Dr Rachael  McLellan

Dr Rachael McLellan

LSE Fellow in Political Science & Public Policy

School of Public Policy

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Languages
English, French, German, Swahili
Key Expertise
Authoritarian Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Economy

About me

Dr Rachael McLellan is an LSE Fellow in Political Science & Public Policy in the School of Public Policy. Before LSE, she was in the Politics Department at Princeton University where she got her PhD in 2020.

Rachael studies the strategies of electoral autocrats and opposition parties at the local level. Her book project asks how local control - who wins local elections - affects how ruling and opposition parties compete for votes. She uses administrative data, interviews, focus groups and surveys to understand how opposition control of local institutions changes patterns of distribution and repression and threatens regime durability in decentralized autocracies.

She won the American Political Science Association Fieldwork Prize in 2019 for her dissertation work on Tanzania. Her work is forthcoming at Perspectives on Politics. 

 

Teaching

  • PP408: Introduction to Quantitative Methods for the MPA Programme
  • PP401: Political Science for Public Policy
  • PP478: Political Science for Public Policy