Andrew O’Donohue is the Carl J. Friedrich Fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate in Government at Harvard University, as well as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His research studies democratic erosion, political polarization, and comparative legal politics, with a focus on Turkey and comparative research in Brazil, Israel, and the United States. O’Donohue is the co-editor, with Thomas Carothers, of Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization (Brookings Institution Press, 2019). His work has been published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for American Progress, Democratization, Foreign Affairs, the German Marshall Fund, the Washington Post, and Verfassungsblog. Prior to graduate school, he was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and a research fellow at Sabancı University’s Istanbul Policy Center. He received his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College.
Research Interests: Democratic backsliding, comparative legal politics, political polarization, Middle East politics