Dipl.-Sowi. Anika Moroff (née. Becher)

GIGA Institute of African Affairs
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-559
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-511

Email:

Biographical data:

• Born in 1980
• Education: French-German Double Degree in Social Sciences of the University of Stuttgart and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux
• Professional career:

• Member of GIGA Research Programme 2

Teaching:

• "Theories of democracy" at Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena

Current research:

• Comparative research on democracy, ethnic conflict, party systems in Africa

Third-party funded projects:

• "Managing ethnic conflict through institutional engineering: Ethnic Party Bans in Africa". Runtime (2006-2008)

Publications:

• 2010: Ethnic Party Bans in East Africa from a Comparative Perspective, GIGA Working Paper No 129, April 2010, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2008 (with Matthias Basedau): „Promoting Peace and Democracy through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa”, (Januar 2008). GIGA Working Paper No 66, January 2008 , Hamburg. (Abstract & full article)

• 2007: “Gesellschaftliche Konfliktlinien und politische Gewalt: Zum Verbot ethnischer Parteien im subsaharischen Afrika“, in Karsten Grabow and Patrick Köllner 2008 (Hrsg.) Parteien und ihre Wähler: Gesellschaftliche Konfliktlinien und Wählermobilisierung im internationalen Vergleich. Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, S. 83-102. 2007

• 2007: „Parteienverbote in Afrika ­ mehr Schein als Sein?“, GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 9/2007, Hamburg: GIGA (Full text )

Lectures:

• "Promoting Peace and Democracy through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa" (with Matthias Basedau), Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 02-05 April 2009, Chicago

• “Party regulation and political representation: the impact of ethnic party bans in Africa”, Meeting of Political Analysis on Africa for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the CEAN (1958-2008), Think Republic State, Government, Social Compass in Africa, 3-5 September 2008, Bordeaux

• "Promoting Peace and Democracy through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa”, paper prepared for the conference “Ethnic Party Bans in Africa”, Jacobs University Bremen, 19 September 2008

• “Party regulation in divided societies: Paper tiger or effective measure for a peaceful democracy?”, ECPR Graduate Conference, 25-27 August 2008, Barcelona

• „Gesellschaftliche Konfliktlinien und politische Gewalt: Zum Verbot ethnischer Parteien im subsaharischen Afrika“, paper presented at the GIGA/KAS conference „Parteien und ihre Wähler: Gesellschaftliche Konfliktlinien und Wählermobilisierung im internationalen Vergleich“, 22-23 May 2007, Berlin

• "The impact of party regulation. Recent evidence from Africa" (with Matthias Basedau), ECPR General Conference, September 6-8, 2007, Pisa