Dr. Susan Stokes

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Biography

Susan Stokes is the Tiffany Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She earned her PhD in 1988 from Stanford University. Professor Stokes' research focuses on democratic theory, the functioning of democracy in developing societies, distributive politics, and comparative political behavior. Her notable publications include 'Mandates Democracy: Neoliberalism Surprise Latin America' (2001), 'Brokers, Voters, Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics' (2013), and 'Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests' (2019). She has also been recognized as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Department of Philosophy