Jonathan Fisher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3614299 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonathan Fisher |
| NOMBRES | Jonathan |
| APELLIDO | Fisher |
| FIRMA | FISHER J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0830-5189 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Platforms are People Too
Social media platforms have an increasingly central influence on global politics. Media of unprecedented reach, they have the power to sway elections, exacerbate societal polarization, promote or provoke conflict at all levels, and jeopardize relations between states. But what of the people who govern and oversee these platforms? For although algorithms and automation may underpin how social media content influences politics, the policies, approa…
WhatsApp and political communication in West Africa
Social media has become central to how political parties plan, organize, and coordinate electoral campaigns in Africa, with WhatsApp increasingly the preferred medium. How, we ask, have African political parties made use of WhatsApp to organize internally during elections, and what explains the approaches they have taken? We argue that pre-existing party institutionalization is the main factor influencing how parties use WhatsApp to organize and …
Climate and juvenile recruitment as drivers of Arctic cod ( Boreogadus saida ) dynamics in two Canadian Arctic seas
Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) is the most abundant forage fish species in Arctic seas and plays a pivotal role in the transfer of energy between zooplankton and top predators. The dominance of Arctic cod and the Arctic’s relatively low biodiversity interact such that changing population dynamics of Arctic cod have cascading effects on whole Arctic marine ecosystems. Over the last decades, warming in the Arctic has led to a decline in Arctic cod p…
Civil Wars and Civil Wars 2017–2021
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions
This article summarizes research literature that has studied how people used the advance Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments that were disbursed by the IRS in 2021. Four primary findings emerge. The ways in which families used the advance CTC payments varied: during the first few months the payments were being distributed, families reported paying down debt more frequently; and in the final months of the payments, families reported more frequent spen…
HandsoffEthiopia
Over a year since the outbreak of war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the fighting continues. Indeed, the conflict theatre has now expanded considerably, with devastating consequences for many Ethiopians. With atrocities committed by all sides and a profound humanitarian crisis underway, the conflict currently stands as testament to the emptiness of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) commitments made by states and organisations across the worl…
Human Rights Violations, Political Conditionality and Public Attitudes to Foreign Aid
There has been much criticism of donor governments who give aid to states that violate human rights. This has fuelled concerns about how such coverage affects public support for foreign aid. In response, donors increasingly use aid suspensions to signal to domestic audiences that a regime has been sanctioned and aid is not misspent. This article examines how reports of rights violations affect attitudes to aid and what, if any, impact donor respo…
It should be a constant reminder
Much of contemporary Eastern and Southern Africa is governed by former national liberation movements, each having won power after lengthy and punishing insurgencies. To varying degrees, these post-liberation governments have since commemorated their respective struggles through inscribing the landscape with a range of spatial projects – from museums and statues to vast memorial complexes. This study explores the provenance, significance, and mean…
Response to Tim Glawion’s Review of East Africa after Liberation
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Geographies of unease
African borderlands – such as those between South Sudan, Uganda and Congo – are often presented by analysts as places of agency and economic opportunity, in contrast to hardened, securitized borders elsewhere. We emphasize, however, that even such relatively porous international borders can nevertheless be the focus of significant unease for borderland communities. Crossing borders can enable safety for those fleeing conflict or trading prospects…
Insecurity and the invisible
The search for security has become an almost permanent feature of the contemporary lived experience and what Brian Massumi has called an ‘operative logic’ for states across the globe. The modern study – and practice – of security has, nonetheless, been largely concerned with the protection, preservation and sustaining of the material, the tangible and the visible. For many people around the world, however, feelings of security also derive from un…
Measurement error in occupation and the impact on intergenerational mobility
Social Media Disruption
How are social media and digital technology shaping elections? This question is more important than ever, yet few studies look at WhatsApp's impact on the political landscape—even in Africa, where it is the dominant messaging platform. This article combines a case study of Nigeria's 2019 elections with surveys and analysis from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Sierra Leone to show how social media are used by parties, candidates and voters. We conclude …
Aid donors, democracy and the developmental state in Ethiopia
The “developmental state” has become a prominent alternative development model defended by contemporary Western aid donors, particularly in Africa. Purported “developmental states,” such as Ethiopia and Rwanda, are argued to possess strong-willed, visionary leaderships whose commitment to delivering on ambitious development plans renders them attractive donor partners. These leaderships are also, however, often authoritarian and unapologetic when…
Game over’? Abiy Ahmed, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front and Ethiopia’s political crisis
On 15 February 2018, Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopia’s beleaguered prime minister, resigned. Bowing to pressure from within his own party,1 the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), Hailemariam declared that he hoped to facilitate an end to ‘unrest and political crisis’ in the country by leaving the national stage.2 If Hailemariam’s departure had taken observers by surprise, however, what was to follow would defy all predictio…
Amisom and the regional construction of a failed state in Somalia
Somalia, for many analysts, is the paradigmatic 'failed state', as well as the site of numerous external interventions since 1991. Where early interventions were designed and directed by international actors, however, more recent peace operations have been led by regional states.
State, society and struggle in Eritrea
“Africa’s North Korea”; “a totalitarian police state”; “where you need a permit to have dinner with friends”; “the most repressive country on the continent”; an “isolated and secretive state” – just some of the ways in which Eritrea has been described in recent international media commentaries. Hyperbole or not, it remains the case that the contours of everyday life in the East African state are largely hidden from view for analysts and scholars …
Practitioner Note
Rebel Governance in Civil War
What are the causes, characteristics and consequences of rebel governance? What, indeed, is ‘rebel governance?’ These are the central questions and concerns of this thoughtful, intelligent and comp
The last post-cold war socialist federation
The underpinnings, workings and integrity of Ethiopia’s ethno-federal constitutional experiment merit, perhaps, greater attention today than at any point since its establishment. Eighteen months af
A Qualitative Census of Rural and Urban Poverty
If we want to build authentic evidence-based policy, we need a strong descriptive foundation of evidence on the everyday experience of poverty. The National Poverty Study (NPS), which is currently in development, provides this foundation with a new "qualitative census" of the everyday conditions of poverty in rural, suburban, and urban sites. The NPS will allow us to build new evidence-based theories of poverty, evaluate and improve existing plac…
Inequality and Mobility Using Income, Consumption, and Wealth for the Same Individuals
Recent studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income inequality, consumption inequality, and wealth inequality, and hence, these studies miss the important synergy between the three measures explicit in the life-cycle budget constraint. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we study inequality in three dimensions, focusing on the conjoint distributions of income, consumption, and wealth for the same individuals…
Reproducing remoteness? States, internationals and the co-constitution of aid ‘bunkerization’ in the East African periphery
The physical and social retreat of international interveners behind the walls of ‘bunkered’ aid compounds in (putatively) more remote and dangerous regions of the South has been the focus of growing critical attention in recent years. An increasingly remote and fearful culture of risk aversion and differentiation among Western states and organizations has been largely identified as the driving force behind this set of practices. This article pres…
Empowered patient" or "doctor knows best"? Political economy analysis and ownership
Efforts to incorporate “political thinking” into policy-making and practice in OECD-DAC development agencies have increasingly focused on the use of “political economy analysis” (PEA) frameworks and tools. While recognising the fundamental value of promoting politically informed programming, this article nevertheless highlights how contemporary efforts to this end have largely ignored another central development agenda: the ownership paradigm. Em…
Image management’ and African agency
Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Africa
Debate on the ‘securitization’ of aid and international development since 9/11 has been anchored in two key claims: that the phenomenon has been driven and imposed by western governments and that this is wholly unwelcome and deleterious for those in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. This article challenges both of these assumptions by demonstrating how a range of African regimes have not only benefited from this dispensation but have …
Social Media Disruption
How are social media and digital technology shaping elections? This question is more important than ever, yet few studies look at WhatsApp's impact on the political landscape—even in Africa, where it is the dominant messaging platform. This article combines a case study of Nigeria's 2019 elections with surveys and analysis from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Sierra Leone to show how social media are used by parties, candidates and voters. We conclude …
Managing donor perceptions
This article explores Uganda's decision to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia in 2007 as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and argues that the intervention has as much to do with Uganda's relationship with its donors as it has with maintaining regional stability – the official justification for intervention. Museveni's decision to intervene in Somalia is the most recent example of his regime's multi-pronged 'image management'…
Game over’? Abiy Ahmed, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front and Ethiopia’s political crisis
On 15 February 2018, Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopia’s beleaguered prime minister, resigned. Bowing to pressure from within his own party,1 the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), Hailemariam declared that he hoped to facilitate an end to ‘unrest and political crisis’ in the country by leaving the national stage.2 If Hailemariam’s departure had taken observers by surprise, however, what was to follow would defy all predictio…
Job strain and prevalence of hypertension in a biracial population of urban bus drivers
OBJECTIVES. In this study we tested the association between occupational stress--as measured by job demands, decision latitude, and job strain--and hypertension in a population of 1396 Black and White bus drivers. METHODS. Height, weight, blood pressure, and medical history were assessed by physical exam. Drivers completed a questionnaire assessing their work schedules, personal habits, and self-perceptions about job demands and decision latitude…
When it pays to be a ‘fragile state’
The labelling of certain states as ‘fragile states’ has often been portrayed as an act of domination by Western donors over the developing world. Nonetheless, this type of categorisation also presents opportunities to non-Western governments. This article suggests that the aid-dependent government of Uganda has increased its room for manoeuvre with donors by emphasising the degree of instability in the north of the country. By using this notion o…
Human Rights Violations, Political Conditionality and Public Attitudes to Foreign Aid
There has been much criticism of donor governments who give aid to states that violate human rights. This has fuelled concerns about how such coverage affects public support for foreign aid. In response, donors increasingly use aid suspensions to signal to domestic audiences that a regime has been sanctioned and aid is not misspent. This article examines how reports of rights violations affect attitudes to aid and what, if any, impact donor respo…
Some more reliable than others
This article explores the role of perceptions in donor-African relations and the extent to which donor 'images' of African governments can be managed by these same governments to their advantage. The article focuses on donor views of 'reliability' in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and compares differing international perceptions of Kenya and Uganda through this lens. Arguing that donors have an exaggerated sense of Ugandan 'compliance' or reliab…
WhatsApp and political communication in West Africa
Social media has become central to how political parties plan, organize, and coordinate electoral campaigns in Africa, with WhatsApp increasingly the preferred medium. How, we ask, have African political parties made use of WhatsApp to organize internally during elections, and what explains the approaches they have taken? We argue that pre-existing party institutionalization is the main factor influencing how parties use WhatsApp to organize and …
The limits - and limiters - of external influence
This article explores the role of international ‘donors’ in the lead-up to the 2011 Ugandan elections, focusing particularly on their engagement with the issue of Electoral Commission partiality. Controversially reappointed without consultation in 2009 by Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan Electoral Commission was perceived as unacceptably pro-government by opposition parties, civil society and donors. Its seven commissioners’ admin…
Does it Work?’ – Work for Whom? Britain and Political Conditionality since the Cold War
Evaluations of the political conditionality (PC) phenomenon have long focused on the question of instrumental efficacy – whether PC promotes policy reform in developing states. Evidence from the UK nevertheless suggests that this emphasis is misplaced and that donor officials increasingly use PC for ‘expressive’ reasons – to signal their putative commitment to delivering ‘value for money’ in a difficult international economic climate. This shift …
Structure, agency and Africa in the international system
Recent scholarship on Africa has sought to reject the notion that aid dependence precludes the securing of agency by many African states. This article seeks to support and develop this argument through exploring the relationship between aid 'structures' and African agency. Contending that structures and agents are mutually-constituted, it is argued that African governments' interactions with one such structure provide considerable room for agency…
Reproducing remoteness? States, internationals and the co-constitution of aid ‘bunkerization’ in the East African periphery
The physical and social retreat of international interveners behind the walls of ‘bunkered’ aid compounds in (putatively) more remote and dangerous regions of the South has been the focus of growing critical attention in recent years. An increasingly remote and fearful culture of risk aversion and differentiation among Western states and organizations has been largely identified as the driving force behind this set of practices. This article pres…
Writing about Rwanda since the Genocide
This debate article reflects upon four articles recently published in this journal as part of a special Forum on Rwanda (Volume 8, Issue 4, 2014)—released to coincide with the 20-year commemoration of the 1994 genocide. In doing so it highlights what this author considers to be a crisis in contemporary ‘Rwanda studies’. This crisis—referenced and reproduced to some extent in all four articles—combines methodological (‘how can we write about Rwand…
Insecurity and the invisible
The search for security has become an almost permanent feature of the contemporary lived experience and what Brian Massumi has called an ‘operative logic’ for states across the globe. The modern study – and practice – of security has, nonetheless, been largely concerned with the protection, preservation and sustaining of the material, the tangible and the visible. For many people around the world, however, feelings of security also derive from un…
Measurement error in occupation and the impact on intergenerational mobility
Aid donors, democracy and the developmental state in Ethiopia
The “developmental state” has become a prominent alternative development model defended by contemporary Western aid donors, particularly in Africa. Purported “developmental states,” such as Ethiopia and Rwanda, are argued to possess strong-willed, visionary leaderships whose commitment to delivering on ambitious development plans renders them attractive donor partners. These leaderships are also, however, often authoritarian and unapologetic when…
Inequality and Mobility Using Income, Consumption, and Wealth for the Same Individuals
Recent studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income inequality, consumption inequality, and wealth inequality, and hence, these studies miss the important synergy between the three measures explicit in the life-cycle budget constraint. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we study inequality in three dimensions, focusing on the conjoint distributions of income, consumption, and wealth for the same individuals…
Empowered patient" or "doctor knows best"? Political economy analysis and ownership
Efforts to incorporate “political thinking” into policy-making and practice in OECD-DAC development agencies have increasingly focused on the use of “political economy analysis” (PEA) frameworks and tools. While recognising the fundamental value of promoting politically informed programming, this article nevertheless highlights how contemporary efforts to this end have largely ignored another central development agenda: the ownership paradigm. Em…
Rebel Governance in Civil War
What are the causes, characteristics and consequences of rebel governance? What, indeed, is ‘rebel governance?’ These are the central questions and concerns of this thoughtful, intelligent and comp
A Qualitative Census of Rural and Urban Poverty
If we want to build authentic evidence-based policy, we need a strong descriptive foundation of evidence on the everyday experience of poverty. The National Poverty Study (NPS), which is currently in development, provides this foundation with a new "qualitative census" of the everyday conditions of poverty in rural, suburban, and urban sites. The NPS will allow us to build new evidence-based theories of poverty, evaluate and improve existing plac…
Geographies of unease
African borderlands – such as those between South Sudan, Uganda and Congo – are often presented by analysts as places of agency and economic opportunity, in contrast to hardened, securitized borders elsewhere. We emphasize, however, that even such relatively porous international borders can nevertheless be the focus of significant unease for borderland communities. Crossing borders can enable safety for those fleeing conflict or trading prospects…
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions
This article summarizes research literature that has studied how people used the advance Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments that were disbursed by the IRS in 2021. Four primary findings emerge. The ways in which families used the advance CTC payments varied: during the first few months the payments were being distributed, families reported paying down debt more frequently; and in the final months of the payments, families reported more frequent spen…
HandsoffEthiopia
Over a year since the outbreak of war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the fighting continues. Indeed, the conflict theatre has now expanded considerably, with devastating consequences for many Ethiopians. With atrocities committed by all sides and a profound humanitarian crisis underway, the conflict currently stands as testament to the emptiness of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) commitments made by states and organisations across the worl…
Amisom and the regional construction of a failed state in Somalia
Somalia, for many analysts, is the paradigmatic 'failed state', as well as the site of numerous external interventions since 1991. Where early interventions were designed and directed by international actors, however, more recent peace operations have been led by regional states.
Job strain and prevalence of hypertension in a biracial population of urban bus drivers
OBJECTIVES. In this study we tested the association between occupational stress--as measured by job demands, decision latitude, and job strain--and hypertension in a population of 1396 Black and White bus drivers. METHODS. Height, weight, blood pressure, and medical history were assessed by physical exam. Drivers completed a questionnaire assessing their work schedules, personal habits, and self-perceptions about job demands and decision latitude…
The Ability of Women to Repay Debt After Divorce
This study uses questions on household repayment problems from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how the transition from marriage to divorce affects default rates by gender. The results show that divorced women are more likely to have repayment problems than divorced men and married-couple households. Further analysis reveals that divorced women who are receiving welfare are significantly less likely to default. Because average welfar…
Managing donor perceptions
This article explores Uganda's decision to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia in 2007 as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and argues that the intervention has as much to do with Uganda's relationship with its donors as it has with maintaining regional stability – the official justification for intervention. Museveni's decision to intervene in Somalia is the most recent example of his regime's multi-pronged 'image management'…
Structure, agency and Africa in the international system
Recent scholarship on Africa has sought to reject the notion that aid dependence precludes the securing of agency by many African states. This article seeks to support and develop this argument through exploring the relationship between aid 'structures' and African agency. Contending that structures and agents are mutually-constituted, it is argued that African governments' interactions with one such structure provide considerable room for agency…
Some more reliable than others
This article explores the role of perceptions in donor-African relations and the extent to which donor 'images' of African governments can be managed by these same governments to their advantage. The article focuses on donor views of 'reliability' in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and compares differing international perceptions of Kenya and Uganda through this lens. Arguing that donors have an exaggerated sense of Ugandan 'compliance' or reliab…
The limits - and limiters - of external influence
This article explores the role of international ‘donors’ in the lead-up to the 2011 Ugandan elections, focusing particularly on their engagement with the issue of Electoral Commission partiality. Controversially reappointed without consultation in 2009 by Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan Electoral Commission was perceived as unacceptably pro-government by opposition parties, civil society and donors. Its seven commissioners’ admin…
Framing Kony
This article explores the influence of actors and organisations outside the corridors of power in Washington, DC on US ‘crisis foreign policy making’ in Africa. Focusing on the case of US policy towards the lra/northern Uganda crisis – particularly the Obama administration’s 2011 decision to send ‘combat-equipped US forces’ to pursue the rebel group across central Africa – it is argued that the role of African governments themselves merits greate…
When it pays to be a ‘fragile state’
The labelling of certain states as ‘fragile states’ has often been portrayed as an act of domination by Western donors over the developing world. Nonetheless, this type of categorisation also presents opportunities to non-Western governments. This article suggests that the aid-dependent government of Uganda has increased its room for manoeuvre with donors by emphasising the degree of instability in the north of the country. By using this notion o…
Writing about Rwanda since the Genocide
This debate article reflects upon four articles recently published in this journal as part of a special Forum on Rwanda (Volume 8, Issue 4, 2014)—released to coincide with the 20-year commemoration of the 1994 genocide. In doing so it highlights what this author considers to be a crisis in contemporary ‘Rwanda studies’. This crisis—referenced and reproduced to some extent in all four articles—combines methodological (‘how can we write about Rwand…
Does it Work?’ – Work for Whom? Britain and Political Conditionality since the Cold War
Evaluations of the political conditionality (PC) phenomenon have long focused on the question of instrumental efficacy – whether PC promotes policy reform in developing states. Evidence from the UK nevertheless suggests that this emphasis is misplaced and that donor officials increasingly use PC for ‘expressive’ reasons – to signal their putative commitment to delivering ‘value for money’ in a difficult international economic climate. This shift …
Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Africa
Debate on the ‘securitization’ of aid and international development since 9/11 has been anchored in two key claims: that the phenomenon has been driven and imposed by western governments and that this is wholly unwelcome and deleterious for those in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. This article challenges both of these assumptions by demonstrating how a range of African regimes have not only benefited from this dispensation but have …
Inequality and Mobility Using Income, Consumption, and Wealth for the Same Individuals
Recent studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income inequality, consumption inequality, and wealth inequality, and hence, these studies miss the important synergy between the three measures explicit in the life-cycle budget constraint. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we study inequality in three dimensions, focusing on the conjoint distributions of income, consumption, and wealth for the same individuals…
Reproducing remoteness? States, internationals and the co-constitution of aid ‘bunkerization’ in the East African periphery
The physical and social retreat of international interveners behind the walls of ‘bunkered’ aid compounds in (putatively) more remote and dangerous regions of the South has been the focus of growing critical attention in recent years. An increasingly remote and fearful culture of risk aversion and differentiation among Western states and organizations has been largely identified as the driving force behind this set of practices. This article pres…
Empowered patient" or "doctor knows best"? Political economy analysis and ownership
Efforts to incorporate “political thinking” into policy-making and practice in OECD-DAC development agencies have increasingly focused on the use of “political economy analysis” (PEA) frameworks and tools. While recognising the fundamental value of promoting politically informed programming, this article nevertheless highlights how contemporary efforts to this end have largely ignored another central development agenda: the ownership paradigm. Em…
Practitioner Note
Rebel Governance in Civil War
What are the causes, characteristics and consequences of rebel governance? What, indeed, is ‘rebel governance?’ These are the central questions and concerns of this thoughtful, intelligent and comp
The last post-cold war socialist federation
The underpinnings, workings and integrity of Ethiopia’s ethno-federal constitutional experiment merit, perhaps, greater attention today than at any point since its establishment. Eighteen months af
A Qualitative Census of Rural and Urban Poverty
If we want to build authentic evidence-based policy, we need a strong descriptive foundation of evidence on the everyday experience of poverty. The National Poverty Study (NPS), which is currently in development, provides this foundation with a new "qualitative census" of the everyday conditions of poverty in rural, suburban, and urban sites. The NPS will allow us to build new evidence-based theories of poverty, evaluate and improve existing plac…
State, society and struggle in Eritrea
“Africa’s North Korea”; “a totalitarian police state”; “where you need a permit to have dinner with friends”; “the most repressive country on the continent”; an “isolated and secretive state” – just some of the ways in which Eritrea has been described in recent international media commentaries. Hyperbole or not, it remains the case that the contours of everyday life in the East African state are largely hidden from view for analysts and scholars …
Game over’? Abiy Ahmed, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front and Ethiopia’s political crisis
On 15 February 2018, Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopia’s beleaguered prime minister, resigned. Bowing to pressure from within his own party,1 the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), Hailemariam declared that he hoped to facilitate an end to ‘unrest and political crisis’ in the country by leaving the national stage.2 If Hailemariam’s departure had taken observers by surprise, however, what was to follow would defy all predictio…
Amisom and the regional construction of a failed state in Somalia
Somalia, for many analysts, is the paradigmatic 'failed state', as well as the site of numerous external interventions since 1991. Where early interventions were designed and directed by international actors, however, more recent peace operations have been led by regional states.
Insecurity and the invisible
The search for security has become an almost permanent feature of the contemporary lived experience and what Brian Massumi has called an ‘operative logic’ for states across the globe. The modern study – and practice – of security has, nonetheless, been largely concerned with the protection, preservation and sustaining of the material, the tangible and the visible. For many people around the world, however, feelings of security also derive from un…
Measurement error in occupation and the impact on intergenerational mobility
Social Media Disruption
How are social media and digital technology shaping elections? This question is more important than ever, yet few studies look at WhatsApp's impact on the political landscape—even in Africa, where it is the dominant messaging platform. This article combines a case study of Nigeria's 2019 elections with surveys and analysis from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Sierra Leone to show how social media are used by parties, candidates and voters. We conclude …
Aid donors, democracy and the developmental state in Ethiopia
The “developmental state” has become a prominent alternative development model defended by contemporary Western aid donors, particularly in Africa. Purported “developmental states,” such as Ethiopia and Rwanda, are argued to possess strong-willed, visionary leaderships whose commitment to delivering on ambitious development plans renders them attractive donor partners. These leaderships are also, however, often authoritarian and unapologetic when…
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