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Cheeseman, N & Klaas, B 2018, How to Rig An Election. Yale University Press. <https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300204438/how-rig-election>
Cheeseman, N, Lynch, G & Willis, J 2021, The moral economy of elections in Africa: Democracy, voting and virtue. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108265126
Cheeseman, N & Fisher, J 2019, Authoritarian Africa: Repression, Resistance, and the Power of Ideas. Oxford University Press.
Cheeseman, N 2018, Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics. Oxford University Press.
Cheeseman, N, Lynch, G & Kanyinga, K 2020, The Oxford handbook of Kenyan politics. Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press.
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Book
Cheeseman, N 2019, The dictionary of African politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780191828836.001.0001
Chaisty, P, Cheeseman, N & Power, TJ 2018, Coalitional-Presidentalism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems. Oxford Studies in Democratization, Oxford University Press. <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/coalitional-presidentialism-in-comparative-perspective-9780198817208?cc=gb&lang=en&>
Article
Cheeseman, N & Dodsworth, S 2023, 'Defending Civic Space: When are Campaigns against Repressive Laws Successful?', Journal of Development Studies, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2162882
Cheeseman, N 2022, '(Mis)understanding urban Africa: toward a research agenda on the political impact of urbanization', African Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2022.83
Gordon, R, Cheeseman, N, Rockowitz, S, Stevens, LM & Flowe, HD 2022, 'Government responses to gender-based violence during COVID-19', Frontiers in Global Women's Health, vol. 3, 857345. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.857345
Cheeseman, N & Peiffer, C 2022, 'Why efforts to fight corruption can undermine the social contract: lessons from a survey experiment in Nigeria', Governance. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12720
Sanches, E, Cheeseman, N, Veenendaal, WP & Corbett, J 2021, 'African exceptions: democratic development in small island states', Journal of International Relations and Development. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-021-00223-1
Cheeseman, N & Sishuwa, S 2021, 'African studies keyword: democracy', African Studies Review, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 704-732. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2021.43
Cheeseman, N, Matfess, H & Amani, A 2021, 'Tanzania: the roots of repression', Journal of Democracy, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2021.0020
Cheeseman, N & Peiffer, C 2021, 'The curse of good intentions: why anticorruption messaging can encourage bribery', American Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001398
Willis, J, Cheeseman, N & Lynch, G 2021, 'The history of elections in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda: what we can learn from these “national exercises”', Journal of African Elections, vol. 20, no. 2, v20i2a1. <https://www.eisa.org/jae20-2.php>
Lynch, G, Cheeseman, N & Willis, J 2019, 'From peace campaigns to peaceocracy: elections, order and authority in Africa', African Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adz019
Cheeseman, N, Kanyinga, K, Lynch, G, Ruteere, M & Willis, J 2019, 'Kenya's 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual?', Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2019.1594072
Dodsworth, S & Cheeseman, N 2018, 'Risk, politics and development: Lessons from the UK’s democracy aid', Public Administration and Development, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1822
Dodsworth, S & Cheeseman, N 2018, 'Ten challenges in democracy support - and how to overcome them', Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12567
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