Emmanuel Aiyede
Emmanuel Remi Aiyede is a Professor of Political Institutions, Governance and Public Policy at the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan. He is a Fellow of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council. He was Head of the Department of Political Science (01 August 2020 – 31 July 2022); a Sub-Dean of, the Faculty of the Social Sciences (2012-2014) and a Coordinator of the Leadership and Governance Programme (2010- 2014), Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan. He was also Visiting Scholar at the Electoral Institute, Independent National Electoral Commission, Abuja (2016-2017); Visiting Fellow at the Transregional Centre for Democratic Studies (TCDS) New School University, New York, 2000; and a Fellow at the Governance Unit of the Development Policy Centre (DPC), an independent think tank in Ibadan in 1998-2004.
Professor Aiyede who holds a PhD degree in Political Science from the University of Ibadan and is an alumnus of the Fulbright Study of the US Institute of National Security Policy after 9/11, University of Delaware (2009); Executive Education Programme on Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), 2008; and the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) training programmes on pedagogical methods for teaching public policy and e-case development, Nairobi (2013-2014), and the training on PhD supervision in Africa, Stellenbosch University, 2020. He taught at the University of Lagos, before joining the University of Ibadan in 2005. He has been a visiting lecturer at several universities within and outside Africa. He has been on the Editorial Board of the Nigerian Tribune, since 2008. He contributes to public discourse in the domestic and foreign media and observed several elections in Nigeria. He is also an analyst with the Electronic Results Analysis Dashboard (ERAD) of Yiaga Africa and Channels Television.
His research work connects public policy, institutional reforms and democratic institution-building. Maintaining close contact with the policy process, he has participated in building the governance and policy capacities of national and state executive officials and legislatures in Nigeria. He has been involved with (PASGR) in promoting innovative pedagogy in higher education in Africa. He was a part of the team that developed the curriculum for the Master of Research and Public Policy programme and the PhD programme in Public Policy which currently run in universities across Africa since 2014 and 2020 respectively.
Recent publications:
Aiyede, E. Remi (2023) The Notion of “True Federalism” in the Discuorse on Restructuring Nigeria, in 89-112, Ikenna Mike Alumona, ed. Federalism: Theory and Comparative Perspectives. Ibadan: John Archers.
Aiyede, E, Remi (2023). Governance and Politics of Public Policy in Africa, in E. Remi Aiyede and Beatrice Muganda eds Research and Public Policy in Africa, London Palgrave Macmillan.
Aiyede, E, Remi (2023) From Research to Policy Action: Communicating Research for Public Policy Making, in E. Remi Aiyede and Beatrice Muganda eds Research and Public Policy in Africa, London Palgrave Macmillan.
Aiyede, E. Remi and O. M. Quadri (2021) Policy Evaluation in Africa in Gedion Onyango (editor) Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa. London: Routledge Taylor and Francis. Pp. 164-176.
Aiyede E. Remi 2020. Matters Arising from the 2019 Elections and the Electoral Reform Processes, V. Adefemi Isumonah and Eghosa E. Osaghae (eds) The 2019 General Elections in Nigeria: Levelling the Democratic Playing Field. Ibadan: Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies. Pp. 247-264.
Aiyede, E. Remi and & A. Afeaye Igbafe (2018). Institutions, Neopatrimonial Politics and Democratic Development in Africa, Toyin Falola and Samuel Oloruntoba (eds). Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 503-521.
Aiyede, E. Remi (2018) Books Review: Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria. By A. Carl LeVan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 282p. Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, and Democracy in Nigeria. By Darren Kew. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2016. 422p. Perspective on Politics (APSA) Vol. 16, No. 2.: 564-566.