Anna Grzymala-Busse is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford. Her research focuses on authoritarian political parties and their successors, religion and politics, and the historical development of the state. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Carnegie Fellow, and the author of three books: Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Successor Parties; Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Development in Post-Communist Europe; and Nations Under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Politics.