Works in Progress




The Political Logic of Cultural Revival: Ethnic Visibility, Linked Fate, and Electoral Politics in Africa


Amanda Lea Robinson

Studies in African Politics and International Relations, Oxford University Press


Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi


Amanda Clayton, Boniface Dulani, Katrina Kosec, Amanda Lea Robinson

2024


Can Americans Depolarize? Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization


Hannah Baron, Robert A. Blair, Donghyun Danny Choi, Laura Gamboa, Jessica Gottlieb, Amanda Lea Robinson, Steven C. Rosenzweig, Megan M. Turnbull, Emily A. West

2023


Urbanization and Ethnic Attachment in Kenya: The Enduring Effects of Urban-Rural Connections


Soh Hyeon Kim, Rachel Beatty Riedl, Amanda Lea Robinson

2022


Publications


Inventing Traditional Authority: Lhomwe Chiefs in Malawi.


Amanda Lea Robinson

Journal of Modern African Studies, 2024, pp. 1-27


Ethnic Visibility


Amanda Lea Robinson

American Journal of Political Science, 2023


Why (Some) Immigrants Resist Assimilation: US Racism and the African Immigrant Experience


Claire L. Adida, Amanda Lea Robinson

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 18(3), 2023, pp. 295-338


Triggers of Escalations in Violence Against Civilians by Non-State Actors in Africa


Hollie Nyseth Brehm, Amanda Lea Robinson, Mini Saraswati

Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 35(3), 2023, pp. 658-676


Deeper Decentralization, Fewer Women? Decentralization and Women’s Candidacies for Local Office in Benin and Malawi


Amanda Clayton, Martha Johnson, Ragnhild Muriaas, Amanda Lea Robinson

Leonardo Arriola, Martha Johnson, Melanie Phillips, Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 85-116


How to Close the Gender Gap in Political Participation: Lessons from Matrilineal Societies in Africa


Amanda Lea Robinson, Jessica Gottlieb

British Journal of Political Science, vol. 51(1), 2021, pp. 68-92


(How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence from Malawi


Amanda Clayton, Amanda Lea Robinson, Martha Johnson, Ragnhild Muriaas

Comparative Political Studies, vol. 53(3-4), 2020, pp. 601-630


Ethnic Diversity, Segregation, and Interethnic Trust in Africa


Amanda Lea Robinson

British Journal of Political Science, vol. 50(1), 2020, pp. 217-239


Coethnicity and Corruption: Field Experimental Evidence from Public Officials in Malawi


Brigitte Seim, Amanda Lea Robinson

Journal of Experimental Political Science, vol. 7(1), 2020, pp. 61–65


Ethnic Associations and Politics in Contemporary Malawi


Gift Kayira, Paul Banda, Amanda Lea Robinson

Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 13(4), 2019, pp. 718-738


Who is Targeted in Corruption? Disentangling the Effects of Wealth and Power on Exposure to Bribery


Amanda Lea Robinson, Brigitte Seim

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 13(3), 2018, pp. 313-331


Do Men and Women Have Different Policy Preferences in Africa? Determinants and Implications of Gender Gaps in Policy Prioritization


Jessica Gottlieb, Guy Grossman, Amanda Lea Robinson

British Journal of Political Science, vol. 48(3), 2018, pp. 611-636


Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Distributive Goods


Simon Ejdemyr, Eric Kramon, Amanda Lea Robinson

Comparative Political Studies, vol. 51(9), 2018, pp. 1111-1143


Nationalism and Social Sanctioning Across Ethnic Lines: Experimental Evidence from the Kenya- Tanzania Border


Sangick Jeon, Tim Johnson, Amanda Lea Robinson

Journal of Experimental Political Science, vol. 4(1), 2017, pp. 1-20


Nationalism and Ethnic-Based Trust: Experimental Evidence from an African Border Region


Amanda Lea Robinson

Comparative Political Studies, vol. 49(14), 2016, pp. 1819-1854


Internal Borders: Ethnic-Based Market Segmentation in Malawi


Amanda Lea Robinson

World Development, vol. 87, 2016, pp. 371-384


Who’s Asking? Interviewer Coethnicity Effects in African Survey Data


Claire L. Adida, Karen Ferree, Daniel Posner, Amanda Lea Robinson

Comparative Political Studies, vol. 49(12), 2016, pp. 1630-1660


Geographic Axes and the Persistence of Cultural Diversity


David D. Laitin, Joachim Moortgat, Amanda Lea Robinson

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109(26), 2012, pp. 10263-10268