Philip Roessler

Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for African Development (CAD) at the College of William & Mary

proessler@wm.edu

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Background

Philip Roessler is an Assistant Professor at the College of William & Mary, and the Director of the Center for African Development (CAD) at William & Mary's Global Research Institute. His research and teaching offer new perspectives on conflict, state-building, and development, with a focus on the region of sub-Saharan Africa, where he has conducted extensive field research. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Maryland, and has held fellowships at Stanford University and Oxford University. His research has been published in World Politics, American Journal of Political Science and other journals.

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June 19, 2014

Chinese Development Finance and the African State: A Capacity-Legitimacy Trade-Off?

With support from IIE and USAID via its Democracy Fellows and Grants Program, we plan to systematically assess the effects of Chinese aid and investment on recipient states at both the national and sub-national levels.

May 8, 2013

Chinese Development Finance and Strategies of Political (and Territorial) Survival in Sudan

Chinese aid to and investment in the infrastructure sector in Sudan and many other African countries have the potential to usher in the most important restructuring of the state since colonialism.

Working Paper

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Dueling Aid Regimes: A Conjoint Survey Experiment on Elites’ Development Finance Preferences in 141 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Robert A. Blair, Samantha Custer, Philip Roessler

2022-07-25

Journal Article

Testing multi-stakeholder dialogue for better local governance in Niger: An experiment. Can we talk our way out of development problems?

Development Policy Review

Ariel BenYishay, Lisa Mueller, Katherine Nolan, Philip Roessler

2021-10-12

Journal Article

Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century

British Journal of Political Science

Robert A. Blair, Robert Marty, Philip Roessler

2021-07-05

Journal Article

Foreign Aid and State Legitimacy

World Politics

Robert A. Blair, Philip Roessler

2021-03-16

Working Paper

Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early 21st Century

Robert A. Blair, Robert Marty, Philip Roessler

2019-08-22

Impact Evaluation of the Niger Participatory & Responsive Governance Project: Final Report

Ariel Benyishay, Lisa Mueller, Katherine Nolan, Philip Roessler

2019-06-01

Working Paper

The Effects of Chinese Aid on State Legitimacy in Africa: Cross-National and Sub-National Evidence from Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Behavioral Games

Robert A. Blair, Philip Roessler

2018-07-23

Impact Evaluation of the Niger Participatory & Responsive Governance Project: Baseline Report

Ariel Benyishay, Lisa Mueller, Philip Roessler

2017-10-01