 
      Erica Frantz
Associate Professor, Michigan State
Erica Frantz is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. She studies authoritarian politics, with a focus on democratization, backsliding, conflict, and development
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        Republicans Saved Democracy Once. Will They Do It Again?
        
                  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright & Erica Frantz 
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        Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
        
                  By Erica Frantz & Andrea Kendall-Taylor 
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        The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within
        
                  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, Joseph Wright & Susan B. Glasser 
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        The Origins of Elected Strongmen
        
                  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright 
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        Why Trump’s control of the Republican Party is bad for democracy
        
                  By Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Joseph Wright 
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