Research
RESEARCH SUMMARY
My research focuses on political parties and institutions, specifically how they affect the representation of and the creation of violence against immigrants, ethnic minorities, and women in the West and Sub-Saharan Africa, primarily Nigeria, Ghana, and Botswana.
WORKING MANUSCRIPTS
Ideological Misfits? Non-Western Origin Ethnic Candidates, Their Parties and Women’s Equality and Immigration, Under Review.
Interparty Competition, Political Risk, and Decline of Women’s Representation in Africa?
Migration and Animosity: Political Parties, Electoral Strategies, and the Media Mobilization of Co-Partisans in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is a Multiethnic Party? Defining, Classifying, and Quantifying. Co-author: Stephen Bloom
CONFERENCE PAPERS, EUROPE
Ethnic Candidates & Ideology: Ideology, and Issue Location of Non-Western Ethnic Candidates in the West on Gender Equality. Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. March 2023.
Comparing Transnational to Local Europe Black Movements: BLM versus Zwarte Piet, American Political Science Association. Montreal, Canada. September 2022.
Ethnic Candidates & Ideology: Ideology, and Issue Location of Non-Western Ethnic Candidates in the West on Gender Equality. Accepted, Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. March 2023.
Comparing Transnational to Local Europe Black Movements: BLM versus Zwarte Piet, American Political Science Association. Montreal, Canada. September 2022.
Internal and External Party Crises, Intersectionality, and the Rise of Ethnic Minority Women Leaders in the West. Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 2022.
Windrush, Hostile Environment, and Sadiq Javid: Media Mobilization and Demobilization of Co-ethnic Voting in British General Elections. Media in Context Workshop, University of Exeter (UK). May 2022.
Crisis Candidacies: Far-Right Competition, Political Party Electoral Decline and Crisis, and the Emergence of Black, Asian, and Asian Party Leaders in the West. American Political Science Association. Seattle, WA. September – October 2021.
Crisis Candidacies: Party Decline and Black/Asian MPs and Party Leaders in the West. American Political Science Association, Online. September 2020.
Rethinking the Rules of Representation and Violence: The Rise and Decline Violence against Immigrants in Africa and the West. International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. April 2013.
Rethinking the Rules of Representation and Violence: Design and Preliminary Results. Workshop on Democracy and Dictatorship, University of Tampere. Tampere, Finland. June 3 – 8, 2012.
Decentralization, Citizenship Rules, and Party Control: Why Can't Regional Ethnic Parties Trigger Ethnic Violence? International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. April 2012.
Choosing between Electing Women or Ethnic Candidates? Adding and Subtracting Plurality and Importance of Personal Votes. Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 2011.
CONFERENCE PAPERS, AFRICA
Big Men or Many Little Men: Reverse Coattails, Presidential Elections, and Electoral Turnovers in African States. Accepted, American Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA September 2023.
African Studies Association. Philadelphia, PA. November 2022.
Pushing the First Families Out: Effect of Inclusion and Exclusion of Founding Families in the Emerging Party Systems in Africa. International Studies Association Midwest. St. Louis, MO. November 2021. African Studies Association. Philadelphia, PA. November 2022.
Does Land Tenure Explain Majority-Minority Ethnic Conflict? Indigenous versus Immigrant
Ethnic Voting and Conflict in Africa. International Studies Association. Nashville, TN. March 2022. Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. Washington, DC. November 2021.
Divide & Conquer: Rising Defections and the Emergence and Disappearance of Stable, Competitive Party Systems in Africa. American Political Science Association. Seattle, WA. September – October 2021.
Migration of Identity and Animosity: Politicians, the Media, and the Mobilization and Demobilization of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Violence. International Studies Association. April 2021.
Electing Asians in Africa. African Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. December 2018.
Economy, National Security, and the Emergence of National Identity or the State as Democratizer. International Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. March 2017.
Top Down Versus Bottom Up: Societal Opposition and Marriage and Traditional Law Reforms in African States (political parties and legitimacy). African Studies Association. Washington, DC. December 2016.
Politicians and the Popular Media: Success and Failure in the Mobilization and Demobilizing of Anti-Immigrant Violence. African Studies Association. Indianapolis, IN. November 2014.
The Rise of Multiparty Competitive Democracy and the Decline of Women’s Representation in Africa?
European Political Science Association. Barcelona, Spain. June 2013.
Divide and Conquer? Dictators, Democrats, and Authoritarian Party Divides in the Rise of Democracy in Africa. American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. September 2013.
Interparty Competition, Political Risk, and the Decline of Women’s Representation in Africa? European Political Science Association. Barcelona, Spain. June 2013.
Choosing between Electing Women or Ethnic Candidates? Ethnic Concentration and Electoral Rules in African States. American Political Science Association. Seattle, WA. September 2011.
Linking Civil Society to the State: Balancing Pluralism and Corporatism in Nigeria, Ghana, and Botswana.
Midwest Political Science Association.” Chicago, IL. April 2003.