Faculty: Jennifer Brass
Selected Works:

• "The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense," (with A. Schnable, A.J. DeMattee, R.Sullivan Robinson, W. Longhofer), VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (2021)
• Allies or Adversaries? NGOs and the State in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press (August 2016)
  • Winner of the 2018 ARNOVA Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Award
  • Dissertation version of the book won the Lynne Reinner Best Dissertation on African Politics Award from the African Politics Conference Group section of APSA
•  “Do Service Provision NGOs Perform Civil Society Functions? Evidence of NGOs’ Positive Effect on Democratic Participation,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, (2021)
• “International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among Donors, NGOs, and Academics,”  (with A. Schnable, A. DeMattee, R. Sullivan Robinson), Journal of Development Studies, 57 (1) 26-44 (2020)
• “Spatial Analysis of Bureaucrats’ Attempts to Resist Political Capture in a Developing Democracy: The Distribution of Solar Panels in Ghana,” (with J. Schon, E. Baldwin and L. M. MacLean), Political Geography, 76 (2020)
• "Political Autonomy and Resistance in Electricity Sector Liberalization in Africa," (with C. Gore, E. Baldwin, and L.M. MacLean), World Development (2018)
• "NGOs and International Development: A Review of Thirty-five Years of Scholarship," (with W. Longhofer, R.S. Robinson, A. Schnable), World Development, v112, 136-149 (2018)

Reports and Publications:

• "Political Autonomy & Resistance in Electricity Sector Liberalization in Africa," (with C. Gore, E. Baldwin, and L. Mathews Morris MacLean), World Development, 120: 193-209 (2019)
• "Access to the Grid and Reduced Political Participation in Africa: Is There an Anti-Politics of Electricity?" (with K. Harris and L. Mathews Morris MacLean), Afrobarometer Working Paper Series, 182 (2019)
• “Expectations of Power: The Politics of State-Building and Access to Electricity Provision in Ghana and Uganda,” (with L. MacLean, C. Gore, E. Baldwin) , Journal of African Political Development (December 2016)
• “Development theory: Trends in governance since independence,” in Handbook on Theories of Governance C. Ansell and J. Torfing, (Eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing. (2016).
• “Democracy and the distribution of NGOs promoting renewable energy in Africa,” (with S. Carley, A. el-Arini, S. Breen and L. M. MacLean), Journal of Development Studies. (2015)
• “Foreign Aid, NGOs and the Private Sector: New Forms of Hybridity in Renewable Energy Provision in Kenya and Uganda,” (with L.M. MacLean) Africa Today 62 (1) 57-82 (Fall 2015)
  
• “Blurring the boundaries: NGOs and government in Kenyan service provision,” in The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South (M. Cammet and L. M. Maclean (Eds.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2014)
• “Context-based instruction: What traditional social science disciplines offer to nonprofit management education,” (with M. G. Baggetta) Journal of Public Affairs Education 20 (4): 579-596 (2014)
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• “Global Expansion of Renewable Energy Generation: An Analysis of Policy Instruments,” (with S. Carley, E. Baldwin, L. Mathews Morris MacLean), Environmental and Resource Economics, 68 (2) 397-440 (October 2017)
• “Global Renewable Electricity Policy: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Countries by Income Status,” (with E. Baldwin, S. Carley, L. Mathews Morris MacLean), Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 19 (3) 277-298 (2017)
• “Electrification and rural development: issues of scale in distributed generation,” (with E. Baldwin, S. Carley, L. Mathews Morris MacLean), WIREs Energy and Environment, 4 (2) 196-211, (2015)
• “Scandals, media and government responsiveness in China and Kenya,” (with J. H. Hassid), Journal of Asian and African Studies, (May 2014)
• “Power for development: A review of distributed generation projects in the developing world,” (with E. Baldwin, S. Carley, and L. M. MacLean), Annual Review of Environment & Resources, 37 : 107-36 (2012)
• Jennifer N. Brass. "The Political Economy of Livestock Policy: The Case of Djibouti." Addis Ababa and Djibouti: Intergovernmental Authority on Development Livestock Policy Initiative. 2008.
• Jennifer N. Brass. "Blurring Boundaries: The Integration of NGOs into Kenyan Governance." Governance. (Forthcoming).
• Brass, Jennifer. "Djibouti's Unusual Resource Curse." Journal of Modern African Studies. 46:4, 523-545. 2008.
• Does Patronage Still Drive Politics for the Rural Poor in the Developing World? A Comparative Perspective from the Livestock Sector with David K. Leonard, Michael Nelson, Sophal Ear, Dan Fahey, Tasha Fairfield, Martha Johnson Gning, Michael Halderman, Brendan McSherry, Devra C. Moehler, Wilson Prichard, Robin Turner, Tuong Vu and Jeroen Dijkman, in Development &$38; Change. 41:3, 475-494.
• Jennifer N. Brass. "The Political Economy of Livestock Policy: The Case of Djibouti." Addis Ababa and Djibouti: Intergovernmental Authority on Development Livestock Policy Initiative. 2008.
• Brendan McSherry and Jennifer N. Brass. "The Political Economy of Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Reform in Kenya." Addis Ababa and Djibouti: Intergovernmental Authority on Development Livestock Policy Initiative. 2008.
• Brendan McSherry and Jennifer N. Brass. "The Political Economy of Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Reform in Kenya." Addis Ababa and Djibouti: Intergovernmental Authority on Development Livestock Policy Initiative. 2008.
• Brass, Jennifer N. "Why Do NGOs Go Where They Go" Evidence from Kenya. World Development. 40:2, 387-401 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.017. (online 2011) . 2012.