Africa State Governance - book party at AU, Monday Sept. 21st

[Carl LeVan (American U.)]

BOOK LAUNCH AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

African State Governance: Subnational Politics and National Power

Monday, September 21 from 3:30 - 5:15

School of International Service, Founder's Room

 

Please join Professors Carl LeVan (American University), Joseph Olayinka Fashagba (Federal University of Nigeria-Lokoja) and Edward R. McMahon (University of Vermont), for a discussion of their new edited volume. Essays on Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Africa's new oil exporters explore how decentralization, party politics, and fiscal federalism are shaping local legislative politics in Africa.

 

Special guests include:

 

Betsy Super, American Political Science Association 

Gretchen Birkle, International Republican Institute

Dave Peterson, National Endowment for Democracy

Olufunmbi Elemo, Michigan State University

Sponsored by AU's School of International Service, and co-sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy and the American Political Science Association. 

The event will be streamed live at http://www.american.edu/sis/events/ 

And you can follow the event on Twitter with #SISEvent

 

A brief reception will follow and discounted books will be available for purchase. Please click here to register and to see a map with the location of the SIS building.