Navid Hassanpour

Navid Hassanpour is an associate professor of political science at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Previously he taught at Columbia University, and was a Niehaus Fellow in Regional Political Economy at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He studies politics in hybrid regimes: collective action and elections under authoritarianism leading to social revolutions or stable electoral institutions. His ongoing research in Tehran, Moscow, Beijing and Istanbul examines the inception of electoral institutions past the era of constitutional revolutions and the logic of their pursuing transformations.