Research
Articles
- “Analytic Authoritarianism and Nigeria,” Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (forthcoming vol. 51, no. 3, 2013).
- “Questioning Tocqueville in Africa: Continuity and Change in Civil Society During Nigeria’s Democratization,” Democratization (Vol. 18, No. 1, February 2011).
- “Power Sharing in Africa’s Uncertain Democracies,” Governance: an International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions (Vol. 24, No. 1, January 2011)
- Book Review, Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow, by Pierre Englebert. Political Science Quarterly 125, 4 (winter 2010-11).
- “The Political Economy of African Responses to the U.S. Africa Command,” Africa Today (Vol 57., No. 1, Fall 2010)
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- 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.
Working Papers and Essays Under Review
- Africa’s Cumbersome Cabinets: Preferences and Performance (with Assen Assenov; under review)
- “Ethnic Migration, Economic Uncertainty, and Property Rights in Abuja, Nigeria,” co-authored with Josiah Olubowale (requested revisions in progress)
- The Failed State Narrative and Boko Haram in Nigeria (requested revisions in progress)
- Decentralization and Corruption in Nigeria’s Education Sector
Books
- In Democracy’s Shadow: the Secret World of National Security, co-edited with Marcus Raskin, (Nation Books, 2005).
Book Chapters
- Nigeria (with Patrick Ukata) in Countries at the Crossroads 2012 (New York: Freedom House, 2012)
- “Collective Causes of Electoral Reform” (with Amarachi Utah) in Eghosa Osaghae, ed. (forthcoming 2013).
- Nigeria (with Patrick Ukata) in Countries at a Crossroads 2010 (New York: Freedom House, 2010).
The 2010 Ron Walters panel on “Race and International Relations” at AU,with the House Judiciary Committee staff
- “Politics in Nigeria” (with Oladimeji Aborisade and Robert Mundt) in Comparative Politics Today (tenth edition), edited by Gabriel Almond, Bingham Powell, Kaare Strøm and Russell Dalton (New York: Longman, 2010).
- “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.
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