Introduction
Amy R. Poteete is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research explores the politics surrounding natural resources, development, and elections in Africa, particularly in Botswana and Senegal. Another strand of writing concerns methodological issues. Her work considers how political dynamics and institutional arrangements interact to influence (de)centralization in both decision-making and access to valuable resources, as well as how distributional inclusivity/exclusivity in turn influences political dynamics. She is the coauthor, with Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom, of Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (Princeton University Press), which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She received the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for best article in volume 45 of the Journal of Development Studies for her article, “Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana” (April 2009). Other publications include chapters in edited volumes and articles in a variety of journals, including Development and Change, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and World Development.
Expert
Amy R. Poteete is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research explores the politics surrounding natural resources, development, and elections in Africa, particularly in Botswana and Senegal. Another strand of writing concerns methodological issues. Her work considers how political dynamics and institutional arrangements interact to influence (de)centralization in both decision-making and access to valuable resources, as well as how distributional inclusivity/exclusivity in turn influences political dynamics. She is the coauthor, with Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom, of Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (Princeton University Press), which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She received the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for best article in volume 45 of the Journal of Development Studies for her article, “Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana” (April 2009). Other publications include chapters in edited volumes and articles in a variety of journals, including Development and Change, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and World Development.
Fields of expertise: Economic policy / inclusive economic development, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Policy design and delivery, Social change / social transformations