Political Participation in Comparative Perspective: Elections, Parties, and Social Movements

Time: 10:15-11:45 AM         Location: Albertus Hall

Chair: Pete Richardson, Northeastern University, peter.richardson24@gmail.com Discussant: Yunus Sozen, LeMoyne College, sozenmy@lemoyne.edu & Pete Richardson

Papers:

How the Opposition Failed Democracy in Turkey: Opposition Coordination in Electoral Authoritarian Regime

Yunus Sozen, LeMoyne College, sozenmy@lemoyne.edu

Bridging Borders and Bytes: Digital Activism, Securitization, and the Global Solidarity Network in the #ENDSARS Movement

Samuel Olufeso, University of Massachusetts—Lowell, samuel_olufeso@student.uml.edu 

If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them: Political Party Survival in Multi-Party Presidential Context

Sam Maynard, Monmouth University, smaynard@monmouth.edu 

Voting Behavior of Christians in the Arab World

Samuel Eisenkraft, University at Albany, seisenkraft@albany.edu