Research

Working Papers and Essays Under Review

“Power Sharing and Political Inclusion in Africa’s Uncertain Democracies” (forthcoming in Governance: an International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions – July 2010)
Nigeria’s Authoritarian Regimes – email me at levan@american.edu for the latest draft
Civil Society During Nigeria’s Democratization
African Responses to AFRICOM
Decentralization and Corruption in Nigeria’s Education Sector
Africa’s Cumbersome Cabinets: Preferences and Performance (working paper with Dr. Assen Assenov)

“Next Steps for Nigeria’s Democracy,” International Affairs Forum, January 2008.
“Elections in Nigeria: Is the Third Time a Charm?” (with Joyce Pitso and Bodunrin Adebo) in Journal of African Elections 2 (Oct. 2003): 30-47. Published by the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa.
“Keeping the Baloney Out of Africa,” op-ed in The Hill, April 28, 2008.
“Be Careful Libby Case Doesn’t Lead to More Secrecy,” op-ed in The Hill, November 2005.

In Democracy’s Shadow: the Secret World of National Security, co-edited with Marcus Raskin, (Nation Books, 2005).

Nigeria (with Patrick Ukata) in Countries at a Crossroads 2008 (New York: Freedom House, 2010).
“Politics in Nigeria” (co-authored with Robert Mundt and Oladimeji Aborisade) in Comparative Politics Today (ninth edition), edited by Gabriel Almond, Bingham Powell, Kaare Strøm and Russell Dalton (New York: Longman, 2009).
“Federal Structure, Decentralization and Government Performance” in Nigerian Federalism in Crisis: Critical Perspectives and Political Options, edited by Ebere Onwudiwe and Rotimi Suberu (Ibadan: Program on Ethnic and Federal Studies and John Archer Publishers, 2005).
“The National Security State and the Tragedy of Empire” (co-authored with Marcus Raskin), in Raskin and LeVan, op. cit.
“The National Security State, War and Congress” (co-authored with Marcus Raskin), in Raskin and LeVan, op cit.