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  Brett Carter

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  Brett Carter is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a faculty affiliate at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, both at Stanford University; and an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). Carter received a PhD in political science from Harvard University, where he was also a fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His first book, Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief (Cambridge University Press, 2023), received the William Riker Prize for the Best Book in Political Economy.

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  Brett Carter is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a faculty affiliate at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, both at Stanford University; and an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). Carter received a PhD in political science from Harvard University, where he was also a fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

  Carter’s research focuses on politics in the world’s autocracies. His first book, Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief (Cambridge University Press, 2023), draws on the largest archive of state propaganda ever assembled – encompassing over eight million newspaper articles in six languages from nearly 70 countries around the world – to show how political institutions shape the propaganda strategies of repressive governments. It received the William Riker Prize for the Best Book in Political Economy, the International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award, Honorable Mention for the Gregory Luebbert Award for the Best Book in Comparative Politics, and Honorable Mention for the APSA Democracy & Autocracy Section's Best Book Award.

   

  His second book, in progress, shows how politics in Africa’s autocracies changed after the Berlin Wall fell and how a new era of geopolitical competition – marked by the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia – are changing it again.

   

  His other work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, and Foreign Affairs, among others.

   

  His work has been featured by a range of media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, The National Interest, and NPR's Radiolab. He is a regular contributor to the National Endowment for Democracy's Power 3.0 Project, African Arguments, Africa is a Country, and Political Violence at a Glance.

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