Moscow League of Women Voters Speaker Series Presentation

Date, time, and location of event: December 3, 2025 12pm-1pm, LeCompte Auditorium 1912 Center Moscow Idaho

Title: Comparative Politics 101: Understanding Transitions between Democratic and Autocratic Regimes

Speaker: Amy G. Mazur

Description: This presentation is taken out of an introductory course Amy gave at WSU on Comparative Politics. Thus it presents the operational concepts and processes that students of regime change use to understand transitions between democratic and autocratic forms of government.

Bio: Amy G. Mazur is Professor Emeritus at Washington State University and Affiliated Researcher at LIEPP/Sciences Po Paris. Her most recent books include: Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World: Making Democracy Work in Business edited with Isabelle Engeli (Oxford University Press. 2022) and Implementation When Policy Fails: The Uphill Battle for Equal Pay also edited Engeli and with OUP, forthcoming. She has been co convening the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network since 2013 ( https://geppn.com/) and the Going Global with State Feminism project since 2025 and lead editor at the journal,French Politics, since 2019.