Scott Williamson is Associate Professor in Comparative Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College. His research focuses on popular politics and institutions in authoritarian regimes, support for democracy, attitudes toward foreign aid and migration, and the politics of the Middle East. Scott is also the PI of the UKRI-funded ERC Starting Grant Democratic Values and Authoritarian Legitimacy (DEVAL). Prior to joining Oxford, Scott was Assistant Professor of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. His work has been published in journals including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the British Journal of Political Science. He received his PhD in political science from Stanford University in 2020.
