Andreas Schedler is a Senior Research Fellow at the Democracy Institute of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest where he leads the Research Group on De- and Re-Democratization. He is also a Visiting Professor at CEU Vienna. Before joining the CEU, he was a professor of political science at the Center for Economic Teaching and Research (CIDE) in Mexico City. A leading comparative scholar of democracy, democratization, and authoritarianism, he has published numerous articles in scholarly journals including Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Democracy, European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Research Quarterly, and Political Science Quarterly. He is also author of The Politics of Uncertainty: Sustaining and Subverting Electoral Authoritarianism (Oxford University Press, 2013) and In the Fog of War: Citizens and Organized Criminal Violence in Mexico (CIDE, 2nd ed. 2018, in Spanish). His current research focuses on political polarization and the destruction of basic democratic trust.