Palgrave series “Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century.” Panel of books in the series. The Quality of Democracy in Africa. Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual International Digital Conference 2021. Queen’s University Belfast, 29–31 March 2021 (Link to presentation video)
Re-/Insuring Businesses in Politically Unstable Contexts. Presentation at Doing Business in Fragile States panel of the Danish Institute for International studies (DIIS). GOVSEA DIIS Copenhagen, 23.04.2019
The Quality of Democracy in Africa – Opposition Competitiveness Rooted in Legacies of Cleavages. Book Launch at the 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 29 June 2017, University of Basel, Switzerland.
The Roots of Political Parties in Africa. Paper presentation at APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 3–6, 2015.
Legacies of Center-Periphery Cleavages and the Quality of Democracy in Africa. Presentation at CIS Annual Colloquium at Zürichberg, 10 June 2015
Poster presentation: The Quality of Democracy in Africa The Significance of Legacies of Cleavages and Opposition Competitiveness. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien. Schweizerische Tage der Afrika-Forschung 2014, Universität Bern, October 17, 2014.
The Importance of Competitive Opposition Parties for Democratic Consolidation in Africa, Paper presentation at 4th EPSA Annual Conference, Edinburgh, June 19–21, 2014.
South African Leverage and the 2012 Elections in Lesotho: Rotten-door Transition without Democratic Consolidation?, paper presentation for the workshop Electoral Authoritarianism and Democratization in Africa, Leuphana University Luneburg, November 7–8, 2013.
Discussant at the international workshop Party Systems and the Future of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa of the Centre for Studies in Democratisation, University of Warwick, September 22–24, 2011.
Elite-Mass Congruence in African Dominant Party Systems: The Cases of Botswana and Lesotho, paper presentation for the IPSA-ECPR Joint Conference, University of Sao Paulo, February 16– 19, 2011.
Dominance and Fluidity: Conceptualizing and Explaining Party System Characteristics in Sub-Saharan Africa, paper presentation for the 68th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 22–25, 2010.
A Comparison of Measurements for the Identification of Party Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, poster presentation for the 2009 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3–6, 2009.
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