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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Catherine Boone is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several areas within the social sciences, with a strong focus on land rights, agricultural development, and political geography. Their work addresses the intersections of land reform, local governance, and political conflict within various regional contexts.

Their notable recent publications include:

  • Regional cleavages in African politics: Persistent electoral blocs and territorial oppositions (2022, Political Geography)
  • Promised Land: Settlement Schemes in Kenya, 1962 to 2016 (2021, Political Geography)
  • Push, pull and push-back to land certification: regional dynamics in pilot certification projects in Côte d'Ivoire (2021, The Journal of Modern African Studies)
  • 2020 Fiscal Year Contributors (2021, Political Science Today)
  • Iets over het domein Vyncke - Bovyn in Wondelgem (2021, Ghendtsche Tydinghen)

Boone's frequent co-authors include:

  • Fibian Lukalo
  • Sandra F. Joireman
  • Michael Wahman
  • Stephan Kyburz
  • Andrew M. Linke

Throughout their career, Boone has contributed to several publication venues, often publishing multiple works in the following journals and platforms:

  • Political Geography
  • Ghendtsche Tydinghen
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • The Journal of Modern African Studies
  • Political Science Today

In addition to journal articles, Boone has authored a book titled Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

The primary fields of study for Boone include social sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, with specific subfields concentrated in soil science, political science and international relations, general agricultural and biological sciences, economics and econometrics, and demography.

The major research topics that characterize Boone's work are:

  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Boone was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, reflecting their involvement in advancing interdisciplinary research across related fields.

Best Publications

  • Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice

    Catherine Boone

  • State power and social forces : domination and transformation in the Third World

    Joel Samuel Migdal;Atul Kohli;Vivienne Shue

  • Property and Political Order in Africa: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics

    Catherine Boone

  • Political Topographies of the African State

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  • Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal: 1930–1985

    Catherine Boone

  • Property and constitutional order: Land tenure reform and the future of the African state

    Catherine Boone

  • Decentralization As Political Strategy In West Africa

    Catherine Boone

  • [Introduction]: Land politics in Africa: constituting authority over territory, property and persons

    Christian Lund;Catherine Boone

  • Politically Allocated Land Rights and the Geography of Electoral Violence: The Case of Kenya in the 1990s

    Catherine Boone

  • Land Conflict and Distributive Politics in Kenya

    Catherine Boone

  • Politics and AIDS in Africa: Research Agendas in Political Science and International Relations

    Catherine Boone;Jake Batsell

  • The making of a rentier class: Wealth accumulation and political control in Senegal

    Catherine Boone

  • State Building in the African Countryside: Structure and Politics at the Grassroots

    Catherine Boone

  • Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform: Tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan Africa

    Catherine Boone

  • Legal Empowerment of the Poor through Property Rights Reform: Tensions and Trade-offs of Land Registration and Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Catherine Boone

  • Electoral populism where property rights are weak: land politics in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa

    Catherine Boone

  • State power and social forces: States and ruling classes in postcolonial Africa: the enduring contradictions of power

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  • Sons of the soil conflict in Africa: institutional determinants of ethnic conflict over land

    Catherine Boone

  • Africa's New Territorial Politics: Regionalism and the Open Economy in Côte d'Ivoire

    Catherine Boone

  • Economic Liberalization in Senegal: Shifting Politics of Indigenous Business Interests

    Ibrahima Thioub;Momar-Coumba Diop;Catherine Boone

  • Territorial politics and the reach of the state: unevenness by design

    Catherine Boone

  • Trade, taxes, and tribute: Market liberalizations and the new importers in West Africa

    Catherine Boone

  • 'Empirical statehood' and reconfigurations of political order

    Catherine Boone

  • Land tenure regimes and state structure in rural Africa:implications for the forms of resistance to large-scale land acquisitions by outsiders

    Catherine Boone

  • Rural bias in African electoral systems: Legacies of unequal representation in African democracies

    Catherine Boone;Michael Wahman

  • Land law reform in Kenya: devolution, veto players, and the limits of an institutional fix

    Catherine Boone;Alex Dyzenhaus;Ambreena Manji;Catherine W Gateri

  • Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal, 1930-1985

    Martin A. Klein;Catherine Boone

Frequent Co-Authors

Archon Fung
Archon Fung Harvard University
Christian Lund
Christian Lund University of Copenhagen
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University
Jean-Philippe Platteau
Jean-Philippe Platteau University of Namur
Leonard Wantchekon
Leonard Wantchekon Princeton University

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