Publications

2025 Beyond the urban–rural divide: urban duration, rural connections, and sociopolitical (re)orientation in Kenya Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Journal of Modern African Studies · Scholar only 1 2025 Beyond the World Development Report’s State-Centrism: Multi-Level Migration Governance and Migrant Exclusion Rachel Beatty Riedl · International Migration 0 2025 Future of Social Democracy. Power without the People Rachel Beatty Riedl · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · Scholar only — 2025 Global Challenges to Democracy: Backsliding, Resiliency, and Democratic Theory Rachel Beatty Riedl · Cambridge University Press eBooks · Scholar only · needs review 6 2025 Is Democracy Broken? Disinformation Wants You to Think That It Is Rachel Beatty Riedl · politics · Scholar only 2 2025 Key takeaways from the Conference "Democracy and policy: Reimagining a global democratic future" Rachel Beatty Riedl · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · Scholar only 1 2025 Neoliberalism and the Third Wave Rachel Beatty Riedl · Journal of democracy · Scholar only 3 2025 Responding to Democratic Backsliding: A Practitioners Guide Rachel Beatty Riedl · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · Scholar only — 2025 Responding to Democratic Openings: A Practitioners Guide Rachel Beatty Riedl · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · Scholar only — 2025 Targeting Higher Education Is an Essential Tool in the Autocratic Playbook Rachel Beatty Riedl · Scholar only — 2025 Why democracies die and what to do next The Backsliders Susan C. Stokes Princeton University Press, 2025. 264 pp. Rachel Beatty Riedl · Science · Scholar only — 2024 Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention – by Nicolas van de Walle, Lise Rakner and Leonardo Arriola Rachel Beatty Riedl · Perspectives on Politics 0 2024 Democratic Backsliding, Resilience, and Resistance Rachel Beatty Riedl · World Politics · needs review 102 2024 Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · Scholar only · needs review 48 2024 Rethinking the Politics of Identity Rachel Beatty Riedl · The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: The Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young — 2024 The Potential of Mixed Methods for Qualitative Research Rachel Beatty Riedl · Doing Good Qualitative Research 12 2024 World Development Report 2023 Review Forum: Introduction Rachel Beatty Riedl · International Migration 1 2023 Factions, Moderation, and Democratic Responsibility Rachel Beatty Riedl · More than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy — 2023 Senegal: Behind the protests is a fight for democratic freedom. Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Conversation 0 2023 USAID DRG Learning Agenda “Opening Democratic Spaces” Literature Review Rachel Beatty Riedl · USAID — 2023 USAID DRG Learning Agenda “Opening Democratic Spaces” Original Research Summary Report Rachel Beatty Riedl · USAID — 2022 Africa’s Democratic Outliers: Success Amid Challenges in Benin and South Africa Rachel Beatty Riedl · Democracy in Hard Places 2 2022 Critical Junctures, Contingency, and Models of Institutional Change Rachel Beatty Riedl · Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies 5 2022 Senegal’s Presidential poll is shaping up as a real contest, with voters in the drivers’ seat. Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Conversation 0 2022 The U.K. wants to send refugees to Rwanda. That’s become a trend. Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Washington Post, Monkey Cage — 2022 USIP Sahel Senior Study Group Rachel Beatty Riedl · USIP — 2021 Les défis démocratiques en temps de Covid-19 Rachel Beatty Riedl · Covid-19 Tour Du Monde — 2021 Some GOP members didn’t accept Biden’s win. What happens when an anti-democratic faction rocks a democracy? Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Washington Post, Monkey Cage — 2021 The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications Rachel Beatty Riedl · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 173 2021 Transparency in Qualitative Research: An Overview of Key Findings and Implications of the Deliberations Rachel Beatty Riedl · Perspectives on Politics · needs review 18 2021 Using Sermons to Study Religions’ Influence on Political Behavior Rachel Beatty Riedl · Comparative Political Studies 21 2020 Authoritarian-Led Democratization. Rachel Beatty Riedl · Annual Review of Political Science 119 2020 Faith in Flux. Pentecostalism and mobility in rural Mozambique – by Devaka Premawardhana Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Journal of Modern African Studies 0 2020 Power and Institutionalization: Final Report of QTD Working Group I. 3 Rachel Beatty Riedl · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 1 2020 princeton institute for international and regional studies Rachel Beatty Riedl · Scholar only — 2019 Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Assessment, Benin Rachel Beatty Riedl · USAID — 2019 From Pews to Politics: How Religious Ideas Can Influence Modes of Political Engagement in Africa and Beyond Rachel Beatty Riedl · Cambridge University Press 118 2019 Senegal’s Vigorous But Constrained Election Rachel Beatty Riedl · Journal of Democracy 7 2019 The Pentecostal Ethic and Its Alternatives: Religious Messages and Political Behavior in Africa Rachel Beatty Riedl · Cambridge University Press · Scholar only 2 2018 Authoritarian Successor Parties in Sub-Saharan Africa: Into the Wilderness and Back Again? Rachel Beatty Riedl · Authoritarian Success Parties: Causes and Consequences 15 2018 From the Outside Looking In: Latin American Parties in Comparative Perspective Rachel Beatty Riedl · Latin American Party Systems: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse 3 2018 Institutional Legacies Rachel Beatty Riedl · Institutions and Democracy in Africa: How the Rules of the Game Shape · Scholar only — 2018 Institutional Legacies: Understanding multiparty politics in historical perspective Rachel Beatty Riedl · Politics in Africa: The Importance of Institutions 12 2018 This is why global AIDS interventions fail Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Washington Post, Monkey Cage — 2017 Liberia Election Monitoring Mission Rachel Beatty Riedl · Carter Center — 2017 Subnational – Cross-National Variation: Method and Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa Rachel Beatty Riedl · American Behavioral Scientist 15 2016 Individualism and Empowerment in Pentecostal Sermons: New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya Rachel Beatty Riedl · African Affairs 61 2016 Party Systems and Democracy in Africa, edited by Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 191. $79.99 (hbk). Rachel Beatty Riedl · The Journal of Modern African Studies · Scholar only — 2016 Political Parties, Regimes and Social Cleavages Rachel Beatty Riedl · Oxford Handbooks Online 14 2016 Strong Parties, Weak Parties: Divergent Pathways to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa Rachel Beatty Riedl · Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World 10