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Sarah Brierley is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics specializing in Comparative Politics. Her research focuses on issues of state, corruption, and electoral politics in sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores how the public sector remains politicized despite meritocratic recruitment among top bureaucrats in Ghana. Brierley employs a range of methods in her research, including original surveys, field experiments, and in-depth interviews. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in respected journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Prior to her position at LSE, she served as an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Brierley holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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