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Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Prof. Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, for a presentation titled "Compliance and Consent in Wartime Ukraine".

Scholars have theorized about the sources of citizens’ compliance and consent by focusing on states’ credible provision of public services and beliefs about other citizens’ willingness to contribute to the national community. We test these classic theories, but also explore how civil society organizations and international actors shape compliance and consent. Drawing on a multi-wave online panel survey, embedded survey experiments, and experimental games in wartime Ukraine, we find support for classic theories. We additionally find that the provision of public goods by civil society organizations and the supply of foreign aid by international actors bolsters compliance and consent. Our collection of individual-level data under wartime conditions and combination of longitudinal and experimental analyses offer novel insights into the factors shaping citizen compliance and consent — two essential prerequisites for building high-capacity states. 

Jordan Gans-Morse's research focuses on corruption, the rule of law, property rights, and political and economic transitions. He is the author of Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia: Violence, Corruption, and Demand for Law (Cambridge University Press). Other publications have appeared in leading journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and World Development. His commentaries have been published in the Chicago Tribune, The Hill, The Moscow Times, US News & World Report, and The Washington Post: The Monkey Cage. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2011 and, during the 2016-2017 academic year, served as a Fulbright Scholar teaching and conducting research in Ukraine.