CMES Colloquium: After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition

Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 12:00pm
Speaker/Performer: Elizabeth Nugent, Yale University
Hosted by Jonathan Wyrtzen
Zoom webinar
Elizabeth Nugent is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. She researches the psychology of political behavior in the Middle East with a focus on the effects of religion and repression. Her work has been published in venues including American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Politics. This talk is taken from her first book, After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition, published in September 2020 by Princeton University Press.