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Scott Williamson is an Associate Professor in Comparative Political Economy at the University of Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations, and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College. His research focuses on authoritarian regimes' governance dynamics, including popular politics, democratic legitimacy, migration attitudes, and Middle Eastern politics. He leads the UKRI-funded ERC Starting Grant 'DEVAL' (Democratic Values and Authoritarian Legitimacy), examining how democratic values shape authoritarian stability. Prior to Oxford, he held positions at Bocconi University and New York University Abu Dhabi.
Education: PhD in Political Science from Stanford University (2020), BA from Indiana University. His work appears in top journals like Science, American Political Science Review, and Comparative Political Studies. Key publications address authoritarian institutions, migration policy in Jordan, and the political consequences of crime waves in Egypt.
Research interests include: authoritarian delegation mechanisms, public opinion in autocracies, and the intersection of migration/foreign aid with political systems. His 2024 book explores how autocrats use power-sharing to evade blame for governance failures.
He has advised on Middle East policy through the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is affiliated with the Project on Middle East Democracy. Grants include UKRI's ERC Starting Grant and prior postdoctoral support from NYUAD.
Labs/Teams: Principal Investigator of the DEVAL project, collaborating with global researchers on authoritarian legitimacy dynamics.
