Irene Weipert-Fenner

Dr. Irene Weipert-Fenner (b. 1982) is a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF) and Principal Investigator at ConTrust. As a comparative political scientist, she focuses on autocracies and democratization as well as protests and social movements with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Ms. Weipert-Fenner holds a doctorate in political science from Goethe University. For her dissertation "The Autocratic Parliament. Power and Norm Dynamics in Egypt, 1866 -2011", she received the dissertation prize of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) in 2014.

Weipert-Fenner, Irene/Rossi, Federico M./Sika, Nadine/Wolff Jonas (Hg.): Trust and Social Movements, Special issue of the International Journal for Comparative Sociology, forthcoming, 2024. Weipert-Fenner, Irene: Budget politics and democratization in Tunisia: The loss of  consensus and the erosion of trust, in:  Mediterranean Politics 2023, DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2023.2207429. Weipert-Fenner, Irene: „Go local, go global: Studying popular protests in the MENA post-2011“ in: Mediterranean Politics, 2021.26(5), 563-585: https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2021.1889286 Weipert-Fenner, Irene: The Autocratic Parliament. Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-2011, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020 Weipert-Fenner, Irene: „Unemployed mobilisation in times of democratisation: the Union of Unemployed Graduates in post-Ben Ali Tunisia“ in: Journal of North African Studies, 25(1), 2020, S. 53-75. DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1535317 Socioeconomic Protests in MENA and Latin America. Egypt and Tunisia in Interregional Comparison. Herausgegeben mit Jonas Wolff, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Clientelism and Patronage in the Middle East and North Africa: Networks of Dependency. Herausgegeben mit Laura Ruiz de Elvira und Christoph Schwarz, New York, London: Routledge, 2018.