Kimuli Kunihira Kasara

Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science

Columbia University

kk2432 · columbia.edu

 

 

 

 

Research

 

Published Work

Kasara, Kimuli. 2007. Tax Me If You Can: Ethnic Geography, Democracy, and the Taxation of Agriculture in Africa. American Political Science Review 101 (1).

Fearon, James, Kimuli Kasara, and David Laitin. 2007. Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset. American Political Science Review 101 (1).

 

Data

Ethnicity of the Head of State Dataset, 1960 – 2000. Dataset & Notes

 

Working Papers

A Prize too Large to Share: Opposition Coalitions and the Kenyan Presidency

Explaining Ethnic Mobilization in Rwanda and Burundi in the 1950s

Ethnic Beachheads and Vote Buying: The Creation of New Administrative Districts in Kenya, 1992-2001

 

Teaching

Democratization and Regime Change in Developing Countries, Spring 2007

Contemporary African Politics, Fall 2007

 

Syllabus

Films

Lecture Notes 

 

Issues in Comparative Politics, Fall 2007

Agrarian Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa, Spring 2008

Democracy, Autocracy & Regime Change,  Spring 2008