Kylie Baldwin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 291003 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kylie Baldwin |
| PRENOMES | Kylie |
| SOBRENOME | Baldwin |
| ASSINATURA | BALDWIN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7256-0312 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 517 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Faith in Democracy
Why have some churches in Africa engaged in advocacy for stronger liberal democratic institutions while others have not? Faith in Democracy explores this question, emphasizing the benefits of liberal democratic protections for some churches. The book explains how churches' historic investments create different autocratic risk exposure, as states can more easily regulate certain activities – including social service provision – than others. In sit…
Traditional Authorities Around the World
Research in political science on traditional authorities has advanced quickly in the past decade, highlighting the diversity of these institutions and how variation among them affects political outcomes. However, existing research often fails to distinguish between three distinct attributes of these institutions: their de facto power, their downward accountability to the communities they lead, and their recognition by the state. This review demon…
Is authority fungible? Legitimacy, domain congruence, and the limits of power in Africa
Scholars increasingly recognize the plurality of leaders who exercise de facto authority in governing communities. But what limits different leaders’ power to organize distinct types of collective action beyond the law? We contend that leaders’ influence varies by activity, depending on the degree to which the activity matches the leaders’ geographic scope and field of expertise (“domain congruence”). Employing conjoint endorsement experiments in…
You feel like you’re fairly disadvantaged with an advert over your head saying ‘in final years of reproduction’”
Recent decades have seen an increasing gap occurring between the 'desired' and 'actual' family size of middle-class and professional women. This situation of 'unrealised fertility' and 'incomplete families' carries implications at a population, but also couple and individual level. This paper explores how middle-class professional women make decisions about partnering and parenthood and how these are shaped by a contemporary neoliberal feminist d…
How political insiders lose out when international aid underperforms
Foreign Aid and Political Support
Prominent scholarship on foreign aid argues that aid can interfere with citizens' ability to hold politicians accountable. One particular concern is that politicians receive undeserved credit for aid projects due to misattribution by voters with low information. But in some cases, politicians exert effort to ensure the success of projects and thus may deserve any credit they receive from voters. The authors show that the credit politicians receiv…
Does Land Quality Increase the Power of Traditional Leaders in Contemporary Africa
The power of traditional leaders varies across and within sub-Saharan African countries. Existing literature explains this as the result of state-building decisions about where to employ indirect rule in the colonial and postcolonial periods. We argue that the contemporary power of traditional leaders is also influenced by land quality. In the precolonial period, land quality played little role in encouraging political centralization due to its a…
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism
Economic and health crises have profound political consequences for public support for social policy, historically setting in motion a massive expansion of governmental programs. Is demand for social protection likely to increase among citizens exposed to risk in an era in which populist messages are prominent? We show that this depends critically on the precise targets that populists evoke as enemies of the people. We distinguish between two typ…
Democracy's Devout Defenders
This article examines church activism for liberal democracy in sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades. The article seeks to explain churches' high levels of activism compared to a) other civil society organizations, specifically trade unions, and b) churches' varied commitments to democratic activism. The argument emphasizes the protections liberal-democratic institutions offer churches to spread their ideas without being curtailed by an all-powerf…
Run like a mother
This article examines how three UK & US media representations of mother running negotiate, challenge, and reassert the boundaries and meanings of contemporary motherhood. Using literary and cultural analysis alongside feminist and critical race theories, I investigate what is normalized and what is obscured by the figure of the mother runner in the following mediated examples: 1) a newspaper article published in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic …
Accountability and Inclusion in Customary Institutions
The problem of traditional leadership is often conceived as one of low accountability due to a single unelected leader having unchecked power within communities. Instead, we argue there are strong norms of collective deliberation in most traditional political institutions. As a result, a key constraint on inclusive decision-making and broad accountability is the composition of traditional leaders’ advisers and councils. We test whether encouragem…
How Any Woman Does What They Do Is Beyond Comprehension”
In 2019–2020, Meghan Markle was one of the most intensely mediated mothers in the anglophone media. This article examines how U.K. and U.S. media representations of Markle negotiate, trouble, challenge, regulate, and reassert the boundaries and meanings of contemporary motherhood. Situating Markle’s mediated representations in the context of the increasing visibility and shifting meanings of motherhood in contemporary culture, and particularly in…
Chiefs, Democracy, and Development in Contemporary Africa
Traditional chiefs have a special ability to organize collective responses to local problems in many communities
How Do Different Forms of Foreign Aid Affect Government Legitimacy? Evidence from an Informational Experiment in Uganda
The biomedicalisation of reproductive ageing
The demographic shift currently being observed across many Western countries towards older-parenthood has contributed to increasing concerns about the risks posed by age-related fertility decline, particularly in women. These concerns pertain to the increased risk of infertility, pregnancy loss, and genetic abnormalities occurring in the foetus as well as greater physical risks to the potential mother during pregnancy and birth. Concerns about th…
Traditional Political Institutions and Democracy
This article revisits prominent frameworks for understanding traditional political institutions which make pessimistic assessments about their compatibility with democracy. Traditional political institutions are often assumed to be unaccountable because they are led by undemocratic leaders who are not subject to electoral sanctioning. However, drawing on new information from the TradGov Group dataset, an expert survey on the contemporary practice…
Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods
What types of leaders are effective in organizing public goods that require community contributions? In many settings, both citizens and state agencies provide financing, labor, and oversight of local projects. This article analyzes the effects of elected Members of Parliament (MPs) and hereditary chiefs in facilitating co-produced public goods in Zambia. MPs have electoral motivations to provide public goods but may not be well-positioned to org…
Reproduction research
Stage Play Review - Eggsistentialism
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. Open access journal
The Egg Rumour by Ellamae Cieslik
Response to Philip Roessler’s review of The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa
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
Conceptualising women's motivations for social egg freezing and experience of reproductive delay
As the average age of motherhood in many Western countries continues to rise, the spectacle of the older mother and the trend towards delayed childbearing has been the subject of much public debate and interest. Concurrent to this trend has been the development and use of a new form of fertility preservation - social egg freezing - a technology which by its very nature is meant to enable reproductive delay. Whilst previous studies have been able …
I Suppose I Think to Myself, That's the Best Way to Be a Mother
The age distribution of women giving birth in England and Wales, as well as many other Western countries, has changed significantly in recent decades with growing numbers of women having children later in their reproductive lives. However, motherhood at an older age is positively associated with greater risks to mother and child including complications during pregnancy and birth as well as an increased risk of age-related infertility. In response…
Variegated Hughes
This essay rereads Langston Hughes's essay on the Uzbek Harem in the context of its publication in Women's Home Companion ( WHC ). It pursues questions prompted by reading Hughes's essay alongside the images that accompanied it, Andre Durenceau's powerful full‐scale illustrations, and in the publishing context of the essay more generally. The essay focuses on the way a vanguard political mood and an accompanying aesthetics work in tandem or at od…
The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen
Economic versus Cultural Differences
Arguments about how ethnic diversity affects governance typically posit that groups differ from each other in substantively important ways and that these differences make effective governance more difficult. But existing cross-national empirical tests typically use measures of ethnolinguistic fractionalization (ELF) that have no information about substantive differences between groups. This article examines two important ways that groups differ f…
Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia
Why are voters influenced by the views of local patrons when casting their ballots? The existing literature suggests that coercion and personal obligations underpin this form of clientelism, causing voters to support candidates for reasons tangential to political performance. However, voters who support candidates preferred by local patrons may be making sophisticated political inferences. In many developing countries, elected politicians need to…
When Politicians Cede Control of Resources
Traditional Political Institutions and Democracy
This article revisits prominent frameworks for understanding traditional political institutions which make pessimistic assessments about their compatibility with democracy. Traditional political institutions are often assumed to be unaccountable because they are led by undemocratic leaders who are not subject to electoral sanctioning. However, drawing on new information from the TradGov Group dataset, an expert survey on the contemporary practice…
Elections and Collective Action
Numerous recent field and laboratory experiments find that elections cause higher subsequent levels of collective action within groups. This article questions whether effects observed in these novel environments apply when traditional institutions are democratized. The authors test the external validity of the experimental findings by examining the effects of introducing elections in an indigenous institution in Liberia. They use a break in the p…
Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods
What types of leaders are effective in organizing public goods that require community contributions? In many settings, both citizens and state agencies provide financing, labor, and oversight of local projects. This article analyzes the effects of elected Members of Parliament (MPs) and hereditary chiefs in facilitating co-produced public goods in Zambia. MPs have electoral motivations to provide public goods but may not be well-positioned to org…
How Do Different Forms of Foreign Aid Affect Government Legitimacy? Evidence from an Informational Experiment in Uganda
I Suppose I Think to Myself, That's the Best Way to Be a Mother
The age distribution of women giving birth in England and Wales, as well as many other Western countries, has changed significantly in recent decades with growing numbers of women having children later in their reproductive lives. However, motherhood at an older age is positively associated with greater risks to mother and child including complications during pregnancy and birth as well as an increased risk of age-related infertility. In response…
Conceptualising women's motivations for social egg freezing and experience of reproductive delay
As the average age of motherhood in many Western countries continues to rise, the spectacle of the older mother and the trend towards delayed childbearing has been the subject of much public debate and interest. Concurrent to this trend has been the development and use of a new form of fertility preservation - social egg freezing - a technology which by its very nature is meant to enable reproductive delay. Whilst previous studies have been able …
Foreign Aid and Political Support
Prominent scholarship on foreign aid argues that aid can interfere with citizens' ability to hold politicians accountable. One particular concern is that politicians receive undeserved credit for aid projects due to misattribution by voters with low information. But in some cases, politicians exert effort to ensure the success of projects and thus may deserve any credit they receive from voters. The authors show that the credit politicians receiv…
How Any Woman Does What They Do Is Beyond Comprehension”
In 2019–2020, Meghan Markle was one of the most intensely mediated mothers in the anglophone media. This article examines how U.K. and U.S. media representations of Markle negotiate, trouble, challenge, regulate, and reassert the boundaries and meanings of contemporary motherhood. Situating Markle’s mediated representations in the context of the increasing visibility and shifting meanings of motherhood in contemporary culture, and particularly in…
Is authority fungible? Legitimacy, domain congruence, and the limits of power in Africa
Scholars increasingly recognize the plurality of leaders who exercise de facto authority in governing communities. But what limits different leaders’ power to organize distinct types of collective action beyond the law? We contend that leaders’ influence varies by activity, depending on the degree to which the activity matches the leaders’ geographic scope and field of expertise (“domain congruence”). Employing conjoint endorsement experiments in…
Does Land Quality Increase the Power of Traditional Leaders in Contemporary Africa
The power of traditional leaders varies across and within sub-Saharan African countries. Existing literature explains this as the result of state-building decisions about where to employ indirect rule in the colonial and postcolonial periods. We argue that the contemporary power of traditional leaders is also influenced by land quality. In the precolonial period, land quality played little role in encouraging political centralization due to its a…
Traditional Authorities Around the World
Research in political science on traditional authorities has advanced quickly in the past decade, highlighting the diversity of these institutions and how variation among them affects political outcomes. However, existing research often fails to distinguish between three distinct attributes of these institutions: their de facto power, their downward accountability to the communities they lead, and their recognition by the state. This review demon…
How political insiders lose out when international aid underperforms
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism
Economic and health crises have profound political consequences for public support for social policy, historically setting in motion a massive expansion of governmental programs. Is demand for social protection likely to increase among citizens exposed to risk in an era in which populist messages are prominent? We show that this depends critically on the precise targets that populists evoke as enemies of the people. We distinguish between two typ…
Accountability and Inclusion in Customary Institutions
The problem of traditional leadership is often conceived as one of low accountability due to a single unelected leader having unchecked power within communities. Instead, we argue there are strong norms of collective deliberation in most traditional political institutions. As a result, a key constraint on inclusive decision-making and broad accountability is the composition of traditional leaders’ advisers and councils. We test whether encouragem…
Black like Who? Cross-Testing the "Real" Lines of John Howard Griffin's "Black like Me
ne evening some months ago, I received a phone call from a representative of the United Negro College Fund requesting a donation. As I fumbled through my checkbook to inspect my current balance, to see, indeed, if there was a balance, I could hear a female voice at the other end of the phone distractedly humming a tune. It stopped when I returned with a positive answer. Thank you, Miss, what was it, Baldwin? the voice asked, and then, after a bri…
Democracy's Devout Defenders
This article examines church activism for liberal democracy in sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades. The article seeks to explain churches' high levels of activism compared to a) other civil society organizations, specifically trade unions, and b) churches' varied commitments to democratic activism. The argument emphasizes the protections liberal-democratic institutions offer churches to spread their ideas without being curtailed by an all-powerf…
Run like a mother
This article examines how three UK & US media representations of mother running negotiate, challenge, and reassert the boundaries and meanings of contemporary motherhood. Using literary and cultural analysis alongside feminist and critical race theories, I investigate what is normalized and what is obscured by the figure of the mother runner in the following mediated examples: 1) a newspaper article published in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic …
Reproduction research
Black like Who? Cross-Testing the "Real" Lines of John Howard Griffin's "Black like Me
ne evening some months ago, I received a phone call from a representative of the United Negro College Fund requesting a donation. As I fumbled through my checkbook to inspect my current balance, to see, indeed, if there was a balance, I could hear a female voice at the other end of the phone distractedly humming a tune. It stopped when I returned with a positive answer. Thank you, Miss, what was it, Baldwin? the voice asked, and then, after a bri…
Soul Mates
Diaspora 9:3 2000 Soul Mates Kate Baldwin University of Notre Dame Up From Bondage: The Literatures of African American and Russian Soul. Dale Peterson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Alice Walker describes her undergraduate years at Spelman College as marked by a fascination that, in her estimation, put her at a remove from the students around her. Walker reflects, "I paid as much attentio…
Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
Beyond the Color Line book remain unpublished; others have been left out of standard anthologies.Much of the Russian material I consider has heretofore not been translated into English.This book retrieves and rethinks routes of influence between Moscow, Tashkent, and Harlem.Beyond its focus on these four African Americans, this study is about an extended moment-from 1922 to 1963-when the Soviet Union and Soviet Communism drew scores of African Am…
Between Mother and History
kate a. baldwin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963 (Duke University Press, 2002) and is currently working on a second book project titled Authenticating Nations: Cultural Fictions of Soviet and American Women during the Cold War
Proximate Practices? Gender, Diaspora, and the Rise in Black Internationalism
When Langston Hughes set off for Russia in June 1932, he packed a victrola and several records by Louis Armstrong and Ethel Waters. Hughes brought these unwieldy objects at the urging of his friend, Louise Thompson, the organizer of the group of African American artists, writers, and activists with whom Hughes was traveling. Hughes's attachment, aesthetic and otherwise, to blues and jazz is clearly etched in the work he had produced in the 1920s.…
Proximate Practices
Diaspora 12:2 2003 Proximate Practices? Gender, Diaspora, and the Rise of Black Internationalism Kate Baldwin University of Notre Dame The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Brent Hayes Edwards. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. When Langston Hughes set off for Russia in June 1932, he packed a victrola and several records by Louis Armstrong and Ethel Waters. Hughes brought these unwield…
Economic versus Cultural Differences
Arguments about how ethnic diversity affects governance typically posit that groups differ from each other in substantively important ways and that these differences make effective governance more difficult. But existing cross-national empirical tests typically use measures of ethnolinguistic fractionalization (ELF) that have no information about substantive differences between groups. This article examines two important ways that groups differ f…
Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia
Why are voters influenced by the views of local patrons when casting their ballots? The existing literature suggests that coercion and personal obligations underpin this form of clientelism, causing voters to support candidates for reasons tangential to political performance. However, voters who support candidates preferred by local patrons may be making sophisticated political inferences. In many developing countries, elected politicians need to…
When Politicians Cede Control of Resources
The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa
The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa shows that unelected traditional leaders can facilitate democratic responsiveness. Ironically, chiefs' undemocratic character gives them a capacity to organize responses to rural problems that elected politicians and state institutions lack. Specifically, chiefs' longer time horizons encourage investment in local institutions that enable the provision of local public goods. This is the parado…
Elections and Collective Action
Numerous recent field and laboratory experiments find that elections cause higher subsequent levels of collective action within groups. This article questions whether effects observed in these novel environments apply when traditional institutions are democratized. The authors test the external validity of the experimental findings by examining the effects of introducing elections in an indigenous institution in Liberia. They use a break in the p…
Variegated Hughes
This essay rereads Langston Hughes's essay on the Uzbek Harem in the context of its publication in Women's Home Companion ( WHC ). It pursues questions prompted by reading Hughes's essay alongside the images that accompanied it, Andre Durenceau's powerful full‐scale illustrations, and in the publishing context of the essay more generally. The essay focuses on the way a vanguard political mood and an accompanying aesthetics work in tandem or at od…
I Suppose I Think to Myself, That's the Best Way to Be a Mother
The age distribution of women giving birth in England and Wales, as well as many other Western countries, has changed significantly in recent decades with growing numbers of women having children later in their reproductive lives. However, motherhood at an older age is positively associated with greater risks to mother and child including complications during pregnancy and birth as well as an increased risk of age-related infertility. In response…
Stage Play Review - Eggsistentialism
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. Open access journal
The Egg Rumour by Ellamae Cieslik
Response to Philip Roessler’s review of The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa
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
Conceptualising women's motivations for social egg freezing and experience of reproductive delay
As the average age of motherhood in many Western countries continues to rise, the spectacle of the older mother and the trend towards delayed childbearing has been the subject of much public debate and interest. Concurrent to this trend has been the development and use of a new form of fertility preservation - social egg freezing - a technology which by its very nature is meant to enable reproductive delay. Whilst previous studies have been able …
The biomedicalisation of reproductive ageing
The demographic shift currently being observed across many Western countries towards older-parenthood has contributed to increasing concerns about the risks posed by age-related fertility decline, particularly in women. These concerns pertain to the increased risk of infertility, pregnancy loss, and genetic abnormalities occurring in the foetus as well as greater physical risks to the potential mother during pregnancy and birth. Concerns about th…
Traditional Political Institutions and Democracy
This article revisits prominent frameworks for understanding traditional political institutions which make pessimistic assessments about their compatibility with democracy. Traditional political institutions are often assumed to be unaccountable because they are led by undemocratic leaders who are not subject to electoral sanctioning. However, drawing on new information from the TradGov Group dataset, an expert survey on the contemporary practice…
Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods
What types of leaders are effective in organizing public goods that require community contributions? In many settings, both citizens and state agencies provide financing, labor, and oversight of local projects. This article analyzes the effects of elected Members of Parliament (MPs) and hereditary chiefs in facilitating co-produced public goods in Zambia. MPs have electoral motivations to provide public goods but may not be well-positioned to org…
Reproduction research
Chiefs, Democracy, and Development in Contemporary Africa
Traditional chiefs have a special ability to organize collective responses to local problems in many communities
How Do Different Forms of Foreign Aid Affect Government Legitimacy? Evidence from an Informational Experiment in Uganda
Accountability and Inclusion in Customary Institutions
The problem of traditional leadership is often conceived as one of low accountability due to a single unelected leader having unchecked power within communities. Instead, we argue there are strong norms of collective deliberation in most traditional political institutions. As a result, a key constraint on inclusive decision-making and broad accountability is the composition of traditional leaders’ advisers and councils. We test whether encouragem…
How Any Woman Does What They Do Is Beyond Comprehension”
In 2019–2020, Meghan Markle was one of the most intensely mediated mothers in the anglophone media. This article examines how U.K. and U.S. media representations of Markle negotiate, trouble, challenge, regulate, and reassert the boundaries and meanings of contemporary motherhood. Situating Markle’s mediated representations in the context of the increasing visibility and shifting meanings of motherhood in contemporary culture, and particularly in…
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