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Susan Stokes, Yale University

Title:  "If Repression Makes Protests Grow, Why do Governments Repress?"
Discussant:  Rachel Sweet

John S. Saden Professor of Political Science and Director of the Yale Program on Democracy.

Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Fulbright, the American Philosophical Society, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Her research interests include democratic theory and how democracy functions in developing societies; distributive politics; and comparative political behavior.

Her co-authored book, Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism (Cambridge, 2013) won best-book prizes from the Comparative Politics (Luebbert Prize) and Comparative Democratization sections of APSA. Among her earlier books, Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America (Cambridge, 2001), received prizes from the APSA Comparative Democratization section and from the Society for Comparative Research.

Her articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and the Latin American Research Review.

She teaches courses on political development, political parties and democracy, comparative political behavior, and distributive politics.