Tutorial Fellow
Development
Studies Institute
London School of Economics
| Elliott D. Green
Tutorial Fellow
Development
Studies Institute London School of Economics |
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Contact
Details:
Development Studies Institute London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE United Kingdom 020-7955-6359 (office) 020-7955-6844 (fax) |
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Research and Teaching Interests:
Primary: Ethnic Politics; Ethnic Conflict;
Decentralisation; Land Reform; Politics in (East) Africa, particularly Uganda
Secondary: Theories of Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism; Federalism;
Patronage and Clientelism; Political Demography
Education:
2005 PhD, London School of Economics
2000 MSc, London School of Economics
1998 BA, Princeton University
Publications:
1) Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Patronage, District Creation and Reform in Uganda; Studies in Comparative International Development 45 (2010): forthcoming. Prepublication version available here.
Ethnicity and Nationhood in Pre-Colonial Africa: The Case of Buganda; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 16, 1 (January, 2010): forthcoming. Prepublication version available here.
Decentralization and Conflict in Uganda; Conflict, Security and Development 8, 4 (December, 2008): 427-450. Special Issue on Decentralization and Conflict, edited by Graham K. Brown and Frances Stewart. Prepublication version available here.
Understanding the Limits to Ethnic Change: Evidence from Uganda's Lost Counties; Perspectives on Politics 6, 3 (September, 2008): 473-485.
Demography, Diversity and Nativism in Contemporary Africa: Evidence from Uganda; Nations and Nationalism 13, 4 (October, 2007): 717- 736.
Ethnicity and the Politics of Land Tenure Reform in Central Uganda; Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 44, 3 (November, 2006): 370-388.
Patronage as Institutional Choice: Evidence from Rwanda and Uganda; under review.
The Political Demography of Conflict in Modern Africa; under review.
2) Editor-Reviewed Publications (Book Chapters, Debates, Comments, etc.)
Demographic Change and Conflict in Contemporary Africa, in Political Demography: Identity, Conflict and Institutions, edited by Jack A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufman and Monica Duffy Toft (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010).
Debate on David Laitin's Nations, States and Violence; Nations and Nationalism 15, 4 (October, 2009): 557-574 (with Michael Banton, Montserrat Guibernau and David Laitin).
3) Working and Conference Papers
District Creation and Decentralization in Uganda; Crisis States Research Centre Working Paper No. 24, LSE, January 2008 (see below under Unpublished Papers for a more recent version of this paper).
Ethnicity and the Politics of Land Tenure Reform in Central Uganda; DESTIN Working Paper No. 58, LSE, April 2005.
What is an Ethnic Group? Political Economy, Constructivism and the Common Language Approach to Ethnicity; DESTIN Working Paper No. 57, LSE, February 2005.
The (Mis) Use of Ethnicity in Contemporary Political Economy Literature; Paper prepared for UNU WIDER conference on Making Peace Work, Helsinki, June 2004.
4) Book Reviews
Review of Sanford Schram and Brian Caterino (eds.), Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research and Methods (New York University Press, 2006); Public Administration and Development 28, 3 (2008).
Review of Paul Richards (ed.), No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflict (James Currey, 2005); Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13, 3 (2007).
Review of Daniel Posner, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Nations and Nationalism 13, 1 (2007).
Joint Review of G. McCann and S. McCloskey, From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies (Pluto, 2003) and A. Kohli, C. Moon and G. Sorensen, States, Markets and Just Growth: Development in the Twentieth Century (United Nations University Press, 2003); Millennium: Journal of International Studies 34, 2 (2006).
Review of Tatah Mentan, Dilemmas of Weak States: Africa and Transnational Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century (Ashgate, 2004); Political Studies Review 3, 3 (2005).
Review of African Development Bank, African Development Report: Africa in the Global Trading System (Oxford University Press, 2004); Political Studies Review 3, 3 (2005).
Review of United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World (UNDP, 2004); Journal of Development Studies 41, 5 (2005).
Review of Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Arrow, 2003); Nations and Nationalism 11, 1 (2005).
5) Other
World Development: Distance Learning Course for Development Studies (with Dr. Tim Forsyth and Dr. Jon Lunn), University of London (2006).
Letter to the Editor, The Guardian, 16 February 2008.
Rwanda: An Exchange (with Everard O'Donnell and Stephen Kinzer), New York Review of Books (Vol. 54, No. 9), 31 May 2007.
Letter to the Editor, London Review of Books (Vol. 29, No. 8), 26 April 2007.
Letter to the Editor, The Guardian, 22 July 2006.
Letter to the Editor, The Guardian, 24 April 2006.
Letter to the Editor, The Guardian, 7 November 2005.
Letter to the Editor, The Daily Telegraph, 4 June 2005.
Letter to the Editor, The Guardian, 4 June 2005.
Letter to the Editor, Guardian Education Weekly, 19 April 2005.
Letter to the Editor, The Guardian, 30 August 2004.
Saddam and Amin: Lessons Unlearned, Nthposition, March 2004.
Letter to the Editor, Salon.com, 6 September 2001.
Unpublished Papers and Works in Progress:
Ethnic Diversity and the State in Modern Africa (work in progress).
The Political Economy of Nation Formation in Modern Tanzania (presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association; Toronto, September 2009).
The Political Demography of Conflict in Modern Africa (mimeo, July 2009).
Demographic Change and Conflict in Contemporary Africa (presented at Conference on Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change; Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, May 2009).
Patronage as Institutional Choice: Evidence from Rwanda and Uganda (mimeo, May 2009).
District Creation and Decentralization in Uganda (presented at conference on Economic Development in Africa, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, March 2008): updated version of Crisis States Research Centre Working Paper listed above.
The Strange Fate of Nationalism in Tropical Africa (presented at DESTIN Research Seminar, May 2007).
Nationalism and Golden Ages in Post-Colonial Africa (presented at Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism Conference, London, March 2006).
Redefining Ethnicity (presented at International Studies Association Conference, San Diego, March 2006).
Nationalism, Taxation and Development: A Schumpeterian Model (presented at DESTIN Research Seminar, February 2006).
On the Endogeneity of Ethnic Secessionist Groups (presented at First Global International Studies Conference, Istanbul, August 2005).