Dr. Seidu Alidu is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Department of Political Science. He is currently a Co-Convener and a Senior Fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) on Parliaments and Democracy in Africa. He has worked closely with and for numerous policy think tanks including the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) based in Nairobi Kenya; Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen based in Netherlands; the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, the Institute for Democratic Governance; the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung; the United Nations Development Programme, the Varieties of Democracy Project based in the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.