Associate Professor of Politics

J. Tyler Dickovick

J. Tyler Dickovick is an Associate Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University.  He conducts research on African and Latin American politics, with a focus on decentralization, federalism, and local governance.

He is the author of Decentralization and Recentralization in Developing Countries: Comparative Studies from Africa and Latin America (2011, Penn State University Press).  Links to his  journal articles can be found on the Research page (link at left).

Dickovick has also authored or co-authored numerous  research reports and studies on decentralization and democratic local governance for USAID.  Publicly available reports can be found at  the USAID link. 

His courses include International Development, International Political Economy, Latin American Politics, African Politics (with  courses in Senegal and Ghana), Comparative Political Analysis, and Applied Statistics.

He earned his Ph.d., MPA, and MA degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and BS and BA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

311 Huntley Hall

Washington and Lee University

Lexington VA 24450

Phone: 540 - 458 - 8174

Fax:     540 - 458 - 8239

E-mail: DickovickT@wlu.edu

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