Professor Nic Cheeseman Curriculum vitae, January 2017

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1 Professor Nic Cheeseman Curriculum vitae, January 2017 Contact Information International Development Department University of Birmingham Edgbaston web B15 2TT Selected Career Professor of Democracy, International Development Department, Birmingham University (2017-) Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2015) Visiting Professor, Science Po, Paris, France (2011) Associate Professor of African Politics, University of Oxford ( ) Stipendiary Lecturer, St Anne s College, Oxford University ( ) Stipendiary Lecturer, St Peter s College, Oxford University ( ) Leadership Roles Director, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford ( ) Director, Comparative Government MPhil, University of Oxford ( ) Member of the General Purposes Committee of the DPIR ( ) Advisory Work & Knowledge Exchange Advisory Board Member, UNESCO Chair on Communication Research and Africa (2012-) Advisor to and writer for Kofi Annan s African Progress Panel (2011) Consultant Advisor, Zambia Accountability Programme (ZAP), advisor to a 5 year 26 million British Council project funded by DFID that aims to promote accountability (2012-) Principal Investigator, The Political Economy of Democracy Promotion project, an 80,000 collaboration with the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) supported by DFID and the FCO, including a fully funded post-doctoral researcher Co-Director, OX/OX research workshops & collaboration, an annual workshop that brings together researchers from Oxford University and OXFAM to reflect on key global issues and shape policy discussions, in collaboration with the Executive Director of OXFAM (2011-) Lead Consultant, FCO/DFID Kenya, Ethnicity and the Political Settlement in Kenya, analysis and report including the completion of a political settlements diagram (2014) Invited expert speaker, National Intelligence Council and State Department of the United States government wise heads meeting, Kenyan elections 2013: The prospects for peace, Washington DC, USA (2013)

2 Lead Consultant, Foreign Office Africa Department Study Day at Oxford University, organized and delivered one day study/blue skies workshops for the Africa Directorate of the FCO, attended by staff including the Africa Director (2002) Lead Consultant, FCO/DFID, Early Warning and Long-term Monitoring of the Kenyan 2013 general elections for the Africa Conflict Prevention Programme of the UK Government, provided regular reports on the state of politics in Kenya leading up to the 2013 polls, regularly briefing the UK High Commissioner and the head of DFID Kenya (2012-3) Lead Consultant, DFID, with primary responsibility for the development of a Business Case for a 5 million programme on democracy and accountability in Zambia (2012). Lead Consultant, World Bank, producing a Political Economy Analysis of the new government in Zambia to guide their country assistance strategy (2012). Editorial positions & media roles Founding Editor & Editor in Chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics, Oxford University Press (2016-) Founding Editor, Oxford Dictionary of African Politics, Oxford University Press (2016-) Editorial Board Member, Zambia Social Science Journal (2012-) Joint Editor, African Affairs, The Journal of the Royal African Society ( ) Columnist, Sunday Nation newspaper, Kenya (2013-) Founder and Co-editor, Democracy in Africa website, (2011-) Editorial Board & Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Modern African Studies ( ) Education University of Oxford, Nuffield College, D.Phil., Politics, 2006 University of Oxford, Nuffield College, M.Phil., Politics, 2003, thesis distinction University of Oxford, St Peter s College, B.A. Politics, Philosophy and Economics, awarded with first class honors (Double First), 2001 Awards and Prizes 2016 Frank Cass Award 2015 for the best article published in Democratization for Ethnopopulism in Africa: opposition mobilisation in diverse and unequal societies [with Miles Larmer] 2013 Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Award 2013, awarded by GIGA for the best article in comparative area studies for Rethinking the presidentialism debate : Conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective [with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power] 2008 Teaching Excellence Award, Oxford University, nominated by Masters students 2008 Arthur McDougall Dissertation Prize, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Best Dissertation on Elections, Electoral Systems or Representation (2008) 2

3 Research funding 2016 Awarded an 7,500 ESRC Impact Award to develop Global Challenges Research Fund activities for a project on the impact of everyday violence on attitudes to violence and identity in Nigeria [with Lauren Harrison] 2015 Awarded 50,000 by the ESRC Impact Acceleration scheme to lead a project including DFID Kenya, the World Bank, OXFAM and the governments of Cape Town, Lagos and Nairobi 2014 Part of the MeCoDem research consortium awarded over Euro 2.2 million by the ERC to research the relationship between media, conflict and democratization 2013 Awarded over 800,000 [with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis] to study elections and electoral manipulation in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda by the Economic and Social Research Council 2012 Awarded 125,000 for research on taxation and the social contract in Lagos, Nigeria, including survey analysis, as part of the DFID funded Improving Institutions for Growth project of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. We subsequently formed a two-year collaboration with the Lagos State Government worth a further $150, Awarded over 140,000 [with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis] by the Africa Conflict Prevention Pool of the UK government and the Economic and Social Research Council in matched funding to lead and share the findings of an Early Warning and Long-term Monitoring research project 2012 Awarded over 700,000 [with Tim Power and Paul Chaisty] for a research project on Coalitional Presidentialism in Latin America, Africa and the former Soviet Union ( ) by the Economic and Social Research Council 2011 Awarded 7,500 [with Tim Power and Paul Chaisty] or a research project on Coalitional Presidentialism in Latin America, Africa and the former Soviet Union by the John Fell Fund of Oxford University 2009 Awarded 2,500 for research on coalitions and electoral politics in Africa by the Major Grats Fund of Jesus College, Oxford University Books forth. The Impact of Elections in Africa [co-authored with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis, under contract at Cambridge University Press due 2018] forth. How to Rig An Election, New Haven: Yale University Press (sole author, under contract, scheduled 2017) forth. Authoritarian Africa, Oxford: Oxford University Press (textbook, under contract, scheduled early 2017) forth. Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press [under contract, manuscript to be delivered May 2016, co-authored with Tim Power and Paul Chaisty] 2015 Democracy in Africa: Successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014 Politics Meets Policies: The Emergence of Programmatic Parties, Stockholm: International IDEA [policy book summarizing the findings of a research programme, with Herbet Kitschelt, Dan Paget, Yi-Ting Wang, Juan Pablo Luna, Fernando Rosenblatt and Sergio Toro] 3

4 Edited books forth. The Handbook of Kenyan Politics, Oxford University Press [co-edited with Karuti Kanyinga and Gabrielle Lynch, under contract, scheduled late 2017] forth. The African Affairs Reader: Key texts in politics, development, and international relations, Oxford University Press [co-edited collection with Carl Death and Lindsay Whitfield, under contract, scheduled early 2017] forth. Institutions and Democratization in Africa: How the rules of the game shape political developments, Cambridge University Press [sole editor, under contract, scheduled early 2017] 2016 African Politics: Major Works, Oxford: Routledge 2013 The Handbook of African Politics, Oxford: Routledge [co-edited with David Anderson and Andrea Scheibler] 2010 Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950, LIT Verlag, Berlin [co-edited with Daniel Branch and Leigh Gardner] Articles review. The Nine Challenges of Democracy Promotion and How to Overcome Them, under review at the Journal of Democracy [with Susan Dodsworth] review. Taxing Lagos: Public goods and the evolution of the social contract in Africa, under review at Democratization [with Brian Klaas] review. War and Democracy: The legacy of conflict in East Africa, under review at the Journal of Modern African Studies [with Filip Reyntjens and Michaela Collord] 2017 The birth of election observation: Lessons from Uganda, Comparative Studies in Society and History [accepted, forthcoming 2017, with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis] 2016 The Foundations of Competitive-Authoritarianism in Africa: Patrons, Parties and Political Linkage, African Studies Review [accepted, likely December 2016] 2016 Accommodation works better for reducing conflict, Ethnopolitics, 15, 5: No Bourgeoisie, No Democracy? The Political Attitudes of the Kenyan Middle Class, Journal of International Development, 27, 5, Decentralization in Kenya: The governance of governors, Journal of Modern African Studies, 54, 1, 1-35 [with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis] 2015 Ethnopopulism in Africa: Opposition Mobilization in Diverse and Unequal Societies, Democratization, 22, 1, [with Miles Larmer] 2014 Democracy and its discontents: Understanding Kenya s 2013 elections, Journal of Eastern African Studies 8, 1, 2-24 [with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis] 2013 Rethinking the Presidentialism Debate : Conceptualizing Coalitional Politics in Cross-Regional Perspective, Democratization 21, 1, [with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power] 2011 The Internal Dynamics of Power-sharing in Africa, Democratization, 18, 2, African Elections as Vehicles for Change, Journal of Democracy, 21, 4, Power-sharing in comparative perspective: the dynamics of unity government in Kenya and Zimbabwe, Journal of Modern African Studies 48, [with Miles Tendi] 2008 Parties, Platforms, and Political Mobilization: The Zambian Presidential Election of 2008, African Affairs, 109, 434 (2010) [with Marja Hinfelaar] 4

5 2008 Democratization, Sequencing, and State Failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya, African Affairs, 108, 430, 1-26 [with Daniel Branch], reprinted in the Sage collected of essential works on Democratization, edited by Jean Grugel 2008 The 2007 Kenyan Election: An Introduction, JEAS, 2, 2, Political Linkage in the Kenya Post-Colony: Assessing the Structure of Kenya s Colonial Legacy, Africa Today 53, 1, The Politics of Control in Kenya: Understanding the Bureaucratic-Executive State, Review of African Political Economy, 33, 107, [with Daniel Branch] Selected book chapters & working papers forth. Democracy, Elections and Representations, in The African Affairs Reader, edited by N. Cheeseman, L Whitfield and C. Death, Oxford: Oxford University Press [scheduled 2017] 2016 Four new introductory essays to: African Studies & Africa and the World / The African State / Identity Politics, Conflict and Accommodation, Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Democracy, in African Politics Major Works edited by N. Cheeseman, Oxford: Routledge Ethnicity and Development in The Politics of Development edited by Nicolas van de Walle and Carol Lancaster, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014 Is there a populist threat in Zambia, in Zambia: Policy Options edited by C. Adam and P. Collier, Oxford: Oxford University Press [with Robert Ford and Neo Simutani] 2013 An Introduction to African Politics in The Handbook of African Politics, Oxford: Routledge [co-authored with David Anderson] 2013 Nationalism, one-party states, and military rule in The Handbook of African Politics, Oxford: Routledge 2010 The Failure of Nation-Building and the Kenya crisis, in Branch, D., Cheeseman, N., and L. Gardner, ed., Our Turn to Eat, Lit Verlag: Berlin [with Daniel Branch] 2009 Kenya Since 2002: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same in R. Mustapha and L. Whitfield edited Turning Points in African Democracy, James Currey: London (2009) 2007 Ethnicity as A Political Cleavage, Afrobarometer Working Papers 83 [with Robert Ford] Courses taught (at Oxford University unless otherwise specified) Comparative Presidentialism, MPhil in Comparative Government option class Comparative Government, MPhil in Comparative Government core class Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Democracy, undergraduate core course as part of the Politics, Philosophy and Economic degree Comparative Government, undergraduate option class as part of the Politics, Philosophy and Economic degree Democracy in Africa, MSc in African Politics option class The History and Dynamics of the African State, MSc in African Studies core class The Methods and Ethics of Studying Africa, MSc in African Studies core class Designing, Conducting and Analyzing Surveys, MSc in African Studies core class African Politics, MPhil in Comparative Government option class 5

6 South African Economic History, undergraduate core course as part of the Economic History degree at the University of Cape Town (class tutor during stay as Visiting Professor) Selected lecture series, workshops and conferences convened 2016 Elections in Africa, Research training workshop, British Institute for Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Working Group on African Political Economy, annual Oxford-LSE joint venture, venue oscillates between the LSE and Oxford 2015 Decentralization in Kenya, international workshop, Oxford University 2014 Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective, international conference, Oxford University 2012 Section Chair, Politics and Public Policy, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA 2010 Section Chair, Democracy and Democratization in Africa, African Studies Association of the United Kingdom Annual Meeting, Oxford African Studies Seminar, interdisciplinary seminar on African studies of the African Studies Centre (occasional terms) African History and Politics Seminar, History and Politics seminar of the Departments of Politics and International Relations, History and Development Studies (occasional terms) Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture, annual lecture recognizing the South African antiapartheid campaigner, with a focus on human rights and the promotion of the rule of law 2008 The Kenyan elections of 2007, international workshop, Oxford University Selected invited talks 2016 Political institutionalization and democratization in Africa, EUI, Florence, Italy 2016 Democracy in Africa: Prospects & Policy, Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels, Belgium 2016 War and Democracy: The legacy of conflict in East Africa, Cambridge University, UK 2016 The state of Democracy in Africa, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 2015 Decentralization in Africa: The Case of Kenya, Department of Politics, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2015 The Middle Class in Africa: Lessons from Kenya, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2015 What now for democracy in Africa?, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK government 2015 Decentralization in Kenya: The Governance of Governors, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2014 The Anatomy of a Peaceful Election in Africa, Peace Studies, Bradford University 2014 Democracy in Africa, Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy 2013 The uses and abuses of survey data, Sciences Po, Paris, France 2013 The 2013 election in Kenya: Risks and Prospects, UCLA Berkeley, USA 2012 Presidentialism vs. Parliamentarism: The choice for Africa, Pan African Parliament, Midrand, South Africa 6

7 2011 The perils of power sharing, SIAS, Johns Hopkins University, USA 2009 Political parties and ethnic voting in Africa, London School of Economics, UK 2008 Violence and political competition in Africa, European Union & Egmont-Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels, Belgium Democracy and violence: The case of Kenya, IFRI, Paris, France Explaining the Kenya Crisis, School of African and Oriental Studies, London, UK. Selected media I am a columnist for Kenya s Sunday Nation, and have contributed to the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Newsweek. I also produce regular blogs as part of the team that covers presidential behavior around the world for Robert Elgie s website. I have also founded my own website which deals with democratization in Africa and is targeted at an academic and policy audience, Given this, I write for, or appear in, the press about once a week. The list below features a small selection of pieces/appearances over the last few years New York Times, analysis and quotes were carried in an article entitled Donald Trump s Threat to Reject Election Results Alarms Scholars 2016 Associated Press, analysis and quotes were carried in an article entitled Democracy v development in Magufuli s Tanzania 2016 Economist, findings from Democracy in Africa were quoted in a front page story The March of Democracy Slows Head to Head, Al Jazeera. One of a three person panel interviewing the former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Al Jazeera s flagship political show 2016 Newsweek, Museveni: the man who overstayed, 16 February [with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis] 2016 Washington Post, More and more presidents govern with a coalition. Here are the pluses and minuses, 17 March 2016 [with Paul Chaisty and Timothy Power] 2016 Newsweek, Six key issues facing the new Ugandan government, 5 January [with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis] 2015 Washington Post, In Uganda, many find it difficult to believe that Museveni could ever be defeated in an election, 3 November 2015 [Monkey Cage, with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis] 2015 Even good leaders should know when to quit, Financial Times, 17 February My research was cited as part of the motivation for a column by the Africa Editor of the Financial Times on presidential term limits 2015 Africa s middle class: Few and far between, Economist. My research on the middle class in Kenya and whether they hold more democratic attitudes than other social groups was used as the motivation for an Economist article on this topic 2015 Newshour Extra, BBC. Expert guest and discussant in a one hour programme on presidential term limits and whether power corrupts, with Lord Owen 2010 The One Show, BBC. Appeared as a featured expert talking about African leaders and what they do after they leave power 2008 BBC News, BBC. Expert analyst of the then-ongoing Kenya crisis for BBC News 24 7