Reed Lei, assistant professor of public affairs and political science, received the Jerry and Mary Cotter Faculty Fellow award this spring.
Lei, who joined the La Follette School in August 2020, will use the funding to study the legislative functions of parliaments that are empowered by an authoritarian government to enact laws. He will focus on how authoritarian legislators do their job, given the fundamentally different legislative environment and constraints they face compared to lawmakers in a democracy[…]