Research

Divia Jimnez Encarnacin, Erica Ann Metheney, Liane Thuvander, Yuliya Kalmykova, and Leonardo Rosado. Revealing patterns in household product consumption and sharing: An approach to support urban governance towards a sustainable sharing economy. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 45:244–264, March 2024. ISSN 2352-5509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.01.009

Karen E. Ferree, Boniface Dulani, Adam S. Harris, Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust, Cecilia Ahsan Jansson, and Erica Ann Metheney. Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia. Comparative Political Studies, 56(12):1795–1823, October 2023. ISSN 0010-4140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231152753 

Boniface Dulani, Adam Harris, Ellen Lust, Karen Ferree, Kristen Kao, Cecilia Ahsan Jansson, and Erica Ann Metheney. Elections in the time of covid-19: the triple crises around Malawis 2020 presidential elections. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 31(sup1):56–68, 2021. ISSN 1745-7289. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2021.1924745

Karen E Ferree, Adam S Harris, Boniface Dulani, Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust, and Erica Metheney. Stigma, Trust, and procedural integrity: Covid-19 testing in Malawi. World Development, 141: 105351, 2021. ISSN 0305-750X. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105351

Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust, Boniface Dulani, Karen E Ferree, Adam S Harris, and Erica Metheney. The ABCs of Covid-19 prevention in Malawi: Authority, benefits, and costs of compliance. World Development, 137:105167, 2021. ISSN 0305-750X. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105167 

Song Chew, Erica Metheney, and Thomas Teague. Modelling and simulation of the formation of social networks. Social Sciences, 6(3):79, 2017. ISSN 2076-0760. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6030079 

Erica Ann Metheney and Ellen Lust. GLD-SAIPAR Covid-19 survey in Zambia dataset. Data in Brief, 51:109735, December 2023a. ISSN 23523409. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109735 

Erica Ann Metheney and Ellen Lust. Zambian election panel survey: Dataset of responses before, near, and after 2021 elections. Data in Brief, 48:109073, June 2023b. ISSN 23523409. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109073 

Ellen Lust; Kristen Kao; Pierre F. Landry; Adam Harris; Boniface Dulani; Erica Ann Metheney; Sebastian Nickel; Ruth Carlitz; Josephie Gakii Gatua; Prisca Jöst; Valeryia Mechkova; Fison Maxim; John Tengatenga; Marcia Grimes; Cecilia Ahsan Jansson; Witness Alfonso; Dominique Nyasente; Nesrine Ben Brahim; Jenna Jordan; Monika Bauhr; Frida Boräng; Karen Ferree; Felix Hartmann; Hans Lueders, 2023, "The Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI) Household Survey 2019: Kenya, Malawi, Zambia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PJKXL1, Harvard Dataverse, V1.

Nicole Beardsworth and Matthias Krönke. “Party Cadres Threaten Peaceful Elections and Everyday Life in Urban Africa:

Lessons from the 2021 Zambian Election,” The Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg: April 22, 2022. The authors would like to thank Erica Ann Metheney, Jeffrey Paller, Rose Shaber-Twedt, and Sara Bjurenvall for edits, graphics, contributions, suggestions, and design. VIEW

Karen E. Ferree, “Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy in Malawi,” GLD Policy Brief No. 4, September 2021.

Report prepared by Karen Ferree, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego, with the assistance of Sara Bjurenvall and Erica Ann Metheney, at the Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg. VIEW

Lust, Ellen; and Benstead, Lindsay J. ”Is the Future Female? Evidence from Youth in Six Arab Countries.”. Portland State University; Governance and Local Development Institute at University of Gothenburg: 2022. www.gld.gu.se. Report designed and prepared by Erica Ann Metheney and Samuel Wakuma. VIEW 

Ahsan Jansson, Cecilia and Bergman, Jennifer and Bjurenvall, Sara and Dulani, Boniface and Ferree, Karen E. and Fischer Madsen, Lucas and Harris, Adam and Hinfelaar, Marja and Kao, Kristen and Lust, Ellen and Metheney, Erica. “Fears, Vulnerabilities, and Precautions over COVID-19: A Report on Citizen’s Experiences in Malawi and Zambia” (2021). Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper No. Forthcoming., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract =3966279 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3966279 

The country specific reports were shared/discussed in regional, national, and international settings including newspapers, radio, and online articles. A full list can be found here:

http://gld.gu.se/en/projects/completed-projects/developing-a-locally-rooted-approach-to-covid-19-response/ 

Towards Analyzing Governance as a Complex System

Complex Systems Conference 2022

October 2022

Statistical Challenges in Measuring Local Governance

Invited Colloquium Speaker

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

September 2022

Introduction to SurveyToGo

Methods Meetup Speaker

University of Gothenburg

September 2020

Introduction to QGIS

Methods Meetup Speaker

University of Gothenburg

March 2020

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwivSFiyLtE 

Associated Data: 

Graphicality Correction Procedure

Guest Speaker

Chalmers

October 2019

Generating Graphic Sequences Using Heavy-tailed Degree Distributions with Infinite Mean

Guest Speaker

University of Copenhagen 

May 2018

Generating Graphic Sequences Using Heavy-tailed Degree Distributions with Infinite Mean

Guest Speaker

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

March 2018