Politics and Governance
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This key area addresses the challenge of understanding the articulation between how a society wants to live (politics) and the coordinated action (governance) undertaken to make this possible. The members wish to focus less on the State and more on the actions and practices constitutive of contexts for politics and governance. In addition to this, the KAA acknowledges the importance of knowledge that addresses practical problems, especially since these and policy issues might be an important source of inspiration for the identification of theoretical, conceptual and methodological challenges.
Projects/Projekte
2025
Baez Camargo, Claudia, Violette Gadenne, Dilhan Perera, Ruth Persian, Richard Sambaiga, and Tobias Stark. 2025. “Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania”. European Journal of Social Psychology. 10.1002/ejsp.3140.
2024
Schubert, Jon. 2024. “‘Magical Math hand‐waving’: The Coloniality of Political Risk Forecasting”. American Ethnologist 4 (51): 580-91. 10.1111/amet.13349.
Schubert, Jon. 2024. “Maintaining a city against nature: climate adaptation in Beira”. Buildings and Cities 5 (1): 35-49. 10.5334/bc.378.
kassa, Saba. 2024. “Navigating the Political Context. Practice Insights and Adaptive Strategies to Strengthen the Anti-Corruption and Asset Recovery Justice Chain”. Working Paper 52. Basel Institute on Governance. https://baselgovernance.org/publications/wp-52.
Aeby, Michael. 2024. “High expectations: Civil society participation in conflict early warning and response systems of the AU, ECOWAS and IGAD”. South African Journal of International Affairs 31 (2): 167-90. 10.1080/10220461.2024.2385935.
2023
Baez-Camargo, Claudia, Jacopo Costa, and Lucy Koechlin. 2023. “Informal Networks As Investment: A Qualitative Analysis from Uganda and Tanzania”. Governance 36 (4): 1165-84. 10.1111/gove.12726.
Heuser, Andreas. 2023. “Der Gottesnomade Und Seine GOD BOX: Werner Herzogs Hommage an Bruce Chatwin”. In Mission in Film Und Literatur. Heuristische Annäherung: Kontexte - Akteur:Innen - Ambivalenzen, edited by Klaus Hock, Claudia Jahnel, and Klaus-Dieter Kaiser, Bd. 1:27-51. Veröffentlichungen Der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie (VWGTh). Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanastalt.
Heuser, Andreas. 2023. “Dominion Theology As a Penumatic Theo-Praxis”. In Politischer Pentekostalismus: Transformationen Des Globalen Christentums Im Spiegel Theologischer Motive Und Pluraler Normativität, edited by Leandro B. Fontana and Markus Luber, Weltkirche und Mission, 18:95-114. Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet.
Heuser, Andreas. 2023. “Interkulturelle Übersetzungszonen Und Religio-Scapes: ‘Aussereuropäisches Christentum’”. Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft Und Religionswissenschaft (ZMR) 107 (1-2): 104-12.
Baez-Camargo, Claudia, and Jacopo Costa. 2023. “Culture and Corruption”. In Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Corruption Law. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elgar-concise-encyclopedia-of-corruption-law-9781802206487.html.
Michael, Aeby. 2023. “CEWARN’s Strategy Framework and Civil Society Partnership: Lessons for Early Warning and Response Systems”. ACCORD.
2022
Costa, Jacopo. 2022. “Structures, Functions and Flows of IWT: Deconstructing a Criminal Network Between East Africa and Southeast Asia”. Crime, Law and Social Change 77 (5): 577-601. 10.1007/s10611-021-10009-8.
Baez-Camargo, Claudia, Jacopo Costa, Cosimo Stahl, and Saba Kassa. 2022. “Informal networks and anti-corruption”. Quick Guide Series 23. Basel Institute on Governance. https://baselgovernance.org/publications/quick-guide-23-informal-networks-and-anti-corruption. edoc | Open Access
Baez-Camargo, Claudia, and Gayle Burgess. 2022. “Behavioural drivers of corruption facilitating illegal wildlife trade - Problem analysis and state of the field review”. Working paper 39. Basel Institute on Governance. https://baselgovernance.org/publications/wp-39.
Baez-Camargo, Claudia. 2022. “Developing anti-corruption interventions addressing social norms: Lessons from a field pilot in Tanzania”. Working Paper. Basel Insititute on Governance. https://baselgovernance.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/220726_WP-40.pdf. edoc | Open Access
Heuser, Andreas. 2022. “Afrikanische Unabhängige Kirchen (African Independent Churches)”. In Theologie(n) Afrika: Ausgewählte Schlüsselbegriffe in Einem Umstrittenen Diskursfeld, edited by Klaus Hock and Claudia Jahnel, 55-76. Veröffentlichungen Der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie (VWGTh). Leipzig: EVA - Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
Heuser, Andreas. 2022. “‘Rhizomatische’ Rekonstruktion: Afrikanische Unabhängige Kirchen in Globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive”. Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft Und Religionswissenschaft ZMR 106: 372-80.
2021
Costa, Jacopo, Claudia Baez-Camargo, Saba Kassa, and Robert Lugolobi. 2021. “The Role of Informal Networks in Promoting Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Qualitative Analysis from Uganda”. Trends in Organized Crime, 1-23. 10.1007/s12117-021-09433-y.
Heuser, Andreas. 2021. “Pfingstbewegung Und Megakirchen - Neue Forschungstrends”. Verkündigung Und Forschung (VuF) 66 (2): 84-103.
Förster, Till. 2021. “Stammesgesellschaft”. In Staatslexikon, edited by Heinrich Oberreuter, Band 5:712-17. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder Verlag.
Heuser, Andreas. 2021. “Zerbrochener Spiegel: Von Lernorten Der Ökumene Zu ökumenischen Nicht-Orten. Die EKD-Thesenreihe Zur ökumenischen Ausbildung Im Spiegel Aktueller Kirchenpolitischer Entwicklungen”. Interkulturelle Theologie 47 (2): 215-19.
Kassa, Saba, Claudia Baez-Camargo, Jacopo Costa, and Robert Lugolobi. 2021. “Determinants and Drivers of Wildlife Trafficking: A Qualitative Analysis in Uganda”. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 24 (3-4): 314-42. 10.1080/13880292.2021.2019381.
2020
Costa, Jacopo. 2020. “Examining wildlife trafficking networks in East Africa through the lens of social network analysis”. Basel Institute on Governance. edoc | Open Access
Heuser, Andreas. 2020. “Megachurches, Dominion Theology and Development”. In Does Religion Make a Difference? Religious NGOs in International Development Collaboration, edited by Andreas Heuser and Jens Koehrsen, 243-62. Religion - Wirtschaft - Politik. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 10.5771/9783748907633-243. edoc
Heuser, Andreas, and Jens Koehrsen. 2020. “From a Quiet Revolution to the Tolerance of Ambiguity: Religious NGOs in International Development Discourse”. In Does Religion Make a Difference? Religious NGOs in International Development Collaboration, edited by Andreas Heuser and Jens Koehrsen, 13-40. Religion - Wirtschaft - Politik. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 10.5771/9783748907633-13. edoc
Heuser, Andreas, and Jens Koehrsen, eds. 2020. Does Religion Make a Difference? Religious NGOs in International Development Collaboration. Vol. 20. Religion-Wirtschaft-Politik. Baden-Baden: Nomos - Pano-Verlag. edoc
2019
Baez-Camargo, Claudia, Abel Dufitumukiza, Egidius Kamanyi, Robert Lugolobi, Saba Kassa, and Cosimo Stahl. 2019. “Social Norms and Attitudes Towards Corruption: Comparative Insights from East Africa”. In Corruption, Social Sciences and the Law. Exploration across the Disciplines, edited by Jane Ellis, 223-37. The Law of Financial Crime. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Corruption-Social-Sciences-and-the-Law-Exploration-across-the-disciplines/Ellis/p/book/9780367186418. edoc
Förster, Till. 2019. “Europe Far and Close: African Migrants and the Imagination of Europe”. In Competing Perspectives: Figures of Image Control, edited by Günter Blamberger and Dietrich Boschung, 315-37. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. edoc
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Contact
Dr. Saba Kassa
Senior Public Governance Specialist (Basel Institute on Governance)
+41 61 205 55 36
saba.kassa@clutterbaselgovernance.org