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Professor Benjamin Reilly is a political scientist specialising in democratisation, comparative politics and political development. He authored or edited seven books and over 100 scholarly papers, and received financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the United States Institute of Peace, the East-West Centre, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Australian Research Council. Prof Reilly has a PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University.