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My paper  “The Roots  of Resilience: Exploring Popular Support for African Traditional Authorities.”  African Affairs, 112 (448): 353 - 376, 2013 was included in Routledge’s recent "Major Works: Critical Concepts in Political Science" series, African Politics collection. This 4 volume collection, edited by Dr. Nic Cheeseman of Oxford University, contains 70 articles from the last 20 years (1996 - 2015)  deemed to 
be "the classic and essential texts of African politics"

The Roots  of Resilience: Exploring Popular Support for African Traditional Authorities

African Studies Association 

American Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association 

International Political Science Association 

Ambitious SDG goal confronts challenging realities: Access to justice is still elusive for many Africans

Togo’s judicial system marked by popular distrust, perceptions of corruption

Popular distrust, perceptions of corruption mark Sierra Leone’s court system

Carolyn Logan is Deputy Director of the Afrobarometer, a collaborative survey research project that conducts public opinion research on the quality of democracy and governance in 20 African countries. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and MSU’s African Studies Center. Logan joined the Afrobarometer in 2001, and the Political Science faculty in 2004. 

Logan’s research interests are in democratization and political development in Africa, especially in East Africa, the Horn and Somaliland. She is particularly interested in the role of “traditional” leaders and institutions in democratization, and in “citizen versus subject” attitudes among African publics. Logan lived and worked in Southern and Eastern Africa for nearly a decade before joining MSU, including in Kenya, Lesotho, Rwanda, Somaliland and Somalia.

African Governance

African Public Opinion

African Politics

African Political Development

African Traditional Leaders

Analysis | Africans find it hard to learn what their governments are up to. It's no surprise many suspect corruption.

Associate Professor of Political Science

MSU's Afrobarometer shows more Africans want democracy — and more think they're getting it, reports Carolyn Logan, MSU assistant professor of political science and deputy director of the Afrobarometer. But findings also show the number of African citizens fully committed to a democratic government remains less than 50 percent.

MSU Afrobarometer reports democracy spread in Africa

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