Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action

Navid Hassanpour is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He studies politics in hybrid regimes - collective action and elections under authoritarianism leading to social revolutions or stable electoral institutions. During the past two years he worked at Princeton University, New Jersey and Columbia University, New York, and his ongoing research in Tehran, Saint Petersburg, Istanbul and Beijing examines the inception of electoral institutions at the era of constitutional revolutions and the logic of their pursuing transformations.