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Why Anti-Government Protests Can Strengthen Incumbents in Ghana

i

Protests

Incumbency

Ghana

Partisanship

Natural Experiment

2025 est.

1 Text

4 Other

How Precolonial States and Colonial Rule Shape African National Identity

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Nationalism

Africa

Precolonial Statehood

Indirect Rule

Ethnic Institutions

2025 est.

1 R files

1 Datasets

Secular Messages Beat Religious Appeals in Boosting Young Adults' Political Participation in Zambia

i

2025

Zambia

Civic Education

Self-efficacy

Field Experiment

2025

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How By-the-Book Requests Help Opposition MPs Win Votes in Autocracies

Constituency Service

Opposition

Autocracy

Morocco

Electoral Accountability

2025

How Gridded Streets Weaken Neighborhood Ties and Lower Voter Turnout

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Street Networks

Built Environment

Social Networks

Turnout

Ghana

2025

i

Stronger Police Don’t Just Improve Service — They Discourage Vigilante Justice

Vigilantism

State Capacity

Police

Field Experiment

South Africa

2025

AJPS

1 Archives

Community Pressure Boosts Market Tax Compliance 40% in Malawi

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Taxation

Tax Compliance

Field Experiment

Malawi

Governance

2025

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More Women, More Voice—But No Policy Shift in Malawi's Forest Deliberations

Gender

Deliberation

Malawi

Experiment

Deforestation

2025

i

Community Policing Cut Mob Violence 40% in Monrovia — But Crime Stayed the Same

Community Policing

Liberia

Field Experiment

Vigilantism

Mob Violence

2025

How Mobile Phones Lower Rural Trust in African Governments

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Mobile Phones

Trust

Sub-Saharan Africa

Difference-in-differences

Social Networks

2025

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Why Kenyans Back Biometric IDs Despite Surveillance Concerns

EID

Legibility

Kenya

Conjoint

Surveillance

2025

When Nonviolent Protests Fuel Violence: Evidence From Côte d'Ivoire

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2024

Civilian Protest

Civil War

Côte D'Ivoire

Event Data

Peacekeepers

2024

i

Why Gender Quotas Left Men in Charge of Tunisian Mayors

Gender Quotas

Tunisia

Political Parties

Candidate Placement

Municipal Elections

2024

Voter Information Boosts Accountability in Senegal Elections, But Not Equally For All Types of Data

i

2023

Senegal Elections

Voter Accountability

Field Experiment

Performance Feedback

2023

i

How Shorter Travel Times to Capitals Boosted Development in Africa

State Capacity

Travel Time

Nightlights

Panel Data

Africa

2023

i

2022

Audit Results Swing South African By-Elections About Five Percentage Points

Audits

By-elections

Electoral Accountability

South Africa

Natural Experiment

2022

How Cash Crops and Print Shaped Ethnic Politics in Africa

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Ethnicity

Print

Cash Crops

Africa

Historical Methods

2022

i

Mapping Community Behavior: Ghana Study Finds Networks Predict Cooperation Without Communication

Social Networks

Field Experiment

Ghana

Cooperation

2022

i

Civil War violence paradox: Citizens more likely to demand stronger states

Hobbesian Theory

Liberia

Demand Security

State Substitution

2022

i

Armed Violence Hardens Punishment for Rape but Softens It for Domestic Violence in DRC

DRC

Rape

Domestic Violence

Masculinity

Focus Groups

2022

i

Urban Migration in Kenya Reduces Ethnic Identity but Amplifies Group Suspicion

Kenya

Fixed Effects Regressions

Ethnic Divides

Suspicion

2022

i

Early Statehood Boosted Support for Autocracy in Africa

Early Statehood

Autocracy

Africa

Political Attitudes

Instrumental Variables

2022

1 R files

3 Datasets

Malaria Outbreaks Spark Short-Term Surges in Civil Violence in Africa

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Malaria

Civil Violence

Africa

Panel Data

Climate Change

2022

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Chinese FDI Raises Hopes for a Year — Then Voters Blame Leaders

FDI

China

Africa

Geospatial

Public Opinion

2022

Why U.S. Aid Wins Hearts — and Chinese Aid Often Doesn't in Africa

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Soft Power

Foreign Aid

China

United States

Difference-in-differences

2022

i

The Double-Edged Sword of Political Connections in Senegal's Trade Experiment

Moral Hazard

Senegal

Formal Contract

Asymmetric Enforcement

2022

i

How Protest Brokers Enable Local Protests in South Africa

Protest Brokers

Mobilization

Ethnography

South Africa

Elites

2022

Why Colonial Governments Disengaged From Chiefs in French West Africa

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Colonialism

French West Africa

Chieftains

State Disengagement

Taxation

2022

Minority Ethnic Groups Reduce Voting in Ghana: A Geographical Intimidation Effect

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Neighborhood Composition

Ethnic Voting

Ghana Afrobarometer

Geographical Effects

2022

PSR&M

Rebel Rule Leaves Lasting Damage to Citizen-State Ties in Côte d’Ivoire

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Côte D'Ivoire

Rebel Rule

Citizenship

Natural Experiment

Statebuilding

2022

Dominant Party Strategy & Information Effects

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2021

Dominant Party Regime

Information Effects

Mass Support

2021

This Means That Colonial Education's Literacy Focus Shaped Post-Colonial Africa

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Colonial Legacies

Educational Inequality

Elite Recruitment

Bureaucratic Structures

2021

1 datasets

Competitive African Elections Amplify Ethnic Identity at the Expense of National Solidarity

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Ethnic Identification

National Identity Salience

Status Anxiety

Sub-Saharan Africa

2021

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How Colonial Rubber Concessions Harmed Development but Strengthened Local Trust

Concessions

Congo

Natural Experiment

Indirect Rule

Chiefs

2021

i

Why Do Elite Leaders Misjudge Voter Reactions to Violent Tactics?

Electoral Violence

Elite Misperception

Voter Backlash

Representation Theory

2021

i

How Cabinet Jobs Break Opposition Coalitions

Cooptation

Opposition Fragmentation

Cabinet Appointments

Africa

Presidential Elections

2021

i

Good Governance Starts with Citizen Reports—but Responsiveness Matters

Responsiveness Dilemma

Disengagement Theory

Field Experiment

Uganda

2021

i

How Bureaucrats Shape Your Vote: A Look at Government Accountability in Uganda

Uganda

Bureaucratic Power

Survey Experiment

Descriptive Representation

2021

i

Female President Sparks Change: Women MPs Suddenly Speak More

Female President

Descriptive Representation

Parliamentary Speech

Regression Discontinuity

2021

i

Why Women MPs in Africa Are More Loyal to Their Parties

Party Discipline

Gender

Africa

Survey

Text Analysis

2021

i

Gender Stereotypes Reshape Tunisian Voting Patterns

Gender Stereotypes

Tunisia Elections

Political Leadership

Representation Theory

2021

i

Matrilineality Boosts Women's Political Participation in Malawi, Challenging Gender Norms

Matrilineal Descent

Malawi

Intergenerational Transmission

Norms

Representation

2021

i

Why Ethnic Minor Parties Gain Support in African Politics: A Look at Programmatic Distribution

Programmatic Distribution

African Voters

Clientelism

Opposition Fragmentation

2021

i

Gender Segregation Fuels Preference for Women's Political Representation in Tunisia

Tunisia

Randomized Experiment

Tunisian Elections

Islamism

2021

i

African Media's Role: Why Digital Platforms Boost LGBTQ Support More Than Traditional Media

LGBTQ Politics

African Media

Censorship Effects

Social Media Influence

2021

i

Moroccan Protest Policing: Why 'Liberal' Autocrats Target Autonomous Organizations

Autonomous Orgs

Liberal Autocracy

Protest Policing

Morocco

2021

i

Racial Isolation Fuels Racial Voting Patterns in South Africa

Racial Isolation

Voting Behavior

South Africa

Residential Segregation

2021

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African Power-Sharing: Rebel Elites Channel Conflict into Resource Redistribution

Rent Seeking

Ethnic Redistribution

African States

Difference Inddifferences

2021

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Repression Sparks Revolt: High-Potential Burundans Lead Insurgency

Burundi

Insurgency

Productive Potential

Glass Ceiling

2021

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Why Uneven Colonial Investments? Infrastructure Disparities in African Colonies' Coasts vs. Resources

Geography

Colonial Infrastructure

Health Disparities

Education Inequality

Africa Regions

African Nations

2021

BJPS

1 datasets

Ethnic Switching in African Politics: How Presidents' Ethnicity Impacts Voter Identity

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Ethnic Identity

Presidential Transition

Descriptive Representation Theory

Sub-Saharan Africa

Survey Analysis

Autocratic Regimes

Voter Perception

2021

Opposition Movement Endures Despite Government Displeasure

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Mass Mobilization

Egypt 2014-2016

Elite Opinion

Democratic Attitudes

2021

2 datasets

Why Muslim Efficacy Gaps on Climate Change Matter in Kenya

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Efficacy Gap

Muslims

Kenya

State Repression

Civil Society Engagement

2021

POP

1 text files

State Jobs as Political Currency: Extracting Funds in Benin and Ghana

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Clientelism

Political Financing

State Resources Management

Elite Agents Delegation

2021

Ethnic Favors Follow the Numbers? How Africa's Local Demographics Dictate Government Spending

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Ethnic Favoritism

Africa

Infant Mortality

Distributive Justice

2021

i

2020

Legitimacy Explains Why African Mediators Succeed in Civil Wars

Legitimacy

Mediation

Civil War

UCDP

Africa

2020

IO

2 Datasets

Why Politicians Use Land Appeals for Ethnic Gain in Kenya

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Grievance Politics

Land Appeals

Kenya

Experimental Study

2020

Pol. Behav.

Uganda Experiment: Citizen Monitoring Reports Fail To Reach Bureaucrats, But Fuel Public Complaints

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Citizen Monitoring

Uganda

Corruption

Field Experiment

2020

R&P

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New Media Sparks Violence Spots in Kenya Elections, Old Data Covers the Rest

Comparative Media

Kenya Elections

Twitter Monitoring

ACLED Data

2020

R&P

How Empire Type and Precolonial Power Shaped Local Rule in Africa

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Indirect Rule

Precolonial Centralization

British Empire

French Empire

Administrative Data

2020

IO

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How Burundi Evaded Sanctions by Turning to Domestic Debt

Sanctions

Budget Support

Burundi

Domestic Debt

Time-series

2020

The Instrumental Logic of Judicial Power: Partisan Motivations Drive Support Across Africa

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Partisan Alignment

Democratic Consolidation

Difference-in-differences

Ghana

2020

i

Dominant Parties vs Personalist Rulers: Why Cabinet Shuffles Differ in African Autocracies

Dominant Party

Elections

African Autocracies

Personalist Rule

2020

i

Ethnic Diversity in Africa Boosts 'Us vs Them' Mentality at National Level

Ethnic Diversity

African Countries

Coethnic Trust Premium

Spatial Segregation

2020

BJPS

3 Stata files

Uganda Study Reveals: Ethnic Identity Shifts with National Power

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Ethnic Identity

Uganda

Quantitative Analysis

Nationalism

Sub-Saharan Africa

2020

i

Expressive Motives Explain Voting Behavior Better Than Economic Factors in Cameroon

Expressive Voting

Electoral Participation

Cameroon Survey

Regression Analysis

2020

POP

i

Broker Monitoring in Post-Conflict Liberia: Incumbents' Advantage Despite Weak Institutions?

Broker Monitoring

Turnout Buying

Pyramidal Structure

Post-conflict Liberia

2020

i

Network Quality Shapes Community Adoption of Political Participation Tools

Communication Networks

Externalities

Uganda Villages

Mobile Reporting Platform

2020

i

How Facebook & Twitter Sparked Egypt's 2011 Uprising Before the First Protest

Egypt

Facebook

Twitter

First-mover Mechanism

2020

i

Why Good Services Mean Fewer Votes For Incumbents?

Southern Africa

Service Delivery

Voter Accountability

Dominant Parties

2020

i

Does Relational State Building Work in Limited Statehood? Experimental Findings on Police-Citizen Interactions

Limited Statehood

Liberia

Experimental Method

Procedural Fairness

2020

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Who Benefits From Mining? Domestic Firms Boost Local Wealth, Multinationals Raise Unemployment

Resource Curse

Mineral Ownership

Sub-Saharan Africa

Instrumental Variables

Fixed Effects

2020

2 Text

When Taxes Spark Voice: Congolese Engage More After First Property Tax Drive

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Taxation

Participation

Field Experiment

Congo

State-building

2020

i

Private Associations Step Up as Government Interferes Too Much in Lagos Markets

Institutional Design

Market Governance

Lagos

Game Theory

2020

i

Why Life Gets Deadlier After Rebels Take Over

Civilian Targeting

Territorial Takeover

Sierra Leone

Event Data

Spatiotemporal Analysis

2020

More Control = More Corruption? Politicians and Bureaucrats in Ghana

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Discretionary Control

Ghana Local Government

Corruption Threat

List Experiment

2020

i

Violence Doesn't Breed Hatred? New Data on Refugee Hosting in Liberia

Empathy-Driven Altruism

Liberia-Ivory Border

Refugee Hosting Behavior

Cross-Border Violence

2020

i

2019

Does Geographic Targeting Explain MPs' Strategic Use of CDF Projects in Kenya?

Geographic Targeting Hypothesis

Kenya Constituency Development Fund Projects

Spatial Segregation Of Supporters

MPs Strategic Project Allocation

2019

i

Democratic Changes Hit African Economies Differently

Synthetic Control Method

Sub-Saharan Africa Countries

Economic Heterogeneity

Third Wave Democracy

2019

i

Surprisingly, Fair Elections Boost Politicians' Responsiveness in Ghana

Ghana

Constituency Development Fund (CDF)

Experimental Design

Electoral Sanction

2019

i

Colonial Chiefs Reshape Ghanaian Elections: A Study of Voter Exploitation

Chieftaincy

Northern Ghana

Colonial Invention

Capture Politics

2019

i

Domestic Observers Curbed Election Fraud and Violence - But Only When It Matters

Electoral Competition

Observers Effect

Ghana 2012 Election Data

Experimental Design Method

Political Violence

2019

i

How Long-Ruling Parties Sustain Support Through Clientelism

Clientelism

Tenure

Afrobarometer

Political Representation

2019

i

Liberia Field Experiment Reveals Police Trust Boost Without Actual Trust Building?

Field Experiment

Liberia

Rule Of Law

Property Rights

2019

i

Ethnicity Shapes Voter Loyalty: Co-Ethnic Candidates Define Swing in African Elections

Ethnicity Politics

Co-Ethnic Leadership

Swing Voters

Kenya

2019

i

Female Ratio Balancing in Security Sector Boosts Confidence for Peacebuilding

Female Ratio Balancing

Restraint Inclusiveness

Liberia

Civilian Confidence

2019

i

Beyond Religion's Demographics: How Conflict Shapes Identity Salience at Burkina Faso-Cote D'Ivoire Border

Religious Identity

Border Study

Cote D'Ivoire

Burkina Faso

Civil Conflict

2019

BJPS

1 other files

Fear silences opposition supporters in Zimbabwe

i

Psychology Of Repression

Zimbabwe Experimentation

Emotion-Motivation Theory

Strategic Behavior Under Risk

2019

i

Colonial Control Not Built on Strength But Strategy: New Geo-Analysis of German East Africa

Colonial State

Territorial Control

German East Africa

Geo-Referenced Data

2019

i

2018

Contact Without Change: Intergroup Training Reduces Discrimination in Nigeria

Intergroup Contact

Heterogeneous Classrooms

Nigeria

Randomized Experiment

Discrimination Reduction

2018

APSR

4 Stata files

Coalition strength drives African quota adoption faster

i

Gender Quotas

Africa

Civilian Coalitions

Democracy

2018

POP

i

Conflict Related Sexual Violence

Sierra Leone

Prosocial Behavior

Resilience Mechanisms

Quantitative Analysis

2018

i

Quotas Didn't Reduce Average Gender Bias — They Helped Young Women

Gender Quotas

Lesotho

IAT

Gender Bias

Field Experiment

2018

i

Small Gender Gap in African Policy Priorities? Economic Empowerment Narrows Infrastructure Divide

Gender Gap

Policy Prioritization

Women's Economic Participation

Africa

2018

i

Elections and Capital Flight: Evidence from Africa

2018

1 datasets

Ethnic Inequality Fuels Stronger Identities in Sub-Saharan Africa

i

Ethnic Identity

Sub-Saharan Africa

Inequality

Political Mobilization

2018

Pol. Behav.

Early Transparency Boosts Politician Performance in Uganda's Competitive Districts

i

Uganda

Districts

Governance

Campaigning

Transparency

Performance

2018

i

How Pro-Government Militias Spread Across Africa: A New Relational Dataset

RPGMD

Militias

Africa

Ethnicity

Repression

2018

II

1 Text

1 Other

New Africa Dataset Reveals What Nonstate Fighters Actually Fight Over

i

Nonstate Conflict

UCDP

Africa

Territory

Authority

2018

II

i

Precolonial Identities Shape Modern Public Goods Delivery in Senegal

Precolonial Identities

Institutional Congruence

Senegal

Public Goods Delivery

2018

i

Resisting Rights to Renounce Imperialism: East African Churches' Strategic Symbolic Resistance to LGBTQ Inclusion

2018

Judicial Repression vs. Extrajudicial: Autocrats' Different Tactics for In-group and Out-group Challengers

i

Judicial Repression

Extrajudicial Methods

Sub-saharan Africa

Kenya Case Study

2018

i

2017

Civilian Attacks Fuel Spirals: How Rival Forces Trigger More Violence

Civilian Targeting

DR Congo

Sudan

Vector Autoregression

Nonstate Actors

2017

II

3 Datasets

Mining Boosts Local Corruption in Africa Despite Initial Reduction

i

Mining

Resource Curse

Difference In Differences

Afrobarometer

2017

i

Point Process Models Predict Insurgency Hotspots in Sub-Saharan Africa

Point Process Models

Sub-Saharan Africa

Civil Conflict Prediction

Insurgency Hotspots

2017

i

Why Do Some Development Projects Finish While Others Don't? Ghana's Fiscal Institutions Provide Insight

Collective Choice

Fiscal Institutions

Ghana Project Database

Commitment Problem

2017

APSR

Ethnic Matching in Kenya Elections: Coethnic Officers Deployed Strategically

i

Ethnic Geography

Coethnic Officers

Swing Areas

Kenya Elections

2017

i

2016

Drought Triggers War in Previously Stable States, Not Fragile Ones

Drought

Civil War

State Capacity

Vulnerability

Inequality

2016

FPA

1 Datasets

Information Spreads Violence: New Data Shows How Media Fuels Cross-Border Anti-Government Uprisings

i

Spatial Dependence

Communication Technology

Anti-government Violence

Africa

2016

i

Field Experiment Shows Higher Voter Expectations Boost Accountability in Mali

Voter Expectations

Government Accountability

Field Experiment

Mali

2016

i

2015

Conflict Explains Common Property Shifts Among Kenyan Pastoralists

Common Property Institutions

Kenya

Regression Discontinuity

Maasai

2015

AJPS

Roving Bandits? The Geographical Evolution of African Armed Conflicts

i

2015

2 datasets

Why Free Texts Don't Flatten Political Voice: Uganda Study Reveals Price Paradox

i

2014

Interest Articulation

ICT Access

Uganda Village Communication

Subsidized Messaging Costs

2014

i

More Administrative Units, Less Political Power? Decentralization's Hidden Backlash

Administrative Centralization

Uganda Decentralization

Intergovernment Bargaining

Marginalized Agency

2014

i

Does More Scrutiny Boost or Bust Leadership Quality? An Inverted U-Shape Relationship in Uganda

Monitoring Institutions

Experimental Design

Uganda

Inverted U-shape

2014

AJPS

1 archives

Ethnic Cleavages Block Women in African Cabinets Despite Democratic Progress

i

Ethnic Politicization

Descriptive Representation

Sub-Saharan Africa

Cabinet Composition

Patronage Politics

Women Ministers

2014

i

Precolonial States Predict Ethnic Wars and Coups in Africa

Precolonial States

Ethnic Violence

Coups

Civil War

Africa

2014

IO

4 Datasets

When the Biggest Group Is Left Behind, Communal Violence Follows in Sub-Saharan Africa

i

Horizontal Inequality

Vertical Inequality

Communal Conflict

Sub-Saharan Africa

Household Surveys

2014

II

1 Other

Local geography explains unusual Ghanaian voting patterns

i

2013

Instrumental Ethnic Voting

Rural Communities

Geographic Influence

Ghana

2013

i

Ghana Legislative Primaries: A Surprising Boost for Opposition Candidates

Clientelism

Ghana

Primaries

Representation

2013

i

Ethnic Integration in Burundi Military: Does It Reduce Prejudice or Solidify Identity?

Ethnic Integration

Burundi Military

Prejudice Reduction

Identity Salience

2013

i

Cell Phones Amplify Violence: New Data Links Mobile Coverage to Collective Action

Cell Phone Coverage

Collective Action

African Countries

Communication Coordination

2013

i

Beyond Clientelism: Collective Goods Matter for African Swing Voters Too

Swing Voting

Clientelism

Collective Goods

Ghana 2008 Elections

2013

i

Why Voters Align With Chiefs Despite Clientelism Assumptions?

Zambia

Traditional Chiefs

Clientelism

Voting Behavior

2013

i

2012

On the Size and Shape of African States

2012

8 datasets

Regional Inequalities and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

i

2009

2009