Distinguished Professor Dr. Ali Riaz was interviewed by WGLT Radio on his recent co-authored book, How Autocrats Rise: Sequences of Democratic Backsliding.
The book examines the process of democratic erosion and examines four case studies: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Hungary, and Turkey. Riaz and his co-author Md Sohel Rana, MS. ’21, challenge the existential institution-focused analysis of democratic erosion and offer an institutional-ideological approach to understand the phenomenon. The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan.
