#  Bardia Rahmani 

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

PhD, Department of Political Science, Columbia University.

 

 

 



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 email <bardiarahmani@fas.harvard.edu> 

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**Research interests:** Comparative politics; authoritarianism; media; political communication; propaganda; censorship; persuasion; regime support; public opinion; international development; social and behavior change; field experiments; meta-analysis; sub-Saharan Africa; and the Global South.



 

 

 





 

 

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