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Episode 24: This month, we talk to Intissar Kherigi, a Ph.D. student at Sciences Po Paris and GLD Collaborating Researcher, about Tunisia’s 2015-17 municipal boundary reforms. After the Arab uprisings in 2011, Tunisia saw changes in local governance and the adoption of a new constitution mandating the decentralization of power, leading the government to reorganize the country's municipal boundaries. Intissar analyses the ways in which local populations are challenging central state-driven municipal boundary reforms and the implications for local governance. She situates this within the historical processes of boundary formation in modern Tunisia and highlights the difficulties in breaking with colonial legacies.

Selected work: Kherigi, Intissar. (2021). "Municipal Boundaries and the Politics of Space in Tunisia," The Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper No. 38, University of Gothenburg.

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Episode 23: This month we talk to GLD's Senior Research Fellow Kristen Kao about her work on post-conflict reconciliation in Iraq. Kristen tells us about her a study on the drivers of forgiveness versus revenge among diverse groups in Iraq and how her research could help promote long-term peace. Kristen Kao is a Senior Research Fellow with the Program on Governance and Local Development (GLD) at the University of Gothenburg. She holds a PhD and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and is an expert in survey methodology and experimental design in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa contexts.

Selected work: Kao, Kristen and Revkin, Mara. (2019). "How the Iraqi crackdown on the Islamic State may actually increase support for the Islamic State," The Washington Post Monkey Cage. Kao, Kristen and Revkin, Mara Redlich. (2018). “To punish or to pardon?” The Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper No. 17, University of Gothenburg

Selected research projects: From Revenge to Forgiveness: Strengthening Durable Peace in Post-Conflict Societies.

To Punish or to Pardon? Attitudes Towards Justice and Reintegration for Europeans who Cooperated with the Islamic State.

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Episode 18: This month, we talk to Susan Whiting, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Tan Zhou, PhD Student, from the University of Washington. We discuss their latest research which looks at vote buying and land taking in China's village elections. They have recently published a paper on the subject called “Farmland and Fraud: Land Rents and Vote Buying in China’s Village Elections.” Susan Whiting (Ph.D., Michigan; B.A., Yale) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also holds adjunct appointments in the Jackson School of International Studies and the School of Law. She specializes in Chinese and comparative politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development. Tan Zhao is a PhD Student in the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. His research interests are primarily Chinese politics, particularly China's political transformation and its development of grassroots democracy.

Selected Work: Tan Zhao. (2018) Vote Buying and Land Takings in China’s Village Elections. Journal of Contemporary China, 27:110, 277-294.

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