Dr.Robert Obiyo

Senior Lecturer

Work Information

Department Political Science
Faculty Management and Social Sciences

biography (Education/professional experience/professional accomplishments)

Robert Obiyo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences. He has a background in Democracy and Legislative Studies. He has served as a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Rhodes University and University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa. He teaches Legislative Studies, African Politics, Political Parties and Pressure Groups, and Comparative Politics. He has published in scholarly journals, including Politikon, Politeia, and Journal of Contemporary African Studies. He is currently researching the constituency service of MPLs in South Africa’s closed party-list PR electoral system. He is a member of the South African Political Science Association and the Southeastern Nigerian Political Science Association.

 

Academic Qualifications

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 Wits univ south africa pHd 2006

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 wits univ south africa ma (cum laude) 2001

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 university of ibadan bsc 1994

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Teaching and research interests

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 Legislative studies

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 african politics

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 political parties

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 comparative politics

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Membership of professional bodies

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 South African Political Science Association

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 Southeastern Nigerian Political Science Association

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Selected publications

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 One Report of the Joint Investigating Team on the Strategic Defence Procurement Packages, Too Many! in Politikon, Volume 33, Issue 3, 2006, pages 361-385

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 Democracy and the Committee System of the South African Parliament with Special Reference to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), in Politeia, Volume 26, Issue 1, 2007, pages 60-79

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 Oversight of the Executive in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, in Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Volume 31, Issue 1, 2013, pages 95-116

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 South Africa’s Sarafina 2 and Ministerial Responsibility to Parliament Revisited, in Affrika: Journal of Politics, Economics and Society, Volume 3, Numbers I & II, 2013, pages 39-69

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 Constitutional Patriotism: The Convergence of Democratic Challenges and Process in South Africa, in Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation, Vol 5, Issue 2, 2016, pp. 43-65

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