Elizabeth Iams Wellman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 970224 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth Iams Wellman |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth Iams |
| APELLIDO | Wellman |
| FIRMA | WELLMAN E I |
| AFILIACIONES | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8541-3522 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Diaspora voting
Since 1990, over 100 countries have extended voting rights to citizens abroad, enfranchising roughly 200 million voters around the world. Yet little scholarship addresses the relationship between external voting and electoral manipulation. Drawing on the path-breaking ‘Menu of Manipulation’ (2002), we systematically explore how voting abroad can strategically violate democratic norms, highlighting tactics deployed by governments around the world …
Extending Voting Rights to Emigrants
Since 1980, most states have granted voting rights to citizens living abroad. Although cross-national research focuses on when and where emigrant enfranchisement occurs, there has been little systematic attention to the variation in how enfranchisement occurs (for example, by constitutional amendment) and who extends these rights (international actors, for example). We argue that the variation in legal modalities and political actors is important…
The Social Impact of Covid-19 on Migrants in Urban Africa
This paper explores the social impacts of COVID-19 on migrants living in three major African cities: Accra, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. Given the importance of social support networks to mobile populations, particularly in areas with limited access to essential services, understanding how the pandemic disrupted social relations underscores the broader health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on migrant communities. Using a large scale 2021 survey o…
Voice Through Votes and Remittances
The increasing political inclusion of diaspora populations around the world has raised questions about their influence on electoral outcomes back home. In Kenya, emigrants have advocated for direct influence through external voting rights, while less attention has been given to the ways in which they may also indirectly influence elections through economic remittances. In this research note, we explore diaspora efforts to influence elections thro…
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)
This paper introduces the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset (EVRR), the first global time-series dataset of non-resident citizen voting policies and procedures. Although there have been previous efforts to document external voting, no existing data source simultaneously captures the scale (195 countries), time frame (71 years), and level of detail concerning extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions (over 20 variables). After…
Refugee status as a patronage good? The interaction of transnational party mobilization and migration policy in the global south
This article examines the transnational operations of the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to mobilise migrant supporters living in South Africa during the 2000s. Drawing together a variety of empirical sources, including extensive original interviews with former MDC party officials and Zimbabwe diaspora civil society organisers, this article explores the challenges of diaspora engagement within contexts of poverty…
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies
In recent decades more than one hundred countries have enfranchised their diasporas, allowing emigrants to vote from abroad. However, this widespread formal recognition of extraterritorial voting rights does not always lead to increased participation of emigrants in home country politics. Migrant-sending countries have complex relationships with their diasporas, and this relationship is particularly fraught for countries with endemic violence. Th…
Field Experiments in the Global South
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Field Experiments in the Global South
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have emerged as a leading methodological tool to strengthen causal inference in the social sciences. Yet RCTs carry significant risks for ev- eryone involved, from participants to researchers themselves, especially in the Global South. In this article, we explore how researchers’ identities and power influence the conduct of research and their positionality within the research contexts—especially when conductin…
Diaspora Voting In Kenya
In 2010, Kenya extended voting rights to its estimated 3,000,000 citizens living abroad, thus joining a growing number of countries in Africa and around the world to recognize emigrant voting rights. Yet despite a politically engaged diaspora, intensive government outreach to emigrants, and high-stakes electoral competition, fewer than 3,000 Kenyans were permitted to vote from abroad in the 2013 and 2017 presidential elections. What explains the …
Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections
Since 1990, nearly 100 countries extended voting rights to citizens living abroad, including 32 in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the actual ability for emigrants to vote in subsequent elections varies widely. Whereas others view diaspora enfranchisement as a signal to emigrant and international audiences, I argue that incumbent parties expand or restrict emigrant voter access depending on party perceptions of political support abroad. I first leve…
Le vote de la diaspora en Afrique du Sud
Cet article analyse l’histoire complexe de la participation de la diaspora sud-africaine aux élections du pays d’origine depuis l’abolition du régime d’apartheid. Après avoir permis le vote à l’étranger lors de l’élection historique de 1994, le gouvernement sud-africain a aboli cette mesure jusqu’à ce qu’une décision de la Cour constitutionnelle de 2009 l’autorise à nouveau. L’auteure invite tout d’abord à porter une plus grande attention à la na…
The Comparative Politics of Immigration
The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 25(1), pp. 118–119
Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections
Since 1990, nearly 100 countries extended voting rights to citizens living abroad, including 32 in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the actual ability for emigrants to vote in subsequent elections varies widely. Whereas others view diaspora enfranchisement as a signal to emigrant and international audiences, I argue that incumbent parties expand or restrict emigrant voter access depending on party perceptions of political support abroad. I first leve…
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)
This paper introduces the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset (EVRR), the first global time-series dataset of non-resident citizen voting policies and procedures. Although there have been previous efforts to document external voting, no existing data source simultaneously captures the scale (195 countries), time frame (71 years), and level of detail concerning extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions (over 20 variables). After…
Diaspora Voting In Kenya
In 2010, Kenya extended voting rights to its estimated 3,000,000 citizens living abroad, thus joining a growing number of countries in Africa and around the world to recognize emigrant voting rights. Yet despite a politically engaged diaspora, intensive government outreach to emigrants, and high-stakes electoral competition, fewer than 3,000 Kenyans were permitted to vote from abroad in the 2013 and 2017 presidential elections. What explains the …
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies
In recent decades more than one hundred countries have enfranchised their diasporas, allowing emigrants to vote from abroad. However, this widespread formal recognition of extraterritorial voting rights does not always lead to increased participation of emigrants in home country politics. Migrant-sending countries have complex relationships with their diasporas, and this relationship is particularly fraught for countries with endemic violence. Th…
Refugee status as a patronage good? The interaction of transnational party mobilization and migration policy in the global south
This article examines the transnational operations of the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to mobilise migrant supporters living in South Africa during the 2000s. Drawing together a variety of empirical sources, including extensive original interviews with former MDC party officials and Zimbabwe diaspora civil society organisers, this article explores the challenges of diaspora engagement within contexts of poverty…
Voice Through Votes and Remittances
The increasing political inclusion of diaspora populations around the world has raised questions about their influence on electoral outcomes back home. In Kenya, emigrants have advocated for direct influence through external voting rights, while less attention has been given to the ways in which they may also indirectly influence elections through economic remittances. In this research note, we explore diaspora efforts to influence elections thro…
Field Experiments in the Global South
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have emerged as a leading methodological tool to strengthen causal inference in the social sciences. Yet RCTs carry significant risks for ev- eryone involved, from participants to researchers themselves, especially in the Global South. In this article, we explore how researchers’ identities and power influence the conduct of research and their positionality within the research contexts—especially when conductin…
Le vote de la diaspora en Afrique du Sud
Cet article analyse l’histoire complexe de la participation de la diaspora sud-africaine aux élections du pays d’origine depuis l’abolition du régime d’apartheid. Après avoir permis le vote à l’étranger lors de l’élection historique de 1994, le gouvernement sud-africain a aboli cette mesure jusqu’à ce qu’une décision de la Cour constitutionnelle de 2009 l’autorise à nouveau. L’auteure invite tout d’abord à porter une plus grande attention à la na…
Le vote de la diaspora en Afrique du Sud
Cet article analyse l’histoire complexe de la participation de la diaspora sud-africaine aux élections du pays d’origine depuis l’abolition du régime d’apartheid. Après avoir permis le vote à l’étranger lors de l’élection historique de 1994, le gouvernement sud-africain a aboli cette mesure jusqu’à ce qu’une décision de la Cour constitutionnelle de 2009 l’autorise à nouveau. L’auteure invite tout d’abord à porter une plus grande attention à la na…
Diaspora Voting In Kenya
In 2010, Kenya extended voting rights to its estimated 3,000,000 citizens living abroad, thus joining a growing number of countries in Africa and around the world to recognize emigrant voting rights. Yet despite a politically engaged diaspora, intensive government outreach to emigrants, and high-stakes electoral competition, fewer than 3,000 Kenyans were permitted to vote from abroad in the 2013 and 2017 presidential elections. What explains the …
Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections
Since 1990, nearly 100 countries extended voting rights to citizens living abroad, including 32 in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the actual ability for emigrants to vote in subsequent elections varies widely. Whereas others view diaspora enfranchisement as a signal to emigrant and international audiences, I argue that incumbent parties expand or restrict emigrant voter access depending on party perceptions of political support abroad. I first leve…
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies
In recent decades more than one hundred countries have enfranchised their diasporas, allowing emigrants to vote from abroad. However, this widespread formal recognition of extraterritorial voting rights does not always lead to increased participation of emigrants in home country politics. Migrant-sending countries have complex relationships with their diasporas, and this relationship is particularly fraught for countries with endemic violence. Th…
Field Experiments in the Global South
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Field Experiments in the Global South
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have emerged as a leading methodological tool to strengthen causal inference in the social sciences. Yet RCTs carry significant risks for ev- eryone involved, from participants to researchers themselves, especially in the Global South. In this article, we explore how researchers’ identities and power influence the conduct of research and their positionality within the research contexts—especially when conductin…
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)
This paper introduces the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset (EVRR), the first global time-series dataset of non-resident citizen voting policies and procedures. Although there have been previous efforts to document external voting, no existing data source simultaneously captures the scale (195 countries), time frame (71 years), and level of detail concerning extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions (over 20 variables). After…
Refugee status as a patronage good? The interaction of transnational party mobilization and migration policy in the global south
This article examines the transnational operations of the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to mobilise migrant supporters living in South Africa during the 2000s. Drawing together a variety of empirical sources, including extensive original interviews with former MDC party officials and Zimbabwe diaspora civil society organisers, this article explores the challenges of diaspora engagement within contexts of poverty…
Extending Voting Rights to Emigrants
Since 1980, most states have granted voting rights to citizens living abroad. Although cross-national research focuses on when and where emigrant enfranchisement occurs, there has been little systematic attention to the variation in how enfranchisement occurs (for example, by constitutional amendment) and who extends these rights (international actors, for example). We argue that the variation in legal modalities and political actors is important…
The Social Impact of Covid-19 on Migrants in Urban Africa
This paper explores the social impacts of COVID-19 on migrants living in three major African cities: Accra, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. Given the importance of social support networks to mobile populations, particularly in areas with limited access to essential services, understanding how the pandemic disrupted social relations underscores the broader health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on migrant communities. Using a large scale 2021 survey o…
The Comparative Politics of Immigration
The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 25(1), pp. 118–119
Voice Through Votes and Remittances
The increasing political inclusion of diaspora populations around the world has raised questions about their influence on electoral outcomes back home. In Kenya, emigrants have advocated for direct influence through external voting rights, while less attention has been given to the ways in which they may also indirectly influence elections through economic remittances. In this research note, we explore diaspora efforts to influence elections thro…
Diaspora voting
Since 1990, over 100 countries have extended voting rights to citizens abroad, enfranchising roughly 200 million voters around the world. Yet little scholarship addresses the relationship between external voting and electoral manipulation. Drawing on the path-breaking ‘Menu of Manipulation’ (2002), we systematically explore how voting abroad can strategically violate democratic norms, highlighting tactics deployed by governments around the world …
Political science (12 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 obras) · Voting (7 obras) · Diaspora (6 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 obras) · Economics (5 obras)