PhD Candidate
Fields of Study
- Comparative Politics
- Development Studies
Areas of Interest
- Authoritarian politics
- Civil-military relations
- Security forces
- Regime change
- Constitutional law
- Comparative law and politics
- Judicial politics
- Human rights
- Soviet and post-Soviet politics
Major and Minor Fields
Major
- Comparative Politics
Minor 1
Development Studies
Working Dissertation
Title
THE POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF INTERNAL SECURITY FORCES IN AUTOCRACIES: POLICE COUPS AND BEYOND
Supervisors
Lucan A. Way
Biography
Mher Mamajanyan is a SSHRC funded PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research explores the civil-police relations in autocracies. In his dissertation, Mher examines the puzzling rarity of the intervention of internal security forces in authoritarian politics in contrast to the military. Some of the questions that his research explores include the ways the internal security forces intervene in politics and the motivation behind selecting different means of intervention on different occasions.
Education
BA (Hons), University of Toronto
LLB in Russian, Armenian University
LLM in Russian, Armenian University
Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Specialised Council of Yerevan State University
Cohort
- 2020-2021