Kimuli Kasara
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
Publications
Tax Me If You Can: Ethnic Geography, Democracy, and the Taxation of Agriculture in Africa. 2007. American Political Science Review 101(1), 159--172.
Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset. with James Fearon and David Laitin. 2007. American Political Science Review 101(1), 187--193.
Separate and Suspicious: The Social Environment and Inter-Ethnic Trust in Kenya. Forthcoming. The Journal of Politics
Working Papers
When do the Rich Vote Less than the Poor and Why? Explaining Turnout Inequality across the World with Pavithra Suryanarayan
Local Segregation and Violence
Electoral Geography and Conflict: Examining the Redistricting through Violence in Kenya
Colonial Legacies and Ethnic Mobilization in Rwanda and Burundi in the 1950s
Works in Progress
Ethnic Beachheads and Vote Buying: The Creation of New Administrative Districts in Kenya, 1992-2001''
A Prize too Large to Share: Opposition Coalitions and the Kenyan Presidency''
Teaching
Graduate
Democracy, Autocracy, and Regime Change
Comparative Democratic Processes
Issues in Comparative Politics
Undergraduate
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Democratization and Regime Change in Developing Countries
Agrarian Politics in sub-Saharan Africa