🌱 Empowering Kenya's drylands - Learn how community-centered approaches could combat #climate challenges and colonial legacies. #Kenya #ClimateJustice 🌍👩‍🌾

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A big thank you to all scholars and policymakers who participated in the workshop on Researching and Strengthening #DemocraticResilience Uni of Birmingham. Two days of great discussions and insights on how democracies can persevere and adapt in the face of autocratic challenges.

Really enjoyed talking to Duncan McCargo on the New Books Network 📚's Studies in Southeast Asia podcast series about my #BrandingAuthoritarianNations book 🤩 📚

Listen to the full episode: buff.ly/3VCCPzb

International Development Department Government Bham College of Social Sciences POLSIS Birmingham

The Canadian government's inquiry into foreign interference mysteriously omits Rwanda, identified by Freedom House as one the world's worst perpetrators of transnational repression. theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

Great write up on International Development Department by Development Studies Association on our 60th anniversary devstud.org.uk/2024/04/08/spo…, marked especially by the publication of our collective endeavour The Politics of Development uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-…. Join us if you can on 24 April birmingham.ac.uk/schools/govern…

My favourite cross-over episode, featuring DelDemUCan and CEDAR!

🎧 Don't miss Petra Alderman's conversation with Duncann McCargo about her book.

Don't forget to subscribe to CEDAR's #PeoplePowerPolitics podcast 👇 We publish new episodes every month and have a lot of exciting content coming up 🎧

And that’s a wrap of the workshop organized by CEDAR!

A unique opportunity to present our work (doi.org/10.1080/135103…) on democratic resilience, not just with academics but with practitioners and policymakers!

Thanks for organizing Nic Cheeseman and Manoel Gehrke!

This looks fantastic and very exciting to see it out - huge congrats Michaela Collord!

Let me know if you're having trouble accessing.

Thanks Jeff! My book is indeed out as an e-book, hardcopies soon.

Focusing on East Africa, it looks at how different trajectories of state-led capitalist development affect the strength of ruling parties & legislatures, plus why that matters for distributive politics/democracy.

Very excited to see Michaela Collord Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda: academic.oup.com/book/56203. Congrats!

Ah so it was the stickers fault

Really?

My latest article for the Daily Maverick covers the challenges & opportunities that citizens' assemblies pose for South Africa, and explores the research we've started as part of Centre for Research on Democracy's Citizens Assembly Working Group.

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Have a look at my latest interview with BBC News (World) wherein I spoke about violent extremist activity in #BurkinaFaso and the deteriorating security situation in that country. Traduction disponible en Francais pour les Francophones. Merci.

Tune in to the latest episode of the #PeoplePowerPolitics podcast to learn more about how political parties change 👇

Featuring Allan Sikk and Dr Philipp Köker & based on their recent Oxford University Press book 'Party People' 📚

#learnwith CEDAR

Senegals amazing democratic turnaround.

How Bassirou Diomaye Faye won the presidency, what it means for democracy in Africa, and the risks for the future …

Out now with the BBC.

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Discussing #DemocraticResilience at a special and timely ⁦CEDAR⁩ workshop organised by ⁦Nic Cheeseman⁩ & ⁦Manoel Gehrke⁩ ⁦POLSIS Birmingham⁩ ⁦⁦International Development Department⁩

Lovely to see this work on measuring electoral commission independence being shared and used 👇