Welcome! I am an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. I finished my Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rochester in 2011. My main research and teaching interests focus on the comparative politics of developing countries. I am especially interested in topics related to democratization and democratic consolidation, economic development, and income distribution. I am also interested in political methodology and formal theory.

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Email: houlech1@msu.edu