Jeffrey Paller
Researcher at Department of Government; Faculty
- E-mail:
- jeffrey.paller@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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- 0000-0001-6983-065X
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Short presentation
I use ethnography, focus groups, and surveys to examine the political conditions under which democratic activity and accountability develop in urban communities, specifically in Africa.
Keywords
- accountability
- african politics
- cities
- democracy
- sustainability
Biography
I am a Researcher in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Associate Professor of Politics at University of San Francisco, and a research associate with the Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD) at the University of Gothenburg. In 2022-23, I was a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.
I am the PI for the “Building Sustainable Neighborhoods in African Cities” project (Formas 2024-26), as well as co-leader for “Emerging Cities”, a Swedish Research Council-funded research environment that examines political change and local governance in secondary cities (2023-27). I am a Co-I on the “Political Transformation in African Cities (PACE)” project supported by the Research Council of Norway (2021-24).
My research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, University of Wisconsin, and USF. I was a Research Associate at the Center for Democratic Development in Ghana in 2012. I received my PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of political science in 2014. During the academic year 2014-15, I was a Visiting Lecturer of Politics at Bates College. In 2016, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, working with the Center for Sustainable Urban Development. I curate the weekly news bulletin This Week in Africa.
Publications
Recent publications
- The social embeddedness of elections: Ghana’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns (2023)
- Sustainability Politics and Housing Development in Urban Brazil and Ghana (2023)
- Urbanization and political change in Africa (2023)
- Demanding Recognition (2023)
- Everyday politics and sustainable urban development in the Global South (2020)
All publications
Articles
- The social embeddedness of elections: Ghana’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns (2023)
- Sustainability Politics and Housing Development in Urban Brazil and Ghana (2023)
- Urbanization and political change in Africa (2023)
- Demanding Recognition (2023)
- Everyday politics and sustainable urban development in the Global South (2020)
- Building permanence: fire outbreaks and emergent tenure security in urban Ghana (2019)
- Dignified Public Expression: A New Logic of Political Accountability (2019)
- Ethnographies of emergence: everyday politics and their origins across Africa Introduction (2019)
- Democratic Ruptures and Electoral Outcomes in Africa: Ghana's 2016 Election (2018)
- Defending the city, defending votes: campaign strategies in urban Ghana (2017)
- Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban Ghana (2014)
- Political Struggle to Political Sting: A Theory of Democratic Disillusionment (2013)