Jean Lachapelle is an Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal’s (UdeM) Department of Political Science. He previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oslo’s Department of Political Science (2021-2022), and as a research fellow at the University of Gothenburg’s Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute (2019-2021), the University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (2017-2019), and Harvard’s Middle East Initiative (2014-2015). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto.
His research examines the causes and consequences of state violence in authoritarian regimes. His current book project theorizes the link between repression and autocratic survival, based on in-depth fieldwork in Egypt and novel event data. More broadly, he is interested in issues of coercion, military coups, revolution, and the relationship between violence and political order, with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. His work has been published in the Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Politics, Social Science and Medicine, and the International Political Science Review.
Expertise
- Authoritarianism and democracy
- Political violence
- Middle East and North Africa
Selected Publications
Lachapelle, J., & Hellmeier, S. (2022). Pathways to democracy after authoritarian breakdown: Comparative case selection and lessons from the past. International Political Science Review, 1–21.
Lachapelle, J. (2022). Repression Reconsidered: Bystander Effects and Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes. Comparative Politics, 54(4), 695–716.
Edgell, A. B., Lachapelle, J., Lührmann, A., & Maerz, S. F. (2021). Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-19. Social Science & Medicine, 285(114244).
Lachapelle, J., Levitsky, S., Way, L. A., & Casey, A. E. (2020). Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability. World Politics, 72(4), 557–600.
Lachapelle, J. (2020). No easy way out: The effect of military coups on state repression. Journal of Politics, 82(4), 1354–1372.
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