Selected Articles

• "Push, Pull, and Push-back to Land Certification: Regional dynamics in pilot certification projects in Côte d'Ivoire," with Brice Bado, Irigo Zibo, and Aristide Dion,  Journal of Modern African Studies, forthcoming in August 2021

• "Promised Land: Settlement Schemes in Kenya, 1962-2016," with Fibian Lukalo and Sandra Joireman.  Political Geography, forthcoming in 2021. 

 

• "Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform: Tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 55:3 (March 2019):  384-400.
  
  
• "Land Politics under Kenya's New Constitution: Limits to the Institutional Fix," African Affairs 118/471 (2018): 215-237. (with Alex Dyzenhaus, Catherine Gateri, Seth Ouma, James Owino, Ambreena Manji, and Jacqueline Klopp)
  
  

• "Shifting Visions of Property under Competing Political Regimes: Changing Uses of Côte d'Ivoire's 1998 Land Law," Journal of Modern African Studies, 56/2 (2018): 189-216. [Link to LSE Open Access]
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• "Captured Countryside? Stability and Change in Subnational Support for African Incumbent Parties," Comparative Politics, 50/2 (January 2018): 189-216. (with Michael Wahman)
  
  
• "Sons of the Soil Conflict in Africa: Institutional Determinants of Ethnic Conflict over land," World Development 96 (2017): 276-293. 
  
  
• "Rural bias in African electoral systems: Legacies of unequal representation in African democracies," Electoral Studies, Vol. 40 (December 2015): 335-346. (with Michael Wahman) 
  
  
• "Land Institutions and Political Ethnicity: Evidence from Tanzania," Comparative Politics 48/1 (2015): 67-86. (with Lydia Nyeme)
  
  
• "Land Tenure Regimes and State Structure in Rural Africa: Implications for forms of resistance to large-scale land acquisitions by outsiders," Journal of Contemporary African Studies 33/2 (2015): 171-190.
  
  
• "Land Regimes and the Structure of Politics:  Patterns of Land-Related Conflict," Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute, 83 (2013): 188-203.
  
  
• "Multiparty elections and land patronage: Zimbabwe and Côte d’Ivoire," Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 48/2 (April 2010): 173-202. (with Norma Kriger) ​
  
  
• "Electoral Populism Where Property Rights Are Weak: Land Politics in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa," Comparative Politics, 41/2 (2009): 183-201.
  
  
• "Politics and AIDS in Africa: Research Agendas in Political Science and International Relations," Africa Today, 48/2 (2001): 3-33. (with Jake Batsell)​

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Chapters

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• "Land-Related Conflict and Electoral Politics in Africa," In Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.758. 
   
• "Property and Constitutional Order: Land Tenure Reform and the Future of the African State," in N. Cheeseman, L. Whitfield, and C. Death, eds., The African Affairs Reader: Key Tests in Politics, Development, and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 57-87 [reprinted from African Affairs, 106 (Oct. 2007): 557-86].
   
• "Property and Land Institutions: Origins, Variations, and Political Effects," in Nic Cheeseman, ed., Institutions and Democracy in Africa (Cambridge U. Press, 2018), 60-91.
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• "Land Patronage and Elections: Winners and Losers in Zimbabwe and Côte d'Ivoire," in Dorina A. Bekoe, ed., Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, USIP Press, 2012), 75-117. (with Norma Kriger)
  
  
• "The China Model in Africa: A New Brand of Developmentalism," in Robert Springborg, ed., Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, "Islamic" and Neo-Liberal Alternatives (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), 47-82. (with Dhawal Doshi)