Nic Cheeseman and ex-IDDer Cary Peiffer published a new “How to” guide to Anti-corruption messaging with CIPE, which explains how to maximise impact while minimising the risk that campaigns backfire.

Nic Cheeseman has published two new articles on the Kenyan elections of 2022 in a new special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies. “The battle for Central” addressed themes of urbanization, ethnicity and new forms of citizenship, while “Has Kenya Democratized” addresses the performance of key institutions during the poll.

Niheer Dasandi, Slava Jankin, and Dafni Kalatzi Pantera (with Kim van Daalen et al) published, “The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action”, The Lancet Public Health

Kairu, A., Mbeche, R., Kotut, K., & Kairo, J. (2024) ‘From centralization to decentralization: Evolution of forest policies and their implications on mangrove management in Kenya’ Forest Policy and Economics, 168, 103290.

Huxham, M., Kairu, A., Lang’at, J. K., Kivugo, R., Mwafrica, M., Huff, A., & Shilland, R. (2023) ‘Rawls in the mangrove: Perceptions of justice in nature‐based solutions projects’, People and Nature, 5(5), 1497-1511.

Xie, K & Huang, Y. (2024) published Becoming a teacher: A gendered risk aversion strategy among aspirational middle-class women in contemporary China. (In English, French and Spanish)

New episodes of two awesome podcasts coming out of IDD are out now:

Localization in World Politics

People, Power, Politics

Nic Cheeseman was elected to the Board of the Afrobarometer, the pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that has changed the face of analysis of African politics through its public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy, and society.

Niheer Dasandi has been appointed the Chair of the Public and Political Engagement Working Group of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change – a Wellcome Trust-funded global inter-disciplinary research collaboration.

Anne Kairu attended ICLD’s Local Democracy Academy, Sweden: 2024 Theme – Research and practice for empowering local democracy, from local initiatives to global transformation, 26-29 August 2024. Her proposal was the best in the Climate Action Thematic Area

Fiona Nunan won the Reviewer of the Year Prize by the editors of  Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE)