Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies
and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually …

AFRICA HAS NOT BEEN IMMUNE to recent global trends in democratic backsliding.
Although the vast majority of countries on the continent have been holding competitive multi …

This paper presents a model for understanding how private-sector transport operators make
individual and collective decisions on the change and expansion of transport networks …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

Undermining the State from Within pulls back the curtain on the counterinsurgent state to
better understand how conflict dynamics affect state institutions and continue to shape …

The category of 'inter-communal violence'has been increasingly mobilised to interpret
subnational violence in contemporary Africa. The paper contends this is an unwelcome …

Governance of Ghana's petroleum sector has evolved from personalised moments of
institutional adjudication, and through exclusive clientelist political manoeuvres, to the active …

The primacy of territorial control in theories of civil war has advanced our understanding of
war dynamics, most notably lethal violence, but has hindered our understanding of the …

The number of seats in national legislatures around the world rarely changes. Yet, in Africa,
a substantial number of countries have regularly increased the size of their legislatures, and …

Within the broader context of securitized responses to Covid-19 globally, Uganda
experienced an oversized military role, ranging from law-and-order and lockdown …