Nic Cheeseman
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British political scientist
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Nic Cheeseman's Degrees
- PhD Politics University of Oxford
- Masters Politics University of Oxford
- Bachelors Politics, Philosophy, and Economics University of Oxford
Why Is Nic Cheeseman Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nic Cheesemanis a British political scientist and professor of democracy at the University of Birmingham, working on democracy, elections and African politics. He is also a columnist for the The Africa Report and South Africa’s Mail & Guardian and the editor of the website Democracy in Africa. A regular commentator in the media, he is sometimes referred to by his Twitter handle, @fromagehomme.
Nic Cheeseman's Published Works
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Published Works
- Democratization, sequencing, and state failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya (2008) (253)
- The Kenyan Elections of 2007: An Introduction (2008) (191)
- African Elections as Vehicles for Change (2010) (129)
- Rethinking the ‘presidentialism debate’: conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective (2014) (120)
- Democracy and its discontents: understanding Kenya's 2013 elections (2014) (117)
- The politics of control in Kenya: Understanding the bureaucratic-executive state, 1952–78 (2006) (115)
- Power-sharing in comparative perspective: the dynamics of ‘unity government’ in Kenya and Zimbabwe * (2010) (115)
- Decentralisation in Kenya: the governance of governors* (2016) (106)
- Parties, Platforms, and Political Mobilization: The Zambian Presidential Election of 2008 (2009) (95)
- Democracy in Africa : successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform (2015) (83)
- Ethnicity as a political cleavage (2007) (61)
- “No Bourgeoisie, No Democracy”? The Political Attitudes of the Kenyan Middle Class (2015) (53)
- Digital dilemmas: the unintended consequences of election technology (2018) (51)
- The internal dynamics of power-sharing in Africa (2011) (47)
- Our turn to eat : politics in Kenya since 1950 (2010) (45)
- Kenya’s 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual? (2019) (40)
- Increasing tax revenue in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Kenya (2005) (38)
- Introduction: Political Linkage and Political Space in the Era of Decolonization (2006) (36)
- Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective (2018) (34)
- Managing a mega-city: learning the lessons from Lagos (2017) (33)
- Does the African Middle Class Defend Democracy?: Evidence from Kenya (2014) (26)
- Zimbabwe: The coup that never was, and the election that could have been (2019) (26)
- Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems (2018) (25)
- Kenya: the struggle for democracy (2009) (24)
- Ghana: The Ebbing Power of Incumbency (2017) (22)
- Power-sharing in Kenya (2017) (19)
- War and democracy: the legacy of conflict in East Africa (2018) (16)
- How to Rig an Election (2018) (16)
- From peace campaigns to peaceocracy: Elections, order and authority in Africa (2019) (15)
- Social Media Disruption: Nigeria's WhatsApp Politics (2020) (13)
- Patrons, Parties, Political Linkage, and the Birth of Competitive-Authoritarianism in Africa (2016) (12)
- The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics (2018) (11)
- The potential and pitfalls of collaborating with development organizations and policy makers in Africa (2017) (11)
- Routledge Handbook of African Politics (2013) (11)
- Is There a ‘Populist Threat’ in Zambia?1 (2014) (9)
- Briefing: Using opinion polls to evaluate Kenyan politics, March 2004–January 2005 (2005) (9)
- The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa (2017) (8)
- Tanzania: The Roots of Repression (2021) (7)
- Election fever : Kenya’s crisis (2008) (7)
- VOTING, NATIONHOOD, AND CITIZENSHIP IN LATE-COLONIAL AFRICA (2018) (6)
- “A valid electoral exercise”? Uganda's 1980 Elections and the Observers’ Dilemma (2017) (6)
- Whatsapp and Nigeria's 2019 Elections : Mobilising the People, Protecting the Vote (2019) (6)
- The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery (2021) (5)
- How to hold elections safely and democratically during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (5)
- Notes on Researching Africa (2017) (5)
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? Term Limits, Elections, and Political Change in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia (2019) (5)
- African Studies Keyword: Democracy (2021) (5)
- Trust, Ethnicity and Integrity in East Africa: Experimental Evidence from Kenya and Tanzania (2017) (4)
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Women, Leadership, and Peace in Africa (2017) (4)
- Dedication: Joel Barkan, 1941–2014 (2014) (4)
- African exceptions: democratic development in small island states (2021) (3)
- A Changing of the Guards or A Change of Systems? Regional Report Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) (3)
- A Divided Continent Regional Report Africa (2019) (3)
- The Retreat of African Democracy (2019) (3)
- Populism in Africa and the potential for “ethnically blind” politics (2018) (3)
- Ethnicity and Party Support in Africa: The Limits of ‘Census Politics’ (2008) (3)
- Accommodation Works Better for Reducing Conflict (2016) (3)
- Democracy and Elections in Africa (review) (2007) (3)
- Managing Elections under Covid-19 Pandemic Conditions: The Case of Uganda (2021) (3)
- The Second Liberation: Economic Decline, the End of the Cold War, and the Struggle for Democracy (2015) (3)
- Beyond Ethnic Politics: The Limits of Bloc-Voting in Kenya (2013) (3)
- A Dictionary of African Politics (2019) (3)
- Democratization by Elections: a new mode of transition edited by Staffan Lindberg Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. 406, £15.50 (pbk). (2010) (3)
- Risk, politics, and development: Lessons from the UK's democracy aid (2018) (2)
- THE RULE OF LAW AND THE COURTS (2018) (2)
- Peace, But at What Cost? Media Coverage of Elections and Conflict in Kenya (2019) (2)
- Nationalism, one-party states, and military rule (2013) (2)
- Special issue: Election fever: Kenya's crisis (2008) (2)
- Five lessons for researchers who want to collaborate with governments and development organisations but avoid the common pitfalls (2018) (2)
- Were the Kenyan Elections Conducted Successfully (2017) (1)
- Trust and social capital in urban Kenya and Tanzania (2013) (1)
- Democracy in Africa: Cultures of Resistance: Civil Society and the Limits of Power (2015) (1)
- Dedication (2014) (1)
- Kenya's Electoral Impasse (2017) (1)
- Regional Report Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) (1)
- Why Kenya's Supreme Court Can't Solve the Country's Electoral Crisis (2017) (1)
- Why efforts to fight corruption hurt democracy: Lessons from a survey experiment in Nigeria (2020) (1)
- The Lagos Experiment: Services Delivery, Tax Collection, and Popular Attitudes (2013) (1)
- Bahnaric linguistic bibliography with selected annotations (2013) (1)
- ASR Forum: the life and work of Joel Barkan (2016) (1)
- An Introduction to the African State (2017) (0)
- In search of solidarity (2012) (0)
- KENYA VIRTUAL ISSUE (2013) (0)
- Conclusion: The Electoral Fallacy Revisited (2021) (0)
- Budgetary Authority and Coalition Management (2018) (0)
- The Rise of Minority Presidentialism (2018) (0)
- Democracy in Africa: Exporting Elections: International Donors and the Era of Democratic Dependency (2015) (0)
- The political economy of Kenya (2020) (0)
- Ten Challenges in Democracy Support – and How to Overcome them (2018) (0)
- Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education (review) (2010) (0)
- Political Institutions and Democratization in Africa: How The Rules of the Game Shape Political Developments (2017) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (2009) (0)
- Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Cases from Southern Africa. By Peter VonDoepp. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009. 185p. $55.00. (2010) (0)
- Corrigendum to: How to rig an election (2019) (0)
- An introduction to African politics (2013) (0)
- Staffan I. Lindberg, Democracy and Elections in Africa . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (pb $24.99 978-0-8018-8333-0; hb $55 978-0-8018-8332-3). 2006, 248 pp. (2007) (0)
- Towards a Framework for Analysis (2018) (0)
- Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful? (2023) (0)
- The Eyes of the World Are upon Us (2021) (0)
- Subverting Democracy: The Advantages of Incumbency and the Politics of Violence (2015) (0)
- Inside the Coordination Paradigm (2020) (0)
- How Could We Design Democracy to Make it Work in the African Context? (0)
- BTI 2020 | A Tale of Two Regions Regional Report Southern and Eastern Africa (2020) (0)
- Riutta Satu. Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education. Boulder, Colo.: First Forum Press, 2009. xiv + 225 pp. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. List of Acronyms. Interviews. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $59.95. Cloth. (2010) (0)
- Elections, States and Citizens (2021) (0)
- Introduction (2016) (0)
- The Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics (2018) (0)
- Democracy in Africa: Conclusion: Designing Democracy to Manage Diversity and Distrust (2015) (0)
- Ethnic mobilisation and the Liberian civil war (1989-2003) (2014) (0)
- Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies edited by Joel D. Barkan London: Lynne Rienner, 2009. Pp. 277, £51.50 (hbk). (2010) (0)
- An Introduction to African Affairs and African Studies (2017) (0)
- Intellectuals and African development: Pretension and resistance in African politics by Bjorn Beckman & Gbemisola Adeoti (eds). (Codesria: Africa In the New Millennium, London: Zed Books, 2006) (2009) (0)
- The African Affairs Reader: Key texts in politics, development and international relations (2017) (0)
- Cabinet Authority and Coalition Management (2018) (0)
- Why efforts to fight corruption can undermine the social contract: Lessons from a survey experiment in Nigeria (2022) (0)
- Ethnicity and Development (2018) (0)
- THE FATE OF AFRICA'S DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENTS 1989–2014 (2015) (0)
- Introduction: Writing African Elections (2021) (0)
- Creating the Kenya post-colony (2006) (0)
- Legislative Powers and Coalition Management (2018) (0)
- NAVIGATING TRADE- OFFS IN PARLIAMENTARY STRENGTHENING (2016) (0)
- African exceptions: democratic development in small island states (2021) (0)
- Africa and the World : sovereignty, dependency and extraversion (2016) (0)
- Kenya: the struggle for democracy, and: Ghana: one decade of the liberal state (review) (2009) (0)
- Introduction: Democratization Against the Odds (2015) (0)
- The Democratic Dividend: Political Competition, Populism, and Public Policy (2015) (0)
- Partisan Powers and Coalition Management (2018) (0)
- (Mis)Understanding Urban Africa: Toward A Research Agenda on the Political Impact of Urbanization (2022) (0)
- Government responses to gender-based violence during COVID-19 (2022) (0)
- Reimagining the Role of the Commonwealth in the UK’s Future (2018) (0)
- Fragments of Democracy: Participation and Control in Authoritarian Africa (2015) (0)
- Navigating Multiple Moralities (2021) (0)
- Minority Presidents in a Coalitional World (2018) (0)
- Women, Leadership, and Peace in Africa (2017) (0)
- Coalitional Presidentialism in Cross-Regional Perspective (2018) (0)
- Just Add Women ? PArliAmentAry Committees And the heAlth seCtor in AfriCA (2019) (0)
- The Embedded Costs of Power Sharing (2018) (0)
- To change corrupt behaviour, change the message (2022) (0)
- Towards a Moral Economy of Elections in Africa (2021) (0)
- Pathways to democracy (2019) (0)
- Money for Votes: The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa. By Eric Kramon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 244p. $99.99 cloth. (2019) (0)
- Kenya’s 2013 election: Lessons for democracypromotion (2013) (0)
- The Exchange of Favours and Coalition Management (2018) (0)
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