Prof. Mona Krook leads an interactive discussion of her new book, Violence Against Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020).

The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal presentation will be given; please read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent with the registration confirmation.

Part of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) seminar series.

About the author

Mona Lena Krook is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her interests include democratization and good governance, gender and electoral politics, electoral gender quotas, candidate selection, political representation, political parties, and qualitative methods. Among her many publications include: Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (Oxford University Press 2009) and The Impact of Gender Quotas (Oxford University Press, 2012), and most recently, Violence Against Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Anna Lührmann joins the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) for a discussion of her working paper, "Disrupting the Autocratization Sequence: Towards Democratic Resilience."

The author will join us for a discussion of her work. No formal presentation will be given; please read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent with the registration confirmation.

About the author

Anna Lührmann is an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Docent) and the Deputy Director of the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem). Prior to turning to academia, Anna was a Member of Parliament in the German National Parliament (2002- 2009) and later worked in Sudan for two years. She received her PhD in 2015 from Humboldt University (Berlin) with a thesis on United Nation’s electoral assistance. Anna Lührmann holds a M.A. degree in “Research Training in Social Sciences” from Humboldt University (Berlin), a M.Sc. degree in Gender and Peace Studies from Ahfad University (Sudan) and a B.A. in Political Sciences from FernUniversität Hagen (Germany). She served as a consultant for UNDP, the World Bank and others. Her research has been published among others in the American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies, Democratization and the Journal of Democracy.

Current research

Anna's current research focuses on how and why democracy is eroding in many countries across the world and what we can do to stop it. Furthermore, she leads V-Dem’s Pandemic Backsliding project, which investigates how government responses to Covid-19 affect democracy. She also contributes to the Failing and Successful Sequences of Democratization- Project.