Time: 12:30  PM to 1:45 PM         Location: 203 Rockefeller Hall 

Chair: Chibuzo Achinivu, Assistant Professor, Vassar College,                cachinivu@vassar.edu

Discussant: Chibuzo Achinivu, Assistant Professor, Vassar College,         cachinivu@vassar.edu

Papers:

Changing the Rules of Deliberation and Decision-Making: From    Participatory to Plebiscitary Democracy

Sawyer Rogers, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst, sbrogers@umass.edu

Democratic Demise or Resilience? A Longitudinal Study of Diffuse and Specific Political Support in South Africa over 20 Years

Sarah Beth Giles, Graduate Student, Stellenbosch University, giles.sarah@icloud.com

Revisiting Explanations For The Electoral Success of the Populist Radical-Right: A Supply Side Analysis of The Electoral Success of the French National Rally Between 2022 and 2024

Sebastien Lazardeux, Associate Professor, St John Fisher University, slazardeux@sjfc.edu & Emma Senglaub, Undergraduate Student, Colgate   University

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

Yunus Sözen, Assistant Professor, Le Moyne College, sozenmy@lemoyne.edu