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Sam Hickey is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broader categories, Hickey's work focuses on subfields such as Development, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, and Global and Planetary Change.

The research topics addressed by Hickey include International Development and Aid, Natural Resources and Economic Development, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Mining and Resource Management, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, as well as COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts and its effect on air quality.

Recent papers authored by Sam Hickey reflect these thematic interests. These include:

  • Responding to the commodity boom with varieties of resource nationalism: a political economy explanation for the different routes taken by Africa's new oil producers (2020) in The Extractive Industries and Society
  • The politics of governing oil after 'best-practice' reforms: Can 'pockets of effectiveness' survive within Uganda's political settlement? (2020) in The Extractive Industries and Society

Sam Hickey has frequently published in journals such as SSRN Electronic Journal, World Development, and The Extractive Industries and Society. Other venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) and Politics & Policy.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hickey are:

  • Tom Lavers
  • Diana Mitlin
  • David Hulme
  • Ralitza Dimova
  • Kate Pruce

Some of the research topics and venues overlap with these collaborators, indicating ongoing partnerships and thematic continuity in areas related to development studies and economic research.

The research outputs cover themes significant to global development and resource management policies, often contextualized within African political and economic environments. This includes examining institutional reforms, resource nationalism, and governance challenges in extractive industries.

Best Publications

  • Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

    Samuel Hickey;Giles Mohan

  • Relocating participation within a radical politics of development

    Sam Hickey;Giles Mohan

  • Can NGOs make a difference? The challenge of development alternatives

    Anthony J Bebbington;Samuel Hickey;Diana C Mitlin

  • Reclaiming Development? NGOs and the Challenge of Alternatives

    Diana Mitlin;Sam Hickey;Anthony Bebbington

  • Social Protection in sub-Saharan Africa: getting the politics right

    Miguel Niño-Zarazúa;Armando Barrientos;Samuel Hickey;David Hulme

  • COVID-19 and the case for global development

    Johan A. Oldekop;Rory Horner;David Hulme;Roshan Adhikari

  • Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion, and Chronic Poverty

    Sam Hickey;Andries du Toit

  • Exploring the Politics of Chronic Poverty: From Representation to a Politics of Justice?

    Sam Hickey;Sarah Bracking

  • Thinking about the politics of inclusive development: towards a relational approach

    Sam Hickey

  • Beyond the Poverty Agenda? Insights from the New Politics of Development in Uganda

    Sam Hickey

  • The politics of inclusive development : interrogating the evidence

    Samuel Hickey;Kunal Sen;Badru Bukenya

  • The politics of social protection: what do we get from a ‘social contract’ approach?

    Sam Hickey

  • The politics of development under competitive clientelism: Insights from Ghana's education sector

    Abdul Gafaru Abdulai;Sam Hickey

  • The politics of staying poor: exploring the political space for poverty reduction in Uganda

    Sam Hickey

  • Rights-based approaches to development : exploring the potential and pitfalls

    Samuel Hickey;Diana Mitlin

  • Understanding Social Accountability: Politics, Power and Building New Social Contracts

    Sam Hickey;Sophie King

  • Adverse incorporation, social exclusion and chronic poverty. CPRC Working Paper No. 81.

    S. Hickey;A. Du Toit

  • Conceptualising the politics of social protection expansion in low income countries: The intersection of transnational ideas and domestic politics

    Tom Lavers;Samuel Hickey

  • The politics of protecting the poorest: Moving beyond the ‘anti-politics machine’?

    Sam Hickey

  • Governing Chronic Poverty under Inclusive Liberalism: The Case of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund

    Frederick Golooba-Mutebi;Sam Hickey

  • The government of chronic poverty: from exclusion to citizenship?

    Sam Hickey

  • THE POLITICS OF GOVERNING OIL IN UGANDA: GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN?

    Sam Hickey;Angelo Izama

  • Towards Participation as Transformation: Critical Themes and Challenges for a Post-Tyranny Agenda

    Samuel Hickey;S. Mohan

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana Mitlin
Diana Mitlin University of Manchester
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University
David Hulme
David Hulme University of Manchester
Armando Barrientos
Armando Barrientos University of Manchester
Giles Mohan
Giles Mohan The Open University
Kunal Sen
Kunal Sen University of Manchester
Stephanie Barrientos
Stephanie Barrientos University of Manchester
Richard Heeks
Richard Heeks University of Manchester
Bina Agarwal
Bina Agarwal University of Manchester
David Fielding
David Fielding University of Otago

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