#  Hanna Folsz 

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

PhD, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** Democratic erosion and its reversals; competitive authoritarianism; opposition parties and movements; economic coercion; media capture; and east-central Europe.



 

 

 





 

 

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