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Omowumi Olufunmbi Elemo-Kaka

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Omowumi Olufunmbi Elemo-Kaka

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Case Hall Room S371

elemoolu@msu.edu

Biography

Omowumi Olufunmbi Elemo-Kaka is an assistant professor in the Politics, Rights, and Culture field. Elemo-Kaka earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University (2012). Her areas of expertise focus on comparative political economy, African politics and public policy. Her research interests focus on democratization and citizenship, political representation and accountability, federalism and subnational politics, and public finance (e.g. management of natural resource re

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"""Can President elect Tinubu Solve Nigerias Perennial Restructuring Problem"" (March 2023),"

Fiscal Federalism, Subnational Politics, and State Creation in Contemporary Nigeria. 2018. In A.C. LeVan and P. Ukata (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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