Professor Elliott Green

Elliott Green is Professor of Development Studies and co-Deputy Head of Department for Research in the Department of International Development at the LSE.

He holds degrees from Princeton University (BA) and the LSE (MSc, PhD). While based in the discipline of political science, he also has developed a broad research agenda on long-term development, public goods provision and ethnic and national identity formation that has led him to cross disciplinary boundaries into economics and sociology. His book Assimilation and Industrialization: Explaining Ethnic Change in the Modern World, was published by Cambridge University Press in December 2022, and his recent research has appeared in such journals as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development and World Development. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Studies, Nations and Nationalism and Regional and Federal Studies, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Nationalism and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Expertise

Decentralisation, Ethnic Conflict and Ethnic Politics, Land Reform, Local Government and Federalism, Nationalism, Political Demography, Politics and History of Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa, Urbanization

DV464 (convener)