Paul is a Research Associate at the Center for Global Democracy in the Brook School of Public Policy at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and is a former Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research and teaching interests include democracy in the global context as well as elections, political parties, and political behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa. His book project, Dual Democracy, builds a theory of democratic community inspired by indigenous governance models.