Selected Policy Papers

2021

“Women’s Voices in Civil Society Organizations: Evidence from a Civil Society Mapping Project in Mali.”

with Jessica Gottlieb, Katrina Kosec, and Lindsey Boss. International Food Policy Research Institute Brief: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/womens-voices-civil-society-organizations-evidence-civil-society-mapping-project-mali


2020

“Mali’s Persistent and Fragile Democracy”

with Marc-Andre Boisvert and Boukary Sangare. American Political Science Association Newsletter, Fall 2020, “Autocracy and Democracy,” Eds. Hanisah Binte Abduallah Sani, Pauline Luong Jones, and Dan Slater. https://mk0apsaconnectbvy6p6.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/12/Democracy-and-Autocracy_Democratic-Survival-in-the-Muslim-World_Dec-2020.pdf


2018

“I Joined to Save my People: Children and Non-State Armed Groups in Mali”

with Marc-Andre Boisvert and Boukary Sangare, Cradled by Conflict: Child Involvement with Armed Groups in Contemporary Conflict. Eds. Siobhan O’Neil and Kato Van Broeckhoven. United Nations University.  https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6409/Cradled_by_Conflict.pdf


2017

“Can Indigenous Associations Foster Trust, Tolerance, and Public Goods?”

with Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Jacopo Bonan and Bassirou Sarr. 2017.  International Institute for Education: USAID Research and Innovation Grants Working Papers Series. https://www.iie.org/Research-and-Insights/Publications/DFG-NotreDame-Publication


2015

“This is what citizens say is needed to end Mali’s insecurity”

with Sidiki Guindo and Abdoulaye Dembele. Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, November 27, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/27/this-is-what-citizens-say-is-needed-to-end-malis-insecurity/

“On the primacy of weak public service provision in rural Africa: Malians redefine ‘state breakdown’ amidst 2012 political crisis”

with Kristin Michelitch. Afrobarometer Working Paper Series 155, https://afrobarometer.org/sites/default/files/publications/Working%20paper/Afropaperno155.pdf


2013

“Voices from Fragile States: The Resilient Problem of Human Development.”

with Kristin Michelitch. UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research: WIDER ANGLE MARCH 2013. (Another version appeared on the Monkey Cage Political Science Blog) https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/voices-fragile-states


Press

UFAHUMA Africa Interview about Electoral Politics in Africa: https://ufahamuafrica.com/2019/01/26/ep54-a-conversation-with-jaimie-bleck-on-elections-in-africa-music-in-mali-and-more/