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Fiona Shen-Bayh

I study the politics of authoritarian regimes, specifically the legal and judicial instruments of power. Using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, I analyze a variety of underutilized historical materials and archival data to better understand the institutions of political control in authoritarian contexts. My research on these themes has been published in leading political science journals and received multiple awards, including the Theodore J. Lowri First Book Prize awarded jointly by the American Political Science Association and the International Political Science Association, the Giovanni Sartori Book Award, and Juan Linz Best Book Award for the comparative study of democracy and autocracy.