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Chair in Qualitative Empirical Research Methods

Mahmoud Farag

Profilbild Mahmoud Farag

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Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Goethe-Universität
Theodor-W.-Adorno Platz 6

60323 Frankfurt am Main

Mahmoud Farag is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He previously held positions or undertook research visits  at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Zurich and the University of Geneva. Mahmoud received his doctorate (Dr. phil., summa cum laude) in political science from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2021.
He is broadly interested in comparative politics with a focus on democratization and authoritarianism, cleavage politics, civil society and accountability, and Middle Eastern politics.
Mahmoud's research has been published in Government and Opposition, European Political Science, Mediterranean Politics, Stanford Social Innovation Review and the German Journal of Comparative Politics (Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft) in addition to a number of policy outlets.
Before shifting to academia, for over a decade, he consulted for and worked at international civil society organizations including Transparency International, CARE International, the International Civil Society Centre among others on issues related to good governance and accountability.
  • Farag, Mahmoud, Hae Ran Jung, Isabella C. Montini, Juliette Bourdeau de Fontenay, and Satveer Ladhar. 2022. “What Do We Know about Power Sharing after 50 Years?" Government and Opposition (Online First), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2022.26.
  • Farag, Mahmoud. 2022 “Opposition Inclusion and Exclusion in the Arab World: Evidence from a New Dataset." Mediterranean Politics (Online First), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2022.2085951
  • Farag, Mahmoud, and Muath Abudalu. 2022. “Electoral Reform in Authoritarian Regimes: Veto Player Uncertainty in Jordan." German Journal of Comparative Politics / Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (Online First), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-022-00534-8
  • Farag, Mahmoud. 2020. “Mass–Elite Differences in New Democracies: Tunisia as a Case Study (2010–2016)." European Political Science 19 (4): 550–561. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-020-00274-x