The Perils and Promise of Contemporary African Politics: Insights from Research

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This page features compilations of links to data collections, authors, and journals for political science research on African politics.

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Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

African J. of Political Science & Int'l Relations: .Research on politics and international relations especially those pertaining to Africa.

Review of African Political Economy: .Radical analyses of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change.

African Journal of Political Science: .Published by the African Association of Political Science with the aim of providing a platform for African perspectives on issues of politics, economy and society in Africa.

Rev. of African Political Econ. Blog: .Short articles to highlight developments on the continent and comment on the dynamics of protest, shifting patterns of political economy and issues of historical concern.

African Affairs: .Published on behalf of the Royal African Society, the top ranked journal in African Studies, an inter-disciplinary journal with a focus on the politics and international relations of sub-Saharan Africa.

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African Politics Data Sites

Statistics South Africa: .Data on people, economy, and living conditions.

Africa Information Highway: .Multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats.

Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa: .From the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Center for the Study of African Econ.: .Researching on the economic and social development in Africa since 1986, includes Free and Fair Elections Database

Nat'l Institute of Statistics of Rwanda: .Collects and archives key national data.

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Replication Datasets for New Articles

Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter-Driven Accountability in Senegal*Abhit Bhandari, +2 more authors (2023 est.) AJPS, more info.
R files: 2, Stata files: 9, datasets: 19, other files: 36, PDF files: 2, text files: 1

Channels for Influence or Maps of Behavior? A Field Experiment on Social Networks and CooperationNoah Nathan, +1 more author (2022) AJPS, more info.
R files: 30, PDF files: 3, text files: 4, datasets: 1, other files: 1

Civil War and Citizens' Demand for the State: An Empirical Test of Hobbesian TheoryRobert Blair (2022) BJPS, more info.
Stata files: 2, datasets: 2

Deepening or Diminishing Ethnic Divides? The Impact of Urban Migration in Kenya*Eric Kramon, +3 more authors (2022) AJPS, more info.
R files: 2, Stata files: 3, PDF files: 1, datasets: 7, text files: 1

Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal*Abhit Bhandari (2022) AJPS, more info.
R files: 2, other files: 2, PDF files: 1, text files: 1

Surrounded and Threatened: How Neighborhood Composition Reduces Ethnic Voting Through IntimidationTed Enamorado, +1 more author (2022) PSRM, more info.

Closing the Gap: Information and Mass Support in a Dominant Party RegimeMelina R Platas, +1 more author (2021) JOP, more info.
Stata files: 1, datasets: 3, PDF files: 1

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Authors with Datasets

Ricart-Huguet, Joan .

Blattman, Chris .Harris School of Public Policy at the Univ. of Chicago, see datasets on research page.

Van der Windt, Peter .NYU - Abu Dhabi

Gottlieb, Jessica .

de Kadt, Daniel .

Kramon, Eric .

Horowitz, Jeremy .

Bhandari, Abhit .

Robinson, Amanda Lea .Ohio State University

Larreguy, Horacio .

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