Anne Pitcher
Joel Samoff Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies, Associate Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
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Anne Pitcher is the Joel Samoff Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is also a Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. Her published work relies on survey research, fieldwork, and spatial approaches to examine electoral and party politics, political economy, the distribution of public goods, and political violence in Africa. Most of her research over the past 30 years has been conducted in Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, South Africa, and more recently, Kenya.
- Anne Pitcher. 2023. States, Markets, and Financial Liberalization in Africa. Africa in World Politics :48-70.
- Heathershaw, John, Anne Pitcher, de Oliveira, Ricardo Soares. 2023. Transnational kleptocracy and the international political economy of authoritarianism. Journal of International Relations and Development
- Monjane, Celso M., Anne Pitcher. 2022. The Elusive Dream of Democracy, Security, and Well-Being in Mozambique. Current History 121(835):177-183.
- Anne Pitcher. 2020. Mozambique elections 2019: Pernicious polarization, democratic decline, and rising authoritarianism. African Affairs 119(476):468-486.
- Pitcher, Anne, Croese, Sylvia . 2019. Ordering power? The politics of state-led housing delivery under authoritarianism - the case of Luanda, Angola. Urban Studies 56(2):401-418.
- Pitcher, Anne. 2019. Political Parties and Political Economy in Africa's Democracies, 1990-2018. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
- Pitcher, Anne. 2018. Entrepreneurial Governance and the Expansion of Public Investment Funds in Africa. Africa in World Politics
- Pitcher, Anne, Teodoro, Manuel P, Segal, Jeffrey A. 2018. The Bureaucracy. Institutions and Democracy in Africa: How the Rules of the Game Shape Political Developments
- Anne Pitcher. 2018. The ASA at 60: Advocacy in an Age of Tyranny. African Studies Review 61(3):8-26.
- Anne Pitcher. 2017. Varieties of Residential Capitalism in Africa: Urban Housing Provision in Luanda and Nairobi. African Affairs 116(464):365-390.