Kate Baldwin

Kate Baldwin
ISPS 
Faculty Fellows

Kate Baldwin

Title 
Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
ISPS

Kate Baldwin is an associate professor of political science and a faculty fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. She is the author of the book The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Her current research projects analyze politics in weak states, examining how non-state actors — such as traditional leaders, churches and NGOs — interact with the national state to affect development and democracy.

Discipline 
Political Science
Area of study 
International Affairs