Dr. Michelle D'Arcy

• Michelle D'Arcy and Agnes Cornell, Devolution and Corruption in Kenya: Everyone's Turn to Eat?, African Affairs, 115, (459), 2016, p246 - 273Journal Article, 2016
• Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya, State First, then Democracy: Using Cadastral Records to Explain Governmental Performance in Public Goods Provision, Governance, 30 (2), 193-209, (2), 2017, p193 - 209Journal Article, 2017
• Devolution and County Government in Kenya in, editor(s)N. Cheeseman, K. Kanyinga and G. Lynch , The Oxford Handbook on Kenyan Politics, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp251 - 270, [Michelle D'Arcy]Book Chapter, 2020
• Getting to Sweden: The Origins of High Tax Compliance in the Swedish Tax State in, editor(s)Sven Steinmo , Leap of Faith: the historical and institutional roots of tax compliance, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp30 - 45, [Marina Nistotskaya and Michelle D'Arcy]Book Chapter, 2018
• Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya, The Early Modern Origins of Contemporary European Tax Outcomes, European Journal of Political Research, 57, (1), 2018, p47 - 67Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
• The Irish Tax State and Historical Legacies: Slowly converging capacity, persistent unwillingness to pay in, editor(s)Douglas Kanter and Patrick Walsh , Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016, Plagrave Macmillan, 2019, [Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya]Book Chapter, 2019
• Big Men and Poor Voters: Political Corruption and Elections in Kenya in, editor(s)Inge Amundsen , Political Corruption and Development. Extraction, Power Preservation and Donor Responses, Edward Elgar, 2019, [Michelle D'Arcy]Book Chapter, 2019
• Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya, Intensified local grievances, enduring national control: the politics of land in the 2017 Kenyan elections, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 13, (2), 2019, p294 - 312Journal Article, 2019, URL
• Michelle D'Arcy and Marina NIstotskaya, A taxing issue: the constraining effects of historical state capacity on European property taxes today, Journal of European Public Policy, 29, (5), 2022, p689 - 707Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
• State Capacity, Quality of Government, Sequencing and Development Outcomes in, editor(s)A. Bågenholm, M. Bauhr, M., M. Grimes and B. Rothstein , The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp757 - 780, [Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya]Book Chapter, 2021
• Michelle D'Arcy, Marina Nistotskaya and Ola Olsson, Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE, 2021Working Paper, 2021
• Michelle D'Arcy & Marina Nistotskaya, No taxation without property rights: Formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa, 2021Working Paper, 2021
• Michelle D'Arcy, Marina Nistotskaya & Michael Sharry, Birth and the Leviathan: Information Capacity and the Ideology of Demographic Power, 19, (3), 2022, pp444 - 457Conference Paper, 2022
• Michelle D'Arcy, Marina Nistotskaya & Robert Ellis, Mapping the state: Measuring infrastructural power through cadastral records, Proceedings of the International Federation of Surveyors' Working Week, International Federation of Surveyors Annual Conference, Hanoi, 2019, 2019, pp1 - 23Conference Paper, 2019
• Marina Nistostskaya & Michelle D'Arcy, No taxation without property rights: formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Institutional Economics, 19, (3), 2023, p444 - 457Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Michelle D'Arcy, Demographic Regulation and the State: Centering Gender in Our Understanding of Political Order in Early Modern European States, American Political Science Review., 118, (2), 2024, p1053 - 1057Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Michelle D'Arcy, Marina Nistotskaya, Ola Olsson, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel, Journal of Political Economy, 132, (11), 2024, p3785 - 3826Journal Article, 2024, URL
• Nistotskaya, M., Buker, H., Grimes, M., Persson, A., D'Arcy, M., Rothstein, B. and Gafuri, A., Evidence-Based AntiCorruption? Evaluation of Sida's Efforts to Reduce Corruption in Partner Countries, 2024:05, 2024Report, 2024
• D'Arcy, Michelle, Non-state actors and universal services in Tanzania and Lesotho: state-building by alliance, Journal of Modern African Studies, 51, (2), 2013, p219 - 247Journal Article, 2013
• D'Arcy, Michelle, Why do citizens assent to pay tax? Legitimacy, taxation and the African State, 2011Working Paper, 2011, URL , TARA - Full Text
• D'Arcy, Michelle, Credible Enforcement before Credible Commitment: Exploring the Importance of Sequencing, 2013Working Paper, 2013, URL , TARA - Full Text
• D'Arcy, Michelle, Food Security and Elite-Ruler Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the impact of democracy on public goods provision, 2012Working Paper, 2012, URL , TARA - Full Text
• D'Arcy, Michelle, 'Taxation, Democracy and State-Building: how does sequencing matter?' , 2012Working Paper, 2012, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Agnes Cornell & Michelle D'Arcy, Plus ça Change? ­County Level Politics after Devolution, Journal of East African Studies, 8 , (1), 2014, p173 - 191Journal Article, 2014
• Rulers and their Elite Rivals: How democratization has increased incentives for corruption in sub-Saharan Africa in, editor(s)Carl Dahlström and Lena Wängnerud , Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, [Michelle D'Arcy]Book Chapter, 2015

• Michelle D'Arcy & Marina Nistotskaya, State Capacity, Democracy and Public Goods, 2018Working Paper
• Agnes Cornell & Michelle D'Arcy, Devolution and Development in Kenya, International Centre for Local Democracy Working Paper series, 2014Report

• Title

  Credible Enforcement before Credible Commitment:Exploring the Consequences of Institutional Sequencing
  Summary

  This projects explores the consequences for development of different pathways of institutional sequencing, asking specifically if democratizing before the state has become strong leads to the same outcomes as democratizing after. The project draws on both historical data on how Western states developed, and contrasts this with contemporary developing countries. A range of methodologies, from qualitative case studies to psychological experiments are used to test the theories developed.
  Funding Agency

  Swedish Research Council
  Date From

  2014
  Date To

  2018
• Title

  Do Local Elections Foster Local Democracy? - Party Strategies in the First Elections at the Country Level in Kenya
  Summary

  On March 4th 2013 Kenyans voted, for the first time, to elect governors at the sub-national level. This project investigates the mobilization strategies adopted by candidates for governor in order to understand how devolution is likely to impact on Kenyan politics. In doing so, the project aims to examine the conditions under which local democracy becomes a vehicle for increased accountability and when it does not.
  Funding Agency

  Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy
  Date From

  2013
  Date To

  2015

Politics,

• Provost's PhD Award 2017
• Trinity Creative and Visual Arts Fund Award 2020
• Political Science Association of Ireland Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Learning 2016
• Equality Fund Award 2018
• Provost's Teaching Award, Early Career Award 2016

• Southern Political Science Association
• European Consortium for Political Research
• Development Studies Association of Ireland
• World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research
• African Politics Conference Group
• Political Studies Association of Ireland
• American Political Science Association

• Journal Reviewer, European Journal of Political Research 2018
• Board Member of the Armed Conflict Location and Event Database (ACLED), one of the most widely used and respected large-scale databases on conflict 2013-2016
• Journal reviewer, American Political Science Review 2018
• Journal Reviewer - Journal of Modern African Studies 2018
• Journal Reviewer - Governance 2017
• Journal Reviewer American Journal of Political Science 2021
• Journal Reviewer - Global Environmental Politics 2014
• Journal Reviewer - Journal of Institutional Economics 2017
• Journal Reviewer - Policy Studies 2017
• Journal Reviewer, African Affairs 2015
• Journal Reviewer, American Political Science Review 2021
• Member, African Politics Conference Group, which promotes recognition within professional associations of the theoretical and methodological contributions to the discipline of political scientists whose research and professional interests center largely or in part upon sub-Saharan Africa. 2013-2018
• Board member, Editorial Advisory Board of the Development Studies Association of Ireland Working Paper series 2014-2018
• Conference Organizer, Conference on Devolution and Local Development in Kenya, Nairobi June 26th 2014
• Journal reviewer, Comparative Political Studies 2016
• Journal Reviewer - Journal of Development Studies 2015
• Journal reviewer, Perspectives on Politics 2019
• Journal Reviewer - Geoforum 2017
• Journal Reviewer - Comparative Politics 2017
• Journal reviewer - Perspectives on Politics 2018
• Text book Proposal Reviewer - Routledge 2015
• Journal Reviewer - South African Journal of Economics 2015
• Journal Reviewer - Political Geography 2017
• Journal reviewer, Journal of Politics 2020
• Journal reviewer, World Development 2019
• Book Proposal Reviewer - OUP 2016