
Rachel M Gisselquist
@rgisselquist
Professor in Governance and Development; Director of @GSDRC - @iddbirmingham @unibirmingham. Formerly @UNUWIDER
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💥💥Call for papers!!💥💥 Perspectives on Politics seeks articles for a special issue titled "POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THE UNIVERSITY." With guest editors Anja Neundorf Robert A. Pape & Nicholas Tampio. Spread the word & submit your work! APSA Details here: 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/…



Stone Visiting Scholar applications for 2025-2026 are due today by 11:59PM EST. This fellowship funds a year at HKS for faculty researching topics related to wealth distribution, inequality, and social policy. More information & application instructions: inequality.hks.harvard.edu/visiting-schol…

My book, In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular, now has a cover and publication date of March 25, 2025, with praise from W. Cornelius, Bryan Caplan, Dan Hopkins, and Zeke Hernandez. It is time to make immigration popular. Let's go! cup.columbia.edu/book/in-our-in…



📢 Happening today! Join the IDD Seminar Series at 12 noon to hear Tom Goodfellow discuss findings from two research projects on comparative politics in urban Africa Details below👇

A true pleasure, as always, to talks with the amazing Ellen M Lust about this new work on the comparative politics of claim-making with @w_k_taylor and Janice Gallagher! Have a listen if you can!





📣New Blog📣 Is state capture coming to the United States? In this new blog post, Zenobia Ismail discusses how Americas can learn to recognise state capture from the experiences of other countries. Read the blog here 👉gsdrc.org/is-state-captu… Rachel M Gisselquist

In this report, michael danquah, kunal sen and Rachel M Gisselquist present a cross-city analysis of the spatial distribution of economic activities, as well as the drivers and constraints of structural transformation, in Accra, Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, Harare, Lagos and Nairobi.

New #OpenAccess book out now! How States Respond to Crisis reveals how state capacity, authority & legitimacy influenced outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic with 7 in-depth case studies from the Global South. 🔗 go.unu.edu/DhF08 Rachel M Gisselquist Andrea Vaccaro Oxford Academic

📖Why did some states manage the COVID-19 crisis better than others? Our book, How States Respond to Crisis, explores how state capacity, authority and legitimacy shaped pandemic responses and outcomes in the Global South. ➡️ go.unu.edu/DhF08 Andrea Vaccaro Rachel M Gisselquist
