Giovanni Carbone received his PhD in Political Science/Developmental studies from the Londons School of Economics in 2001, and his MSc in Developmental Studies in 1997 (LSE). His research interests include democratisation, comparative politics, political parties, political institutions, electoral systems, ethnic politics, civil wars.

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Selected Publications

Books 

• Giovanni Carbone, No-party democracy? Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda in comparative perspective, 1986-2006, Boulder (Co), Lynne Rienner (accepted for publication: forthcoming)
• Giovanni Carbone, L’Africa. Gli stati, la politica, i conflitti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005 

Articles

• Giovanni Carbone, “Political parties and party systems in Africa: themes and research perspectives”, World Political Science Review, 3 (3), 2007, pp.1-29 (originally published by Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica and selected for publication in World Political Science Review)
• Giovanni Carbone, "Comprendre les partis et les systèmes de partis africains: entre modèles et recherches empiriques", Politique Africaine, 104, 2006, pp. 18-37
• Giovanni Carbone, "La nuova generazione dei partiti politici africani", Afriche e Orienti, 7 (3-4), 2006, pp. 124-135
• Giovanni Carbone, "Partiti politici e sistemi di partito in Africa. Temi e prospettive di ricerca", Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 36 (1), 2006, pp. 57-86
• Giovanni Carbone, “Continuidade na renovação? Ten years of multiparty politics in Mozambique: roots, evolution and stabilisation of the Frelimo-Renamo party system”, Journal of Modern African Studies, 43 (3), 2005
• Giovanni Carbone, "Populism" visits Africa. The case of Yoweri Museveni and no-party democracy in Uganda, Crisis States Programme Working Paper Series 1, No.73, Development Research Centre, London School of Economics, 2005
• Giovanni Carbone, “Africa sub-sahariana”, in Atlante geopolitico mondiale, Milano, Touring Club Italiano – Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 2004
• Giovanni Carbone, “State and conflict in Africa: lessons from the Congo wars (1996-2003)”, in Alessandro Gobbicchi (ed.), Globalization, armed conflicts and security, Roma, Rubbettino, 2004, pp.171-184
• Giovanni Carbone, Developing multi-party politics: stability and change in Ghana and Mozambique, Crisis States Programme Working Paper Series 1, No.36, Development Research Centre, London School of Economics, 2003
• Giovanni Carbone, “Political parties in a 'no-party democracy'. Hegemony and opposition under 'Movement democracy' in Uganda”, Party Politics, 9 (4), 2003, pp. 485-502
• Giovanni Carbone, Transizioni di regime e tentativi di consolidamento in Africa, 1990-2002, Working Paper no.1/2003, Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2003
• Giovanni Carbone, Emerging pluralist politics in Mozambique: the Frelimo-Renamo party system, Crisis States Programme Working Paper Series 1, no. 23, Development Research Centre, London School of Economics, 2002
• Giovanni Carbone, “Le elezioni 2001 in Uganda: evoluzione o involuzione del regime?”, Afriche e Orienti, n.3-4, 2001, pp.106-111
• Giovanni Carbone, “Constitutional alternatives for the regulation of ethnic politics? Institution-building principles in Uganda’s and South Africa’s transitions”, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 19 (2), July 2001, pp.229-252
• Giovanni Carbone, “Lo stato dei partiti in uno ‘stato senza partiti’. L’organizzazione delle opposizioni nella ‘democrazia del movimento’ ugandese”, Africa (Roma), 61(1), marzo 2001, pp.46-68
• Giovanni Carbone, “Disguising partisanship and hegemony: A new type of democracy in Uganda?”, Il Politico, 65(4), 2000, pp.517-538
• Giovanni Carbone, “Regolazione dei conflitti etnici: le transizioni di Uganda e Sudafrica”, Politica Internazionale, 28 (3), maggio-giugno 2000, pp.243-256