Articles & Chapters

“The social embeddedness of elections: Ghana’s 2016 and 2020 election campaigns.” OnlineFirst in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. With George Bob-Milliar.

“Demanding recognition: a new Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism.” 2023 in African Affairs. With Kathleen Klaus and Martha Wilfahrt.

“Urbanization and political change in Africa.” OnlineFirst in African Affairs. With Kristian Hoelscher, Nick Dorward, Sean Fox, Taibat Lawanson, and Melanie Phillips.

“Sustainability Politics and Housing Development in Urban Brazil and Ghana.” OnlineFirst in International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. With Maureen M. Donaghy.

“The NBA’s Partnership with Rwanda.” With Michael M. Goldman. Chapter 25 in The Geopolitical Economy of Sport, edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, and Michael M. Goldman.

“Practical reflections on conducting survey research in cities in low and middle-income countries.”ODI Working Paper Series. With Felix Agyemang, Saeed Ahmed, Sean Fox, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Hussain Bux Mallah, Rashid Memon, and Levi John Wolf.

“Everyday politics and sustainable urban development in the Global South.” FirstView in Area Development and Policy.

“Population and Urbanization.” Chapter 7 in Understanding Contemporary Africa, edited by Peter Schraeder.

“Dignified public expression: A new logic of political accountability.” October 2019 in Comparative Politics.

“Building permanence: Fire outbreaks and emergent tenure security in urban Ghana.” August 2019 in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute.

“Ethnographies of Emergence: Everyday Politics and their Origins across Africa Special Section Introduction." August 2019 in Africa: International African Institute. With Joshua Rubin and Susanna Fioratta.

“Slum Politics in Africa.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics. With Jacqueline Klopp.

“Democratic Ruptures and Electoral Outcomes in Africa: Ghana’s 2016 Election.” 2018 in Africa Spectrum. With George Bob-Milliar.

“Defending the city, defending votes: Campaign strategies in urban Ghana.” December 2017 in Journal of Modern African Studies. With Kathleen Klaus.

“From Urban Crisis to Political Opportunity: African Slums.” 2017 in Africa Under Neoliberalism edited by Nana Poku and Jim Whitman, Routledge Series on Contemporary African Politics.

“The Contentious Politics of African Urbanization.” Current History. May 2017.

“Informal Practices of Accountability in Urban Africa.” June 2016 in Oxford Bibliographies.

“Informal Networks and Access to Power to Obtain Housing in Urban Slums in Ghana.” Fall 2015 in Africa Today.

“Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban Ghana.” December 2014 in African Studies Review.

“Political Struggle to Political Sting: A Theory of Democratic Disillusionment.” October 2013 in Polity.