Abel Escribà Folch
Senior Research Associate, IBEI
Associate Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Biography
Dr. Abel Escribà-Folch (1978, Catalunya) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Before that, and after earning his PhD. (2007), he was a Research Fellow at IBEI (2007-2009). He has also been a visiting researcher at New York University, the University of Sussex, and the University of Essex.
He does research in comparative politics, comparative political economy, and authoritarian politics. In particular, he has an interest in authoritarian regimes survival and their institutions, how international pressure - such as foreign aid, economic sanctions, human rights prosecutions and military interventions - influences domestic politics in autocratic contexts, democratization, repression, and transitional justice.
His research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Quarterly, Democratization, Conflict Management and Peace Science, International Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research, among others. He is also the co-author of the book, Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival, published with Oxford University Press (2015), which won the 2017 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.
Awards
2017. Stein Rokkan Prize 2017 for Comparative Social Science Research for the book Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival. Link
2015. Honorable Mention 2015 Best Paper Award. Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association. Paper: “Sectarian Violence in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland.”
2011. Wildenmann Prize 2011 granted by the ECPR to the best paper presented at the 2010 Joint Sessions of Workshops in Munster (Germany). Paper: “Authoritarian Responses to Foreign Pressure: Spending, Repression, and Sanctions.” Link
Research
Research interests
- Comparative politics
- Authoritarian politics
- Democratization
- International factors and regime change
IBEI Research Clusters
Selected publications
- 2023.The dictator’s legionnaires: foreign recruitment, coups, and uprisings.Democratization,DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2277283Link
- 2023.The Rush to Personalize: Power Concentration after Failed Coups in Dictatorships.British Journal of Political Science,1-24Link
- 2022.I’ll Be Back? Exiled Leaders and Political Instability.Journal of Conflict Resolution,Online First:1-26Link
- 2022.Reshaping the Threat Environment: Personalism, Coups, and Assassinations.Comparative Political Studies,doi:10.1177/00104140211024287Link
- 2022.Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships.Princeton University Press.Link
- 2021.The Effects of Autocratic Characteristics on Public Opinion towards Democracy Promotion Policies: A Conjoint Analysis.Foreign Policy Analysis,17 (1):140-161Link
- 2019.Authoritarian Regimes and Civil-Military Relations: Explaining Counterbalancing in Autocracies.Conflict Management and Peace Science,Link
- 2019.Pitfalls of Professionalism? Military Academies and Coup Risk.Journal of Conflict Resolution,63 (5):1111-1139Link
- 2016.The determinants of low-intensity intergroup violence: The case of Northern Ireland.Journal of Peace Research,53 (1):33-48Link