#  Tara Hein 

Graduate Student Affiliate.

PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** Comparative politics; citizen–state relations; state capacity; political behavior; democratic institutions and democratic backsliding; and high-performing semiperipheral democracies.



 

 

 





 

 

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