Kathleen Klaus
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Peace and Conflict Research
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 22 79
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 71 18
- E-mail:
- kathleen.klaus@pcr.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-7085-4835
Short presentation
My research sits at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, and focuses on political violence and peacebuilding, divisive elections, land rights, climate change, and forced migration, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and East Africa in particular. Most recently, I was an assistant professor at the University of San Francisco (2018-2021) and received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015).
See my website here.
Keywords
- peacebuilding
- kenya
- election violence
- refugees
- contentious politics
- survey methods
- political violence
- post-conflict reconstruction
- qualitative research
- land rights
- uganda

Publications
Selection of publications
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Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism
Part of African Affairs, p. 185-203, 2023
- DOI for Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism
- Download full text (pdf) of Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism
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Closing The Gap: The Politics of Property Rights in Kenya
Part of World politics, p. 233-279, 2023
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Raising the stakes: Land titling and electoral stability in Kenya
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 30-45, 2020
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Can Politicians Exploit Ethnic Grievances?: An Experimental Study of Land Appeals in Kenya
Part of Political Behavior, p. 35-58, 2020
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Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Defending the city, defending votes: campaign strategies in urban Ghana
Part of Journal of Modern African Studies, p. 681-708, 2017
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Part of African Studies Review, p. 51-72, 2017
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Land grievances and the mobilization of electoral violence: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 622-635, 2015
Recent publications
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War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror
Part of Journal of Modern African Studies, p. 231-232, 2025
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Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 1447-1462, 2025
- DOI for Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence
- Download full text (pdf) of Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence
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Part of Political science quarterly, p. 425-426, 2025
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Land Tenure and Climate Resilience: Household Level Evidence from Kenya
2025
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Part of Annual Review of Political Science, p. 19-36, 2025
All publications
Articles in journal
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Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 1447-1462, 2025
- DOI for Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence
- Download full text (pdf) of Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence
-
Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism
Part of African Affairs, p. 185-203, 2023
- DOI for Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism
- Download full text (pdf) of Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism
-
Closing The Gap: The Politics of Property Rights in Kenya
Part of World politics, p. 233-279, 2023
-
Raising the stakes: Land titling and electoral stability in Kenya
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 30-45, 2020
-
Can Politicians Exploit Ethnic Grievances?: An Experimental Study of Land Appeals in Kenya
Part of Political Behavior, p. 35-58, 2020
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Defending the city, defending votes: campaign strategies in urban Ghana
Part of Journal of Modern African Studies, p. 681-708, 2017
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Part of African Studies Review, p. 51-72, 2017
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Land grievances and the mobilization of electoral violence: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 622-635, 2015
Articles, review/survey
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Part of Annual Review of Political Science, p. 19-36, 2025
Books
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Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making
Cambridge University Press, 2020
Reports
Other
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War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror
Part of Journal of Modern African Studies, p. 231-232, 2025
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Part of Political science quarterly, p. 425-426, 2025