Rachel Beatty Riedl

Rachel Beatty Riedl is Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Program of African Studies, and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, Illinois. She is the author of the award-winning Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa (Cambridge, 2014). Riedl is the Chair of the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Rachel Beatty Riedl is Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Program of African Studies, and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, Illinois. She is the author of the award-winning Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa (Cambridge, 2014). Riedl is the Chair of the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. See less