Alexander Cooley is the Claire Tow Professor of Political Science and Vice Provost for Research and Academic Centers at Barnard College, Columbia University. Alexander Dukalskis associate professor in the School of Politics & International Relations at University College Dublin. They are the authors of the recent book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World... Continue Reading →
Suzanne Mettler is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University. She is the coauthor of Four Threats with Robert Lieberman and Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy coauthored with Trevor Brown. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre... Continue Reading →
Rachel Beatty Riedl is a Professor in the Brooks School of Public Policy and in the Department of Government at Cornell University and the Peggy J. Koenig ’78 Director of the Cornell Center on Democracy. She is the coeditor of Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience with Valerie Bunce, Tom... Continue Reading →
Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Some of her articles include “Autocratic Legalism”, “The Rule of Law and the Frankenstate: Why Government Checklists Do Not Work”, “How Viktor... Continue Reading →
Jeffrey Kopstein is the Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Stephen Hanson) of The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future and the recent article in the Journal of Democracy, “When Polarization Turns Violent." The Democracy Paradox is made in... Continue Reading →
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 →
