In a new book, Haakon Gjerløw, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Tore Wig and Matthew C. Wilson challenge conventional wisdom. Building state institutions before democratisation does not help long-term economic development, after all
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina
Matthew is interested in explaining the impacts of political institutions and temporal dynamics in non-democratic settings.
Some of his ongoing research projects focus on the mechanisms that support legislative strengthening and party institutionalisation in autocracies and their relation to conflict and regime change.
Journals in which he has published include the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, International Interactions, Political Science Research and Methods, and Comparative Political Studies.
Matthew is currently a Research Fellow with the Varieties of Democracy Project at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he has contributed to research on democratisation.
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