Team > Prof. Dr. Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg


Faculty of Cultural Sciences
African Politics and Development Policy
CV
2022 – today | Professor of Political Science: African Politics & Development Policy |
2015 – 2021 | Junior Professor of African Politics and Development Policy |
2006 – 2015 | Researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Institute for African Studies, hamburg; in addition, teaching assignments at the universities of Abomey-Calavi, Heidelberg and Lüneburg |
2012 | Doctorate at the University of Hamburg |
2005 | Master of Political Science, Public Law / International Law and Political Science of South Asia at the University of Heidelberg |
Services & Memberships
- Programme Advisor and Chair of Examinors, Master's programmes in Development Studies; Chair of Examinors, European Interdisciplinary Master of African Studies
- Deputy Head of the Bayreuth International Graduate School in African Studies (BIGSAS)
- Member of the supporting association and research committee of the Arnold-Bergsträsser-Institute (ABI) at the University of Freiburg
- Member of the scholarship selection committee for outgoing students and graduates, German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD)
- American Political Science Association (APSR)
- German Political Science Association (Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, DVPW)
- International Political Science Association (IPSA)
- Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD)

Faculty of Cultural Sciences
African Politics and Development Policy
Research Focus
Research Subjects:
- Comparative Democracy Research / Regime Research
- Institutions in democratization processes
- Political role of constitutional courts
- Parties, party system and elections in Africa
Geographic Focus:
- particularly francophone West Africa
Publications
- Sabbi, M., Stroh, A. (2020). The "Numbers Game":Strategic Reactions to Reactions to Results-Based Development Assistance in Ghana. Studies in Comparative International Development 55(1): 77-98.
- Stroh, A. (2020). Political Parties and Party Systems. In Lynch, G., VonDoepp, P. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa. Routledge London.
- Stroh, A. (2014). Erfolgsbedingungen politischer Parteien im frankophonen Afrika : Benin und Burkina Faso seit der Rückkehr zum Mehrparteiensystem. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Budrich.

Faculty of Cultural Sciences
African Politics and Development Policy
Publications

Faculty of Cultural Sciences
African Politics and Development Policy
Prof. Dr. Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg
Junior Chair for Political Science
University of Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30 Bldg. GW 2
D-95447 Bayreuth (Germany)
Mobile: +49 160 9531 6844
Phone: +49 921 55 4185
E-mail: alexander.stroh@uni-bayreuth.de