Publications

Works in progress

• ‘The Construction of Power in Africa: Institutions, Patronage and Political Mobilization’ – monograph based on doctoral research
• ‘The Routledge Handbook of African Politics’ – under contract with Routledge [with David Anderson]
• ‘Ethno-populism in Africa: why the inconsistent mobilization strategies of African political entrepreneurs are effective’ – journal article [with Miles Larmer]
• ‘Why Minority Presidents Prosper: The Dynamics of Presidential Coalitional in Comparative Perspective’ – journal article [with Tim Power and Paul Chaisty]
• ‘The Roots and Consequences of Populism in Zambia’ – book chapter commissioned by Paul Collier and Christopher Adam for a book on Zambia’s Policy Options with Oxford University Press [with Robert Ford and Neo Simutanyi]

Monographs

• ‘Democracy in Africa’ – under contract with Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge, 2012)

Edited Volumes

• ‘Our Turn To Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950’ (Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2010) [co-edited with Daniel Branch and Leigh Gardener].
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Articles

• ‘The Internal Dynamics of Power-sharing in Africa’, Democratization 18 (2) pp.336-365 (2011).
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• ‘African Elections as Vehicles for Change’, Journal of Democracy 21 (4) pp.139-153 (2010).
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• ‘Power Sharing in Comparative Perspective: The Origins and Consequences of Unity Government in Africa’, Journal of Modern African Studies 48 pp.203-229 (2010) [with Miles Tendi].
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• ‘Parties, Platforms, and Political Mobilization: The Zambian Presidential Election of 2008’, African Affairs 109 (434) pp.51-76 (2010) [with Marja Hinfelaar].
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• ‘Democratization, Sequencing, and State Failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya’, African Affairs, 108 (430) pp.1-26 (2009) [with Daniel Branch].
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• ‘The 2007 Kenyan Election: An Introduction’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2 (2) pp.166-184 (2008).
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• ‘Political Linkage in the Kenya Post-Colony: Assessing the Structure of Kenyas Colonial Legacy’, Africa Today 53 (1) (2008).
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• ‘The Politics of Control in Kenya: Understanding the Bureaucratic-Executive State’, Review of African Political Economy, 33, (107) pp.11-31 (2006) [with Daniel Branch].
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• ‘Using Opinion Polls to Evaluate Kenyan Politics, March 2004 January 2005’, African Affairs 415 (104) pp.325-36 (2005) [with Daniel Branch].
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Book chapters

• ‘Kenya Since 2002: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same’, in Whitfield and Mustapha, eds., Turning Points in African Democracy (London, James Currey, 2009).
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• ‘Kenya in 2009’, in Mehler, Melber, and Walraven, eds., Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2009, (Leiden, Brill, 2009).
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• ‘Kenya in 2008’, in Mehler, Melber, and Walraven, eds., Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2008, (Leiden, Brill, 2008).
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Working papers

• ‘Ethnicity As A Political Cleavage’, Afrobarometer Working Paper no. 83 (2007), [with Robert Ford].
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