Dr. Goran Hyden
Distinguished Professor

Education | Professional Activities | Courses | Research Interests
Publications | Awards and Professional Service

Education

• Fil. Dr. (Ph.D), University of Lund, Sweden 1968
• fil.lic. (M.A.), University of Lund 1964
• fil.kand. (B.A.), University of Lund 1961
• part of graduate education spent at Oxford University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
  

Professional Activities

• Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida since 1999
• Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida 1986-99
• Social Science Program Officer and Representative of the Ford Foundation in Eastern and Southern Africa, based in Nairobi 1978-85
• Senior Lecturer and subsequently Professor of Political Science, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 1971-77
• Lecturer and subsequently Senior Lecturer in Government, University of Nairobi, Kenya 1968-71
• Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 1965-66.
  

Courses

Introduction to Comparative Politics	(CPO 2001)
African Politics	(CPOS 3204)
Democratization in Global Perspective	(CPO 4931)
Development Administration	(PAD 6865)
Comparative Policy Analysis	(PUP 6015)
African Politics	(CPO 6206)

Research Interests
Democratization in a comparative perspective with special emphasis on Africa; governance and sustainable development; the role of foreign aid agencies in national development in Africa; comparative public administration.

Publications

• Governance And Politics In Africa, No Shortcuts To Progress: African Development Management In Perspective
• Beyond Ujamaa In Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry
• African Perspectives on Governance, co-edited with H.W.O. Okoth Ogendo and Dele Olowu, Africa World Press 1999
• Agencies in Foreign Aid: Comparing China, Sweden and the United States in Tanzania 1965-1995, co-edited with Rwekaza Mukandala, Macmillan 1999
• Human Rights and Governance in Africa, co-edited with Ronald Cohen and Winston Nagan, University of Florida Press 1993
• Governance and Politics in Africa, co-edited with Michael Bratton, Lynne Rienner Publishers 1992
• No Shortcuts to Progress, University of California Press and Heinemann 1983
• Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry, University of California Press and Heinemann 1980; Efficiency versus Distribution in East African Cooperatives, East African Literature Bureau 1973
• Political Development in Rural Tanzania, East African Publishing House 1969.
  

Awards and Professional Service

• Evaluator of Swedish Political Science on behalf of the Swedish Humanities and Social Science Research Council 2000-01
• President of the African Studies Association (U.S.) 1995
• Member of Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa 1991-97
• Interim Director of the Center for African Studies, University of Florida, 1994-96.