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This talk explores how authoritarian leaders cultivate popular legitimacy and loyalty among youth; how they socialize students and future elites to be patriotic and supportive citizens; and whether these strategies free autocrats from the need to rely so heavily on coercion to stay in power.
Karrie J. Koesel is an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame where she specializes in the study of contemporary Chinese and Russian politics, authoritarianism, and religion and politics. She is the author of Religion and Authoritarianism: Cooperation, Conflict and the Consequences and co-editor of Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia, and is currently working on a book-length project, Learning to Be Loyal: Patriotic Education in Authoritarian Regimes. Her work has appeared in World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, The China Quarterly, Post-Soviet Affairs, Economics and Politics, Demokratizatsiya, and the Review of Religion and Chinese Society.
Dr. Koesel earned her Ph.D. in 2009 in government from Cornell University and won the 2010 American Political Science Association Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation on religion and politics. She is a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
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Presented by the Comparative Politics Initiative in the Politics department at The New School for Social Research, and the India China Institute.
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