Catherine Boone

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor of Government
Affiliation	University of Texas, Austin
Email	cboone@mail.la.utexas.edu
Mailing Address	University of Texas at Austin BUR 536 Austin, Texas 78712-1087 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 512 471 5121 fax: 512 471 1061
Countries of Specialization	Côte d'Ivoire
Publications	Books Political Topographies of the African State: Rural Authority and Institutional Choice (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Merchant power and the roots of state power in Senegal, 1930-1985 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Articles "State, Capital, and the Politics of Banking Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa," forthcoming in Comparative Politics, 2004 "Decentralization as Political Strategy in West Africa," Comparative Political Studies, vol. 36, n. 4, May 2003. "Politics and AIDS in Africa: Research Agendas in Political Science and International Relations," with Jake Batsell, Africa Today, vol. 48, n. 2, 2001: 3-35. "From Statism to Liberalism in Senegal: Shifting Politics of Indigenous Business Interests," with Ibrahima Thioub and Momar Coumba Diop, African Studies Review, vol. 41, n. 2 (July), 1998. "State Building in the African Countryside: Structure and Process at the Grassroots," Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 34, n. 4 (April) 1998. (corrigenda in Vol. 35, n. 1, October 1998). "The social origins of Ivoirian exceptionalism: rural society and state formation," in Comparative Politics (27; July 1995): 445-63. (Côte d'Ivoire)
Keywords	state formation ; politics ; government ; business