Margaret Hanson
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Mail code: 3902Campus: Tempe
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Margaret Hanson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies. She is a political economist whose interdisciplinary and multi-methods research examines state-society relations in autocracies. Specifically, she focuses on how legal institutions, economic development, support for democracy, and migration shape state-society relations under dictatorship. Regionally, she specializes in the politics of Central Asia and the Caucasus. She teaches classes in comparative politics, economic development and globalization, authoritarian politics, political economy, and qualitative and mixed research methods.
Ph.D. The Ohio State University
2021. “Building Socialist Legality: Political Order and Institutional Development in the Soviet and Chinese Procuracies” (with Michael Thompson-Brusstar, University of Michigan). Forthcoming, Jan. 2021 Europe-Asia Studies.
2020. “Higher Education as an Authoritarian Tool for Regime Survival: Evidence from Kazakhstan and around the World” (with Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado-Boulder). Problems of Post-Communism.
2017. “Legalized Rent-Seeking: Eminent Domain in Kazakhstan.” Cornell International Law Journal 50(1), 15-46. Available here.
Managing the Predatory State: Corruption and Governance in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Book Manuscript).
“Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy?" (with Hannah Chapman, Miami University; Valery Dzutsati, Arizona State University; Paul DeBell, Fort Lewis College). Under Review.
“Captured Courts and Legitimized Autocrats: Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Council” (with Nora Webb Williams, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Under Review.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 150 | Comparative Government |
| POS 150 | Comparative Government |
| POS 550 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 150 | Comparative Government |
| POS 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 550 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| POS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 150 | Comparative Government |
| POS 500 | Research Methods |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 150 | Comparative Government |
| POS 150 | Comparative Government |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SGS 350 | Economic Dev & Globalization |
| SGS 350 | Economic Dev & Globalization |
| POS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SGS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SGS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SGS 305 | Empirical Political Inquiry |
| POS 301 | Empirical Political Inquiry |
| POS 550 | Comparative Politics |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| SGS 350 | Economic Dev & Globalization |
| SGS 350 | Economic Dev & Globalization |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SGS 305 | Empirical Political Inquiry |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 301 | Empirical Political Inquiry |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
| POS 350 | Comparative Politics |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| POS 150 | Comparative Government |
| POS 394 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SGS 305 | Empirical Political Inquiry |
| POS 301 | Empirical Political Inquiry |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SGS 350 | Economic Dev & Globalization |