Peer-Reviewed Articles

Tapscott, Rebecca & Daniel Rincón Machón, “Procedural Ethics for Social Science Research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance Dataset” Journal of Peace Research (Online First).

Tapscott, Rebecca & Eliza Urwin. “The Origins and Legacies Unpredictability in Rebel and Rebel-Incumbent Rule” Civil Wars (online first).

Anna MacDonald, Arthur Owor and Rebecca Tapscott. “Explaining Youth Political Mobilization and Its Absence: The case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election” Journal of Eastern African Studies (2023).

Tapscott, Rebecca. “Vigilantes and the State: Understanding violence through a security assemblages approach” Perspectives on Politics 21:1 (2023), 209–224.

Tapscott, Rebecca. “Militarized Masculinity and the Paradox of Restraint: Mechanisms of social control under modern authoritarianism” International Affairs 96:6 (2020), 1565–1584.

Abonga, Francis; Raphael Kerali; Holly Porter and Rebecca Tapscott. “Naked Bodies and Collective Action: Repertoires of protest in Uganda’s authoritarian regime” Civil Wars 22:2-3 (2020), 198-223. *Civil Wars’ most read article of all time, with 21,465 views in Feb 2024

Tapscott, Rebecca. “Policing Men: Militarized masculinity, youth livelihoods, and security in conflict-affected northern Uganda” Disasters 42:S1 (2018), S119-S139.

Tapscott, Rebecca. “The Government Has Long Hands: Institutionalized arbitrariness and local security initiatives in northern Uganda” Development and Change 48:2 (2017), 263–285.

Tapscott, Rebecca. “Local Security and the (Un)Making of Public Authority in Gulu, Northern Uganda” African Affairs 116:462 (2017), 39-59. *Made open access in 2019 as one of African Affairs most highly cited articles

Tapscott, Rebecca. “Where the Wild Things Are Not: Crime preventers and the 2016 Ugandan elections” Journal of Eastern African Studies 10:4 (2016), 693-712. *Winner of the International Studies Association’s 2017 Carl Beck Award

Chapters

Tapscott, Rebecca. “Institutionalized Arbitrariness as Autocratic Adaptability” In Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda: Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control, edited by Moses Khisa. Zed Books (2023)

Tapscott, Rebecca. “Conceptualizing Militias in Africa” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford UP. (2019).