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Nic Cheeseman

April 12, 2024

Nic Cheeseman is a British political scientist and professor of democracy at the University of Birmingham, working on democracy, elections and African politics. He is also a columnist for the The Africa Report and South Africa's Mail & Guardian, and the editor of the website Democracy in Africa. A regular commentator in the media, he is sometimes referred to by his Twitter handle, @fromagehomme.[1]

Nic Cheeseman
Born
Nic Cheeseman
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Awards
  • Josiah Mason Award for Academic Advancement
  • Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a mid-career scholar, of the Political Science Association of the UK
  • Association ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding International Impact

Education and career edit

Cheeseman read politics, philosophy and economics at the University of Oxford, and then received an MPhil and DPhil in politics from the same university. He was elected as a Cox Fellow at New College, but left in 2006 to take up the position of associate professor of African politics at Jesus College, Oxford. He served as the director of Oxford's African Studies Centre, before moving to the University of Birmingham in January 2017 to become the professor of democracy and international development.[2] In 2022, he became the inaugural Director of the University's new centre of Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation.

CEDAR edit

He has held a number of visiting professorships, including at Sciences Po, the University of Cape Town, and the Australian National University.[3]

Cheeseman's work initially focused on African politics, including his 2015 monograph Democracy in Africa. He subsequently broadened his writing to look at democracy and elections globally, writing Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power, and How to Rig an Election with Brian Klaas.[4]

Further books followed, including Authoritarian Africa: Repression, Resistance and the Power of Ideas, with Jonathan Fisher in 2019, and The Moral Economy of Elections: Democracy, Voting, and Virtue, with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis in 2020. In 2022, Cheeseman established a research project on the history of African political thought. This included co-founding a research network for the study of ideas and ideologies in African politics – IDAP – that seeks to encourage collaborative research on this topic across borders and different generations of scholars.[5]

Cheeseman was co-editor of African Affairs between 2012 and 2016.[6] In 2016, he was appointed founding Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University Press's Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics now co-edits a book series on African Politics and International Relations for Oxford University Press.[7]

Between 2013 and 2017, Cheeseman wrote a bi-weekly column for Kenya’s Sunday Nation, covering topics such as elections, decentralization and corruption.[8] In 2017, however, he resigned from the newspaper, along with a number of colleagues, to protest against government censorship.[9] Since then he has written a regular column for the Africa Report, runs a collaboration with The Continent, the Pan-African Magazine, and regularly writes for South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper.[10] He also regularly writes for The Economist,[11] Le Monde,[12] Financial Times,[13] Newsweek,[14] the Washington Post,[15] New York Times,[16] and the BBC.[17]

In 2020, Cheeseman was part of a team that founded the Resistance Bureau, an international webinar that aims to promote freedom and resist repression. Its regular shows include activists, leaders and civil society representatives.[18] He also co-edits democracyinafrica.org, a website for academics, policymakers, practitioners and citizens on African politics.[19]

Awards and recognition edit

Cheeseman’s doctorate, The rise and fall of civil-authoritarianism in Africa: patronage, participation, and political parties in Kenya and Zambia,[20] was awarded the Arthur McDougall Dissertation Prize by the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom for the Best Dissertation on Elections, Electoral Systems or Representation in 2008.

In 2013, an article on “Rethinking the ‘presidentialism debate’: Conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective”, co-authored with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power, was awarded the CAS Award for the best article published in comparative area studies.[21]How to Rig an Election was selected as one of the books of the year in 2018 by both the Spectator[22] magazine and the Centre for Global Development.[23]

In 2019, Cheeseman won the Joni Lovenduski Prize of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom for outstanding professional achievement by a mid-career scholar.[24] In 2019, the research team that he leads was awarded the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding International Impact for its work on “Strengthening elections and accountability in new democracies”.

In 2022, Cheeseman was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for How to Rig an Election, and was awarded the Josiah Mason Award for Academic Advancement, the University of Birmingham.[25]

Cheeseman has also been appointed to a number of different positions with international institutions, including being a member of the Advisory Board of the European Democracy Hub:[26][27] and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Afrobarometer.[28]

Books edit

  • The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2020 (co-authored with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis].
  • The Handbook of Kenyan Politics, Oxford University Press, 2020 (co-edited with Karuti Kanyinga and Gabrielle Lynch).[29]
  • The Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics, Oxford University Press, 2018 (Editor in Chief).[30]
  • Authoritarian Africa, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 (with Jonathan Fisher).[31]
  • The Oxford Dictionary of African Politics, Oxford University Press, 2018 (with Eloïse Bertrand, and Sa’eed Husaini).[32]
  • Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2018 (with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power).[33]
  • Institutions and Democratization in Africa: How the rules of the game shape political developments, Cambridge University Press, 2018 (sole editor).[34]
  • The African Affairs Reader: Key texts in politics, development, and international relations, Oxford University Press, 2017 (co-edited collection with Carl Death and Lindsay Whitfield].[35]
  •  African Politics: Major Works, Routledge, 2016 (sole editor).[36]
  •  How to Rig An Election, Yale University Press, 2018 (with Brian Klaas).[37]
  • Democracy in Africa: Successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform, Cambridge University Press, 2015.[38]
  • Politics Meets Policies: The Emergence of Programmatic Parties, International IDEA, 2014 (with Herbet Kitschelt, Dan Paget, Yi-Ting Wang, Juan Pablo Luna, Fernando Rosenblatt and Sergio Toro].[39]
  • The Handbook of African Politics, Routledge, 2013 (co-edited with David Anderson and Andrea Scheibler].[40]
  • Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950, LIT Verlag, 2010 (co-edited with Daniel Branch and Leigh Gardner].[41]

References edit

  1. ^ "Nicholas Cheeseman". Kofi Annan Foundation. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  2. ^ "Professor Nic Cheeseman - International Development Department - University of Birmingham". www.birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  3. ^ "Sciences Po: OxPo". Sciences Po. Retrieved 2019-11-6.
  4. ^ "African Politics (4-vol. set)". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  5. ^ Morse, Yonatan L. (March 2021). "Authoritarian Africa: repression, resistance, and the power of ideas by Nic Cheeseman and Jonathan Fisher New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxxii + 144". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 59 (1): 126–128. doi:10.1017/S0022278X20000695. ISSN 0022-278X. S2CID 233863695.
  6. ^ "Editorial_Board". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  7. ^ "Dr Nic Cheeseman appointed the founding Editor in Chief of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics". www.politics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  8. ^ Goet, Niels. "50 events that shaped Kenya". OxPol. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  9. ^ "Eight columnists quit Kenya media giant citing 'meddling by gov't and management'". Africanews. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  10. ^ "About DiA | Democracy in Africa". Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  11. ^ "Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham". Invest Africa. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  12. ^ "Kenya braces for high-stakes, high-risk presidential election". Le Monde.fr. 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  13. ^ "Letter: Ethiopia needs a new model to heal its ancient divisions". Financial Times. 2021-12-23. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  14. ^ "How democracy looks different in Ghana". Newsweek. 2016-12-10. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  15. ^ "Opinion | It's time for international election monitors to start doing their job". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  16. ^ Walsh, Declan (2022-09-02). "In Kenyan Elections, the People Decide First. Then Come the Judges". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  17. ^ "Coups in Africa: Why they don't spell the end of democracy". BBC News. 2022-02-08. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  18. ^ "Episodes". The Resistance Bureau. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  19. ^ Africa, Democracy in (2020-07-02). "Introducing The Resistance Bureau! | Democracy in Africa". Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  20. ^ "The rise and fall of civil-authoritarianism in Africa : patronage, participation, and political parties in Kenya and Zambia". 2007. OCLC 124073047.
  21. ^ "CAS Award | GIGA". www.giga-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  22. ^ "Books of the year – part one". The Spectator. 2018-11-10. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  23. ^ "What We're Reading in Summer 2018". Center For Global Development. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  24. ^ "PSA Academic Prizes 2019 | The Political Studies Association (PSA)". PSA Academic Prizes 2019 | The Political Studies Association (PSA). Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  25. ^ "Professor Nic Cheeseman". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  26. ^ "Nic Cheeseman". European Democracy Hub. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  27. ^ Cheeseman, Nic; Lynch, Gabrielle; Willis, Justin (2021). The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa: Democracy, Voting and Virtue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-41723-5.
  28. ^ Cheeseman, Nic (2017-10-10). "Professor Nic Cheeseman joins OXFAM! | Democracy in Africa". Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  29. ^ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-kenyan-politics-9780192887429?cc=us&lang=en
  30. ^ "The Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  31. ^ "Authoritarian Africa". https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/authoritarian-africa-9780190279653. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  32. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of African Politics". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  33. ^ "Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  34. ^ "Institutions and Democratization in Africa". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  35. ^ "The African Affairs Reader". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  36. ^ "African Politics: Major Works". Routledge. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  37. ^ "How to Rig An Election". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  38. ^ "Democracy in Africa". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  39. ^ "Politics Meets Policies". International IDEA. Retrieved 2019-11-06
  40. ^ "The Handbook of African Politics". Routledge. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  41. ^ "Our Turn to Eat". Lit Verlag. Retrieved 2019-11-06.

External links edit

  • Official website  

April 12, 2024
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Nic Cheeseman is a British political scientist and professor of democracy at the University of Birmingham working on democracy elections and African politics He is also a columnist for the The Africa Report and South Africa s Mail amp Guardian and the editor of the website Democracy in Africa A regular commentator in the media he is sometimes referred to by his Twitter handle fromagehomme 1 Nic CheesemanBornNic CheesemanNationalityBritishAlma materUniversity of OxfordAwardsJosiah Mason Award for Academic AdvancementJoni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a mid career scholar of the Political Science Association of the UKAssociation ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding International Impact Contents 1 Education and career 1 1 CEDAR 2 Awards and recognition 3 Books 4 References 5 External linksEducation and career editCheeseman read politics philosophy and economics at the University of Oxford and then received an MPhil and DPhil in politics from the same university He was elected as a Cox Fellow at New College but left in 2006 to take up the position of associate professor of African politics at Jesus College Oxford He served as the director of Oxford s African Studies Centre before moving to the University of Birmingham in January 2017 to become the professor of democracy and international development 2 In 2022 he became the inaugural Director of the University s new centre of Elections Democracy Accountability and Representation CEDAR edit He has held a number of visiting professorships including at Sciences Po the University of Cape Town and the Australian National University 3 Cheeseman s work initially focused on African politics including his 2015 monograph Democracy in Africa He subsequently broadened his writing to look at democracy and elections globally writing Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power and How to Rig an Election with Brian Klaas 4 Further books followed including Authoritarian Africa Repression Resistance and the Power of Ideas with Jonathan Fisher in 2019 and The Moral Economy of Elections Democracy Voting and Virtue with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis in 2020 In 2022 Cheeseman established a research project on the history of African political thought This included co founding a research network for the study of ideas and ideologies in African politics IDAP that seeks to encourage collaborative research on this topic across borders and different generations of scholars 5 Cheeseman was co editor of African Affairs between 2012 and 2016 6 In 2016 he was appointed founding Editor in Chief of Oxford University Press s Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics now co edits a book series on African Politics and International Relations for Oxford University Press 7 Between 2013 and 2017 Cheeseman wrote a bi weekly column for Kenya s Sunday Nation covering topics such as elections decentralization and corruption 8 In 2017 however he resigned from the newspaper along with a number of colleagues to protest against government censorship 9 Since then he has written a regular column for the Africa Report runs a collaboration with The Continent the Pan African Magazine and regularly writes for South Africa s Mail amp Guardian newspaper 10 He also regularly writes for The Economist 11 Le Monde 12 Financial Times 13 Newsweek 14 the Washington Post 15 New York Times 16 and the BBC 17 In 2020 Cheeseman was part of a team that founded the Resistance Bureau an international webinar that aims to promote freedom and resist repression Its regular shows include activists leaders and civil society representatives 18 He also co edits democracyinafrica org a website for academics policymakers practitioners and citizens on African politics 19 Awards and recognition editCheeseman s doctorate The rise and fall of civil authoritarianism in Africa patronage participation and political parties in Kenya and Zambia 20 was awarded the Arthur McDougall Dissertation Prize by the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom for the Best Dissertation on Elections Electoral Systems or Representation in 2008 In 2013 an article on Rethinking the presidentialism debate Conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross regional perspective co authored with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power was awarded the CAS Award for the best article published in comparative area studies 21 How to Rig an Election was selected as one of the books of the year in 2018 by both the Spectator 22 magazine and the Centre for Global Development 23 In 2019 Cheeseman won the Joni Lovenduski Prize of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom for outstanding professional achievement by a mid career scholar 24 In 2019 the research team that he leads was awarded the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding International Impact for its work on Strengthening elections and accountability in new democracies In 2022 Cheeseman was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for How to Rig an Election and was awarded the Josiah Mason Award for Academic Advancement the University of Birmingham 25 Cheeseman has also been appointed to a number of different positions with international institutions including being a member of the Advisory Board of the European Democracy Hub 26 27 and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Afrobarometer 28 Books editThe Moral Economy of Elections in Africa Cambridge University Press 2020 co authored with Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis The Handbook of Kenyan Politics Oxford University Press 2020 co edited with Karuti Kanyinga and Gabrielle Lynch 29 The Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics Oxford University Press 2018 Editor in Chief 30 Authoritarian Africa Oxford Oxford University Press 2019 with Jonathan Fisher 31 The Oxford Dictionary of African Politics Oxford University Press 2018 with Eloise Bertrand and Sa eed Husaini 32 Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective Oxford University Press 2018 with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power 33 Institutions and Democratization in Africa How the rules of the game shape political developments Cambridge University Press 2018 sole editor 34 The African Affairs Reader Key texts in politics development and international relations Oxford University Press 2017 co edited collection with Carl Death and Lindsay Whitfield 35 African Politics Major Works Routledge 2016 sole editor 36 How to Rig An Election Yale University Press 2018 with Brian Klaas 37 Democracy in Africa Successes failures and the struggle for political reform Cambridge University Press 2015 38 Politics Meets Policies The Emergence of Programmatic Parties International IDEA 2014 with Herbet Kitschelt Dan Paget Yi Ting Wang Juan Pablo Luna Fernando Rosenblatt and Sergio Toro 39 The Handbook of African Politics Routledge 2013 co edited with David Anderson and Andrea Scheibler 40 Our Turn to Eat Politics in Kenya Since 1950 LIT Verlag 2010 co edited with Daniel Branch and Leigh Gardner 41 References edit Nicholas Cheeseman Kofi Annan Foundation Retrieved 2022 09 30 Professor Nic Cheeseman International Development Department University of Birmingham www birmingham ac uk Retrieved 2019 10 29 Sciences Po OxPo Sciences Po Retrieved 2019 11 6 African Politics 4 vol set Routledge amp CRC Press Retrieved 2024 02 22 Morse Yonatan L March 2021 Authoritarian Africa repression resistance and the power of ideas by Nic Cheeseman and Jonathan Fisher New York NY Oxford University Press 2020 Pp xxxii 144 The Journal of Modern African Studies 59 1 126 128 doi 10 1017 S0022278X20000695 ISSN 0022 278X S2CID 233863695 Editorial Board Oxford Academic Retrieved 2019 10 29 Dr Nic Cheeseman appointed the founding Editor in Chief of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics www politics ox ac uk Retrieved 16 July 2021 Goet Niels 50 events that shaped Kenya OxPol Retrieved 2019 10 29 Eight columnists quit Kenya media giant citing meddling by gov t and management Africanews 27 March 2018 Retrieved 16 July 2021 About DiA Democracy in Africa Retrieved 2019 10 29 Nic Cheeseman Professor of Democracy University of Birmingham Invest Africa Retrieved 2022 09 30 Kenya braces for high stakes high risk presidential election Le Monde fr 2022 08 08 Retrieved 2022 09 30 Letter Ethiopia needs a new model to heal its ancient divisions Financial Times 2021 12 23 Retrieved 2022 09 30 How democracy looks different in Ghana Newsweek 2016 12 10 Retrieved 2022 09 30 Opinion It s time for international election monitors to start doing their job Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved 2022 09 30 Walsh Declan 2022 09 02 In Kenyan Elections the People Decide First Then Come the Judges The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2022 09 30 Coups in Africa Why they don t spell the end of democracy BBC News 2022 02 08 Retrieved 2022 09 30 Episodes The Resistance Bureau Retrieved 2023 08 24 Africa Democracy in 2020 07 02 Introducing The Resistance Bureau Democracy in Africa Retrieved 2022 09 30 The rise and fall of civil authoritarianism in Africa patronage participation and political parties in Kenya and Zambia 2007 OCLC 124073047 CAS Award GIGA www giga hamburg de Retrieved 2019 10 29 Books of the year part one The Spectator 2018 11 10 Retrieved 2019 10 29 What We re Reading in Summer 2018 Center For Global Development Retrieved 2019 10 29 PSA Academic Prizes 2019 The Political Studies Association PSA PSA Academic Prizes 2019 The Political Studies Association PSA Retrieved 2019 10 29 Professor Nic Cheeseman University of Birmingham Retrieved 2022 09 30 Nic Cheeseman European Democracy Hub Retrieved 2023 08 24 Cheeseman Nic Lynch Gabrielle Willis Justin 2021 The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa Democracy Voting and Virtue Cambridge Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 1 108 41723 5 Cheeseman Nic 2017 10 10 Professor Nic Cheeseman joins OXFAM Democracy in Africa Retrieved 2022 09 30 https global oup com academic product the oxford handbook of kenyan politics 9780192887429 cc us amp lang en The Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics Oxford University Press Retrieved 2019 11 06 Authoritarian Africa https global oup com ushe product authoritarian africa 9780190279653 Oxford University Press Retrieved 2019 11 06 The Oxford Dictionary of African Politics Oxford University Press Retrieved 2019 11 06 Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective Oxford University Press Retrieved 2019 11 06 Institutions and Democratization in Africa Cambridge University Press Retrieved 2019 11 06 The African Affairs Reader Oxford University Press Retrieved 2019 11 06 African Politics Major Works Routledge Retrieved 2019 11 06 How to Rig An Election Yale University Press Retrieved 2019 11 06 Democracy in Africa Cambridge University Press Retrieved 2019 11 06 Politics Meets Policies International IDEA Retrieved 2019 11 06 The Handbook of African Politics Routledge Retrieved 2019 11 06 Our Turn to Eat Lit Verlag Retrieved 2019 11 06 External links editOfficial website nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nic Cheeseman amp oldid 1214479149, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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