From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Available via Oxford Academic (online) or for purchase at OUP and Amazon.
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Winner of Best Book Award from the African Politics Conference Group, an organized section of the American Political Science Association and an affiliated group of the African Studies Association. November 2012.
Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, African Affairs, Journal of Modern African Studies, Party Politics, Mobilization, Commonwealth and Comparative Studies, Foreign Affairs, African Studies Review, and the LSE Review of Books.
Current Book Projects
(With Jessica Gottlieb) Can Social Intermediaries Build the State? Taxation and Informal Governance in Lagos, Nigeria.
Why have efforts to improve tax compliance in low-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, failed? Existing policy and research ignore the central importance of non-state institutions in low-income countries, which both mediate interactions between states and citizens and provide governance in their own right. Can Social Intermediaries Build the State? presents a new theory of how non-state institutions shape tax collection and state-building. Drawing on a field experiment, qualitative work, and survey data from Lagos, Nigeria, the book argues that the strength of social intermediaries and their role in clientelistic exchange makes taxation and state-building more difficult.
[Chapter drafts and proposal available upon request]
Organizing Electoral Violence: the Evolution of Grassroots Economies of Violence Provision in Africa.Â
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