Peer-Reviewed
Porisky, Alesha and Lauren M. MacLean. (2025). “The Ethics of Compensation in Political Science Research.” Comparative Political Studies. Online First.
Gore, Christopher, Lauren M. MacLean, Jennifer N. Brass, Winnie V. Mitullah, Elizabeth Baldwin and Alesha Porisky. 2025. “Distributional Justice and Rapid Green Energy Transitions: Citizen Experiences in Kenya.” Environmental Research Letters, 20(6).
Porisky, Alesha. 2024. “Description as the Basis for Conceptualization and Inquiry: Studying Perceptions and Practices of Citizenship in Tanzania and Kenya.” International Politics.
Seekings, Jeremy, Alesha Porisky, Sophie Plagerson and Marianne S. Ulriksen. 2023. “Introduction to the Special Issue: States, Citizens and Social Protection in Africa.” Social Policy and Administration, 57(6): 833-840.
Porisky, Alesha and Tyson Juma Odoo. 2023. “Cash Transfers After Electoral Violence: A Case Study of Citizen-State Relations in Nakuru, Kenya.” Social Policy and Administration, 57(6): 883-901
Porisky, Alesha, Tahira Shariff Mohamed & Patrick Mutinda Muthui. 2023. “Kenya’s ‘Universal’ Social Pension: The Politics of Registration in Marsabit County.” World Development, 164.
Porisky, Alesha and Aarie Glas. 2022. “Insiders, Outsiders, and Credible Visitors in Elite Interviewing.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 56(1): 51-55.
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur, Sarah K. Dreier, Milli Lake and Alesha Porisky. 2021. “Social Protection and State-Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity.” Annual Review of Political Science, 24: 151-174.
Davidson, Adrienne, Matthew Lesch, Maxime Héroux-Legault, Tanya White, Alesha Porisky, Karol Czuba & Zain Asaf. (2017). “Advancing the Study of Political Cleavages through Experimentation: Revisiting Regionalism and Redistributive Preferences in Canada.” Regional & Federal Studies, 27(2).
Book Chapters
Glas, Aarie, Alesha Porisky and Colin Kuehl. 2024. “Varied Accounts of Quality and Rigor in Qualitative Research in Political Science” in Uwe Flick (ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality. New York: SAGE, pp. 103-119.
Porisky, Alesha. 2022. “The Distribution Politics of Social Transfers in Kenya” in The Politics of Distributing Social Cash Transfers: State Capacity and Political Competition in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, ed. Tom Lavers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Working Papers
Porisky, Alesha. 2020. “The Distributional Politics of Social Transfers in Kenya.” ESID Working Paper Series. Manchester: University of Manchester.
Mohamed, Tahira Shariff, Alesha Porisky & Patrick Mutinda. 2021. “The Politics of Universalizing Social Cash Transfers: A Case Study from Marsabit County, Kenya.” ESID Working Paper Series. Manchester: University of Manchester.
Policy Papers
Porisky, Alesha and Erin Hall. (2015). Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure: GCI Policy Snapshot No. 3. Global Cities institute: Toronto, Canada.
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