Erin Hern

• 2025 Fall
  • PSC 495 Distinction Thesis Seminar in Political Science I
  • PSC 300 Selected Topics - Pol / Global Energy Transition
• 2025 Spring
  • PSC 496 Distinction Thesis Seminar in Political Science II
  • PSC 351 Political Economy of Development
  • PSC 300 Selected Topics - Intro to Original Research
• 2024 Fall
  • PSC 495 Distinction Thesis Seminar in Political Science I
  • PSC 781 Politics of the Developing World
• 2024 Spring
  • PSC 496 Distinction Thesis Seminar in Political Science II
  • PSC 694 Qualitative Political Analysis
  • PSC 700 Selected Topics - Politics of Africa

• Books
  • Hern, E., Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don't Always Fall Apart. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023.
  • Hern, E., Developing States, Shaping Citizenship. University of Michigan Press, 2019.
  • Hern, E., Developing States, Shaping Citizenship: Service Delivery and Political Behavior in Zambia. University of Michigan Press., 2019.
• Journal Articles
  • Hern, E., "Visibility of Autocratization and Election Outcomes." European Political Science Review, 2025.
  • Hern, E., "Voting Out Autocrats: Evidence from Zambia." Democratization, 2024.
  • Sperber, E., Hern, E., "Comparing Renewalist Christians’ Political Orientations in Latin America and Africa." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2023.
  • Sperber, E., Hern, E., "Comparing Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians’ Religious and Political Beliefs Across Latin America and Sub‐Saharan Africa." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2023.
  • Hern, E., "Peter Kallaway. The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science, and Development. London: Routledge, 2020. xx + 262 pages. List of Tables. Appendices. Abbreviations. References. Index. $164.00. ISBN: 978-0367432195.." African Studies Review, 2023.
  • Hern, E., "When do Women Win in Legally Plural Systems? Evidence from Ghana and Senegal." Journal of Modern African Studies, 2022.
  • Hern, E., "Colonial Education and Women’s Political Behavior in Ghana and Senegal." African Studies Review, 2021.
• Book Chapters
  • Hern, E., Sperber, E., "Pentecostalism, Party Politics, and Civic Engagement." In Competing for Caesar: Religion and Politics in Post-Colonial Zambia. , 2020.
  • Sperber, E. S., Hern, E., "PENTECOSTALISM, PARTISANSHIP, AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT." In Competing for Caesar. 1517 Media, 2020.
  • Hern, E., "Preferences without Platforms: How Voters Make Choices in Zambia’s Elections." In Democracy and Electoral Politics in Zambia. BRILL, 2020.
• Blogs
  • Hern, E., "Democracy Off the Rails: Infrastructure and Perceptions of Democracy in Africa." In Democracy in Africa. , 2023.
  • Hern, E., "How Women Win in Complex African Legal Systems." Africa at LSE Blog, 2023.
  • Hern, E., "Why African women are more active in politics in some countries than in others." The Conversation, 2018.
• Book Reviews
  • Hern, E., "Theorizing in Comparative Politics: Democratization in Africa, by Goran Hyden." In Political Science Quarterly. , 2025.
  • Hern, E., Kallaway, P., "The Changing Face of Colonial Education: Education, Science, and Development." African Studies Review, 2023.
  • Hern, E., Larmer, M., "Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt." Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2022.
  • Larmer, M., Hern, E., "Rethinking African Politics: A History of Opposition in Zambia." In Zambian Social Science Journal. Ashgate Publishing., 2013.

African Studies Association, "Transparency Reforms in Mineral Exporting Countries: Why do Leaders Tie Their Hands?" (November, 2025)

Politics, Markets, and Governance in Africa, Institute for African Development, "Partisanship, Party Systems, and Understandings of Democracy across Africa" (May, 2025)

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Visibility of Autocratization and Election Outcomes in Africa" (September, 2024)

Global Affairs Canada, Africa Branch, Book Club, Global Affairs Canada, "Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don't Always Fall Apart" (May 17, 2024)

Global Reads Series, Aga Khan Foundation, Canada, "Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don't Always Fall Apart" (April 4, 2024)

Conversations in Conflict Studies Speaker Series , PARCC, "Visibility of Autocratization, Election Outcomes, and Voter Behavior" (October 12, 2023)

Studies of Global Politics Speaker Series, SU Political Science Department, "Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don't Always Fall Apart" (September 15, 2023)

African Studies Organization, "When Do Citizens Vote Out Would-Be Autocrats?" (November 19, 2022)

American Political Science Association, "Mass Participation under Autocratization" (September 12, 2022)

"Developing States, Shaping Citizenship" (April, 2022)

Lauder Institute, "Developing States, Shaping Citizenship" (February, 2022)

American Political Science Association, "Understandings of Democracy and Political Participation in Africa and the Middle East" (October 3, 2021)

Midwest Political Science Association, "Agents of Change: Executive Leadership and Effective Gender Quotas in Africa" (April 16, 2021)

Lauder Institute, "Africa Symposium: Bridging Profit and Purpose" (March, 2021)

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Journal (October, 2023)