Research

Articles

“Parties or Portfolio? The Economic Consequences of Africa’s Cumbersome Cabinets,” (with Assen Assenov) Government and Opposition (forthcoming 2015)
“’I am Here until Development Comes:’ Displacement, Demolitions, and Property Rights in Urbanising Abuja,” (with Josiah Olubowale) African Affairs (June 2014).
“Analytic Authoritarianism and Nigeria,” Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (52, no. 2, 2014).
• “Sectarian Rebellions in Post-Transition Nigeria Compared,” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 8, 1 (2013): 1-18.
“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.

Dictators and Democracy in African Development: the Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria,” (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
In Democracy’s Shadow: the Secret World of National Security, co-edited with Marcus Raskin, (Nation Books, 2005).

“Collective Causes of Electoral Reform” (with Amarachi Utah) in Eghosa Osaghae, ed. (forthcoming 2014).
Nigeria (with Patrick Ukata) in Countries at the Crossroads 2012 (New York: Freedom House, 2012)
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.