Martha Wilfahrt
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RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS


Book

2021. Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Articles

2022. Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa? Electoral Studies 79.
2022. Improving Open-Source Information on African Politics (with Kristin Michelitch). PS: Politics and Society 55(2), pp. 450-455.
2020. The Mechanisms of Direct and Indirect Rule: Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa (with Natalie Letsa). Quarterly Journal of Political Science 15(4), pp. 539-577.
Replication Data
2018. Precolonial Legacies and Institutional Congruence in Public Goods Delivery: Evidence from Decentralized West Africa. World Politics 70(2), pp. 239-274.
​Replication data.     ​Coding of Senegal's precolonial kingdoms.
2018. The Politics of Local Government Performance: Elite Cohesion and Cross-Village Constraints in Decentralized Senegal
World Development, 103, pp. 149-61.
2018. Popular Support for Democracy in Autocratic Regimes: A Micro-Level Analysis of Preferences (with Natalie Letsa). Comparative Politics, 50(2), pp. 231-73.

Working Papers

Enumerator Experiences in Survey Data Collection in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Justine Davis) (revise and resubmit)

Demanding Recognition: Citizen Perspectives on Clientelism in Africa (with Kathleen Klaus & Jeffrey Paller) (revise and resubmit)

Judge, Landlord, Broker, Watchman: Assessing Variation in Chiefly Duties in the Ghana-Togo Borderlands (with Natalie Letsa) (revise and resubmit)


Kingdoms, States, and Hierarchies: Concept Formation and Misinformation in the Historical Renaissance

Colonial Legacies, Collective Efficacy, and Rural Development: Evidence from the Togo-Ghana Border (with Natalie Letsa)

Contesting Autocracy: Explaining the Origins of Opposition Strongholds in Africa (with Leonardo Arriola, David Dow & Natalie Letsa)

On-Going Research

Reevaluating Legacies of Direct and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Ghana-Togo Borderlands (with Natalie Letsa)

The Political Effects of Caste in Senegal (with Leonardo Arriola and Dominika Koter)
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Endogenous Decentralization? The Politics of Subnational Boundary Creation
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