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Mark Tessler
Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science
Bio
Dr. Mark Tessler is Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the university of Michigan, and the co-founder of the Arab Barometer.
A new survey shows that an overwhelming majority of Lebanese citizens are dissatisfied with the country’s confessional political system. Yet the perceived costs and ineffectiveness of mobilizing against it help keep it in place.