I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin. I received my PhD in Government from the Department of Government at the University of Essex. I am also a Research Fellow at the Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation, University of Essex. Between 2014 and 2018, I was a member of the Research School on Peace and Conflict at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
My research on the legacy of democratic transitions on democratic attitudes is funded by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). I have also engaged in policy consultancy for USAID's "Democracy, Human Rights and Governance" Excellence Center.
My research focuses on the politics of authoritarian regimes, state repression, civil-military relations and democratization.
My work has been published at Comparative Political Studies, Research&Politics, and Journal of Peace Research.
My public scholarship on democracy and human rights can be found on Political Violence @ a Glance.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | (2023) 'Copy thy neighbor: Spatial interdependences in the democracy-repression nexus'. Journal of Human Rights, . https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2023.2289371 | |
| 2023 | Olar, R.G. (2023) 'Democratization Boost or Bust? Electoral Turnout After Democratic Transitions'. Comparative Political Studies, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede; Olar, Roman-Gabriel; Radean, Marius (2023) 'Going, going, gone? Varieties of dissent and leader exit'. Journal of Peace Research, 60 (5). https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221092813 | |
| 2020 | Anja Neundorf; Johannes Gerschewski; Roman-Gabriel Olar (2020) 'How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People?'. Comparative Political Studies, 53 (12):1890-1925. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Roman-Gabriel Olar (2019) 'Fait accompli, or live to fight another day? Deterring and surviving coups in authoritarian regimes'. Research and Politics, . [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Roman-Gabriel Olar (2019) 'Do they know something we don’t? Diffusion of repression in authoritarian regimes'. Journal of Peace Research, 56 (5):667-681. [DOI] |
Research Interests
Comparative Politics, International Relations, Human Rights, Conflict Processes, Authoritarianism, Democratization, Maximum Likelihood, Spatial Econometrics.