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 democratic backsliding, law and politics, and political polarization, with a focus on Turkey, Israel, 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 Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Democracy, the Washington Post, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for American Progress, the German Marshall Fund, The Hill, the Istanbul Policy Center, Lawfare, and Verfassungsblog.

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: Minoritarian Courts, Audience Costs, and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey.
   [Working Paper]
2. How Populist Incumbents Survive Economic Crises: Theory and Evidence from Turkey (with Ahmet Akbıyık). Under Review.
   [Working Paper] [Pre-Analysis Plan]
3. The Court of Public Opinion: The Limited Effects of Elite Rhetoric about Trump's Prosecution (with Daniel B. Markovits). Under Review.
   [Working Paper] [Pre-Analysis Plan]
4. Accountability by Law or by Elites? Experimental Evidence from Brazil’s Conviction of Jair Bolsonaro (with Fernando Bizzarro and Jean Vilbert).
   [Working Paper] [Pre-Analysis Plan]

1. The Deinstitutionalization of U.S. and Turkish Foreign Policy: Why Societal Ties Are an Anchor in Bilateral Relations. Fulbright Türkiye-Hollings Center-Bilkent University Conference Paper. May 2024.
2. Political Polarization in South and Southeast Asia: Old Divisions, New Dangers (co-edited with Thomas Carothers). Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. August 2020.
3. Turkey's Changing Media Landscape (with Max Hoffman and Alan Makovsky). Center for American Progress. June 2020.
4. Polarization and the Pandemic (co-edited with Thomas Carothers). Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. April 2020.
5. 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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