Rachel Beatty RiedlRachel Beatty Riedl is Peggy J. Koenig '78 Director of the Center on Global Democracy at Cornell University, and a professor in the Department of Government and the Brooks School of Public Policy. Her current research examines the politics of democraic opposition to executive-led backsliding in Africa and beyond. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa (2014) and co-author of From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa (2019). Read More Read Less