Jaimie Bleck

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Jaimie Bleck is the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Chair and professor of international relations at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Prior to this, she served as an associate professor of political science and the senior research advisor for the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity at the Kellogg Institute. She was a faculty fellow at the institute for 14 years and continues to be a co-PI of the African Governance Innovations Lab (AGIL) along with Bernard Forjwuor and Lamin Keita at the University of Notre Dame.

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Journal Articles

Bleck, Jaimie, Jacopo Bonan, Philippe Lemay-Boucher, and Bassirou Sarr. “Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust and Trustworthiness in Mali.” American Political Science Review, 118, no.2 (2023).

Friesen, Paul , Jaimie Bleck, and Kevin Fridy. “Personality, Community, and Politics: Relating the Five Factor Model to Political Behavior in an African Setting.” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 60, no. 2 (2022): 190-211.

Coauthors. “Is Women’s Empowerment Associated with Political Knowledge and Opinions? Evidence from Rural Mali,” World Development, vol. 106, pp. 299-323 (2018)

“Weak States and Uneven Pluralism: Lessons from Mali and Kyrgyzstan,” (with Igor Logvinenko) Democratization 25, 5: 804-823 (2018)

Coauthors. "Capturing the Airwaves, Capturing the Nation? A Field Experiment on State-Run Media Effects in the Wake of a Coup,"Journal of Politics 79, 3: 873-889 (2017)

“The Malian Crisis and the Lingering Problem of Good Governance,” (with Abdoulaye Dembele and Sidiki Guindo), Stability: International Journal of Security & Development 5, 1: 1–18 (2016)

Coauthors. "The 2012 Crisis in Mali: Ongoing Empirical State Failure," African Affairs 114, 457: 598-623 (2015)

“Education for All? Education for Whom? Education for What? Lessons from Mali” (with Mody Bouboucar Guindo), Development in Practice 23, 8: 1004–1017 (2013)

“Valence Issues in African Elections: Navigating Uncertainty and the Weight of the Past,” (with Nicolas van de Walle), Comparative Political Studies 46, 11: 1394–1421 (2013)

“Do Francophone and Islamic Schooling Communities Participate Differently? Disaggregating Parents’ Political Behavior in Mali,” Journal of Modern African Studies 51, 3: 377-408 (2013)

“Parties and Issues in Francophone West Africa: Towards a Theory of Non-mobilization” (with Nicolas van de Walle), Democratization 18, 5 (2011)

Books

Bleck, Jaimie, and Van De Walle, Nicolas. Electoral Politics in Africa since 1990 : Continuity in Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)

Working Papers

What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya
Working Paper Number: 437
Published: July 2020

Other Accomplishments & Recognitions

Kellogg Institute's Undergraduate Mentoring Award 2021-22
2014-2015 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
2014 USAID DRG Innovation Grant
Lynne Rienner Award for Best Dissertation in African Politics from the American Political Science Association’s Africa Politics Conference Group (APCG) - 2011
2012 National Science Foundation Seed Grant
Spencer Foundation Research Grant

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A Natural Fit: Social Ethicist to Lead Ford Program In Spring

Oct 30, 2018

Social ethicist Clemens Sedmak will serve as acting director of the Ford Program in the spring of 2019. He said migration is one of the most divisive problems facing Europe and the United States.

Feature

Making Research Plans a Reality in East Africa

Sep 8, 2018

In recent years, the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity has made major strides towards its goal of high-quality, community-based research in the developing world. In that endeavor, Regional Research Programs Manager for East Africa Jackline Oluoch-Aridi, who opened the program’s first field office in Nairobi five years ago, plays a key role.

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Nairobi Workshop Hones Research Agenda on Catholic Ed

Jul 13, 2018

Nearly two dozen educators and researchers met last month at the Catholic Education Research Workshop in Nairobi.

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Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Chair and Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University

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