Journal Articles, Peer Reviewed Policy Publications, & Working Papers

· Benson, M. (2024) ‘Of Rule Not Revenue: South Sudan’s Revenue Complex from Colonial, Rebel, to Independent Rule, 1899 to 2023’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Issue 66-3.

· Benson, M. and Alneel, M. (2023) ‘The Everyday Politics of Sudan’s Tax System: Identifying Prospects for Reform’, Peace and Conflict Resolution Research Platform (PeaceRep), London School of Economics and Political Science.

· Benson, M. (2022) ‘Taxation and Civicness in South Sudan: Revenue Reforms for a More Inclusive Democracy’, Peace and Conflict Resolution Research Platform (PeaceRep) London School of Economics and Political Science.

· Benson, M. (2022) ‘Taxation, Coercion and Civicness in South Sudan’, In Lynch, M., Aidi, H. and Mampilly, Z. (eds.) The Struggle for Democracy in Africa: Elections, Coups and Popular Opinion. New York: Program on African Social Research at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, CUNY.

· Kaldor, Mary, Radice, Henry, de Waal, Alex, Benson, Matthew, Detzner, Sarah, Elder, Claire, Hoffmann, Kasper, Ibreck, Rachel, Majid, Nisar, Morgan, Azaria, Mehchy, Zaki, Rangelov, Iavor, Sarkar, Aditya, Spatz, Benjamin J., Theros, Marika, Turkmani, Rim, Vlassenroot, Koen and Watkins, Jessica (2020) ‘Evidence from the Conflict Research Programme: submission to the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy’.  Conflict Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

· de Waal, A., Boswell, A., Deng, D., Ibreck, R., Benson, M. and Pospisil, J. (2019) ‘South Sudan: The Politics of Delay’. Conflict Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science. Policy Memo.

· van den Boogaard, V., Prichard, W., Benson, M. and Milicic, N. (2018) ‘Revenue Mobilization in Conflict-Affected Developing Countries’. Journal of International Development, Special Issue on ‘Fiscal Policy, State-Building and Economic Development’, Issue 30.

· Pape, U., Benson, M., Ebrahim, M., and Lole, J. (2017) ‘Reducing Poverty Through Improved Agro-Logistics in a Fragile Country: Findings from a Trader Survey in South Sudan’. World Bank, Poverty & Equity Global Practice, Africa. Research Working Paper.  

· Denney, L., Mallett, R. with Benson, M. (2017) ‘Service Delivery and State Capacity: Findings from the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium’, Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC), Overseas Development Institute. Synthesis Report.

· van den Boogaard, V., Prichard, W., Milicic, N. and Benson, M. (2016) ‘Revenue Mobilization in Conflict-Affected Developing Countries’. International Centre for Tax and Development and United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). Working Paper.

· Benson, M. (2016) Paying for Government and Services: 28 States and Revenue. In Aalen, L. and Schomerus, M. (eds.) Considering the State: Perspectives on South Sudan’s Sub-Division and Federalism Debate. London: Overseas Development Institute and the Chr. Michelsen Institute.

· Allouche, J., Benson, M. and M’Cormack, F. (2016) ‘Beyond Borders: The End of the Mano River War(s)?’. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. Evidence Report No. 188.

· Benson, M. (2015) ‘Let’s Talk About Tax: Revenue and South Sudan’s Constitution’. Africa in Fact, Issue 32.

Benson, M. (2007) ‘Insecure Environments: The Missing Piece?’, Forced Migration Review, Issue 29 : p.20-21.

Works in Progress

· Benson, M. ‘Aiding Predation: International Aid and South Sudan’s Revenue Complex’, Peace and Conflict Evidence Research Platform (PeaceRep) and the International Centre for Taxation and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science. (In preparation).

· Srinivasan, S., Benson, M., Makawi, R. ‘Political and Economic Thought in Sudan’s Uprising’. (In preparation).

· Benson, M., Greenbaum, J., and Awany, J. ‘Subversion & Control: The Moral Economies of Timber in South Sudan’ (Submitted - in Review).

· Detzner, S., Berridge, W., Makawi, R., and Benson, M. ‘Sudan’s Changed Security Arena’. (In preparation).

· Benson, M. Revenue and State Subordination in Sudan and South Sudan to be submitted to Cambridge University Press’s African History series.

Book Reviews

· Benson, M. (2023) ‘Review of Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa’ by Peer Schouten’. Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute. Vol.93, Issue 3.

· Benson, M. (2023) ‘Review – When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention in the Sudans’, Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), 23 January.  

· Benson, M. (2021) ‘Review of Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development’ by Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad’. Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute, Vol. 91, Issue 2.

·  Benson, M. (Issue 55, February 2017) ‘Review of Borders and Borderlands as Political Resources in the Horn of Africa, edited by Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne’. Journal of Sudan and South Sudan Studies, Sudan Studies Society of the United Kingdom, Book Review. 

·  Benson, M. (2015) ‘Review of Naseem Badiey’s, The State of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Land, Urban Development and State-Building in Juba Southern Sudan’. Journal of Sudan and South Sudan Studies, Sudan Studies Society of the United Kingdom. Issue 52.