Anthony DeMattee is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Fundamental Research (SPRF-FR). The NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) and the Law & Science Program (LS) sponsor his current research, which he is conducting while affiliated with the Department of Political Science at Emory University. Using civil society laws as his case, his work studies the politics of state-civil society interactions in developing countries. He has a regional focus on East Africa and the Caribbean.
His book-length dissertation, Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs, is a historical study that explores the contents, diffusion, and enforcement of laws that regulate civil society organizations (CSOs) in East Africa. Systematically and holistically coding 285 CSO laws enacted between 1872-2019 reveals significant variation within these legal institutions, which he calls "CSO regulatory regimes." His work finds these regulatory regimes are historically informed, rewritten at different moments in different ways, and implemented inconsistently across contexts.
In 2018-2019, he was an Ostrom Fellow and remains affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis. He received additional support for his doctoral training and fieldwork from the American Political Science Association, the Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa, and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. He completed his Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University, specializing in comparative politics, public policy, and public administration. He also received an M.A. from the Political Science Department at Indiana University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
His book-length dissertation, Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs, is a historical study that explores the contents, diffusion, and enforcement of laws that regulate civil society organizations (CSOs) in East Africa. Systematically and holistically coding 285 CSO laws enacted between 1872-2019 reveals significant variation within these legal institutions, which he calls "CSO regulatory regimes." His work finds these regulatory regimes are historically informed, rewritten at different moments in different ways, and implemented inconsistently across contexts.
In 2018-2019, he was an Ostrom Fellow and remains affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis. He received additional support for his doctoral training and fieldwork from the American Political Science Association, the Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa, and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. He completed his Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University, specializing in comparative politics, public policy, and public administration. He also received an M.A. from the Political Science Department at Indiana University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
