Ken Opalo is an Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service. His research interests include the political economy of development, legislative development, electoral accountability under decentralized government, and electoral politics in emerging democracies. Ken’s first book, Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies (Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines the evolution of legislatures in emerging democracies, with a focus on explaining the observed variation in the institutionalization and strength of legislatures in African states. Ken's work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Governance, the Journal of Eastern African Studies, and the Journal of Democracy.