Docent

Anders Sjögren

About

My research and teaching is within comparative politics and centres on how democratisation and national identity shapes and is shaped by state-society relation. Empirically, I specialises on Kenya and Uganda. I am currently working on two research projects, one on civil society and electoral politics and one on protest coalitions, both in electoral autocracies.

Defending or defeating democracy? - Department of Government - Uppsala University, Sweden (uu.se)

Contested Elections - Department of Government - Uppsala University, Sweden (uu.se)

Featured work

Anders Sjögren

Publications

Civil society and contested elections in electoral autocracies: Dissent and caution in Uganda’s 2016 elections

Journal of Civil Society

Territorialising identity, authority and conflict in Africa: an introduction

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

From rural rebellions to urban riots: political competition and changing patterns of violent political revolt in Uganda

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

Battles over boundaries: the politics of territory, identity and authority in three Ugandan regions

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

Accommodating, Opposing, or Dismissing? Ethno-Regional Mobilization, (De)Centralization, and State-Wide Party Strategies in Nigeria and Kenya

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

Engaging with elections: Ethno-regional mobilization, demands for federalism, and electoral politics in central Uganda

Regional & Federal Studies

Do Local Power-Sharing Deals Reduce Ethnopolitical Hostility? The Effects of ‘Negotiated Democracy’ in a Devolved Kenya

Ethnopolitics

Scrambling for the promised land: land acquisitions and the politics of representation in post-war Acholi, northern Uganda

African Identities

Battles over boundaries: the politics of territory, identity and authority in three Ugandan regions

Journal of Contemporary African Studies