Daniel Posner studies ethnic politics and the political economy of development in Africa. His first book, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (Cambridge 2005) won prizes from both the Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association and the African Politics Conference Group of the African Studies Association. He is a founding member of the inter-university Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes (LiCEP) and the founder and co-convener of the Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE). His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Democracy. He has been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford (2001-02), a Carnegie Scholar of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (2003-05), and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (1995-98). He is currently an invited fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
