Tanja Eschenauer-Engler, M.A.

PhD Student

​ ​	Contact information Email: bh002@uni-heidelberg.de

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Vita

Tanja Eschenauer-Engler is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg. Her research interests include comparative politics, autocracy research, civil-military relations and military coups. Between 2015 and 2019 she worked as a researcher in the project "Dictator's Endgame. Theory and empirical analysis of military behavior in authoritarian regime crises, 1946-2014", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 

In her dissertation project she analyzes the military’s role in regime crises in autocracies. 

Publications

Journal Articles 

• Eschenauer-Engler, Tanja, and Bastian Herre. 2023. Coup leaders: A New Comprehensive Dataset, 1950–2020. European Political Science: online first. 

• Eschenauer-Engler, Tanja. 2023. Soldiers and Protest: A Set-Theory Perspective on Military Repression of Anti-Regime Mass Mobilization in Autocracies. International Interactions: online first.

• Eschenauer-Engler, Tanja. 2023. Armed forces and Airwaves: Media control and Military Coups in Autocracies. Contemporary Politics: online first.

• Croissant, Aurel, David Kuehn, and Tanja Eschenauer. 2018. Masses and Militaries: The Outcomes of Dictators’ Endgames. Journal of Democracy 29 (3): 141-155.

• Croissant, Aurel, David Kuehn, and Tanja Eschenauer. 2018. The Dictator’s Endgame: Explaining Military Behavior in Nonviolent Anti-Incumbent Mass Protests. Democracy and Security 14 (2): 174-199.

• Croissant, Aurel, Tanja Eschenauer, and Jil Kamerling. 2017. Militaries’ Roles in Political Regimes: Introducing the PRM data set. European Political Science 16 (3): 400-414. doi: 10.1057/s41304-016-0083-6.

Book Chapters

• Eschenauer-Engler, Tanja, and Jil Kamerling. 2019. “Measuring Effectiveness and Control". In Civil–Military Relations in Comparative Perspective: The Nexus of Control and Effectiveness, eds. Aurel Croissant and Thomas Bruneau. 

• Croissant, Aurel, Tanja Eschenauer, and Jil Kamerling. 2018. “The Military and Autocratic Regime Crises.” In Crisis in Autocratic Regimes, eds. Johannes Gerschewski and Christoph Stefes. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 89-110.

• Croissant, Aurel and Tanja Eschenauer. 2017. “The Military and Politics in the Mediterranean.” In Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics, eds. Richard Gillespie and Frédéric Volpi. Oxon and New York: Routledge: 157-170.

Other 

• Eschenauer, Tanja and Jil Kamerling. 2018. Military Influence: the Hidden Power of Men in Uniform. Bertelsmann Stiftung, BTI Blog. Published https://blog.bti-project.org/2018/03/19/military-influence-hidden-power-men-uniform/.

• Eschenauer, Tanja. 2015. Book Review of “Young Islam: The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World by Avi Max Spiegel.” Democratization 23 (7): 1318-1320. 

Political Roles of the Military (PRM) Dataset 2.0

The Political Roles of the Military (PRM) Dataset contains information on 120 democratic and autocratic countries for the period 1999–2016.

Aurel Croissant, Tanja Eschenauer, Jil Kamerling. "Militaries’ Roles in Political Regimes: Introducing the PRM Data Set", in European Political Science,  2016.

PRM 2.0 (.zip format)

PRM 2.0 Codebook (.pdf)