Peer-reviewed publications
I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics with Nicole Beardsworth and Gabrielle Lynch.
Dan Paget. 'Reinterpreting Authoritarian Populism: The Elitist Plebeian Vision of State.' Political Studies advanced access. Open access.
Dan Paget. 'A People Power Philosophy: Republican Ideology in Opposition in Tanzania.' Democratization 30, 3 (2023), 398-418. Click to download.
Dan Paget. 'Tanzania: The Authoritarian Landslide.’ Journal of Democracy 32, 2 (2021), 61-76. Click to download.
Dan Paget. 'Mistaken for Populism: Magufuli, Ambiguity, and Elitist Plebeianism in Tanzania’, Journal of Political Ideologies 26, 2 (2021), 121-141. Click to download.
Dan Paget. 'Again, Making Tanzania Great: Magufuli’s Restorationist Developmental Nationalism', Democratization 27, 7 (2020), 1240-1260. Click to download.
Dan Paget. 'The Rally-Intensive Campaign: A Distinct Form of Electioneering in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond’, The International Journal of Press/Politics 24,4 (2019), pp. 444-464. Click to download.
Dan Paget. 'The Authoritarian Origins of Well-Organised Opposition Parties: The Rise of Chadema in Tanzania’, African Affairs 118, 473 (2019) pp. 692-711. Click to download.
Book chapters
'Tanzania: Narrating the Eradication of Covid-19.' In Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19 (Routledge, 2022). Book available open access here.
'Programmatic Politics in Comparative Perspective', in The Emergence of Programmatic Political Parties (Stockholm: International IDEA, 2014), with Nic Cheeseman.
Policy publications
'Guidance for Governments: Managing Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (Ottawa: Intergovernmental Forum for Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development, 2017), with Nicholas Garrett, and Alec Crawford.
'Programmatic Politics' (Stockholm, 2013), edited with Nic Cheeseman.
Selected invited presentations
'Populist or elitist plebeian?'
Democracy in Africa Seminar Series. Cape Town University, March 2022.
'Elitist plebeianism and pandemic in Tanzania.'
Populism and the Pandemic Series. University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2020.
'Tanzania’s 2020 Election: What’s at Stake?'
Danish Institute for International Studies, October 2020.
Campaign modernization without mediatization: Capitalizing rallies and parties in Tanzania.’
Working Group for African Political Economy (WGAPE), London School of Economics and Political Science, March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).
African Studies Seminar, Centre for African Studies, University of Oxford, May 2017.
'Improvising, field research and ethnography during a rally-intensive campaign'
Qualitative Methods in Practice: Special Event Series, University College London, October 2019.
‘The Rally-Intensive Campaign: A Distinct Form of Electioneering in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond.’
Political Parties in Southern Africa Workshop, University of Cape Town, December 2018.
‘The Authoritarian Origins of Well-Organised Opposition Parties: The Rise of Chadema in Tanzania.’
Africa Talks, Department of African Studies and Anthropology in collaboration with the International Development Department, University of Birmingham, March 2017.
African History and Politics Seminar, University of Oxford, February 2017.
‘Rally Supporters, Canvass Swing Voters: Segmented Targeting in Tanzania.’
Democratization Seminar Series, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, November 2016.
Graduate Research Seminar, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, June 2016.
‘When There’s No Party, Nobody Comes: Campaign Rally Attendance in Rural Tanzania.’
Africa Research Forum, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, March 2016.
Selected workshop and conference presentations
‘Moving the crowd: Mobilising and persuading at rallies in Africa.’
International Journal of Press/Politics Fifth Conference, Loughborough University, September 2019.
Elections, Parties and Public Opinion (EPOP) Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, September 2019.
Political Science Association Annual Conference, Nottingham, April 2019.
'Mistaken for populism: Magufuli, ambiguity, and elite plebeianism in Tanzania.’
Political Science Association (PSA) International Annual Conference, Edinburgh, April 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).
Political Science Association (PSA) International Annual Conference, Nottingham, April 2019.
‘Campaign modernization without mediatization: Capitalizing rallies and parties in Tanzania.’
Political Science Association (PSA) International Annual Conference, Edinburgh, April 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).
Media and Politics Annual Conference, University of Leeds, December 2019.
African Politics Conference Group-endorsed panel at African Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2017.
European Conference for African Studies, University of Basel, July 2017.
‘The Rally-Intensive Campaign: A Distinct Mode of Electioneering in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond.’
African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Boston November 2019.
European Conference of African Studies (ECAS), University of Edinburgh June 2019.
International Journal of Press/Politics Annual Conference, University of Oxford, October 2018.
Organised the panel entitled 'The Causes and Consequences of Election Campaign Rallies', which was sponsored by the African Political Conference Group, at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, November 2017.
‘The Authoritarian Origins of Well-Organised Opposition Parties: The Rise of Chadema in Tanzania.’
European Conference on African Studies, University of Basel, July 2017.
The Arusha Declaration @50, University of Edinburgh, February 2017.
African Studies Associated United Kingdom Biennial Conference, Cambridge, September 2016.
‘Rally Supporters, Canvass Swing Voters: Segmented Targeting in Tanzania.’
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, September 2016.
‘When There’s No Party, Nobody Comes: Campaign Rally Attendance in Rural Tanzania.’
International Political Science Association Annual Conference, Poznan, July 2016.
Researching East Africa Day, University of Warwick, May 2016.
‘Inter-factional competition and-interparty competition: nested games in the Movement for Multiparty Democracy in Zambia 2001- 2011.’
African Studies Associated United Kingdom Biennial Conference, Cambridge, September 2016.