Articles by Zeynep Menteşoğlu Tardivo

July 29, 2021

Political institutions in authoritarian regimes may look democratic, but they reinforce the rulers’ power base

Zeynep Menteşoğlu Tardivo

Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo analyses the role played by nominally democratic political institutions in authoritarian regimes. She argues that rulers design such institutions to consolidate their power base, even at the cost of economic and political development

Zeynep Menteşoğlu Tardivo

Postdoctoral Researcher, spsTrend Laboratory, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan 

Zeynep holds a PhD in Political Science from LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome.

She worked as a research fellow on the project START – Surfing Transition to Adulthood: Resources and Timing.

Zeynep specialises in the quantitative analysis of survey data, in particular from the European Social Survey (ESS).

Her research interests include migration, political participation, youth studies, social inequalities, comparative politics, and political sociology.

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