NASP and POLS PhD Program are glad to announce the

Seminar
Democracy in Africa: Elections, Term Limits and Political Change

Nicholas Cheeseman (Oxford University)

3rd November 2016, h. 14.30
Room A - NASP
Via Pace, 10
Milan

Chair: Giovanni Carbone (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Discussant: Andrea Cassani (Università degli Studi di Milano)

Nic Cheeseman ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) is Associate Professor of African Politics at Oxford University. He is the co-editor of the collections Our Turn to Eat (2010), The Handbook of African Politics (2013), and African Politics: Major Works (2016), as well as the co-author of the article "Rethinking the 'presidentialism debate': Conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective" (Democratization, 2014), which won the inaugural GIGA prize for the best article published in Comparative Area Studies. A monograph, Democracy in Africa: Successes, failures and the struggle for political reform was published by Cambridge University Press in April 2015, and an edited collection on African political institutions is set to be published by CUP in early 2017. Dr Cheeseman is also the founding editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics, a former editor of the journal African Affairs and an advisor to, and writer for, Kofi Annan's African Progress Panel.

This seminar is compulsory for POLS first year PhD students.