Sam Wilkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 205707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Wilkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkins |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7108-6265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The presidential rally in Uganda
This article analyses the rally practices of President Yoweri Museveni and opposition presidential candidates Kizza Besigye and Robert Kyagulanyi (better known as ‘Bobi Wine’) in Uganda. Drawing on literatures on political ritual, social drama and rallies, the article illustrates the multiple forms and axes of communication that take place between various actors–both present and absent–who are involved in these rallies. Based on ethnographic rese…
Authoritarian micro-politics
In July 2018, the office of village chairperson (Local Council 1/LC1) was contested throughout Uganda in open elections for the first time in almost two decades. These offices, central to the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) famed decentralisation project in its early years in power, continue to have immense significance in the daily lives of most Ugandans. While their long-awaited re-election provides a worthy focus of study in its own right…
Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda
While the framing of the past remains a critical terrain of political discourse in Uganda, competing political visions oriented towards the future have emerged as equally salient as the country undergoes significant social and economic changes. Against the image of gridlock that characterises Ugandan politics after President Yoweri Museveni’s latest controversial re-election in 2021, the aim of this article is to highlight these currents of chang…
Subnational Turnover, Accountability Politics, and Electoral Authoritarian Survival
Most non-democratic regimes engineer elections such that regime change is effectively impossible via the ballot. However, many of these elections see high turnover of politicians at the subnational level, often through competitive processes that occur within ruling parties. This is the case for President Yoweri Museveni's dominant National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Uganda, the ranks of which have been decimated by intra-party competition at ea…
Briefing
A year out from the 2021 ugandan election, opposition supporters had a lot to worry about. After four straight presidential elections in which the non-incumbent vote was remarkably concentrated in the candidacy of Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), political developments were suggesting that this coalescence would not survive into the upcoming campaign season. At the centre of the FDC, Besigye’s long-time rival for the party …
Capture the flag
This article addresses a question relevant to many non-democratic regimes: how can a successful dominant party be an institutionally weak one? President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) have dominated Ugandan politics since coming to power in 1986. However, the NRM does not possess many of the institutional endowments that other dominant parties use to control mass and elite politics, such as central control of candidate…
Elections in Museveni’s Uganda
Elections in Museveni's Uganda
Who pays for pakalast? The NRM’s peripheral patronage in rural Uganda
A dominant narrative exists in the literature concerning the financial strategy of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime of President Yoweri Museveni in recent Ugandan elections. This posits that the regime relies on public or state-linked resources sent from the centre of government to the rural periphery so as to materially influence voters to support its candidates. While it is certainly true that the NRM collectively takes advantage o…
Party, patronage and coercion in the NRM'S 2016 re-election in Uganda
In the wake of President Museveni’s latest election victory in Uganda, this article provides a critical review of the current literature on his National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime and seeks to affect a paradigm shift. We find that much of this scholarship has tended to track the regime’s increasing authoritarianism over the years with an implicit assumption of social detachment, as if the NRM’s successful electoral machine is one imposed on…
Who pays forpakalast? The NRM's peripheral patronage in rural Uganda
A dominant narrative exists in the literature concerning the financial strategy of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime of President Yoweri Museveni in recent Ugandan elections. This posits that the regime relies on public or state-linked resources sent from the centre of government to the rural periphery so as to materially influence voters to support its candidates. While it is certainly true that the NRM collectively takes advantage o…
Theory from the South
Ndira's Wake
This article is about a particular form of memory: heroism. Four years after his murder, MDC-T activist Tonderai Ndira remains a giant in his home township of Mabvuku-Tafara, on the outskirts of Harare. Known throughout Zimbabwe as the highest-profile casualty of the 2008 election violence, his presence is felt in every corner of the township, particularly among the youth activists who seek to emulate his socio-political legend. Rather than simpl…
The Digital Sublime
From Argentina to Zambia
From Argentina to Zambia
Party, patronage and coercion in the NRM'S 2016 re-election in Uganda
In the wake of President Museveni’s latest election victory in Uganda, this article provides a critical review of the current literature on his National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime and seeks to affect a paradigm shift. We find that much of this scholarship has tended to track the regime’s increasing authoritarianism over the years with an implicit assumption of social detachment, as if the NRM’s successful electoral machine is one imposed on…
Who pays forpakalast? The NRM's peripheral patronage in rural Uganda
A dominant narrative exists in the literature concerning the financial strategy of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime of President Yoweri Museveni in recent Ugandan elections. This posits that the regime relies on public or state-linked resources sent from the centre of government to the rural periphery so as to materially influence voters to support its candidates. While it is certainly true that the NRM collectively takes advantage o…
Subnational Turnover, Accountability Politics, and Electoral Authoritarian Survival
Most non-democratic regimes engineer elections such that regime change is effectively impossible via the ballot. However, many of these elections see high turnover of politicians at the subnational level, often through competitive processes that occur within ruling parties. This is the case for President Yoweri Museveni's dominant National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Uganda, the ranks of which have been decimated by intra-party competition at ea…
Briefing
A year out from the 2021 ugandan election, opposition supporters had a lot to worry about. After four straight presidential elections in which the non-incumbent vote was remarkably concentrated in the candidacy of Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), political developments were suggesting that this coalescence would not survive into the upcoming campaign season. At the centre of the FDC, Besigye’s long-time rival for the party …
Capture the flag
This article addresses a question relevant to many non-democratic regimes: how can a successful dominant party be an institutionally weak one? President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) have dominated Ugandan politics since coming to power in 1986. However, the NRM does not possess many of the institutional endowments that other dominant parties use to control mass and elite politics, such as central control of candidate…
Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda
While the framing of the past remains a critical terrain of political discourse in Uganda, competing political visions oriented towards the future have emerged as equally salient as the country undergoes significant social and economic changes. Against the image of gridlock that characterises Ugandan politics after President Yoweri Museveni’s latest controversial re-election in 2021, the aim of this article is to highlight these currents of chang…
The presidential rally in Uganda
This article analyses the rally practices of President Yoweri Museveni and opposition presidential candidates Kizza Besigye and Robert Kyagulanyi (better known as ‘Bobi Wine’) in Uganda. Drawing on literatures on political ritual, social drama and rallies, the article illustrates the multiple forms and axes of communication that take place between various actors–both present and absent–who are involved in these rallies. Based on ethnographic rese…
Authoritarian micro-politics
In July 2018, the office of village chairperson (Local Council 1/LC1) was contested throughout Uganda in open elections for the first time in almost two decades. These offices, central to the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) famed decentralisation project in its early years in power, continue to have immense significance in the daily lives of most Ugandans. While their long-awaited re-election provides a worthy focus of study in its own right…
Ndira's Wake
This article is about a particular form of memory: heroism. Four years after his murder, MDC-T activist Tonderai Ndira remains a giant in his home township of Mabvuku-Tafara, on the outskirts of Harare. Known throughout Zimbabwe as the highest-profile casualty of the 2008 election violence, his presence is felt in every corner of the township, particularly among the youth activists who seek to emulate his socio-political legend. Rather than simpl…
From Argentina to Zambia
The Digital Sublime
Ndira's Wake
This article is about a particular form of memory: heroism. Four years after his murder, MDC-T activist Tonderai Ndira remains a giant in his home township of Mabvuku-Tafara, on the outskirts of Harare. Known throughout Zimbabwe as the highest-profile casualty of the 2008 election violence, his presence is felt in every corner of the township, particularly among the youth activists who seek to emulate his socio-political legend. Rather than simpl…
Theory from the South
Party, patronage and coercion in the NRM'S 2016 re-election in Uganda
In the wake of President Museveni’s latest election victory in Uganda, this article provides a critical review of the current literature on his National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime and seeks to affect a paradigm shift. We find that much of this scholarship has tended to track the regime’s increasing authoritarianism over the years with an implicit assumption of social detachment, as if the NRM’s successful electoral machine is one imposed on…
Who pays forpakalast? The NRM's peripheral patronage in rural Uganda
A dominant narrative exists in the literature concerning the financial strategy of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime of President Yoweri Museveni in recent Ugandan elections. This posits that the regime relies on public or state-linked resources sent from the centre of government to the rural periphery so as to materially influence voters to support its candidates. While it is certainly true that the NRM collectively takes advantage o…
Elections in Museveni’s Uganda
Elections in Museveni's Uganda
Who pays for pakalast? The NRM’s peripheral patronage in rural Uganda
A dominant narrative exists in the literature concerning the financial strategy of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime of President Yoweri Museveni in recent Ugandan elections. This posits that the regime relies on public or state-linked resources sent from the centre of government to the rural periphery so as to materially influence voters to support its candidates. While it is certainly true that the NRM collectively takes advantage o…
Capture the flag
This article addresses a question relevant to many non-democratic regimes: how can a successful dominant party be an institutionally weak one? President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) have dominated Ugandan politics since coming to power in 1986. However, the NRM does not possess many of the institutional endowments that other dominant parties use to control mass and elite politics, such as central control of candidate…
Subnational Turnover, Accountability Politics, and Electoral Authoritarian Survival
Most non-democratic regimes engineer elections such that regime change is effectively impossible via the ballot. However, many of these elections see high turnover of politicians at the subnational level, often through competitive processes that occur within ruling parties. This is the case for President Yoweri Museveni's dominant National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Uganda, the ranks of which have been decimated by intra-party competition at ea…
Briefing
A year out from the 2021 ugandan election, opposition supporters had a lot to worry about. After four straight presidential elections in which the non-incumbent vote was remarkably concentrated in the candidacy of Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), political developments were suggesting that this coalescence would not survive into the upcoming campaign season. At the centre of the FDC, Besigye’s long-time rival for the party …
The presidential rally in Uganda
This article analyses the rally practices of President Yoweri Museveni and opposition presidential candidates Kizza Besigye and Robert Kyagulanyi (better known as ‘Bobi Wine’) in Uganda. Drawing on literatures on political ritual, social drama and rallies, the article illustrates the multiple forms and axes of communication that take place between various actors–both present and absent–who are involved in these rallies. Based on ethnographic rese…
Authoritarian micro-politics
In July 2018, the office of village chairperson (Local Council 1/LC1) was contested throughout Uganda in open elections for the first time in almost two decades. These offices, central to the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) famed decentralisation project in its early years in power, continue to have immense significance in the daily lives of most Ugandans. While their long-awaited re-election provides a worthy focus of study in its own right…
Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda
While the framing of the past remains a critical terrain of political discourse in Uganda, competing political visions oriented towards the future have emerged as equally salient as the country undergoes significant social and economic changes. Against the image of gridlock that characterises Ugandan politics after President Yoweri Museveni’s latest controversial re-election in 2021, the aim of this article is to highlight these currents of chang…
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