Andrew Wojtanik is a Ph.D. Candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on elite politics and regime decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa. His work draws on an original dataset on individual elites in Africa from 1960-2010, archival materials, and firsthand interviews with former ministers, party brokers, and other government officials in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Andrew is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship and the Peter H. Odegard Memorial Award in Political Science at UC-Berkeley. Prior to...
