Pepper Culpepper is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and the Blavatnik Chair in Government and Public Policy at the University of Oxford. He has coauthored (with Taeku Lee) Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy and “When Populism Can Be Good" in the recent issue of the Journal of Democracy. The... Continue Reading →
Dan Slater is the James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Center of Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. He is the coauthor (with Joseph Wong) of the book From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia. More recently, he authored the article "The Authoritarian Origins of the... Continue Reading →
Guillermo Trejo is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Director of the Violence and Transitional Justice Lab at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His latest book (coauthored with Lucía Tiscornia and Juan Albarracín) is Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Prevents Criminal Wars in New Democracies. The Democracy Paradox... Continue Reading →
Kenneth Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the coauthor (with Santiago Anria) of Polarization and Democracy in Latin America: Legacies of the Left Turn. 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 left... Continue Reading →
Sheri Berman is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, the author of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe, and “Democracy’s Troubles Should Be No Surprise” in the most recent issue of the Journal of Democracy. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University... Continue Reading →
Christopher Walker is the Vice President for the Center for European Policy Analysis. He was the Vice President of Studies and Analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy between 2016-2025. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Sharp power seeks to exploit... Continue Reading →
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 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 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 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 →
