Leonardo Arriola
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Email: larriola@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-5310
Office Location: 776 Barrows
Office Hours: Th 2:00-4:00
Fall 2008 Course: PS146A African Politics,
PS249A Ethnic Politics
Phone: (510) 642-5310
Office Location: 776 Barrows
Office Hours: Th 2:00-4:00
Fall 2008 Course: PS146A African Politics,
PS249A Ethnic Politics
Leonardo Arriola studies ethnic politics, party systems, and political economy in Africa. His current research focuses on the formation of multiethnic electoral coalitions among opposition parties in Africa. He has conducted field research in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Senegal. He has previously been a Fulbright scholar at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University, a visiting researcher at the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, and a predoctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He earned a BA from Claremont McKenna College, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and a PhD in political science from Stanford.
Recent Articles and Papers
- "Patronage and Political Stability in Africa."
Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies. - "Ethnicity, Economic Conditions, and Opposition Support: Evidence from Ethiopia’s 2005 Elections."
Forthcoming in Northeast African Studies. - "The Ethiopian Voter: Assessing Economic and Ethnic Influences with Survey Data."
International Journal of Ethiopian Studies 3, 1 (2007), 73-90.