Matthias Basedau

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Matthias Basedau is affiliated with the following schools: Uppsala University, University of Göttingen, University of Hamburg

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Matthias Basedau's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of Hamburg
Masters Political Science University of Hamburg
Bachelors Political Science University of Hamburg

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According to Wikipedia, Matthias Basedau is a German political scientist and director of the GIGA Institute for African Studies in Hamburg. Biography Professional career Basedau studied political science, sociology and psychology at the University of Heidelberg. After the Doctorate in Heidelberg he became aresearch fellow at the GIGA Institute for African Studies in 2002. There he was responsible for southern Africa , West Africa and the Sahel . Since 2013 he has been teaching as a Professor at the University of Hamburg . In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Since 2018 he has been the director of the GIGA Institute for African Studies in Hamburg.

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Matthias Basedau's Published Works

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Resource Curse or Rentier Peace? The Ambiguous Effects of Oil Wealth and Oil Dependence on Violent Conflict (2009) (299)
Bad Religion? Religion, Collective Action, and the Onset of Armed Conflict in Developing Countries (2016) (127)
Measuring Party Institutionalization in Developing Countries: A New Research Instrument Applied to 28 African Political Parties (2008) (114)
Context Matters - Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa (2005) (95)
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa (2011) (94)
ViEWS: A political violence early-warning system (2019) (84)
Area studies, comparative area studies, and the study of politics: Context, substance, and methodological challenges (2007) (81)
Votes, Money and Violence Political Parties and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007) (68)
Ethnicity and party preference in sub-Saharan Africa (2011) (67)
Does discrimination breed grievances—and do grievances breed violence? New evidence from an analysis of religious minorities in developing countries (2017) (66)
Ethnic fractionalization, natural resources and armed conflict (2014) (53)
Why do some oil exporters experience civil war but others do not?: investigating the conditional effects of oil (2013) (53)
A Paradox of Plenty? Rent Distribution and Political Stability in Oil States (2006) (50)
Factionalism in Political Parties: An Analytical Framework for Comparative Studies (2005) (44)
Ethnic party bans in Africa: an introduction (2010) (44)
How ethnicity conditions the effect of oil and gas on civil conflict: A spatial analysis of Africa from 1990 to 2010 (2014) (41)
The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence (2017) (37)
Ethnic Party Bans In Africa: A Research Agenda (2007) (36)
How ethnic are African parties really? Evidence from four Francophone countries (2012) (36)
Ethnicity and Party Systems in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa (2009) (34)
Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa (2007) (33)
The 'Ambivalence of the Sacred' in Africa: The Impact of Religion on Peace and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008) (33)
Promoting Peace and Democracy Through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa (2008) (31)
What Drives Inter-Religious Violence? Lessons from Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, and Tanzania (2013) (30)
Why do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War but Others Do Not? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries (2011) (29)
Party systems in Africa: Problems of categorising and explaining party systems (2008) (29)
Resource Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa (2005) (29)
The Multidimensional Effects of Religion on Socioeconomic Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2018) (27)
Parties in chains: Do ethnic party bans in Africa promote peace? (2011) (24)
Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering (2011) (23)
OIL AND DIAMONDS AS CAUSES OF CIVIL WAR IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS? (2009) (23)
Measuring the Ambivalence of Religion: Introducing the Religion and Conflict in Developing Countries (RCDC) Dataset (2015) (22)
Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1960 to 2008 (2012) (20)
When Do Religious Leaders Support Faith-Based Violence? Evidence from a Survey Poll in South Sudan (2015) (18)
An effective measure of institutional engineering? Ethnic party bans in Africa (2010) (17)
Ethnic Party Bans in Africa (2013) (17)
Universal Love or One True Religion? Experimental Evidence of the Ambivalent Effect of Religious Ideas on Altruism and Discrimination (2020) (16)
Democracy and Elections in Africa by Staffan I. Lindberg Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+227. £36.50 (hb), £16.50 (pb). (2008) (16)
Drilling Deeper: A Systematic, Context-Sensitive Investigation of Causal Mechanisms in the Oil–Conflict Link (2014) (16)
Mind the Gap: An Annotated Overview of Datasets in the Study of Institutions and Conflict in Divided Societies (2013) (15)
The Rise of Religious Armed Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa: No Simple Answers (2017) (13)
Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2009: Political Management in International Comparison (2008) (12)
Religious discrimination and religious armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa: an obvious relationship? (2018) (11)
Public Perceptions of Security in Post-Conflict Urban Liberia and Sierra Leone Part I – Liberia: Caught between International, State and Non-State Actors (2007) (10)
Cutting Bread or Cutting Throats? – Findings from a New Database on Religion, Violence and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011) (10)
Rethinking African Studies: Four Challenges and the Case for Comparative African Studies (2020) (8)
When Do Religious Minorities' Grievances Lead to Peaceful or Violent Protest? Evidence from Canada’s Jewish and Muslim Communities (2018) (7)
An Overview of African Party Systems (2013) (7)
Jann Lay Dependence on Violent Conflict Resource Curse or Rentier Peace ? The Ambiguous Effects of Oil Wealth and Oil (2018) (5)
Area Studies and Comparative Area Studies: Opportunities and Challenges for the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (2006) (5)
Progress Overlooked: The Case for More "Afropositivism" (2019) (4)
Do Party Systems Make Democracy Work? A Comparative Test of Party-system Characteristics and Democratization in Francophone Africa (2011) (4)
Sleep, bark, or bite: Do natural resources make the difference regarding peaceful or violent conflict? (2020) (3)
Party Systems in Africa (2019) (2)
Electoral Rentierism? The Cross-National and Subnational Effect of Oil on Electoral Competitiveness in Multiparty Autocracies (2015) (2)
Do expectations on oil discoveries affect civil unrest? Micro-level evidence from Mali (2018) (2)
Revisiting the Resource-Conflict Link: A Systematic Comparative Test of Causal Mechanisms in Four Major Oil-Exporting Countries (2011) (2)
Introducing the “Religious Minorities at Risk” Dataset (2019) (2)
Rentier peace or resource curse? The ambiguous effects of oil wealth and oil dependency on violent conflict (2007) (1)
Does the Success of Institutional Reform Depend on the Depth of Divisions? A Pilot Study on Thirty-Four African Countries (2017) (1)
Rebels with a Cause: Does Ideology Make Armed Conflicts Longer and Bloodier? (2022) (1)
Drilling Deeper: A Systematic Test of Causal Mechanisms in the Resource-Conflict Link (2011) (1)
Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2021) (1)
2011 Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict ? Empirical Evidence from Sub ‐ Saharan Africa (2011) (1)
Does the Success of Institutional Conflict Management Depend on the Character of Divisions? A Pilot Study on Inclusive Institutions and Ethnic Conflict in 34 African Countries (2013) (1)
Biographical Notes (2013) (0)
In this pacesetting piece of literature, the editors introduce the book by examining the state of research on the main themes (2008) (0)
GLJ volume 8 issue 6 Cover and Front matter (2007) (0)
A Context-sensitive Approach to the Study of Presidentialism and Ethnic Violence (2013) (0)
Abstracts in French and Spanish (2012) (0)
Do Expectations of Consequences of Oil Discoveries Affect Conflict Risk? A Study on Georeferenced Survey and Event Data in Mali (2015) (0)
Party bans in Africa – an empirical overview Anika Moroﬀ (2013) (0)
Mihailof, S. (2018). Africanistan. Jihad or Development. (2019) (0)
Stagnation on Low Levels: Political and Economic Transformation in Central and West Africa; Strategic Insights, v. 6, issue 12 (December 2005) (2005) (0)
Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not ? – A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil ‐ Exporting Countries (2011) (0)
A Mixed Blessing: Religion, Violence and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012) (0)
'Clash of the Denominations' in Africa? A Controlled Comparison of Inter-Religious Violence in Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Tanzania (2011) (0)
The Well-Oiled Machine: Multiparty Autocracies and the Effect of Oil on Electoral Competition (2017) (0)
Acknowledgement to Reviewers (1986) (0)
Book review: Africanistan. Development or Jihad (2019) (0)

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