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Matthew Rhodes-PurdyAssistant ProfessorOffice: 230I Brackett Hall Phone: Email: MHRHODE@clemson.edu Vita: View | |
Educational BackgroundPh.D. Government BA Political Science | Courses TaughtPopulism in Global Perspective
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ProfileMatthew Rhodes-Purdy is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clemson University. His research combines democratic theory with political behaviour to study challenges to contemporary democracies, especially populism and extremism. He focuses on the role strong citizen voice can play in enhancing legitimacy and minimizing antidemocratic, authoritarian, and extremist politics. He is the author of Regime Support Beyond the Balance Sheet (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which showed that strong voice explained paradoxical patterns of regime support in Chile and Venezuela. His work has appeared in The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Political Studies, Democratization, Latin American Research Review, and The Journal of Experimental Political Science. | |
Research InterestsPopulism, political economy and behavior, democratization, regime support, conspiracy theories, race and ethnic politics, emotions Research PublicationsThe Age of Discontent, Cambridge University Press (In Press)
Honors and AwardsJuan Linz Prize, Best Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention)
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