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Prof. Dr. Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg
Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Politik Afrikas und Entwicklungspolitik
CV
| 2022 – heute | Professor für Politikwissenschaft: Politik Afrikas & Entwicklungspolitik |
| 2022 – 2025 | Stellvertretender Leiter der Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) |
| 2015 – 2021 | Juniorprofessor für Politik Afrikas und Entwicklungspolitik sowie Senior Fellow BIGSAS |
| 2006 – 2015 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Institut für Afrika-Studien, Hamburg; daneben Lehraufträge an den Universitäten Abomey-Calavi, Heidelberg und Lüneburg |
| 2012 | Promotion an der Universität Hamburg |
| 2005 | Magister der Politischen Wissenschaft, des Öffentlichen Rechts/ Völkerrechts und der Politikwissenschaft Südasiens an der Universität Heidelberg |
Funktionen & Mitgliedschaften
- Studiengangsmoderator & Prüfungsausschussvorsitzender des Master-Programms Development Studies sowie Prüfungsausschussvorsitzender des European Interdisciplinary Master in African Studies (EIMAS)
- Mitglied im Trägerverein und im Forschungsausschuss des Arnold-Bergsträsser-Instituts (ABI) an der Universität Freiburg
- Mitglied in einem Auswahlgremium für Stipendien des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD)
- American Political Science Association (APSR)
- Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW)
- International Political Science Association (IPSA)
- Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (VAD)
Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Politik Afrikas und Entwicklungspolitik
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Thematisch:
- Vergleichende Demokratieforschung / Regimeforschung
- Institutionen in Demokratisierungsprozessen
- Politische Rolle von Verfassungsgerichten
- Parteien, Parteiensysteme und Wahlen in Afrika
Regional:
- insb. frankophones Westafrika
- ergänzend Ruanda
Publikationen (Auswahl)
Monographien / Bücher
- Dressel, Björn, Raul Sanchez-Urribarri, and Alexander Stroh. 2014. 'Informality and Courts: Comparative Perspectives'. 2024. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Stroh, Alexander (2014), Erfolgsbedingungen politischer Parteien im frankophonen Afrika, Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Barbara Budrich.
Referierte Aufsätze
- Kisakye, Diana, and Alexander Stroh. 2024. ‘Informality and Relations in International Judicial Appointments: Evidence from Sub-Regional Courts in Africa’. The African Review 1(aop): 1–27.
- Sabbi, Matthew, Alexander Stroh, and Dieter Neubert. 2022. ‘Paradoxes of Local Self-governance: Legitimation Strategies of Rural Councillors Under National and Global Influences in Africa’. In Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood. Edited by Dieter Neubert, Hans-Joachim Lauth, and Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach. Springer.
- Stroh, Alexander. 2021. 'Traces of socialism in Burkina Faso’s party system: the trajectory of Sankarism in times of political liberalization'. Canadian Journal of African Studies 55 (2), 351-371.
- Sabbi, Matthew, and Alexander Stroh. 2020. 'The 'Numbers Game': Strategic Reactions to Results-Based Development Assistance in Ghana'. Studies in Comparative International Development 55 (1), 77-98.
- Stroh, Alexander. 2018. 'Sustaining and Jeopardizing a Credible Arbiter: Judicial Networks in Benin’s Consolidating Democracy', IPSR 39 (5), 600-615.
- Björn Dressel, Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí & Alexander Stroh (2017): The Informal Dimension of Judicial Politics: A Relational Perspective, ARLSS 13: 413-440.
- Mariana Llanos / Cordula Tibi Weber / Charlotte Heyl / Alexander Stroh (2015), Informal Interference in the Judiciary in New Democracies: A Comparison of Six African and Latin American Cases, in: Democratization (online first)
- Stroh, Alexander / Heyl, Charlotte (2015), Institutional Diffusion, Strategic Insurance and the Creation of West African Constitutional Courts, in: Comparative Politics, 47, 2, 169-187.
- Basedau, Matthias / Stroh, Alexander (2012), How ethnic are African parties really? Evidence from Francophone Africa, in: International Political Science Review, 33, 1, 5-24.
- Basedau, Matthias / Stroh, Alexander (2011), Do Party Systems Make Democracy Work? A Comparative Test of Party System Characteristics and Democratization in Francophone Africa, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 1, 173-200.
- Basedau, Matthias / Erdmann, Gero / Lay, Jann / Stroh, Alexander (2011), Ethnicity and Party Preferences in sub-Saharan Africa, in: Democratization, 18, 2, 462-489.
- Stroh, Alexander (2010), Electoral rules of the authoritarian game: Undemocratic effects of proportional representation in Rwanda, in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, 4, 1, 1-19.
- Stroh, Alexander (2010), The Power of Proximity: A Concept of Political Party Strategies Applied to the Case of Burkina Faso, in: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 28, 1, 1-29.
Weitere Aufsätze
- Stroh, Alexander (2015), Benin, in: Sebastian Elischer et al. (eds.), Africa Yearbook 2014, Leiden: Brill, 41-47.
- Stroh, Alexander (2011), Some Competition, Little Change: The 2005 Elections in Burkina Faso, in: Abdoulaye Saine / Boubacar N'Diaye / Mathurin Houngnikpo (eds.), Elections and Democratization in West Africa, 1990-2009, Trenton: Africa World Press, 273-302.
- Stroh, Alexander (2010), Interne Machtdynamiken in afrikanischen Parteiorganisationen, in: Uwe Jun / Benjamin Höhne (eds.), Parteien als fragmentierte Organisationen, Opladen: Barbara Budrich, 153-178.
Aktuelle Arbeitspapiere und Kurzanalysenufsätze
- Stroh, Alexander (2016), The Consequences of Appointment Policies for Court Legitimacy in Benin: A Network Analysis Approach, GIGA Working Paper, No. 281, February 2016, Hamburg: GIGA.
- Llanos, Mariana / Tibi Weber, Cordula / Heyl, Charlotte / Stroh, Alexander (2014), Informal Interference in the Judiciary in New Democracies: A Comparison of Six African and Latin American Cases, GIGA Working Paper, No. 245, April 2014, Hamburg: GIGA.
- Heyl, Charlotte / Stroh, Alexander (2014), Verfassungsgerichte in Westafrika: unabhängige Krisenmanager?, GIGA Focus Afrika, 01/2014, Hamburg: GIGA.
- Stroh, Alexander (2013), Stabilitätsanker Verfassung: kleine Reformen und große Ängste in Benin, GIGA Focus Afrika, 04/2013, Hamburg: GIGA.
- Stroh, Alexander / Elischer, Sebastian / Erdmann, Gero (2012), Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective, GIGA Working Paper, No. 197, June 2012, Hamburg: GIGA.
Aktuelle Vorträge
- Les partis politiques, les présidents et le peuple: Participation électorale en Afrique de l’Ouest, Atelier « Les élections dans l’espace ouest-africain de 1990 à nos jours », Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Abidjan, Grand Bassam, 12.11.2015
- Zur aktuellen politischen Lage in Burkina Faso, Runder Tisch "Kommunale Partnerschaften", Engagement Global, Hofheim am Taunus, 06.11.2015
- Demokratieforschung und Verfassungsgerichte: Wie die sozio-politische Verortung von Richtern in Benin die demokratische Entwicklung bedroht, Ethnologisches Kolloquium, Universität Bayreuth, 20.10.2015
- The Consequences of Appointment Policies for Court Legitimacy in Benin, ECPR General Conference, Montréal, 29.08.2015
- Judicial Independence, Informal Interference and Judicial Networks, Bergen Exchanges on Law and Social Transformation, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, 21.08.2015
- Demokratisierung in Afrika: Erfolge und aktuelle Herausforderungen, Nürnberger Sicherheitstagung „Die Europäische Union und Afrika“, Nürnberg, 18.06.2015
- Parteiensysteme und Wahlwettbewerb in Afrika: Nationale Aggregate und lokale Realitäten, Symposium zum Gedenken an Gero Erdmann, GIGA, Hamburg, 08.06.2015
Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Politik Afrikas und Entwicklungspolitik
Publikationen
2026
Stroh, Alexander
The ambiguities of rapid enlargement in regional organisations and prospects for East African r ...
In: The Round Table : The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies Bd. 115 (2026) Heft 2. - S. 241-259
doi:10.1080/00358533.2026.2641039 ...
Osterberg-Kaufmann, Norma; Weissenbach, Kristina; Stroh, Alexander; Weiffen, Brigitte; Noesselt, Nele; Pickel, Susanne; Richter, Thomas; Faas, Thorsten
Polykrise als globales Phänomen? Perspektiven aus der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft
In: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Bd. 20 (2026)
doi:10.1007/s12286-026-00656-3 ...
2024
Informality and Courts : Comparative Perspectives
Hrsg.: Dressel, Björn; Sanchez-Urribarri, Raul; Stroh, Alexander
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024. - 328 S.
Stroh, Alexander; Kisakye, Diana
Informality and Multi-level Judicial Appointment Processes in African Regional Courts
Informality and Courts : Comparative Perspectives
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024. - S. 246-266
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.17381668.1 ...
Kisakye, Diana; Stroh, Alexander
Informality and Relations in International Judicial Appointments : Evidence from Sub-regional C ...
In: The African Review Bd. 53 (2024) Heft 1-2. - S. 110-136
doi:10.1163/1821889x-bja10139 ...
Stroh, Alexander; Kisakye, Diana
Major structural elements and appointment criteria to African Regional Courts with references to Tre ...
2024
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007471 ...
2022
Sabbi, Matthew; Stroh, Alexander; Neubert, Dieter
Paradoxes of Local Self-governance : Legitimation Strategies of Rural Councillors Under Nationa ...
Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood : Tensions and Cooperation
Cham : Springer, 2022. - S. 51-74
doi:10.1007/978-3-031-14996-2_3 ...
2021
Stroh, Alexander
Traces of socialism in Burkina Faso's party system : the trajectory of Sankarism in times of po ...
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies = Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines Bd. 55 (2021) Heft 2. - S. 351-371
doi:10.1080/00083968.2020.1850306 ...
2020
Sabbi, Matthew; Stroh, Alexander
The "Numbers Game" : Strategic Reactions to Results-Based Development Assistance in Ghana
In: Studies in Comparative International Development Bd. 55 (2020) Heft 1. - S. 77-98
doi:10.1007/s12116-019-09296-z ...
Stroh, Alexander
Political Parties and Party Systems
Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa
London : Routledge, 2020. - S. 232-245
2019
Stroh, Alexander
Benin
Africa Yearbook 15 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2018
Leiden : Brill, 2019. - S. 46-53 . - (Africa Yearbook; 15)
doi:10.1163/9789004417663_005 ...
2018
Stroh, Alexander
Benin
Africa Yearbook 14 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2017
Leiden : Brill, 2018. - S. 48-55 . - (Africa Yearbook; 14)
doi:10.1163/9789004367630_005 ...
Stroh, Alexander; von Soest, Christian
Comparisons across World Regions : Managing Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Challenge ...
Comparative Area Studies : Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications
New York : Oxford University Press, 2018. - S. 66-84
Dressel, Björn; Sanchez-Urribarri, Raul; Stroh, Alexander
Courts and Informal Networks : towards a Relational Perspective on Judicial Politics Outside We ...
In: International Political Science Review Bd. 39 (2018) Heft 5. - S. 573-584
doi:10.1177/0192512118807065 ...
Makulilo, Alexander; Stroh, Alexander; Henry, Rodrick
An institutional mission that nobody wants to accomplish : Actors and interests in the genesis ...
In: The African Review Bd. 45 (2018) Heft 2 (Special Issue). - S. 96-114
http://tar.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/ar/article/view/23 ...
Stroh, Alexander
Sustaining and Jeopardizing a Credible Arbiter : Judicial Networks in Benin’s Consolidating Dem ...
In: International Political Science Review Bd. 39 (2018) Heft 5. - S. 600-615
doi:10.1177/0192512118805366 ...
2017
Stroh, Alexander
Benin
Africa Yearbook 13 : politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2016
Leiden : Brill, 2017. - S. 45-53 . - (Africa Yearbook; 13)
doi:10.1163/9789004355910_005 ...
Dressel, Björn; Sanchez-Urribarri, Raul; Stroh, Alexander
The Informal Dimension of Judicial Politics : A Relational Perspective
In: Annual Review of Law and Social Science Bd. 13 (2017) . - S. 413-430
doi:10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110316-113750 ...
2016
Stroh, Alexander
Benin
Africa Yearbook 12 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2015
Leiden : Brill, 2016. - S. 45-52 . - (Africa Yearbook; 12)
doi:10.1163/1872-9037_ayb_ayb2015_COM_0004 ...
Llanos, Mariana; Tibi Weber, Cordula; Heyl, Charlotte; Stroh, Alexander
Informal interference in the judiciary in new democracies : a comparison of six African and Lat ...
In: Democratization Bd. 23 (2016) Heft 7. - S. 1236-1253
doi:10.1080/13510347.2015.1081170 ...
2015
Stroh, Alexander
Benin
Africa Yearbook 11 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2014
Leiden , 2015. - S. 41-47 . - (Africa Yearbook; 11)
doi:10.1163/1872-9037_ayb_ayb2014_COM_0004 ...
Stroh, Alexander; Heyl, Charlotte
Institutional Diffusion, Strategic Insurance, and the Creation of West African Constitutional C ...
In: Comparative Politics Bd. 47 (2015) Heft 2. - S. 169-187
doi:10.5129/001041515814224453 ...
2014
Stroh, Alexander
Burkina Faso
Africa Yearbook 10 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2013
Leiden : Brill, 2014 (Africa Yearbook; 10)
doi:10.1163/1872-9037_ayb_ayb2013_COM_0006 ...
2014
Stroh, Alexander
Erfolgsbedingungen politischer Parteien im frankophonen Afrika : Benin und Burkina Faso seit de ...
Opladen, Berlin, Toronto : Budrich, 2014. - 326 S. . - (Parteien in Theorie und Empirie; 5)
2013
Stroh, Alexander
Burkina Faso
Africa Yearbook 9 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2012
Leiden : Brill, 2013 (Africa Yearbook; 9)
doi:10.1163/1872-9037_ayb_ayb2012_COM_0006 ...
2012
Stroh, Alexander
Burkina Faso
Africa Yearbook 8 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2011
Leiden : Brill, 2012 (Africa Yearbook; 8)
doi:10.1163/1872-9037_ayb_ayb2011_COM_0005 ...
Basedau, Matthias; Stroh, Alexander
How ethnic are African parties really? : Evidence from Francophone Africa
In: International Political Science Review Bd. 33 (2012) Heft 1. - S. 5-24
doi:10.1177/0192512110391770 ...
2011
Stroh, Alexander
Burkina Faso
Africa Yearbook 7 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2010
Leiden : Brill, 2011 (Africa Yearbook; 7)
doi:10.1163/1872-9037_ayb_ayb2010_COM_0006 ...
Basedau, Matthias; Stroh, Alexander
Do Party Systems Make Democracy Work? : A Comparative Test of Party System Characteristics and ...
Regression of Democracy? : Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft; Comparative Governance and Politics. - Editors: Gero Erdmann, Marianne Kneuer
Berlin u.a. : Springer, 2011. - S. 173-199
doi:10.1007/978-3-531-93302-3_7 ...
Basedau, Matthias; Erdmann, Gero; Lay, Jann; Stroh, Alexander
Ethnicity and Party Preferences in sub-Saharan Africa
In: Democratization Bd. 18 (2011) Heft 2. - S. 462-489
doi:10.1080/13510347.2011.553366 ...
Stroh, Alexander
Some Competition, Little Change : The 2005 Elections in Burkina Faso
Abdoulaye Saine ; Boubacar N'Diaye ; Mathurin Houngnikpo (Hrsg.): Elections and Democratization in West Africa, 1990-2009
Trenton : Africa World Press, 2011. - S. 273-302
2010
Stroh, Alexander
Burkina Faso
Africa Yearbook 6 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2009
Leiden : Brill, 2010 (Africa Yearbook; 6)
doi:10.1163/1872-9037_ayb_ayb2009_COM_0006 ...
Stroh, Alexander
Electoral rules of the authoritarian game : Undemocratic effects of proportional representation ...
In: Journal of Eastern African Studies Bd. 4 (2010) Heft 1. - S. 1-19
doi:10.1080/17531050903550066 ...
Stroh, Alexander
Interne Machtdynamiken in afrikanischen Parteiorganisationen
Uwe Jun; Benjamin Höhne; Elmar Wiesendahl (Hrsg.): Parteien als fragmentierte Organisationen : Erfolgsbedingungen und Veränderungsprozesse
Opladen : Budrich, 2010. - S. 153-178
Stroh, Alexander
The Power of Proximity : A Concept of Political Party Strategies Applied to the Case of Burkina ...
In: Journal of Contemporary African Studies Bd. 28 (2010) Heft 1. - S. 1-29
doi:10.1080/02589000903542566 ...
2009
Stroh, Alexander
Burkina Faso
Africa Yearbook 5 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2008
Leiden : Brill, 2009. - S. 65-71 . - (Africa Yearbook; 5)
2008
Stroh, Alexander
Burkina Faso
Africa Yearbook 4 : Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2007
Leiden : Brill, 2008 (Africa Yearbook; 4)
doi:10.1163/1872-9037_ayb_ayb2007_COM_0005 ...
Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Politik Afrikas und Entwicklungspolitik
Prof. Dr. Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg
Professor für Politikwissenschaft
Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30 GW II
95447 Bayreuth
Mobil: 0160 9531 6844
Telefon: 0921 55 4185
E-Mail: alexander.stroh@uni-bayreuth.de