

Brass, J. N., Harris, K. A., & MacLean, L. M. (2022). Does electricity demobilize citizens? Exploring access to the grid, political participation, and democracy in Africa (vol 81, 102256, 2021). ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE, 91.

MacLean, L. M. (2010). Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. Cambridge University Press.

MacLean, L. M., Rahman, N., Turner, R., & Corbett, J. (2020). Disrupted fieldwork: navigating innovation, redesign, and ethics during an ongoing pandemic. Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, 18(2), 1-8.

Mueller, L. (2018). Political Protest in Contemporary Africa. Cambridge University Press.

Mueller, L. (2018).Personal Politics without Clientelism? Interpreting Citizen-Politician Contact in Africa.African Studies Review 61.2 : 28-54.

Mueller, L. (2016). Religious Violence and Democracy in Niger. African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review 6.1 : 89-104

Mueller, L. Bhandari, A. (2019). Nation-State or Nation-Family ? Nationalism in Marginalized African Societies. Journal of Modern African Studies 57.2 : 297-322.

Mueller, L., Elischer, S. (2019). Niger Falls Back Off Track. African Affairs 118.471 : 392-406.

Munir, L. (2023). A National Development Simulation Online to Teach Experiential Problem-Solving. Journal of Political Science Education, 19(1), 174-182.

Munir, L. (2023). Women and changing sociolegal landscapes in Rwandan mining formalization. Journal of Rural Studies, 97, 167-176.

Munir, L. (2022). Do Cooperatives Improve Female Miners' Outcomes? A Case Study of Rwanda. The Journal of Development Studies, 58(11), 2349-2365.

Munir, L. (2021). Gender roles in Nigeria's non-violent oil resistance movement. Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des etudes africaines, 55(1), 79-97.

Munir, L., & Noor, A. (2023). Forced Migration and Evolving Responses to Queer Identity in the Muslim Family. Forced Migration and Separated Families, 201.

Paler, L., Springman, J., Grossman, G., & Pierskalla, J. (2020). Oil discoveries and political windfalls: Evidence on presidential support in Uganda. Political Science Research and Methods, 1-10.

Arriola, L. R. (2009). Patronage and political stability in Africa. Comparative Political Studies, 42(10), 1339-1362.

Arriola, L. R. (2013). Multi-ethnic coalitions in Africa: Business financing of opposition election campaigns. Cambridge University Press.

Arriola, L. R., Choi, D. D., Davis, J. M., Phillips, M. L., & Rakner, L. (2022). Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies. Party Politics, 28(3), 507-520.

Arriola, L. R., Choi, D. D., Davis, J. M., Phillips, M. L., & Rakner, L. (2022). Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies. Party Politics, 28(3), 507-520.

Arriola, L. R., Choi, D. D., & Gichohi, M. K. (2021). Increasing Cross-Ethnic Trust: Political Endorsements as Vicarious Contact. . Journal of Politics.

Arriola, L. R., Choi, D. D., & Gichohi, M. K. (2022). Increasing intergroup trust: Endorsements and voting in divided societies. The Journal of Politics, 84(4), 2107-2122.

Arriola, L. R., Devaro, J., & Meng, A. (2021). Democratic subversion: Elite cooptation and opposition fragmentation. American Political Science Review, 115(4), 1358-1372.

Arriola, L. R., & Rakner, L. (2023). Democratic Backsliding in Africa?: Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention (p. 320). Oxford University Press.

Arriola, L. R., & Johnson, M. C. (2014). Ethnic politics and women's empowerment in Africa: Ministerial appointments to executive cabinets. American Journal of Political Science, 58(2), 495-510.

Rosenzweig, L. R., Platas, M. R., & Bicalho, C. (2021). Peer-to-peer communication in East and West Africa may help promote COVID-19 policy compliance. Africa at LSE.

Rosenzweig, L., Wilson, N. E. (2018). Citizen-State Relations in Informal Settlements in Lagos, Nigeria. OSF

Seay, L. (2016). Joshua James Kassner. Rwanda and the Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 18:1, 156-158, DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2015.1125640

Seay, L. (2013)- Post-war Kivus.'' Special Issue on the Democratic Republic of Congo. Review of African Political Economy

Seay, L. (2013). Effective Responses: Protestants, Catholics, and the Provision of Health Care in the Post-war Kivus. Special Issue on the Democratic Republic of Congo. Review of African Political Economy

Seay, L., Dionne, K. Y. (2017). Publicly Engaged Social Science: Amplifying [African] Scholars' Voices. Proceedings of the African Futures ConferenceVolume 1, Issue 1 p. 288-289. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2573-508X.2016.tb00093.x

Smith, L., Howard, D. A., Giordano, M., Yossinger, N. S., Kinne, L., & Martin, S. F. (2021). Local integration and shared resource management in protracted refugee camps: findings from a study in the horn of Africa. Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(1), 787-805.

Arriola, L. R., Dow, D. A., Matanock, A. M., & Mattes, M. (2021). Policing institutions and post-conflict peace. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 65(10), 1738-1763.

Rosenzweig, L. R., & Wilson, N. E. (2023). State of the Fiscal Contract in Lagos' Informal Settlements. Studies in Comparative International Development, 58(1), 1-28.

The article provides experimental evidence of the effect of candidate-citizen town-hall meetings on voters’ political behavior. The intervention took place prior to the March 2011 elections in Benin and involved 150 randomly selected villages. In the treatment group, candidates held town-hall meetings where voters deliberated over their electoral platforms. The control group was exposed to the standard campaign—that is, one-way communication of the candidate’s platform by himself or his local broker. We find that town-hall meetings led to a more informed citizenry and higher electoral participation, which diverged little along socioeconomic lines. We also observe a lower effectiveness of vote-buying attempts where town halls took place. This is consistent with town-hall deliberation promoting what we call more “ethical” voters.

What effect did infrastructure expansion have on state coercive capacity? A growing body of literature ties infrastructure—particularly for communication and transportation—to increased state capacity and control. Yet, the same infrastructure that extends the reach of the state simultaneously alters local contexts in ways that may unravel social control and enable resistance to state-led coercion. Drawing on novel time series cross-sectional data on draft evasion in French West Africa—a measure of resistance to coercive policies—this article demonstrates that railway expansion did not neatly increase the colonial regime’s ability to monitor the population and effectively extract conscripts. Railway infrastructure disrupted many of the economic and social conditions that enabled coercion, including legibility and local compliance. Railways drove displacement and urbanization, altered opportunity costs and incentivized everyday resistance, and opened possibilities for exit. By heightening mobility and undermining conditions of social control, railroads were associated with higher draft evasion.

Adams, M., & Wylie, K. (2020). Transnational organizing, the boosting effect, and women's legislative caucuses in Africa. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 8(3), 615-626.

Adams, M., & Fonjong, L. (2023). Anglophone Conflict, New Institutions, and Women's Access to Political Power in Cameroon. Africa Today, 69(4), 79-100.

Adams, M., Yacob-Haliso, O., & Falola, T. (2020). African Women's Movements and the African Union. The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies, 1-14.

Agonafer, M. (1996). Africa in the contemporary international disorder: crises and possibilities. (No Title).

Agonafer, M., & Resnick, S. A. (1994). Contending theories of development in the contemporary international order/disorder: Lessons from Kenya and Tanzania. (No Title).

Adams, M. J. (2019). Cameroon: Early Mobilization and Limited Impact of Women's Suffrage. The Palgrave Handbook of Women's Political Rights, 275-288.

Seeberg, M. B. (2021). How state capacity helps autocrats win elections. British Journal of Political Science, 51(2), 541-558.

Seeberg, M. (2018). State capacity, economic control, and authoritarian elections. Routledge.

Seeberg, M. B., Wahman, M., & Skaaning, S. E. (2020). Candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa. In Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa (pp. 1-19). Routledge.

Basedau, M., Pfeiffer, B., & Vullers, J. (2016). Bad religion? Religion, collective action, and the onset of armed conflict in developing countries. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(2), 226-255.

Basedau, M., & Stroh, A. (2008). Measuring party institutionalization in developing countries: A new research instrument applied to 28 African political parties.

Basedau, M., & Kollner, P. (2007). Area studies, comparative area studies, and the study of politics: Context, substance, and methodological challenges. Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 1, 105-124.

Basedau, M. (2005). Context matters-rethinking the resource curse in sub-Saharan Africa.

Basedau, M., Fox, J., & Zellman, A. (2023). Religious Minorities at Risk. Oxford University Press.

Basedau, M., & Lay, J. (2009). Resource curse or rentier peace? The ambiguous effects of oil wealth and oil dependence on violent conflict. Journal of peace research, 46(6), 757-776.

Basedau, M., & Deitch, M. (2021). One year after: Has the COVID-19 pandemic increased violence in sub-Saharan Africa? (No. 327). GIGA Working Papers.

Basedau, M., Deitch, M., & Zellman, A. (2022). Rebels with a Cause: Does Ideology Make Armed Conflicts Longer and Bloodier?. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 66(10), 1826-1853.

Basedau, M., Gobien, S., & Hoffmann, L. (2022). Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Journal of Peace Research, 59(3), 395-408.

Bauhr, M., Carlitz, R., & Kovacikova, L. (2023). Who gains access to public services? Social Bargaining, Corruption and Street-level Service Provision.

Benhal, M. (2014). Governance in Morocco Discourse, Policies and Reality. Arab reform initiative

Benhlal, M. (2005) Le college d'Azrou: Une elite berbere civile et militaire au Maroc (1927-1959). Paris: editions Karthala.

Bodian, M., & Villalon, L. A. (2021). The Democratic Struggle in the Sahel. The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel, 387.

Bratton, M., Penar, P. (2018). Dropping the Democracy Ball in Southern Africa: South Africa, SADC and Zimbabwe. Taiwan Journal of Democracy 14(1): 41-65.

Bratton, M. Penar, P. (2018). Forthcoming. "Power Sharing as a Strategy to Resolve Political Crises. The Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics (Oxford University Press).

Breuning, M. (2007). Foreign policy analysis: A comparative introduction. Springer.

Breuning, M. (2011). Role theory research in international relations: state of the art and blind spots. Role theory in international relations, 16-35.

Breuning, M., & Okundaye, G. (2021). Half of the Cabinet: Explaining Ethiopia's Move to Gender Parity in the Government. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 56(5), 1064-1078.

Breuning, M., & Ishiyama, J. (2021). Introduction to the Special Issue:"Ethiopia in Transition? Journal of Asian and African Studies. Vol 56 N. 5 p. 985-987. SAGE Publications

Escobar-Lemmon, M. C., Hoekstra, V. J., Kang, A. J., & Kittilson, M. C. (2022). Reimagining the Judiciary: Women's Representation on High Courts Worldwide. Oxford University Press.

Wilson, M. C., Medzihorsky, J., Maerz, S. F., Lindenfors, P., Edgell, A. B., Boese, V. A., & Lindberg, S. I. (2023). Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization. Political Science Research and Methods, 11(3), 501-520.

Wilson, M. C., Medzihorsky, J., Maerz, S. F., Lindenfors, P., Edgell, A. B., Boese, V. A., & Lindberg, S. I. (2023). Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization. Political Science Research and Methods, 11(3), 501-520.

Wilson, M. C., Woldense, J. (2019) Contested or established? A comparison of legislative powers across regimes, Democratization, 26:4, 585-605, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2018.1564282

Cammett, M., & MacLean, L. M. (Eds.). (2014). The politics of non-state social welfare. Cornell University Press.

Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Altman, D., Bernhard, M., Fish, S., Hicken, A., ... & Teorell, J. (2011). Conceptualizing and measuring democracy: A new approach. Perspectives on Politics, 9(2), 247-267.