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Number of items: 74.
2025
  • Boone, Catherine, Crespin-Boucaud, Juliette, Kyung Kim, Eun (2025). Sectoral interests and regional bloc voting in African countries. Studies in Comparative International Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09446-y picture_as_pdf
    • 2024
  • Boone, Catherine (20 June 2024) To understand African politics we need to understand regional inequalities. LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Boone, Catherine (2024). Spatial Inequalities in African Political Economy June 2022 data posting. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/fceztd
  • Boone, Catherine (2024). Economic inequalities and territorial oppositions in African politics. In Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (pp. 1 - 24). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009441667.002 picture_as_pdf
  • Boone, Catherine (2024). Inequality and political cleavage in Africa: regionalism by design. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009441667 picture_as_pdf
    • 2022
  • Boone, Catherine, Wahman, Michael, Kyburz, Stephan, Linke, Andrew (2022). Regional cleavages in African politics: persistent electoral blocs and territorial oppositions. Political Geography, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102741 picture_as_pdf
  • Boone, Catherine, Lukalo, Fibian, Browne, Kimberley, Joireman, Sandra (2022). Kenya Settlement Schemes Data Project. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/1kc6ob
    • 2021
  • Boone, Catherine, Bado, Brice, Mah Dion, Aristide, Irigo, Zibo (2021). Push, pull, and push-back to land certification: regional dynamics in pilot certification projects in Côte d'Ivoire. Journal of Modern African Studies, 59(3), 247 - 272. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X21000124 picture_as_pdf
  • Boone, Catherine, Lukalo, Fibian, Joireman, Sandra (2021). Promised land: settlement schemes in Kenya, 1962 to 2016. Political Geography, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102393 picture_as_pdf
    • 2019
  • Boone, Catherine, Dyzenhaus, Alex, Manji, Ambreena, Gateri, Catherine, Ouma, Seth, Owino, James Kabugu, Gargule, Achiba, Klopp, Jacqueline (2019). Land law reform in Kenya: devolution, veto players, and the limits of an institutional fix. African Affairs, 118(471), 215-237. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ady053
  • Boone, Catherine, Simson, Rebecca (2019). Regional inequalities in African political economy: theory, conceptualization and measurement, and political effects. (Working papers 19-194). International Development, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Boone, Catherine (2019). Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform: tensions and tradeoffs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan Africa. The Journal of Development Studies, 55(3), 384-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1451633 picture_as_pdf
  • Lukalo, Fibian, Boone, Catherine, Joireman, Sandra (2019). Mapping Settlement Schemes in Kenya. Kenya. National Land Commission. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YSTBKU
    • 2018
  • Boone, Catherine (2018). Refocusing scholarly attention on Kenya's smallholder settlement schemes is long overdue.
  • Boone, Catherine (2018). Shifting visions of property under competing political regimes: changing uses of Côte d'Ivoire's 1998 land law. Journal of Modern African Studies, 56(2), 189-216. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X18000198 picture_as_pdf
  • Wahman, Michael, Boone, Catherine (2018). Captured countryside? Stability and change in sub-national support for African incumbent parties. Comparative Politics, 50(2), 189 - 216. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041518822263593
  • Boone, Catherine (2018). Electoral politics and land-related conflict in Africa. In Cheeseman, Nic (Ed.), Oxford handbook of African politics . Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf
    • 2017
  • Boone, Catherine (2017). Sons of the soil conflict in Africa: institutional determinants of ethnic conflict over land. World Development, 96, 276-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.012
    • 2016
  • Boone, Catherine, Manji, Ambreena (2016). Kenya’s devolved land administration marks the start of a new phase of political struggle over land control.
  • Boone, Catherine (2016). Catherine Boone wins 2016 Luebbert Book Award for ‘Property and Political Order in Africa’.
  • Boone, Catherine (5 October 2016) Professor Catherine Boone’s book wins award. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Boone, Catherine, Dyzenhaus, Alex, Ouma, Seth, Owino, James Kabugu, Gateri, Catherine, Gargule, Achiba, Klopp, Jacqueline, Manji, Ambreena (2016). Land politics under Kenya's new constitution: counties, devolution, and the National Land Commission. (Working Paper Series 16-178). Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Boone, Catherine (2016). Land and property institutions: endogenous origins and equilibrium effects. In Cheeseman, Nick (Ed.), Institutions and African Political Development . Cambridge University Press. picture_as_pdf
    • 2015
  • Boone, Catherine, Wahman, Michael (2015). Rural bias in African electoral systems: legacies of unequal representation in African democracies. Electoral Studies, 40, 335-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2015.10.004
  • Boone, Catherine, Nyeme, Lydia (2015). Land institutions and political ethnicity in Africa: evidence from Tanzania. Comparative Politics, 48(1), 67 - 86. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041515816075123
  • Boone, Catherine (2015). Land tenure regimes and state structure in rural Africa:implications for the forms of resistance to large-scale land acquisitions by outsiders. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 33(2), 171-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2015.1065576
  • Boone, Catherine, Wahman, Michael (2015). #Zambia Presidential Elections: Why is it so hard to predict a potential winner?
    • 2014
  • Boone, Catherine (2014). Professor Catherine Boone interview: Land rights and conflict in Africa.
  • Boone, Catherine (2014). Property and political order in Africa: land rights and the structure of politics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139629256
  • Boone, Catherine (2014). Property and political order: land rights and the structure of conflict in Africa. Cambridge University Press.
    • 2013
  • Lund, Christian, Boone, Catherine (2013). [Introduction]: Land politics in Africa: constituting authority over territory, property and persons. Africa, 83(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000197201200068X
  • Boone, Catherine (2013). Land regimes and the structure of politics: patterns of land-related conflict. Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 83(1), 188-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972012000770
    • 2012
  • Boone, Catherine, Kriger, Norma (2012). Land patronage and elections: winners and losers in Zimbabwe and Côte d'Ivoire. In Bekoe, Dorina A. (Ed.), Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 75-117). USIP Press.
  • Boone, Catherine, Duku, Dennis Kwame (2012). Ethnic land rights in Western Ghana: landlord–stranger relations in the democratic era. Development and Change, 43(3), 671-693. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01778.x
  • Boone, Catherine (2012). Land conflict and distributive politics in Kenya. African Studies Review, 55(1), 75-103. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2012.0010
  • Boone, Catherine (2012). Contested land rights in rural Africa: Ghana and Kenya compared. In Lust, Ellen M., Ndegwa, Steven N. (Eds.), Governing Africa’s Changing Societies: Dynamics of Reform (pp. 73-110). Lynne Rienner Publishers.
  • Boone, Catherine (2012). Territorial politics and the reach of the state: unevenness by design. Revista de Ciencia Política (Santiago), 32(3), 623-641. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2012000300007.
    • 2011
  • Boone, Catherine (2011). Politically allocated land rights and the geography of electoral violence: the case of Kenya in the 1990s. Comparative Political Studies, 44(10), 1311-1342. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414011407465
    • 2010
  • Boone, Catherine, Kriger, Norman (2010). Multiparty elections and land patronage: Zimbabwe and Côte d'Ivoire. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 48(2), 173-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662041003672502
    • 2009
  • Boone, Catherine (2009). The China model in Africa: a new brand of developmentalism. In Springborg, Robert (Ed.), Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, 'Islamic' and Neo-Liberal Alternatives (pp. 47-83). Edinburgh University Press.
  • Boone, Catherine (2009). Electoral populism where property rights are weak: land politics in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. Comparative Politics, 41(2), 183-201.
    • 2007
  • Boone, Catherine (2007). Property and constitutional order: land tenure reform and the future of the African state. African Affairs, 106(425), 557-586. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adm059
  • Boone, Catherine (2007). Africa's new territorial politics: regionalism and the open economy in Côte d'Ivoire. African Studies Review, 50(1), 59-81. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2005.0093
  • Boone, Catherine, Batsell, Jake (2007). Political science, international relations, and AIDS in Africa. In Ostergard, Robert (Ed.), HIV/AIDS and the Threat to National and International Security (pp. 3-36). Palgrave Macmillan.
    • 2006
  • Boone, Catherine (2006). Merchant capital and the roots of state power in Senegal, 1930-1985. Cambridge University Press.
    • 2005
  • Boone, Catherine (2005). State, capital, and the politics of banking reform in sub-Saharan Africa. Comparative Politics, 37(4), 401-420.
    • 2004
  • Boone, Catherine (2004). [Book review]: China in the “easy phase” of opening. Issues and Studies, 40(1), 226-231.
  • Boone, Catherine, Henry, Clement (2004). Neoliberalism in the Middle East and Africa: divergent banking reform trajectories, 1980s to 2000. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 42(3), 356-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/1466204042000326181
    • 2003
  • Boone, Catherine (2003). Political topographies of the African state: territorial authority and institutional choice. Cambridge University Press.
  • Boone, Catherine (2003). [Book review]: Poststructuralism as a historical condition. American Anthropologist, 105(2), 359-363. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2003.105.2.359
  • Boone, Catherine (2003). Decentralization as political strategy in West Africa. Comparative Political Studies, 36(4), 355-380. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414003251173
  • Boone, Catherine, Olvera, Elia (2003). Presentación. Istor: Revista de Historia Internacional, IV(14), 1-12. https://doi.org/África
    • 2001
  • Boone, Catherine (2001). AIDS, international relations, and political science. (Estudios internacionales, Documentos de Trabajo DTEI-76). Centro de Investigaction y Docencia Economicas (CIDE).
  • Boone, Catherine, Henry, Clement (2001). Banking reform in the Middle East and North Africa: 1980-2000. (Estudios internacionales, Documentos de Trabajo DTEI-77). Centro de Investigaction y Docencia Economicas (CIDE).
  • Boone, Catherine (2001). Las nuevas perspectivas de Africa ante el milenio. Istor: Revista de Historia Internacional, II(7), 101-114.
  • Boone, Catherine, Batsell, Jake (2001). Politics and AIDS in Africa: research agendas in political science and international relations. Africa Today, 48(2), 3-33. https://doi.org/10.1353/at.2001.0026
    • 1998
  • Thioub, Ibrahima, Diop, Momar-Coumba, Boone, Catherine (1998). Economic liberalization in Senegal: shifting politics of indigenous business interests. African Studies Review, 41(2), 63-89.
  • Boone, Catherine (1998). The making of a rentier class: wealth accumulation and political control in Senegal. In Lewis, Peter (Ed.), Africa: Dilemmas of Development and Change (pp. 185-212). Routledge.
  • Boone, Catherine (1998). State building in the African countryside: structure and politics at the grassroots. The Journal of Development Studies, 34(4), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220389808422527
    • 1997
  • Boone, Catherine (1997). 'Empirical statehood' and reconfigurations of political order. In Villalon, Leonardo, Huxtable, Philip (Eds.), The African State at a Critical Juncture: Between Disintegration and Reconfiguration (pp. 129-142). Lynne Rienner Publishers.
  • Boone, Catherine, Thioub, Ibrahima, Diop, Momar-Coumba (1997). La libéralisation de l’économie et les luttes d'intérêts au Sénégal. Revue Sociétés Africaines et Diaspora, (5), 5-45.
  • Boone, Catherine (1997). [Book review:] Senegal: an African nation between Islam and the West, 2nd edition by Sheldon Gellar. International Journal of African Historical Studies, 30(1), 235-237.
    • 1996
  • Boone, Catherine (1996). Rural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa: whose battle? What stakes? (Working paper series 14 2). Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute of International Studies, University of Minnesota.
    • 1995
  • Boone, Catherine (1995). The social origins of Ivoirian exceptionalism: rural society and state formation. Comparative Politics, 27(4), 445-464.
  • Boone, Catherine (1995). Rural interests and the making of modern African states. African Economic History, (23), 1-36.
    • 1994
  • Boone, Catherine (1994). States and ruling classes in sub-Saharan Africa: the enduring contradictions of power. In Migdal, Joel Samuel, Kohli, Atul, Shue, Vivienne (Eds.), State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (pp. 108-142). Cambridge University Press.
  • Boone, Catherine (1994). Trade, taxes, and tribute: market liberalizations and the new importers in West Africa. World Development, 22(3), 453-467. https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(94)90135-X
  • Boone, Catherine (1994). Rentierism and local accumulation in Senegal. In Berman, Bruce J., Leys, Colin (Eds.), African Capitalists in African Development (pp. 163-188). Lynne Rienner Publishers.
    • 1993
  • Boone, Catherine (1993). Commerce in Côte d'Ivoire: Ivoirianisation without Ivoirian traders. Journal of Modern African Studies, 31(1), 67-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X00011812
  • Boone, Catherine (1993). Rise and decline of Senegal's light industry: the merchant-capital logic of accumulation. In Année Africaine 1992-1993 (pp. 269-282). Editions A. Pédone.
    • 1992
  • Boone, Catherine (1992). Protection and monopoly: the political strains of import-substitution industrialization. In Ahene, Rexford A., Katz, Bernard S. (Eds.), Privatization and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 95-116). ABC-CLIO.
    • 1991
  • Boone, Catherine (1991). Politics under the spectre of deindustrialization: 'structural adjustment' in practice. In Delgado, Chris, Jammeh, Sidi (Eds.), The Political Economy of Senegal Under Structural Adjustment (pp. 127-150). ABC-CLIO.
    • 1990
  • Boone, Catherine (1990). State power and economic crisis in Senegal. Comparative Politics, 22(3), 341-357.
  • Boone, Catherine (1990). The making of a rentier class: wealth accumulation and political control in Senegal. The Journal of Development Studies, 26(3), 425-449. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220389008422163