Andrew O’Donohue

Welcome!

I am the Carl J. Friedrich Fellow in the Government Department at Harvard University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. My research studies comparative judicial politics, democratic erosion, and political polarization, with a focus on Turkey and the Middle East.

My book, Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization, co-edited with Thomas Carothers, was published by the Brookings Institution Press. My writing has also been published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for American Progress, Foreign Affairs, the German Marshall Fund, The Hill, the Istanbul Policy Center, and the Washington Post.

During the 2023-24 academic year, I will be conducting research in Turkey and Israel as a Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellow.

At Harvard, I am an affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Prior to graduate school, I was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a research fellow at Sabancı University's Istanbul Policy Center.

Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization (co-edited with Thomas Carothers). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2019.
[Contents] [Introduction] [Turkey Chapter]

1. Law versus Democracy: Reputation Costs, Judicial Alliance Networks, and Democratic Erosion in Turkey.
   [Working Paper]
2. Why Do Populist Incumbents Survive Economic Crises? How Economic Appeals Won Voters in Turkey’s 2023 Election (with Ahmet Akbıyık).
   [Working Paper] [Pre-Analysis Plan]
3. Election Interference or Democratic Accountability? How Elite Rhetoric about Trump’s Prosecution Affects Public Support for Democratic Norms (with Daniel B. Markovits).
   [Pre-Analysis Plan]

1. Political Polarization in South and Southeast Asia: Old Divisions, New Dangers (co-edited with Thomas Carothers). Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. August 2020.
2. Turkey's Changing Media Landscape (with Max Hoffman and Alan Makovsky). Center for American Progress. June 2020.
3. Polarization and the Pandemic (co-edited with Thomas Carothers). Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. April 2020.
4. Turkey, Russia, and the West: Reassessing Persistent Volatility, Asymmetric Interdependence, and the Syria Conflict (with Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Evren Balta). Istanbul Policy Center. April 2020.

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