Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a political scientist interested in patterns regionalism and political-economic development issues in Africa in a comparative perspective. Her work is or has been funded by the UK Research Council ESRC, LSE International Inequalities Institute, LSE STICERD, the SSRC, Fulbright, the World Bank, Harvard Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (ACLS).
Professor Boone is the author of three books, most notably of Property and Political Order: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics in Africa (Cambridge, 2014), which won APSA's 2016 Luebbert Book Award for best book in Comparative Politics.
In April 2020, Professor Boone was elected as a Political Science member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
She has served as member of the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association (ASA), 2009-2012, chair of the ASA Publications Committee, (2011-2012), member of the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association, member APSA's Comparative Politics Section executive council, and Chair of the Political Economy Organized Section of APSA (2014-2016). She serves as board member of several journals and book series including the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series and the CUP Elements series, Associate Editor of World Development, and on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Journal of Modern African Studies, and African Affairs. She is past Secretary of the African Politics Conference Group, and Treasurer and President of the West African Research Association, which oversees the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal.
Contact:
Catherine Boone
Professor of Comparative Politics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Depts. of Government and International Development
Connaught House, Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE UK
c.boone@lse.ac.uk
Catherine Boone
Professor of Comparative Politics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Depts. of Government and International Development
Connaught House, Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE UK
c.boone@lse.ac.uk