Governance Uncovered: Local Politics and Development

Governance Uncovered: Local Politics and Development

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  • Kevin Prine: Outreach International and Community-led Development
    Episode 16: This month, we talk to Kevin Prine who is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Outreach International. Outreach International is a charity that eliminates extreme poverty by creating leaders who transform their communities, a process they call Participatory Human Development. Kevin tells us about the organization and their approach to working with development. He discusses the struggles they meet in the field and explains his vision for the charity's work. Kevin Prine has a background working as a professor for twenty years at Graceland Univerity, Iowa, in new venture creation and business strategy. Before leading Outreach, He worked as a senior executive at Tradebot Systems. Kevin has been working at Outreach International since 2012.

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    37 min
  • Brian Leung Kai Ping: The Student Protests in Hong Kong
    Episode 15: This month we talk to Brian Leung Kai-Ping, a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Washington. You might also recognize Brian as the brave student activist who removed his mask during the storming of the Hong Kong Legislative Council Complex in July 2019. Brian talks about political mobilization, urban geography and what role it played in the student protests in Hong Kong. We get to hear about his thoughts on and experiences of being at the frontline during the Hong Kong student protest movement. We release this episode in a time of new protests due to the new Hong Kong security law.

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    40 min
  • John-Paul Adjadeh: Local Politics and Chieftaincy Disputes in Ghana
    This month, we welcome a guest from the Ghana Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, John-Paul Adjadeh. He discusses local politics and the resolution of chieftaincy disputes in Ghana with our director, Professor Ellen Lust. John-Paul Adjadeh graduated from the University of Ghana in 2018 with an MPhil in Public Administration. His research work focused on the interface between traditional authorities (chiefs), governance, and public accountability in Ghana. He is currently a Registrar at the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs under the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs in Ghana. John-Paul has over 7 years of experience working with various Chieftaincy organizations in Ghana under the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs. His primary areas of interest are traditional authorities and development.Picture: Ashanti chief, Kumasi, Ghana

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    50 min
  • Peter Esaiasson: Identity Issues in European Diverse and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
    Episode 13: This month we talk to Professor Peter Esaiasson (University of Gothenburg) about his latest research that looks at social identity in diverse and disadvantaged neighborhoods in Sweden. His research tries to understand whether identification with the neighborhood (local identity) and the nation state (national identity) generates pro-social attitudes among residents. The study by Esaiasson and Sohlberg has been recently published as a GLD working paper called “Caulking the Social Fabric: How National and Local Identities Promote Pro-Social Attitudes in European Diverse and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods” and can be found via the link below. This month's podcast is part of a special series on migration. Peter Esaiasson is a Professor in Social Science at the University of Gothenburg. His main research interest is in practical democratic politics dealing with questions such as "What makes democracy work, and how can we make it work even better?". In his latest study, Esaiasson and Sohlberg investigates factors promoting local and national pro-social attitudes among residents in diverse and disadvantaged neighborhoods in Sweden. They explore the idea that identification with the neighborhood (local identity) and the nation state (national identity) generates pro-social attitudes among residents. Findings from an original panel survey with large samples of residents in two Swedish immigrant concentration neighborhoods suggest that superordinate identities function as expected, with different superordinate identities working as complementary means to generate pro-social attitudes.

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    31 min
  • Claire Adida: What Affects Host Communities Acceptance of Migrants?

    Episode 12: This month's podcast is part of a special series on migration. This episode features Claire Adida (University of California, San Diego) and her research surrounding mass migration, and its subsequent discourse, and how it affects host communities around the world. Claire Adida uses quantitative methods to study how countries manage new and existing forms of diversity. She has applied this question to the study of immigrant exclusion and ethnic politics in urban West Africa, France, and the United States. Her current research investigates the conditions that reduce out-group discrimination, and the strategies vulnerable minorities employ to navigate discriminatory environments. Her work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Hellman Foundation, and the Evidence in Governance and Politics Group.

    Selected Work: Adida, Claire L. 2014. Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa; Coethnic Strangers. Cambridge University Press. Adida, Claire L., Laitin, David D., Valfort, Marie-Anne 2016. Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritatge Societies. Harvard University Press.

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    32 min
  • Salma Mousa: Can Soccer Help Bridge Religious Divides?
    Episode 11: This month we talk to Salma Mousa (PhD candidate, Stanford University) about her latest research which looks at the relationship between Christians and Muslims in postwar societies. Her research tries to understand if tolerance and prejudice can be changed through interaction between these groups. The study has been recently published as a GLD working paper called “Creating Coexistence: Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq” and can be found via the link below. This month's podcast is part of a special series on migration. Salma Mousa is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in Political Science at Stanford University. A scholar of comparative politics, her research focuses on migration, conflict, and social cohesion. Salma's three-paper dissertation investigates strategies for building trust and tolerance after war. Leveraging field experiments among Iraqis displaced by ISIS, Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and Palestinians in Israel, she shows how social contact can change real-world behaviors — even if underlying prejudice remains unchanged. She argues that war hardens political attitudes and beliefs about the outgroup. Nevertheless, contact can restore everyday coexistence after violence. Related studies of different forms of contact in other settings, like American classrooms and British soccer clubs, similarly conclude that prejudicial behaviors may be easier to shift than attitudes.

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    26 min
  • Mine Eder: Is Turkey Losing the Integration Battle?
    Episode 10: In this month's Governance Uncovered podcast we are joined by Mine Eder (Professor of Political Science, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) who discusses how migration in Turkey, specifically the influx of around 3.8 million Syrian refugees, has affected the country’s social and political landscape. Ideas about how the country is trying - and often failing - to integrate these new residents are also addressed. This month's podcast is part of a special series on migration. Mine Eder is a Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. She received a Fulbright to pursue graduate degree at the University of Virginia where she received her MA and PhD in Politics. She also taught at Lewis and Clark College and was a visiting professor at Yale and George Washington University. She specialized on comparative political economy of development and published widely on various aspects of Turkey’s political economy ranging from regional cooperation, welfare provision, poverty and informality, problems of developmentalism, populism as well as Turkey-EU relations. Since 2006, her research interests shifted to include an exploration of interstices of migration and urban transformation in Istanbul; domestic female migrant workers, shuttle traders, displacement and gentrification in Istanbul's neighborhoods as well as local governance. Selected Work: Öz, Özlem and Eder, Mine (2018). ‘Problem Spaces’ and Struggles Over the Right to the City: Challenges of Living Differentially in a Gentrifying Istanbul Neighborhood,’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42.6:1030-1047. Chosen as IJJUR’s best article in 2018.

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    38 min
  • Jennifer Murtazashvili: Decentralization and Reforms in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan
    Episode 9: In this month's episode Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh) and GLD Director, Ellen Lust, discusses national level reforms and decentralization in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Jennifer Murtazashvili is the Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research explores questions of governance, political economy, security, and development. Drawing from diverse research methods including field experiments, public opinion surveys, and ethnographic fieldwork, Murtazashvili focuses her work on Central and South Asia, and the former Soviet Union. She also has experience advising for the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations Development Program, and UNICEF.Selected Work:Jochem, T., Murtazashvili, I., & Murtazashvili, J. (2016). Establishing local government in fragile states: Experimental evidence from Afghanistan. World Development, 77, 293-310. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X15002065

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    32 min
  • Geoffrey Hughes: Tribes without Sheikhs?
    Episode 8: In this episode Geoffrey Hughes (University of Exeter) talks about his work in the recent GLD working paper "Tribes without Sheikhs? Technological Change, Media Liberalization, and Authority in Networked Jordan." The discussion centres on the changing nature of authority due to the rapidly evolving media sector. Geoffrey Hughes is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter. His research and teaching focus on the politics of everyday life in the contemporary Middle East, with an emphasis on kinship, gender, Islam, and the state. He has spent over four years living and working in the region, including over two years conducting long-term ethnographic research in Jordan. He has published extensively on how people living in the Middle East work to re-imagine a range of globally circulating technologies for large-scale population management, from Facebook-mediated blood feuds to the information infrastructures of government Sharia Courts.

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    38 min
  • Boniface Dulani: Traditional Leadership and Authorities in Malawi

    Episode 7: In this special edition of the GLD podcast Boniface Dulani (Chancellor College, University of Malawi) discusses traditional leadership and authority in Malawi and the impact these structures have on the country's political system at both the local and national level. The podcast was recorded live in Malawi during a field visit as part of our ongoing SSA project. Boniface holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Political Science from Michigan State University in the United States (2011). Dr. Dulani brings to IPOR a rich experience in conducting survey research in Africa through his involvement as a senior member of the Afrobarometer- a pan- Africanist research network that undertakes a series of public opinion surveys on governance, democracy, markets, livelihoods and other related topics in over 35 African countries. His areas of research interest include governance and democracy, presidential politics, politics of development, rural development, civil society and other related topics. Dr. Dulani is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science of at Chancellor College of the University of Malawi and also serves as the Fieldwork Operations Manager for Southern and Francophone Africa in the Afrobarometer.

    Selected Work: Muriaas, R. L., Wang, V., Benstead, L., Dulani, B., & Rakner, L. (2019). Why the gender of traditional authorities matters: Intersectionality and women’s rights advocacy in Malawi. Comparative Political Studies, 52(12), 1881-1924.

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    47 min

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