Co-host
Rachel Beatty Riedl
Rachel Beatty Riedl is a professor in Cornell University's Department of Government and Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Her research interests include institutional development in new democracies, local governance and decentralization, and authoritarian regime legacies in Africa.
Her newest book—From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa, coauthored with Gwyneth McClendon—was published in September 2019. Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa (2014), her previous book, won the African Politics Best Book award.