Yonatan Morse

• Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, and former Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2020-2024). I am the author of the book How Autocrats Compete (Cambridge University Press 2019), which compares authoritarian longevity in key African cases. I am currently working on a project titled Discovering Welfare about the capacity of democratic politics in Africa to foster significant changes in the social safety net.

• 2022–present Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
• 2016–2022 Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
• 2013–2016 Assistant Professor of Teaching, Georgetown University

• 2013 Georgetown University, PhD / Political Science
• 2006 Brandeis University, BA

• 2019 How Autocrats Compete,

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