I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, where I am affiliated with the project “Political Elites and Regime Change in the Middle East and North Africa“. Between Fall 2024 and Fall 2026, I will be the Von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Heidelberg University, Germany. My research agenda centers around comparative autocratic regimes, political institutions, and regime change. I received my Ph.D. in political science from the University of Gothenburg in 2022. My research has been published in Democratization, Electoral Studies, and Party Politics.
My current research mainly focuses on the formation and consequences of elite coalitions in autocracies around the world.
Berker Kavasoglu 