PUBLISHED WORKS
Beth Rabinowitz, Defensive Nationalism: Explaining the rise of populism and fascism in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, April 2023.
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Beth Rabinowitz, Coups, Rivals, and the Modern State: Why Rural Coalitions Matter in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge University Press, February 2018.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
Beth Rabinowitz. “Our Era Is One of Defensive Nationalism. It’s Happened Before.” Time Magazine Online, March 2024.
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PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Beth Rabinowitz. “Defensive Nationalism: Where Populism Meets Nationalism.” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, February 2022.
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Beth Rabinowitz. “Ethnicity and Power in sub-Saharan Africa: Do Colonial Institutions Still Matter?” Journal of Comparative Politics, April 2020.
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Beth Rabinowitz. “More than Elections: Rural Support and Regime Stability in Africa.” African Studies Review 61, no. 3 (2018): 27-52.
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Beth Rabinowitz, and Paul Jargowsky. “Rethinking coup risk: Rural coalitions and coup-proofing in sub-Saharan Africa.” Armed Forces & Society 44.2 (2017): 322-346.
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WORKING MONOGRAPHS
Territory & Trust: Why some countries develop their economies and others do not.
In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been paid to the importance of elite coalitions for state development. However, how elites successfully subdue regional opponents, or when and why leaders choose to do so remain unclear. This study investigates the “how,” “when,” and “why,” by exploring the connections among political leadership, coalition politics, and infrastructural development. My hypothesis is that how leaders assess and manage security threats are crucial to state development, for such decisions actually change the nature of those threats. Political leaders’ actions can increase political divisions, undermining cooperation and exacerbating existing tensions. Conversely, the choices made by the head of government can minimize differences and help foster cooperation. These leadership effects, in turn, impact the willingness of the center to support regional development, or, as Goldsmith (2001) argues, the government’s willingness to focus on long-term as opposed to short-term gains. This work builds off my first book, Coups Rivals and the Modern State, by applying the analytic model developed to explain development in sub-Saharan Africa, which takes into account both historical institutions as well as statesmanship, to three other regions: Southeast Asia, Central America, and North Africa.
WORKING PAPERS
“Territory & Trust: Why some countries develop their economies and others do not.”
“Why Now? Using Polanyi and Schumpeter as a Guide to 21st Century Populism.”
BOOK REVIEWS BY DR. RABINOWITZ
African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast. By Abu B. Bamba, Ohio University Press, 2016. In International Journal of African Historical Studies, forthcoming 2018.
Seizing Power: Seizing power: The strategic logic of military coups. By Naunihal Singh, JHU Press. 2014. In Strategy Bridge, May 29, 2019.
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ACADEMIC AWARDS
Chancellor’s Awards for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, Rutgers–Camden, 2019
Nomination for American Political Science Association’s Gabriel Almond Award for best dissertation in Comparative Politics, 2015