Margaret Hanson

Margaret Hanson is a political economist and sociolegal scholar. Her research examines how law, politics, and economics interact to shape state-society relations in former Soviet states, particularly autocracies. This includes projects focused on migration, democracy and citizenship, corruption, and economic governance. Her work has been published in Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, and Problems of Post-Communism, and her book, Seeking a Corruption Equilibrium: Authoritarian Legality in Central Asia, is under review.