Dr. Hassan Wahab

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PROFILE

Hassan Wahab, PhD, is a senior lecturer of political science at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is an affiliated faculty member at the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD). He has taught at Chicago State University (CSU) and the City Colleges of Chicago (Olive-Harvey and Kennedy-King Colleges); he was the assistant director of International Programs at CSU, and the managing editor and editorial board member of Africa Today, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the IU Press through the African Studies Program at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is an editorial board member and head of the Race and Equality section at the Review of Religions magazine (London). Dr. Wahab has BA (Hons.) in Religion and Philosophy from the University of Ghana; BA in Political Science from the University of Winnipeg, Canada; MA in Political Studies from the University of Guelph, Canada; MA and PhD in African American and African Diaspora Studies and Political Science, respectively, from Indiana University-Bloomington, USA.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Political Science (Fields: Comparative Politics & American Politics), Indianan University, Bloomington
• MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
• MA in Political Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph-ON
• BA in Political Science, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg-MB
• BA in the Study of Religions and Philosophy, University of Ghana-Legon

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Intersection of politics and state welfare provision
• Party systems
• Democracy and democratization

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Comparative Politics (Level 200)
• Issues in Comparative Politics (Level 300)
• Introduction to American Politics (Level 300)
• Politics of Developing Countries – Western Africa (Level 400)

Graduate Courses

• Patterns of Politics in Industrialized Societies (MPhil in Political Science)
• Issues in International Politics (MA in International Affairs at LECIAD)
• Political Economy and Development (PhD, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research – ISSER)

PUBLICATIONS

Book(s)

• Aka, P.C., Wahab, W. & Alex-Assensoh, Y.M (2022).The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa Evidence from Ghana. https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Economy-of-Universal-Healthcare-...
• Wahab, H. (Ed.). (2017). Servant of The Bestower: Maulvi Dr. A. Wahab Adam. Tilford, Surrey, UK: Islam International Publications Ltd.

Book Chapters

• Wahab, H. (2019). Are Members of Parliament in Ghana Responsive to their Constituents? Evidence from Parliamentary Debates on Health Care. In S. G. Obeng and E. Debrah (eds.), Ghanaian Politics and Political Communication (pp. 99-114). London, UK: Roman and Littlefield.
• Wahab, H. (2019). Democracy, Civil Society, and the Emergence of National Health Insurance in  Ghana. In J. A. Ayee (ed.), Politics, Governance and Development in Ghana (pp. 67-82). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Wahab, H. (2014). Universal Healthcare Coverage: Assessing the Implementation of Ghana’s NHIS Law. In T. Falola and E. M. Mbah (eds.), Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor: A. B. Assensoh and African Politics in Transition (pp. 188-199). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Peer Reviewed journals

• Wahab, H., and Aka, P. C. (2020). The Politics of Healthcare Reforms in Ghana under the Fourth Republic Since 1993: A Critical Analysis. Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue  canadienne des études africaines, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2020.1801476.
• Wahab, H. (2019). The Politics of State Welfare Expansion in Africa: Emergence of National Health Insurance in Ghana, 1993-2004. Africa Today, 65(3), 90-112.
• Aka, P.C., Gassama, I. J., Assensoh, A. B. and Wahab, H. (2017). Ghana’s Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and the Evolution of Human Right to Healthcare in Africa. Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law, 5(2), 1-65.
• Assensoh, A. B., and Wahab, H. (2008). A Historical-Cum-Political Overview of Ghana’s Health Insurance Law. African and Asian Studies, 7(2-3), 289-306.

Book Review(s)

• Wahab, H. (2021). From Achinakrom to Pro-Vice Chancellor, written by Florence Abena Dolphyne, African and Asian Studies (published online ahead of print 2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341508.     https://brill.com/view/journals/aas/aop/article-10.1163-15692108-1234150...
• Wahab, H. Book Review: Chiu Ling-Yeong and Donatella Guida (eds). (2006). A Passion for China: Essays in Honor of Paolo Santangelo for his 60th Birthday. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. African and Asian Studies, 5(2), 255-256.

Monographs/Manuscripts Under Review or in Progress

• Wahab, H. The Politics of State Welfare Provision in Africa: Ghana's National Health Insurance  Scheme in Comparative Perspective [Monograph. Currently in discussion with an Academic Press for possible publication].
• Philip C. Aka, Wahab, H., and Alex-Assensoh, Y. Universal Healthcare in Ghana: A Comparative  Analysis [Monograph. Currently in discussion with an Academic Press for publication]
• Wahab, H. Patapaa in the United States: Donald Trump and the Upending of American Politics  and Practice.
• Wahab, H. Africa’s New Democratic Institutions: Engineering Major Public Policy Changes.
• Wahab, H. Political Science Field Research in Africa: Wearing the Insider and Outsider Hats.
• Wahab, H. Voter Choice: Comparative Analysis of Presidential Elections under Ghana’s Fourth  Republican Constitution