Winner: Nicolas van de Walle (Cornell University)
Winner: Robtel Neajai Pailey (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia
Cambridge University Press
Winner: Elizabeth Wellman
“Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections:Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa” American Political Science Review 115(1):82-96.
Winner: Vladimir Chlouba
“The Politics of Respect: Early State Inheritance and Traditional Governance”
Honorable Mention: Catlan Reardon
“The Ties That Bind or Break: Local Leaders,Dispute Arbitration, and Violence in Nigeria”
Winner : David Ngendo-Tshimba (Makerere University)
"Transgressing Buyira: An Historical InquiryInto Violence Astride the Congo-Uganda Border"
Honorable Mention: Vanessa van den Boogaard (University of Toronto)
"Informal Revenue Generation and the State: Evidence from Sierra Leone"
2021: Winner Janet Lewis
How Insurgency Begins Cambridge University Press.
2020: Co-Winner Ken Ochieng' Opalo
Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies. Cambridge University Press.
Co-Winner: Nicholas Smith
Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Oxford University Press.
2019: Eric Kramon
Money for Votes: The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa. Cambridge University Press.
2018: Timothy Longman
Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Cambridge University Press.
2015: Catherine Boone
Property and Political Order in Africa: Land Rights and Structure of Politics. Cambridge University Press.
Honorable Mention: Frederick Cooper
Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960. Princeton University Press
Honorable Mention: Claire Adida
Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa: Coethnic Strangers. Cambridge University Press
2013: Rachel Beatty Riedl
Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa. Cambridge University Press
2012: Co-Winner Leonardo Arriola
Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns. Cambridge University Press
Co-Winner: Crawford Young
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010. University of Wisconsin Press
Honorable Mention: M. Anne Pitcher
Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa’s Democracies. Cambridge University Press
2011: Adrienne LeBas
From Protest to Parties. Party-Building and Democratization in Africa. Oxford University Press
2010: Charles Piot
Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War. University of Chicago Press
2009: Pierre Englebert
Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow. Lynne Rienner Publishers
2008: Susan D. Wing
Constructing Democracy in Transitioning Societies of Africa: Constitutionalism and Deliberation in Mali. Palgrave-MacMillan.
2007: Elizabeth Schmidt
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958. Ohio University Press
2006: Joshua B. Rubongoya
Regime Hegemony in Museveni’s Uganda. Palgrave-Macmillan
2005: Dan Posner
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. Cambridge University Press
2004: Dennis Galvan
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. University of California Press.
2021: Anne Meng
“Winning the Game of Thrones: Leadership Succession in Modern Autocracies.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 65(5): 950-981.
2020: Amanda Lea Robinson and Jessica Gottlieb
“How to close the gender gap in political participation: Lessons from matrilineal societies in Africa.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(4): 571-595.
Honorable Mention: Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard, and Samuel Jibao
“Informal taxation in Sierra Leone: Magnitudes, perceptions and implications.” African Affairs 118(471): 259-284.
2019: Mai Hassan and Tom O’Mealia
“Networks of Violence and Becoming: Youth and the Politics of Patronage in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(4): 571-595.
2018: Claire Adida, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon, and Gwyneth McClendon
“Reducing or Reinforcing In-Group Preferences? An Experiment on Information and Ethnic Voting.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12: 437-477.
2014: Akin Iwilade
“Networks of Violence and Becoming: Youth and the Politics of Patronage in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(4): 571-595.
Honorable Mention: Isalin Bergamaschi
“The Fall of a Donor Darling: the Role of Aid in Mali’s Crisis.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(3): 347-378.
Honorable Mention: Issaka K. Souare
“The African Union as Norm Entrepreneur on Military Coups d’etat in African (1952-2012): an empirical assessment.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(1): 69-94.
2013: Dominika Koter
“Kingmakers: Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in Africa,” World Politics 65 (2): 187-232.
2012: Séverine Autesserre
“Dangerous Tales: Dominant Narratives on the Congo and their Unintended Consequences,” African Affairs 111, 413
2011: Claire Adida
“Too Close for Comfort? Immigrant Exclusion in Africa.” Comparative Political Studies 44 (2011): 1370–1396.
2010: Mireille Razafindrakoto and François Roubaud
“Are International Databases on Corruption Reliable? A Comparison of Expert Opinion Surveys and Household Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development, 38 (8): 1057–1069.
2009: Leonardo R. Arriola
“Patronage and Political Stability in Africa,” Comparative Political Studies 42 (10).
2008: Susanne D. Mueller
“The Political Economy of Kenya’s Crisis,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 2 (2): 185–210.
2007: Lahra Smith
“Voting for an Ethnic Identity: Procedural and Institutional Responses to Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia,” Journal of Modern African Studies 45, no. 4: 565–594.
2006: Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein
“Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War,” American Political Science Review 100 (3): 429–448.
2004: Eghosa E. Osaghae
“Political Transitions and Ethnic Conflict in Africa.” Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (2004), pp. 221-240.e
2020: Co-Winner: Amanda Edgell
“Crowing Hens or Party Pawns? The Causes and Consequences of Gender Quotas in Authoritarian Regimes”
2020 Co-Winner: Beth Wellman
“Citizenship Beyond Borders: The Politics of Emigrant Enfranchisement in Africa”
2018: Modupe Oshikoya
Exploring the Impact of Insurgencies on Gender-Based Violence and the Nigerian Armed Forces: The Boko Haram Case (UMass Boston)
Honorable Mention: Fiona Shen-Bayh
Autocratic Courts in Africa (University of California, Berkeley)
2017: Sobukwe Odinga
Looking For Leverage: Hard Bargaining and US-Africa Security Partnerships (CUNY)
Honorable Mention: Charlie Taylor
Ethnic Politics and Campaign Strategies in Contemporary Africa: Evidence from Kenya and Ghana (University of Wisconsin)
2014: Jeffery Paller
African Slums: Constructing Democracy in Unlikely Places (University of Wisconsin)
Honorable Mention: Mai Hassan
The Kenyan State after Multiparty Elections (Harvard University)
2013: Matthew I. Mitchell
Rethinking the Migration-Conflict Nexus: Insights from the Cocoa Regions in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana (Queen's University)
2012: Janet Lewis
How Rebellion Begins: Insurgent Group Formation and Viability in Uganda (Harvard University)
2011: Jaimie Bleck
Schooling Citizens: Education, Citizenship, and Democracy in Mali (Cornell University)
2010: Jenifer Brass
Surrogates for Government? NGOs and the State in Kenya (University of California, Berkeley)
2020: Nicolai Schulz
“The Politics of Export Restrictions: A panel data analysis of African commodity processing industries”
Honorable Mention: Rachael McLellan ()
“The Politics of Local Control in Electoral Autocracies”
2018: Justine M. Davis
“Wartime Experiences of Civil Leaders: Legacies of Civil War in Cote D'Ivoire"
2017: Sarah Brierley
“Unprincipled Principals: Co-opted Bureaucrats and Corruption in Local Governments in Ghana."
2013: Milli Lake
“Organized Hypocrisy: External Actors and Building the Rule of Law in Fragile States”
2012: Amanda Robinson
Amanda Robinson, “Nationalism and Inter-Ethnic Trust: Evidence from an African Border Region”
2011: Robin Harding
“One for the Road: Voting for Public Goods in Ghana”
2010: Peace Medie
“Theorizing Policy Implementation: Enforcing Gender-Based Violence Laws in Post-Conflict Liberia.”
2009: Kim Yi Dionne
“Local Demand for a Global Intervention: Policy Priorities in the Time of AIDS”
The African Politics Conference Group (APCG) brings together scholars from around the world whose research and professional interests center largely or in part on the study of politics in Africa.
