Does religion influence political participation? This book takes up this pressing debate using
Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa as its empirical base to demonstrate that religious …

Despite the introduction of social restrictions designed to stem the spread of COVID-19,
many Indonesians have continued to attend places of worship. This poses a major public …

In this article we explore how certain religious messages may spur or constrain political
participation. Specifically, we test whether religious messages that provide individuals a …

Abstract Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Africa is quickly becoming a centerpiece
of China's approach to promoting development overseas. To this point, however, little is …

This study examines the relationship between religion and political activity. It theorises
religious influences on political activity and tests the impact of various religious factors on …

Despite rapid urbanization across the Global South, identity politics within rural‐urban
migrant communities remains understudied. Past scholarship is divided over whether village …

Experiments are now common in political science. They are an excellent methodological
tool to estimate the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome. In this article, I review the use …

Social scientists in general and conflict researchers in particular increasingly combine
multiple datasets to study ethnic politics and conflict in Africa. We facilitate these efforts by …

This paper documents interethnic and interfaith marriage patterns to better understand
which identity-related cleavages matter in sub-Saharan Africa. Using Demographic and …

What determines support for separatist movements in Africa? The past two decades have
seen a rise in separatism across Africa, including renewed Nigeria's Igbo Biafran …