Green, Elliott


Dr Elliott Green  

Department

Position held

Development Studies Institute (DESTIN)

Tutorial Fellow

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Oxford University

Research Associate

Experience keywords:

decentralisation; nationalism; ethnic conflict and ethnic politics; economy; sub-Saharan Africa; local government and federalism; political economy of ethnicity; politics and history of Uganda; land reform

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Dr Green is primarily concerned with the interaction of ethnicity, nationalism and politics in Africa. In particular he is interested in the causes and consequences of ethnic diversity, the relationship between nationalism and economic development and the political economy of rural patronage in Africa. His primary field work has been carried out in Uganda.

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6359

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2008

Green, Elliott D (2008) Decentralisation and conflict in Uganda. Conflict, Security and Development, 8 (4). pp. 427-450. ISSN 1478-1174

Green, Elliott D. (2008) Understanding the limits to ethnic change: lessons from Uganda's “lost counties”. Perspectives on politics, 6 (3). pp. 473-485. ISSN 1541-0986

Green, Elliott D. (2008) Making political science matter: debating knowledge, research and methods [book review]. Public administration and development, 28 (3). ISSN 0271-2075

2007

Green, Elliott D. (2007) Demography, diversity and nativism in contemporary Africa: evidence from Uganda. Nations and nationalism, 13 (4). pp. 717-736. ISSN 1354-5078

Green, Elliott D. (2007) No peace, no war: an anthropology of contemporary armed conflict [book review]. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13 (3). pp. 755-756. ISSN 1467-9655

Green, Elliott D. (2007) Institutions and ethnic politics in Africa, by Daniel N Posner [book review]. Nations and nationalism, 13 (1). pp. 177-178. ISSN 1354-5078

2006

Green, Elliott D. (2006) Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon and Georg Sørensen (eds.), states, markets and just growth: development in the twenty-first century and Gerard McCann and Stephen McCloskey (eds.), from the global to the local: key issues in development studies [book reviews]. Millennium - journal of international studies, 34 (2). pp. 625-628. ISSN 0305-8298

Green, Elliott D. (2006) Ethnicity and the politics of land tenure reform in Central Uganada. Commonwealth and comparative politics, 44 (3). pp. 370-388. ISSN 1466-2043

2005

Green, Elliott D. (2005) African development report 2004 [book review]. Political studies review, 3 (3). pp. 459-460. ISSN 1478-9299

Green, Elliott D. (2005) Dilemmas of weak states: Africa and transnational terrorism in the twenty-first century. Political studies review, 3 (3). pp. 447-447. ISSN 1478-9299

Green, Elliott D. (2005) Human development report 2004: cultural liberty in today’s diverse world [book review]. The journal of development studies, 41 (5). pp. 933-935. ISSN 0022-0388

Green, Elliott D. (2005) What is an ethnic group? Political economy, constructivism and the common language approach to ethnicity. DESTIN working paper, 05-57. Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Green, Elliott D. (2005) World on fire: how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability [book review]. Nations and nationalism, 11 (1). pp. 166-168. ISSN 1354-5078

Green, Elliott D. (2005) Ethnicity and the politics of land tenure reform in central Uganda. DESTIN Working Paper, 05-58. Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

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