About me
Awards:
University of Saskatchewan Master Teacher Award 2007-2008
University of Saskatchewan Students' Union (USSU) Teaching Excellence Award 2006-2007
University of Saskatchewan, Colllege of Arts & Science Teaching Excellence Award 2001-2002.
Publications
Books:
co-authored, Elections in a Third World City, Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1978.
co-authored, The Solomon Islands: An Experiment in Decentralization, Manoa: Centre for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii,1985.
co-authored, Politics and Government in Vanuatu: From Colonial Unity to Post-Colonial Disunity, North Queensland: James Cook University Press, 1989.
co-edited, Political Leadership and Representation in Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
authored, Democracy Challenged in the 2022 Presidential Succession in Kenya: The African Imperial President, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2023
Sample Articles:
J.S. Steeves. Devolution in Kenya: Derailed or on track? Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Volume 53 Issue 4 (October 2015), 457-474.
J.S. Steeves. Democracy Unravelled in Kenya: Multi-Party Competition and Ethnic Targeting. African Identities, Volume 9 Number 4 (November 2011), 455-464.
J.S. Steeves. ‘Unbounded Politics’ and the Democratic Model in Solomon Islands: The 2010 National Elections. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Volume 49 Issue 3 (July 2011), 342-358.
J.S. Steeves. Canadian Development Assistance: The Value Framework and the Field Reality of an African Country. The Round Table XCVI 391 (August 2007), 489-507.
J.S. Steeves. Presidential Succession in Kenya: the Transition from Moi to Kibaki, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, XLIV 2 (July 2006), 211-233.
J.S. Steeves. Beyond Democratic Consolidation in Kenya: Ethnicity, Leadership and `Unbounded Politics', African Identities, IV 2 (October 2006), 195-211.
J.S. Steeves. The Political Evolution of Kenya: the 1997 Elections and Succession Politics. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, XXXVII 1 (March 1999), 71-94.
J.S. Steeves. Re-Democratization in Kenya: `Unbounded Politics' and the Political Trajectory Toward National Elections. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, XXXV 3 (November 1997), 27-52.
Research
Poverty Alleviation in the African context
Post-election violence in Kenya and ethnic conflict
2010 National Elections in Solomon Islands
Internally Displaced Persons and their Social Re-integration
2012 National Elections in Kenya
2011 Referendum in South Sudan