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Ashley Anderson is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Her research interests are in comparative politics, with a focus on authoritarianism, Middle Eastern political development, and contentious politics. Her first book investigates variation in political mobilization among unions in Tunisia and Morocco, while related projects focus on the role of the ICTs in facilitating protest mobilization and the use of protest strategies by authoritarian incumbents. Her newest works focus on the growth of Islamist ideologies in the Middle East and developing new conceptual models of authoritarianism.