Associate Professor
Ph.D. Jacobs University Bremen (Germany)
Sebastian Elischer is an associate professor of political science. His research examines the effects of institutions and identities on state-building and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has published on these topics in Comparative Politics, Democratization, African Affairs, Review of African Political Economy and similar peer-reviewed journals. His first book, Political Parties and Ethnicity, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. It examines the salience of ethnicity at the aggregate level of parties across the African continent. His second book, Salafism and Political Order in Africa, traces the emergence of homegrown jihadi Salafi violence to a set of specific state building strategies in the religious sphere.