My research focuses on political accountability, election integrity, legislator behavior, and the quality of democracy, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. I also work on issues of research design and transparency.
My research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the UK’s Department for International Development, the International Growth Center, and the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences. It has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, and Perspectives on Politics.
I am a Democracy and Development fellow of Ghana Center for Democratic Development. I have held research fellowship positions at Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (2015-2016) and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (2009-2010). I have consulted for the National Democratic Institute on domestic election observation efforts and parallel vote tabulations in Malawi (2009), Nigeria (2011) and Guinea (2015).
PhD in Political Science, 2017
University of California, Los Angeles
BA in Philosophy and Religion, 2006
University of Ghana
Preprint PDF 2020 Heinz I. Eulau Award for APSR CDDRL working paper APSA Public Scholarship Feature
What will Ghanaians expect from their new president?, Washington Post (Monkey Cage), January 6, 2017.
9 things you should know about Ghana’s election, Washington Post (Monkey Cage), December 7, 2016.
Election Observers and Electoral Fraud, APSA Comparative Democratization Newsletter Volume 14, No. 3.
MP Absenteeism during Ghana’s Sixth Parliament (2013-2015), December 20, 2015.
