G Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 100100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8475-1810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Agency through archives
Commissions of inquiry are a useful governance tool, which, through their ritualised proceedings, look to provide authoritative knowledge that can help to distract attention, justify policies, and/or assert state control. By drawing upon the case of Kenya's Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence, or Waki Commission (2008), we show how the very characteristics that help commissions of inquiry to serve as a useful governance tool – namel…
Driving together
This paper introduces driving around with people in private cars as a research space to which walking methods can be adapted and in which productive accidental ethnography can take place. Whether one is walking or driving together with research participant(s), one's shared mobility is key: the act and rhythm of moving together through land and sense-scapes provides prompts and insights and facilitates conversation and rapport. However, the covera…
Hybrid rallies and a rally-centric campaign
Scholars tend to present either face-to-face or mediatised audiences as the principal target for election campaign rallies. However, a close eye on the staging of, and popular engagement with, campaign rallies during Kenya's 2022 elections reveals that they constituted a hybrid form of political communication that simultaneously targeted face-to-face and mediatised audiences with tailored messages. Not only were rallies at all levels characterise…
The Wars of Who Belongs Where
This paper examines the politics of belonging or autochthony on Mt Elgon in western Kenya, and associated occasions of inter- and intra-communal violence. The paper argues that divergent claims of ‘who is who’ and ‘who belongs where and why’ lie at the heart of these periods of violence, and suggests that the uncertainty of ‘belonging’ is due not just to the vagueness of the term and histories of migration, as is often argued, but to cross-cuttin…
Courting the Kalenjin
This article explains the strength of the ‘ODM wave’ in the 2007 Kenyan election and the popular rejection of Daniel arap Moi's call to re-elect President Mwai Kibaki across the Kalenjin areas of the Rift Valley. It examines the election campaigns, voting patterns, and aftermath of the contested election, and reveals why most Kalenjin dismissed Moi's pleas as self-interested and were instead drawn towards the pledges and leadership of the Orange …
Protecting Individual Rights Through a Federal System
James Buchanan is a Nobel Prize winning economist and the founder of the public choice movement in economics. Public Choice played a critical role in underpinning conservative attacks on the welfare state in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. As a committed supporter of free markets and strong skeptic of large governments, Buchanan has long supported the use of federalism to protect individual liberty, promote democratic efficiency, and he…
Midterm Elections and Economic Fluctuations
Recent empirical work (Alesina and Rosenthal 1995; Erikson 1990) has shown that economic conditions may not have influenced House midterm elections since 1915. I argue that economic conditions may have influenced House midterms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Congress dominated economic policy‐making, parties offered starker positions on economic issues, and national issues dominated House elections. As the 20th century progressed…
The “Congressionalization” of state legislative races
This paper examines the phenomenon of the “Congressionalization” of state legislative races. That is, as state legislative campaigns become more expensive, use more mass media, polling, and professional political consulting, these races are looking more and more like Congressional campaigns. Although others have pointed toward a “Congressionalization” trend, there is little concrete support to prove such a trend. We provide a detailed case study …
U.S. Presidential Elections in the Nineteenth Century
Most political scientists have studied the impact of economic conditions on U.S. presidential elections after World War II and argued that the economy matters in these elections because government has some "control" over the economy. Since government authority over the economy grew substantially between 1932 and 1946, political scientists have focused their attention on the elections in the post World War II era. This growth in government authori…
A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
Presidential Elections and the Econonmy 1872 to 1996
Scholars have argued that economic conditions influence presidential elections because Presidents have some influence over macroeconomic performance. Most research on the impact of the economy on presidential elections has focused on the period after World War II because of the dramatic increase in govemment power over the economy from 1932 to 1946. Research on politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries has focused more on the impact …
The Foreign Policy Beliefs of Political Campaign Contributors
Since the Vietnam War, scholarly interest in public and elite opinion of U.S. foreign policy has grown. Because elites generally have greater access to policy makers and more consistent political views, most work on this topic has focused on elite opinions of foreign policy. Most research has defined the term elite broadly, often placing more emphasis on social status than political power. We will reexamine elite foreign policy beliefs using a di…
The influence of personal security fears on women's travel patterns
Neonate size and evolution of brain size in the anthropoid primates
Courting the Kalenjin
This article explains the strength of the ‘ODM wave’ in the 2007 Kenyan election and the popular rejection of Daniel arap Moi's call to re-elect President Mwai Kibaki across the Kalenjin areas of the Rift Valley. It examines the election campaigns, voting patterns, and aftermath of the contested election, and reveals why most Kalenjin dismissed Moi's pleas as self-interested and were instead drawn towards the pledges and leadership of the Orange …
Hybrid rallies and a rally-centric campaign
Scholars tend to present either face-to-face or mediatised audiences as the principal target for election campaign rallies. However, a close eye on the staging of, and popular engagement with, campaign rallies during Kenya's 2022 elections reveals that they constituted a hybrid form of political communication that simultaneously targeted face-to-face and mediatised audiences with tailored messages. Not only were rallies at all levels characterise…
Presidential Elections and the Econonmy 1872 to 1996
Scholars have argued that economic conditions influence presidential elections because Presidents have some influence over macroeconomic performance. Most research on the impact of the economy on presidential elections has focused on the period after World War II because of the dramatic increase in govemment power over the economy from 1932 to 1946. Research on politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries has focused more on the impact …
The Wars of Who Belongs Where
This paper examines the politics of belonging or autochthony on Mt Elgon in western Kenya, and associated occasions of inter- and intra-communal violence. The paper argues that divergent claims of ‘who is who’ and ‘who belongs where and why’ lie at the heart of these periods of violence, and suggests that the uncertainty of ‘belonging’ is due not just to the vagueness of the term and histories of migration, as is often argued, but to cross-cuttin…
Driving together
This paper introduces driving around with people in private cars as a research space to which walking methods can be adapted and in which productive accidental ethnography can take place. Whether one is walking or driving together with research participant(s), one's shared mobility is key: the act and rhythm of moving together through land and sense-scapes provides prompts and insights and facilitates conversation and rapport. However, the covera…
The “Congressionalization” of state legislative races
This paper examines the phenomenon of the “Congressionalization” of state legislative races. That is, as state legislative campaigns become more expensive, use more mass media, polling, and professional political consulting, these races are looking more and more like Congressional campaigns. Although others have pointed toward a “Congressionalization” trend, there is little concrete support to prove such a trend. We provide a detailed case study …
The Foreign Policy Beliefs of Political Campaign Contributors
Since the Vietnam War, scholarly interest in public and elite opinion of U.S. foreign policy has grown. Because elites generally have greater access to policy makers and more consistent political views, most work on this topic has focused on elite opinions of foreign policy. Most research has defined the term elite broadly, often placing more emphasis on social status than political power. We will reexamine elite foreign policy beliefs using a di…
Neonate size and evolution of brain size in the anthropoid primates
Protecting Individual Rights Through a Federal System
James Buchanan is a Nobel Prize winning economist and the founder of the public choice movement in economics. Public Choice played a critical role in underpinning conservative attacks on the welfare state in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. As a committed supporter of free markets and strong skeptic of large governments, Buchanan has long supported the use of federalism to protect individual liberty, promote democratic efficiency, and he…
U.S. Presidential Elections in the Nineteenth Century
Most political scientists have studied the impact of economic conditions on U.S. presidential elections after World War II and argued that the economy matters in these elections because government has some "control" over the economy. Since government authority over the economy grew substantially between 1932 and 1946, political scientists have focused their attention on the elections in the post World War II era. This growth in government authori…
A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
Neonate size and evolution of brain size in the anthropoid primates
The influence of personal security fears on women's travel patterns
The Foreign Policy Beliefs of Political Campaign Contributors
Since the Vietnam War, scholarly interest in public and elite opinion of U.S. foreign policy has grown. Because elites generally have greater access to policy makers and more consistent political views, most work on this topic has focused on elite opinions of foreign policy. Most research has defined the term elite broadly, often placing more emphasis on social status than political power. We will reexamine elite foreign policy beliefs using a di…
Presidential Elections and the Econonmy 1872 to 1996
Scholars have argued that economic conditions influence presidential elections because Presidents have some influence over macroeconomic performance. Most research on the impact of the economy on presidential elections has focused on the period after World War II because of the dramatic increase in govemment power over the economy from 1932 to 1946. Research on politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries has focused more on the impact …
A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
Midterm Elections and Economic Fluctuations
Recent empirical work (Alesina and Rosenthal 1995; Erikson 1990) has shown that economic conditions may not have influenced House midterm elections since 1915. I argue that economic conditions may have influenced House midterms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Congress dominated economic policy‐making, parties offered starker positions on economic issues, and national issues dominated House elections. As the 20th century progressed…
The “Congressionalization” of state legislative races
This paper examines the phenomenon of the “Congressionalization” of state legislative races. That is, as state legislative campaigns become more expensive, use more mass media, polling, and professional political consulting, these races are looking more and more like Congressional campaigns. Although others have pointed toward a “Congressionalization” trend, there is little concrete support to prove such a trend. We provide a detailed case study …
U.S. Presidential Elections in the Nineteenth Century
Most political scientists have studied the impact of economic conditions on U.S. presidential elections after World War II and argued that the economy matters in these elections because government has some "control" over the economy. Since government authority over the economy grew substantially between 1932 and 1946, political scientists have focused their attention on the elections in the post World War II era. This growth in government authori…
Protecting Individual Rights Through a Federal System
James Buchanan is a Nobel Prize winning economist and the founder of the public choice movement in economics. Public Choice played a critical role in underpinning conservative attacks on the welfare state in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. As a committed supporter of free markets and strong skeptic of large governments, Buchanan has long supported the use of federalism to protect individual liberty, promote democratic efficiency, and he…
Courting the Kalenjin
This article explains the strength of the ‘ODM wave’ in the 2007 Kenyan election and the popular rejection of Daniel arap Moi's call to re-elect President Mwai Kibaki across the Kalenjin areas of the Rift Valley. It examines the election campaigns, voting patterns, and aftermath of the contested election, and reveals why most Kalenjin dismissed Moi's pleas as self-interested and were instead drawn towards the pledges and leadership of the Orange …
The Wars of Who Belongs Where
This paper examines the politics of belonging or autochthony on Mt Elgon in western Kenya, and associated occasions of inter- and intra-communal violence. The paper argues that divergent claims of ‘who is who’ and ‘who belongs where and why’ lie at the heart of these periods of violence, and suggests that the uncertainty of ‘belonging’ is due not just to the vagueness of the term and histories of migration, as is often argued, but to cross-cuttin…
Hybrid rallies and a rally-centric campaign
Scholars tend to present either face-to-face or mediatised audiences as the principal target for election campaign rallies. However, a close eye on the staging of, and popular engagement with, campaign rallies during Kenya's 2022 elections reveals that they constituted a hybrid form of political communication that simultaneously targeted face-to-face and mediatised audiences with tailored messages. Not only were rallies at all levels characterise…
Driving together
This paper introduces driving around with people in private cars as a research space to which walking methods can be adapted and in which productive accidental ethnography can take place. Whether one is walking or driving together with research participant(s), one's shared mobility is key: the act and rhythm of moving together through land and sense-scapes provides prompts and insights and facilitates conversation and rapport. However, the covera…
Agency through archives
Commissions of inquiry are a useful governance tool, which, through their ritualised proceedings, look to provide authoritative knowledge that can help to distract attention, justify policies, and/or assert state control. By drawing upon the case of Kenya's Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence, or Waki Commission (2008), we show how the very characteristics that help commissions of inquiry to serve as a useful governance tool – namel…
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