Contentious Politics and Parliamentary Responsiveness in Autocracies: the Case of Jordan

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Marwa Shalaby

Assistant professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This talk focuses on the role of legislative institutions in non-democracies. Focusing on the case of Jordan, the presentation sheds light on the conditions under which executives in authoritarian regimes are more likely to respect power-sharing arrangements with legislative bodies. This research builds on original protest and parliamentary data from Jordan between 2010-2015 supplemented by original interviews and content analyses of legislative records. 

Marwa Shalaby is an assistant professor in the departments of Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin, Shalaby was the Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women’s Rights in the Middle East Program at Rice University and a Visiting Scholar in the Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD), the University of Gothenburg.

Shalaby’s research areas are gender politics, authoritarianism, and research methodology. Her work focuses on the intersection of legislative politics, authoritarianism, and women in politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Politics and Gender and Review of Economics and Political Science.

Contact: Liz Flanagan