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Comparative Politics Workshop: Susan Stokes (UChicago), Why do Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies, and What Can be Done to Stop them?

Friday, October 23, 2026 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CT
2001 Sheridan Road, Room 3111, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Susan Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy. Abstract forthcoming. 

Susan Stokes is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy. Her research and teaching interests include democratic theory and how democracy functions in developing societies, distributive politics, and comparative political behavior. Her single and co-authored books include Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America (2001), Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (2013), and Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests (2019). She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Ariel Sowers
(847) 491-7454
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Interest

  • Academic (general)
  • Social Sciences

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