15:30 - 17:00
Politicians' Agency-in-Context: Understanding Legislative Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 6
Stream: Open Stream
15:30 - 15:45
Th-OS14 Politicians' agency-in-context:-P-001
Contesting social contracts in Zambian Parliamentary constituencies
Alastair Fraser
SOAS, London, United Kingdom
15:45 - 16:00
Th-OS14 Politicians' agency-in-context:-P-002
Malawian MPs in their constituencies: performing authority, (re)constructing legitimacy?
Calum Fisher
SOAS, London, United Kingdom
16:00 - 16:15
Th-OS14 Politicians' agency-in-context:-P-003
Legislative strengthening and distributive politics in Africa: The Ugandan case
Michaela Collard
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
16:15 - 16:30
Th-OS14 Politicians' agency-in-context:-P-004
Bringing government closer to the people? The contradictory effects of devolution in Mombasa, Kenya
Stephanie Diepeveen1, Hannah Waddilove2
1University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom