General seminar
On Monday the 8th of June, Professor Rachel Riedl will hold a presentation titled How Democracies Resist Backsliding: Evidence from the Democratic Attacks and Resistance Events (DARE) Dataset
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Rachel Beatty Riedl is the Peggy J. Koenig ’78 Director of the Centre on Global Democracy in the Brooks School of Public Policy, and a Professor in the Brooks School and Department of Government at Cornell University. Her research expertise is on democracy and authoritarianism globally, and particularly across Africa. She focuses on questions of participation, institutions, political parties, and local governance. She recently led the USAID’s Democracy, Rights and Governance learning agenda “Opening Democratic Spaces” research report. Riedl is also a member of the Open Society University Network’s Forum on Democracy and Development. Riedl is the author of the award-winning Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa and co-author ofFrom Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa
