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Carolyn Logan

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Michigan State University – Department of Political Science

Carolyn is the director of analysis and capacity building at Afrobarometer.

Biography

Carolyn Logan is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. She joined Afrobarometer in 2001 and the political science faculty in 2004, after receiving her PhD in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2002.

Carolyn’s research interests include democratization and political development in Africa, especially in East Africa, the Horn, and Somaliland. She is particularly interested in the role of “traditional” leaders and institutions in democratization, and in “citizen vs. subject” attitudes among African publics. Logan lived and worked in Kenya, Lesotho, Rwanda, Somaliland, and Somalia for nearly a decade before joining MSU and Afrobarometer.

Areas of interest

Language

English

Keywords

Climate change Democracy Development Energy supply Environmental governance Gender equality Globalism Infrastructure Police professionalism

Blog

As Africa Climate Week begins, Africans want action, research finds

Can Africa leapfrog to electricity?

The poor and the police: Anatomy of a victimization

When Africans speak out, are their governments listening?

Are Africa’s leading democracies in trouble?

Publications

AD833: Keeping up with the people’s agenda: Popular priorities for government action, and how they are evolving

AD833: Au diapason des soucis des citoyens : Les priorités populaires d’action gouvernementale et leur évolution

AD749: Les Africains soutiennent l’égalité des sexes, mais les écarts persistent : Les gouvernements appelés à en faire plus

AD749: Africans back gender equality, but gaps persist: Governments urged to do more

AD749: Os Africanos apoiam a igualdade de género, mas persistem algumas lacunas: Os governos são instados a fazer mais

External publication

Will Africans’ calls for better democracy be met?

AD512: As percepções são más, a realidade é pior: Cidadãos relatam predação pela polícia africana

AD334: Préalable au progrès, l’électricité accessible et fiable manque toujours à la majorité d’Africains

External publication

Africans’ durable demand for democracy

External publication

Africa is failing to close the gap on providing water and sanitation

External publication

Poorer people in Africa face higher hurdles to access to justice

External publication

Pendulum is swinging towards creeping restrictions across Africa

External publication

Progress in rolling out of national power grids has stalled across Africa

External publication

Global response to COVID-19 in Africa must protect lives, livelihoods, and freedoms

External publication

Lessons from COVID-19 in Africa: Crisis and opportunity

External publication

Compassion vs. coercion: Protecting lives & enhancing legitimacy in COVID-19 Africa

External publication

US/Africa policy must have voices of ordinary people from across the continent

External publication

Who gets involved? Insights on civic engagement in Africa and implications for fostering volunteerism

AD548: Message des citoyens africains aux chefs traditionnels : Privilégiez le développement et évitez la politique

AD548: African citizens’ message to traditional leaders: Stay in development, stay out of politics

AD544: Integrating states or integrating people? Kenyans have not heard much about the proposed East African Federation

PP80: Rising concern, falling performance: Health-sector challenges evident before and after onset of COVID-19 pandemic

PP80: Inquiétudes à la hausse, performances à la baisse: Difficultés du secteur santé évidentes avant et après le début de la pandémie COVID-19

AD512 : Si les perceptions sont mauvaises, la réalité est pire : Les citoyens signalent une prédation répandue de la part des policiers africains

AD516: Des liens qui unissent ? Des signes d’unité et de division dans 34 pays africains

AD516: Ties that bind? Evidence of unity and division in 34 African countries

AD512: Perceptions are bad, reality is worse: Citizens report widespread predation by African police

AD452: Access denied: Freedom of information in Africa falls short of public expectations

AD443: African citizens’ message to traditional leaders: Stay in development, stay out of politics

PP72: Who gets involved? Insights on civic engagement in Africa and implications for fostering volunteerism

AD412: Des liens qui unissent? Des signes d’unité et de division dans 18 pays africains

AD412: Ties that bind? Evidence of both unity and division in 18 African countries

AD386: Malians, though eager for change from failing state and economy, still demand democracy

PP67: COVID-19 in Africa – Vulnerabilities and assets for an effective response

AD334: Prerequisite for progress: Accessible, reliable power still in short supply across Africa

PP61: Progrès et lacunes: Perceptions et expériences de la parité des genres en Afrique

PP61: Gains and gaps: Perceptions and experiences of gender in Africa

PP60: Change ahead: Experience and awareness of climate change in Africa

PP55: Les libertés des Africains sont-elles en train de s’effriter?

PP55: Are Africans’ freedoms slipping away?

AD288: A la recherche d’opportunités: En Afrique, les jeunes et les instruits sont plus susceptibles de penser à émigrer

AD288: In search of opportunity: Young and educated Africans most likely to consider moving abroad

PP51: Faire le point: Priorités et appréciations des citoyens, trois ans après le debut des ODD

PP51: Taking stock: Citizen priorities and assessments three years into the SDGs

AD174: Malgré ses défis, le système judiciaire du Niger jouit d’un grand capital de confiance populaire

AD174: Despite challenges, Niger’s court system enjoys high level of popular trust

AD171: Popular distrust, perceptions of corruption mark Sierra Leone’s court system

AD166: In Mali, citizens’ access to justice compromised by perceived bias, corruption, complexity

AD147: Togo’s judicial system marked by popular distrust, perceptions of corruption

WP172: 800 languages and counting: Lessons from survey research across a linguistically diverse continent

AD142: Building a legal system that citizens trust and use remains a challenge for post-conflict Côte d’Ivoire

AD134: Though living a security nightmare, Burundians find less fault with formal court system

PP39: L’ambition des ODD confronté à la réalité: La justice demeure inaccessible à beaucoup d’Africains

PP39: Ambitious SDG goal confronts challenging realities: Access to justice is still elusive for many Africans

PP26: The viability of political opposition in Africa: Popular views

WP135: Museveni and the 2011 Ugandan election: Did the money matter?

WP128: The roots of resilience: Exploring popular support for African traditional authorities

WP123: Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: Public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes

WP110: Looking toward the future: Alternations in power and popular perspectives on democratic durability in Africa

WP108: The quality of democracy and governance in Africa: New results from Afrobarometer Round 4

WP94: Rejecting the disloyal opposition? The trust gap in mass attitudes toward ruling and opposition parties in Africa

WP93: Traditional leaders in modern Africa: Can democracy and the chief co-exist?

WP70: Kenyans and democracy: What do they really want from it anyway?

WP63: Voters but not yet citizens: The weak demand for vertical acountability in Africa’s unclaimed democracies

WP61: Citizens and the State in Africa: New results from Afrobarometer Round 3

WP58: The political gender gap in Africa: similar attitudes, different behaviors

PP1: Après une décennie de croissance en Afrique, peu de changement de la pauvreté pour le peuple

PP1: After a decade of growth in Africa, little change in poverty at the grassroots

PP7: Les Africains disposés à payer leurs impôts se heurtent à des systèmes fiscaux opaques et corrompus

PP7: Africa’s willing taxpayers thwarted by opaque tax systems, corruption

WP34: Afrobarometer Round 2: Compendium of results from a 15-country survey

WP33: A new dawn? Popular optimism in Kenya after the transition

WP27: Insiders and outsiders: Varying perceptions of democracy and governance in Uganda

WP11: The Afrobarometer Network Round 1: Compendium of comparative data from a 12-nation survey

AD5: World AIDS Day: Most African governments win high marks for efforts to fight HIV/AIDS

AD3: Developing Africa’s infrastructure: The rough road to better services

AD1: Malawi’s 2014 Elections: Amid concerns about fairness, outcome is too close to call