"Religions, Redistribution and Political Participation: Assessing Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa" 
Rachel Riedl (Northwestern University)

Jointly supported by Blavatnik School of Government, Department of Politics and International Relations, and Nuffield College.

This seminar is for students, faculty and invited groups only - advance sign-up is required by email to events@bsg.ox.ac.uk. However, if you have a particular interest in attending this event, please email events and we will try to accommodate your request. Lunch is provided.

Rachel Beatty Riedl is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University. The author of the award-winning Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2014), she studies institutional development in new democracies, local governance and decentralization policy, religion and politics, and authoritarian regime legacies, with a regional focus in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has published in the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, African Affairs, among others. A former Kellogg Institute visiting fellow, Yale Program on Democracy Fellow, and Faculty Fulbright Scholar, she holds a PhD from Princeton University. Riedl is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has conducted policy analysis for USAID, the World Bank, the State Department, the Carter Center, and other organizations on issues pertaining to governance reforms, elections, democratic representation and identity politics.