Current Research
- 1. Paths from Personalist Rule: Institutional Transformation in Contemporary Africa, book project.
- 2. Political Settlements and Revenue Bargains in Africa (David Bakibinga, Anne Mette Kjaer, et al).
- 3. Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa (with Christopher Day), edited book project under contract.
- 4. Africa’s New Global Politics: Regional Internationalism in Deeply Plural World (with Kiki Rita Edozie), book project under contract.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- “Reconceptualizing Civil-Military Relations in Africa” (with Christopher Day), forthcoming, Civil Wars.
- “Politicization and Professionalization: The Progress and Perils of Civil-Military Transformation in Museveni’s Uganda,” Civil Wars, advance online release.
- “Whose Africa is Rising?” Review of African Political Economy, Vol 46, No.160 (2019): 304-316.
- “Shrinking Democratic Space? Crisis of Consensus and Contentious Politics in Uganda,” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol 57, No.3 (2019): 343-362.
- “Politics of Exclusion and Institutional Transformation in Ethiopia,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2019): 542-557.
- “Managing Elite Defection in Museveni’s Uganda: The 2016 Elections in Perspective,” the Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 10, No. 4 (2016): 729-748.
- “Political Uncertainty and Its Impact on Service Delivery in Uganda,” Africa Development, Vol. 40, No.2 (2015):159-188.
- “Challenges to Policy Implementation in Uganda: Reflections on Politics and the State,” The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, (2014): 35-51
- “The Making of the Informal State in Uganda,” Africa Development, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2013): 191-226
Peer reviewed book chapters
- “Inclusive Cooptation and Political Corruption in Uganda,” in Amundsen, I. ed., 2019. Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham/UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- “Political Corruption and the Limits of Anti-Corruption Activism in Ghana,” in Amundsen, I. ed., 2019. Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham/UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- “Beyond Electoral Reforms in Understanding Opposition Under-Performance in Uganda,” (with Sebastiano Rwengabo), in Oloka-Onyango, J. and Ahikire J., ed. (2017) Controlling Consent: The 2016 Elections in Uganda. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.