The Perils and Promise of Contemporary African Politics: Insights from Research

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This page features compilations of links to data collections, authors, and journals for political science research on African politics.

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Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

Africa Research Institute Blog: .Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa.

African Affairs: .Published on behalf of the Royal African Society, the top ranked journal in African Studies, an inter-disciplinary journal with a focus on the politics and international relations of sub-Saharan Africa.

African J. of Political Science & Int'l Relations: .Research on politics and international relations especially those pertaining to Africa.

African Journal of Political Science: .Published by the African Association of Political Science with the aim of providing a platform for African perspectives on issues of politics, economy and society in Africa.

African Security: .Strives to investigate the myriad issues relating to conflict and security within and between African nations, not only from the more traditional approaches to security studies but also from more novel and innovative perspectives.

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African Politics Data Sites

Africa Information Highway: .Multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats.

African Dev. Bank Group Data Portal: .Access to information on lending projects from 1967 up to now, the dataset includes basic information such as the project title and ID, country, sector, task manager but also, financial information, results and linksD, country, sector, task manager to publicly disclosed documents.

Afrobarometer Data Collection: .An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa

Center for the Study of African Econ.: .Researching on the economic and social development in Africa since 1986, includes Free and Fair Elections Database

Climate Change & African Pol. Stability: .This program analyzes how climate change could impact African and international security, see data page

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Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter-Driven Accountability in Senegal*Abhit Bhandari, +2 more authors (2023 est.) AJPS, more info.