Emmanuel Aiyede

Emmanuel Remi Aiyede is Professor of Political Institutions, Governance and Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan.  He is the former Sub-Dean, Faculty of the Social Sciences (2012-2014) and former Coordinator, Leadership and Governance Programme (2010- 2014), Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan. He was also Visiting Scholar, The Electoral Institute, Independent National Electoral Commission, Abuja (2016-2017), and Visiting Fellow, Transregional Centre for Democratic Studies (TCDS) New School University, New York, 2000.  He began his career as a Fellow at the Governance Unit of the Development Policy Centre (DPC), an independent think tank in Ibadan in 1998, after a brief stint in journalism.  He taught at the University of Lagos, before joining the University of Ibadan in 2005. He has had visiting lectureship experience in several universities within and outside Africa. He has been on the Editorial Board of Nigeria’s oldest surviving newspaper, the Nigerian Tribune, since 2008.  He contributes to public discourse in the Nigerian news media. His recent publications include: The Proliferation of Political Parties and Election Management in Nigeria (2018), and “Civil Society Efficacy, Citizenship and Empowerment in Africa” in Voluntas (2017). His article “The Dynamics of Civil Society and the Democratisation Process in Nigeria” Canadian Journal of African Studies (2003) won a medal in the World Bank prize for Outstanding Research in Development of the Global Development Network (GDN). His article on Fiscal Federalism and the Dilemma of Constructing a Developmental State in Nigeria in the International Political Science Review (2009) is one of the 50 most cited articles in the Sage and the Journal website for several years.
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Address: Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria