Team Members
Lise Rakner – Project Leader
Professor of Political Science, University of Bergen
Senior Researcher (20%), Chr. Michelsen Institute
Political scientist focusing on democratization, human rights, economic reform, taxation, institutional change and international aid.
As project leader, Lise has a hand in all dimensions of the project, but with a particular focus on contestation, association and gender rights.
Publications
Don’t Touch My Constitution! Civil Society Resistance to Democratic Backsliding in Africa’s Pluralist Regimes
Lise Rakner (2021)
Special Issue Article In: Global Policy
Do women face a different standard? The interplay of gender and corruption in the 2014 presidential elections in Malawi
Boniface Dulani, Lise Rakner, Lindsay Benstead & Vibeke Wang (2021)
In: Women’s Studies International Forum
Paying to Party: Candidate Resources and Party Switching in New Democracies
Leonardo R. Arriola, Donghyun Danny Choi, Justine M. Davis, Melanie L. Phillips & Lise Rakner (2021)
In: Party Politics
Democratic Rollback in Africa
Lise Rakner (2019)
In Nic Cheeseman: The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics. Oxford University Press.
The perfect enemy: From migrants to sexual minorities
Siri Gloppen, Lise Rakner (2019)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:05) 4 p.
Breaking BAD: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy in Africa
Lise Rakner (2018)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2018:1)
The Impact of elections: The case of Uganda
Svein-Erik Helle, Lise Rakner (2017)
In Johannes Gerschewski, Christoph H. Stefes: Crisis in Autocratic Regimes. Lynne Rienner Publishers pp. 111-134