Mohammad Sayyadi

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, specializing in comparative politics, political economy, and international relations.

I'm a comparativist with research interests in democracies and autocracies, as well as the political economy of the Global South, particularly the Middle East and Iran. My research focuses on two paths. First, I study the political economy of post-revolutionary states, examining how pre-revolutionary conditions lead to revolutionary confiscation, the impact of revolutionary confiscation on political economy and state-society relations, and why some revolutionaries practice the confiscation of land and properties, while others do not. Second, I examine the policies and mechanisms through which states perpetuate corruption, monopoly, plunder, and rent-seeking, and explore how these mechanisms impact the electoral process and trust in political institutions in democracies and autocracies.

My methodological interests include developing original datasets and employing quantitative methods. I am trained in and have used both quantitative and qualitative methods, including statistical analysis, large-N studies, process tracing, and critical discourse analysis.

My latest publication is a forthcoming chapter in a book by Springer Nature. I have published in a number of academic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of the University of Tehran, the Iranian Journal of Public Policy, and the Quarterly Journal of the Iranian Political Science Association.

I earned an M.A. in Political Science from Florida International University in 2024. In 2014, I received an M.A. in Political Science with a focus on political theory and thought from the University of Tehran, Iran.