Austin S. Matthews, Ph.D.

Austin S. Matthews, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines how states - particularly authoritarian regimes - organize, lead, and control national security. He is a co-PI at the GetGov project, based out of the University of Oslo and funded by the European Union (ERC, GETGOV, 101221191), which tracks the composition of cabinet ministers worldwide.

His work has been published in Armed Forces & Society, the British Journal of Political Science, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Democratization, Electoral Politics, German Politics, International Interactions Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research.

Contact: austin.matthews@austin.utexas.edu

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8972-8329

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