Milan Svolik is the Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of the 2012 book The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. He has also published a variety of influential journal articles such as “Polarization Versus Democracy”, “When Polarization Trumps Civic Virtue”, and “In Europe, Democracy Erodes... Continue Reading →
Minxin Pei Warns China Has Descended into Totalitarianism
Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and a George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He’s also the editor of the China Leadership Monitor and the author of numerous books including his latest, The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership... Continue Reading →
Erica Frantz says Personalist Parties are Democracy’s Latest Threat
Erica Frantz is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Michigan State University (MSU) and a Research Fellow at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Her most recent book (coauthored with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright) is The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership... Continue Reading →
Javier Pérez Sandoval Reveals Democracy’s Hidden Vulnerability: The Hollowing of the State
Javier Pérez Sandoval is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent article (coauthored with Andrés Mejía Acosta) is “Why Populists Hollow Out Their States.” The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the... Continue Reading →
Kate Baldwin Explains Why Christianity Fights for Democracy in Africa
Kate Baldwin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of the book Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. The group... Continue Reading →
Natalie Wenzell Letsa Describes the Autocratic Voter
Natalie Wenzell Letsa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Autocratic Voter: Partisanship and Political Socialization Under Dictatorship. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. You can take... Continue Reading →
Russell Muirhead Warns Ungoverning Threatens Democracy
Russell Muirhead is the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics and the co-director of the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth University. He's also the co-author, with Nancy Rosenblum, of Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global... Continue Reading →
Luis Schiumerini on Incumbency Bias
Luis Schiumerini is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the author of the book, Incumbency Bias: Why Political Office is a Blessing and a Curse in Latin America. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of... Continue Reading →
Adam Przeworski Asks Who Decides What is Democratic
Adam Przeworski is the Carol and Milton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics of New York University. His most recent book is Crises of Democracy. Some of his recent essays include "Who Decides What is Democratic" and "Formal Models of Authoritarian Regimes A Critique." The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of... Continue Reading →
Killian Clarke Warns Counterrevolution is a Threat to Nascent Democracies
Killian Clarke is an assistant professor in the Edmond A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the author of Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. For democratic revolutions to survive... Continue Reading →
