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Chipo Dendere at Worcester World Affairs Council
Wed, Jan 14
|Worcester
"When Voters Exit, Authoritarianism Survives," with Chipo Dendere, Africana Studies, Wellesley College
Time & Location
Jan 14, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Worcester, 1 Oak St, Worcester, MA 01609, USA
About The Event
Chipo Dendere is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. She is a Zimbabwean-born scholar specializing in political science, focusing on the factors that influence party survival and democratization in the developing world. Her book, Death, Diversion, and Departure: Voter Exit and the Persistence of Autocracy in Zimbabwe (Cambridge University Press, 2026), shows that voter exit through death and migration creates new opportunities for authoritarian regime survival. In Zimbabwe, the exit of young, urban, and working professional voters because of mass death due to the AIDS pandemic and mass migration in the wake of economic decline has increased the resilience of a regime that may have otherwise lost power and offers timely insights with authoritarianism on the rise globally and many citizens considering leaving home. For more information, see Chipo Dendere - Wellesley.
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