Michael F. Lofchie Department of Political Science UCLA Los Angeles, Ca. 90095-1472 Phone 310.794.5493 mike@ucla.edu Education B.A., Harvard University, 1958 M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1960 Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 1964 Academic Appointment Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA, 1964-present. Administration and Service Associate Dean, Division of Social Sciences, UCLA, 2010 present. Chair, Inter-Departmental Program in International Development Studies, 2008 present. Chair, Department of Political Science, 2000-2008. Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure, 2008-2010. Member, Academic Senate Committee on International Education, 2007-2010. Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 1978-1989; Assistant Director, 1965-1978 U.S.-China African Studies Exchange Committee, Member, 1984-1996; Vice-Chair, 1988-1996. Elected Representative, Legislative Assembly of UCLA Academic Senate, 1997-1999. Member, Council on Research, 1998-2000. UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Library, 1995-1997; Chair, 1996/97. Principal Investigator, Language Materials Project, 1992-2001. Principal Investigator, Africana Bibliography Project, 1987-1992. 1
Association of American Universities/Department of Defense ("Beyond Growth"), Task Force on Foreign Language and Area Studies; Member of Steering Committee, 1982-1984. UCLA Council on Educational Development, 1974-76; Chairman, 1975-1976. African Studies Association, Board of Directors, 1973-1976. Publications Books The Political Economy of Tanzania s Decline and Recovery (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). The Policy Factor: Agricultural Performance in Kenya and Tanzania (Boulder and Nairobi: Lynne Rienner Publishers and Heinemann, 1989). Africa's Agrarian Crisis: the Roots of Famine, co-edited with Stephen K. Commins and Rhys Payne. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1986). Agricultural Development in Africa: Issues of Public Policy, co-edited with Robert Bates. (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1980.) The State of the Nations: Constraints on Development in Independent Africa, editor. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971; Paperback edition, 1972.) Zanzibar: Background to Revolution, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1965. Paperback edition, 1968.) Articles and Monographs The Political Economy of the African Middle Class, chapter 2 in Mthuli Ncube and Charles L. Lufumba, eds., The Emerging Middle Class in Africa (Routledge, 2015). The Roots of Civic Peace in Tanzania, in William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya, eds., The Economic Roots of Conflict and Cooperation in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Forward in Frank L. K. Ohemeng, et. al., eds., The Public Policy Making Process in Ghana (Lewiston [New York], 2012), pp. xiii xxvi. Government-Business Relations in Ghana: the Experience with Consultative Mechanisms, (co-authored with Joseph Ayee and Carolina Wieland). Washington DC: The World Bank, Private Sector Development Department, October 1999. "The Rise and Demise of Urban-Biased Development Policies in Africa" in Cities in the Developing World, Josef Gugler, ed. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 23-39. 2
"The Politics of Agricultural Policy" in Beyond Capitalism vs.socialism in Kenya & Tanzania, ed. Joel D. Barkan, (Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994), pp. 129-173. The New Political Economy of Africa" in David E. Apter and Carl G. Rosberg, eds., Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1994), pp. 145-183. "Trading Places: Economic Policy in Kenya and Tanzania" in Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline, Thomas M. Callaghy and John Ravenhill, eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), pp. 398-462. "The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment in Ghana" with J. C. Leith, in Political and Economic Interactions in Economic Policy Reform, Robert H. Bates and Anne O. Krueger, eds. (Oxford & Cambridge [USA]: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 225-293. "Food Deficits in Africa: Causes and Remedies," in Agenda For Action: African-Soviet- U.S. Cooperation, Anatoly A. Gromyko and C.S. Whitaker, eds., (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1990)pp. 13-25. "Kenya: Still an Economic Miracle?" in Current History, May, 1990, pp. 209-212, & 222-224. "China's Lessons for African Agriculture," in Ronald Cohen, ed., Satisfying Africa's Food Needs: Food Production and Commercialization in African Agriculture, (Boulder, Lynne Rienner, 1989, pp. 79-102. Perestroika without Glasnost, in Beyond Autocracy in Africa (The Carter Center of Emory University: Working Papers for the Inaugural Seminar of the Governance in Africa Program, 1989). "Tanzania's Agricultural Decline," in Coping with Africa's Food Crisis, Naomi Chazan and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988) pp. 144-168. "Tanzania's Economic Recovery," in Current History, (April, 1988) pp. 209-212 and 227-229. "Africa's Agricultural Crisis: An Overview," in M. Lofchie, ed., Africa's Agrarian Crisis: The Roots of Famine, pp. 3-18. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1986). -Reprinted in Anna Farmar, ed., The Developing World (Dublin: Development Education Support Center, 1988). "Agricultural Development in Africa: Kenya and Tanzania," in U.S. Agriculture & Third World Development: the Critical Linkage, edited by Randall B. Purcell & Elizabeth Morrison, (Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987), pp. 53-71. Co-authored with Cheryl Christensen and Larry Witucki. 3
"The Decline of African Agriculture: An Internalist Perspective," in Drought and Hunger in Africa, Michael H. Glantz, ed., (Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 85-109. "The External Determinants of Africa's Agrarian Crisis," in Pursuing Food Security: Strategies and Obstacles in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, edited by W. Ladd Hollist & F. LaMond Tullis, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987), pp. 98-120. "Kenya's Agricultural Success, Current History, (May, 1986) pp. 221-225 & 231. "Africa's Agricultural Crisis: An Agenda for Policy Reform," in Food Security in Developing Countries, edited by A.P. Smits, (CIP-Gegevens Koninkiljke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 1986), pp. 27-37. "The Roots of Economic Crisis in Tanzania," Current History (April 1985) pp. 159-63, 184. "Africa's Agrarian Malaise, in African Independence: The First Twenty-Five Years, edited by Gwendolyn Carter and Patrick O'Meara, pp 160-87. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985) "Food Deficits and Agricultural Policies in Tropical Africa," co-authored with Stephen K. Commins, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 20 (Spring 1982) pp. 1-26. -Reprinted in Charles K. Wilber, ed., The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment: Third Edition (New York: Random House, 1984). -Reprinted in Charles K. Wilber, ed., The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment: Fourth Edition (New York: Random House, 1988). "Agrarian Crisis and Economic Liberalization in Tanzania," Journal of Modern African Studies, 16 (September 1978). "Agrarian Socialism in the Third World: The Tanzanian Case," Comparative Politics (April 1976) pp. 479-99. "Political and Economic Origins of African Hunger," Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 13 (1975) pp. 551-67. -Reprinted in Anna Farmar, ed., The Developing World (Dublin: Development Education Support Center, 1988). "The Political Origins of the Uganda Coup," Journal of African Studies, Vol. 4 (Winter 1974) pp. 464-96. "The Uganda Coup--Class Action by the Military," Journal of Modern African Studies, 4
Vol. 10.1 (1972) pp 19-35. "The British-Rhodesian Agreement and United States Policy," Africa Today, 19.1 (Winter 1972) pp. 44-50. "Observations on Social and Institutional Change in Independent Africa," in The State of the Nations, pp 261-283. "Ranching and Scheming: A Case Study of the Ankole Ranching Scheme, in The State of the Nations, pp. 165-87. -Reprinted in Martin Doornbos, Institutionalizing Development Policies and Resource Strategies in Eastern Africa and India (London: MacMillan Press, 2000). "Political Constraints on African Development," in The State of the Nations, pp. 9-18. "The Zanzibari Revolution: African Protest in a Racially Plural Society," in Protest and Power in Black Africa, edited by Robert I. Rosberg and Ali Mazrui, pp 924-67. (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1970). "The Americo-Liberian Oligarchy: A Conflict Model," in Africa Today, Vol. 17.2 (March-April 1970), pp. 11-16. "The Plural Society in Zanzibar, in Pluralism in Africa, edited by Leo Kuper and M.G. Smith, pp. 283-328. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969). "Political Theory and African Politics, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 6. 1(1968) pp 3-15. "Representative Government, Bureaucracy and Political Development: The African Case," in The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. II, (October, 1967) pp. 37-56. -Reprinted in Governing in Black Africa, (Prentice- Hall, 1970), edited by Marion Doro and Newell Stultz, pp. 279-94. "The Political Status of African Trade Unions," co-authored with Carl G. Rosberg. Magreb Digest, Vol. VI (May-June 1966) pp. 27-39. - Reprinted in The Role of Labor in African Nation-Building, edited by Willard A. Beling, pp. 3-15. (Praeger, New York, 1968.) Representative Government: The African Case, in Transition (Foreign Service Institute, U. S. Department of State, Number 16, 1968). "Zanzibar," in Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa, edited by James S. Coleman and Carl Rosberg,(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964), pp. 475-508. 5
"O'Kello's Revolution," in Transition (East Africa), Vol 7, No. 33, (October/November, 1967) pp. 36-42. "Zanzibar: Problems and Prospects, The Commonwealth Journal (Journal of the Royal Commonwealth Society), December 1963) pp. 247-51. "Party Conflict in Zanzibar, Journal of Modern African Studies, 1.2 (June 1963) pp. 185-207. Consulting Reports (Selected) Points of Vulnerability in the Tanzanian Political System (USAID, 2013). Acute Conflict Vulnerabilities in Tanzania Today. This is the concluding section of USAID study of Tanzanian Conflict Vulnerabilities. (USAID, 2003). "Conflict Flashpoints in Tanzania." Study for USAID under Greater Horn of Africa Initiative (GHAI). March-April 1999, Up-date and completion of USAID study of "Conflict Flashpoints in Tanzania. (USAID, 1998.) "Consultative Mechanisms in Ghana." Part 3 of World Bank study of consultative mechanisms in Malaysia, Mexico and Ghana. (The World Bank, 1996.) "The Transition to Democratic Governance in Tanzania: An Assessment and Guidelines for Near Term Action." (USAID, 1994). "Diversity in the Tanzanian Business Community: Its Implications for Economic Growth." (USAID, 1995). 6