Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Elischer

GIGA Institute of African Affairs
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20234 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-718
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-511

Email:

Phone Leuphana University: +49 (0)4131 - 6772459

Biographical data:

• Education: Bachelor in International Relations at the University of Wales/Aberystwyth. Master in International Relations, Free University Berlin. Master in International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington DC. Currently enrolled as PhD student at the Jacobs University Bremen.
• Professional career:

• PhD topic: Political Parties in Kenya, Ghana and Namibia
• Member of GIGA Research Programme 1 and GIGA Research Programme 4

Teaching:

• Advanced seminar: Comparative Regionalism, Leuphana Universität, Zentrum für Demokratieforschung, winter term 2012/2013
• Advanced seminar: The comparative method in political science, Leuphana Universität, Zentrum für Demokratieforschung, winter term 2012/2013
• Lecture: Einführung in die Internationalen Beziehungen, Leuphana Universität, Zentrum für Demokratieforschung, WiSe 2010/2011
• Lecture: Waterfront Megacities: Lagos, Jacobs University Bremen, winter term 2009
• Lecturer at the 2007 Summer Academy Bremen: Introduction to International relations.

Current research:

• Political Parties and Party Systems.
• Democratisation
• Hybrid Regimes

Third-party funded projects:

• Konferenz: Bringing history back in: institutional legacies, critical junctures and political regime development in Africa, 22-27 February 2011 (Programme Point Sud)
• Causes of hybrid regimes in sub-Saharan Africa – a systematic comparison

Publications:

• 2012 (with Gero Erdmann): Südafrika: Historische Lasten, in: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (ed.), DGAP Jahrbuch 2012, München: Oldenbourg Verlag (forthcoming)

• 2012: Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation, in: United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (fothcoming)

• 2012: Legitimität von Wahlen in der Transformation, in: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 3, 22, 340-349

• 2012: Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology in Nonindustrialized Societies: Taking Party Manifesto Research to Africa, in: Democratization, 19, 4, 642-667

• 2012 (with Alexander Stroh and Gero Erdmann): Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective, GIGA Working Paper No 197, June 2012, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2012 (with Gero Erdmann): Regionalorganisationen in Afrika – eine Bilanz, GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 3/2012, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)

• 2012 (with Matthias Basedau): Return to the Barracks? Authoritarian Rule and the Military in Sub-Saharan Africa , in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (special edition)

• 2011 (with Gero Erdmann and Alexander Stroh): Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Political Regime Development in Africa?, GIGA Working Paper No 166, May 2011, Hamburg (abstract & full article)

• 2010: Kamerun: Das greise Regime Biya vor dem Ende, GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 9/2010, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)

• 2010: Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology in Nonindustrialized Societies: Taking Party Manifesto Research to Africa, GIGA Working Paper No 139, June 2010, Hamburg (abstract & full article)

• 2010: Political Parties, Elections and Ethnicity in Kenya, in: Daniel Branch and Nicholas Cheeseman (eds.), Our Time to Eat: Kenyan Politics since 1960, Berlin: LIT

• 2009: Afrikas Neues Vorbild? Ghana auf dem Weg der demokratischen Konsolidierung. GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 1/2009, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)

• 2009: West Africa Between 1815 and 1945. World History Encyclopedia. USA: ABC-CLIO

• 2008: “Do African Parties Contribute to Democracy? Some Findings from Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria”, Afrika Spectrum, 43, 2

• 2008: Ethnic Coalitions of Convenience and Commitment: Political Parties and Party Systems in Kenya, GIGA Working Paper, No.68, September 2008, Hamburg (abstract & Volltext)

Lectures (selection):

• "The rise of Izala Islam in Niger", Islam in Africa: Emerging Trends and Policy Implications, Center for International Strategic Studies/George Mason University, Washington, DC, 25 March 2013

• "Contingent Democrats in Action: Organized Labor and Regime Change in Niger", African Studies Association Annual Meeting, African Studies Association, Philadelphia, 28 November 2012

• "Regional Integration in sub-Saharan Africa:Different Degrees and their Causes", GIZ workshop Afrika Regional, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn, 18 September 2012

• "Trajectoires institutionnelles, jonctions critiques et évolution des régimes politiques en Afrique" (with Alexander Stroh), Conférence-débat à l'Université de Bamako, Faculté des Sciences Juridique et Politique (FSJP), Bamako, 23 February 2011

• "Can istorical Institutionalism be Applied to Africa?" (with Alexander Stroh), African Studies Association Annual Meeting 2010, African Studies Association, San Francisco, 19 November 2010

• "Towards the 7th Republic: Niger's Bumpy Road Ahead", Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, 17 November 2010

• "Regional Powers and State Order in Africa: Towards a Systematic Analysis", Standing Group of International Relations of the ECPR, University of Stockholm, 13 September 2010

• "It's not the economy stupid! On the causes of the formation of ethnic parties", Democratization in Africa: Retrospective and Future Prospects, University of Leeds, Leeds, 4 December 2009

• "Westafrika als Beispiel einer demokratischen und wirtschaftlichen Stabilisierung?", Seminar Haus Rissen, Haus Rissen, Hamburg, 6 September 2009

• “Measuring and Comparing Political Ideology in Africa”. United States African Studies Association, Chicago, 13-16 November 2008

• “Classifying African Political Parties. Preliminary Evidence from Kenya, Ghana and Namibia”. UK African Studies Association, Preston, 11-13 September 2008

• “Moving Beyond Procedural Definitions: Political Society and Regime Dynamics in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria”. VAD Konferenz, Freiburg, 13-17 May 2008

Media articles:

• After Niger Comes Mali
  Article (Foreign Affairs, 14 February 2013)