Danielle Rensnick
Danielle Resnick is a senior research fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategies and Governance Division (DSGD). A political scientist, her research interests include the impacts of public sector reforms on accountability and efficiency, drivers of agricultural policy volatility and reform, urban governance structures and their influence on service delivery, democratization and political participation, and foreign aid effectiveness. An author and co-editor of several academic studies, she has conducted fieldwork in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia. She received her PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2010.
The politics of service delivery in African cities

The politics of service delivery in African cities

by Danielle Rensnick | Apr 20, 2018

Due to the economic relevance and growing concentration of voters in African cities, these territorial entities represent sites of intense political competition Urbanisation represents one of the main demographic transformations confronting sub-Saharan Africa today,...

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Danielle Rensnick
Danielle Resnick is a senior research fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategies and Governance Division (DSGD). A political scientist, her research interests include the impacts of public sector reforms on accountability and efficiency, drivers of agricultural policy volatility and reform, urban governance structures and their influence on service delivery, democratization and political participation, and foreign aid effectiveness. An author and co-editor of several academic studies, she has conducted fieldwork in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia. She received her PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2010.