Susan Stokes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Stokes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Stokes |
| SIGNATURE | STOKES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Backsliding on democracy: A critical dialogue
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Building Tolerance for Backsliding by Trash-Talking Democracy: Theory and Evidence From Mexico
Leaders who seek to build public toleration for democratic backsliding have a little-noticed strategy at their disposal: degrading their democracies in the eyes of their citizens. If voters can be induced to believe that their democracy is already broken, then nothing of value is lost when leaders attack the courts, vilify the press, or undermine confidence in elections. We call this strategy trash-talking democracy , and study it in the context …
Presidential Rhetoric and Populism
Scholars and the general public have been struck by the norm‐shattering rhetoric of President Donald J. Trump. His “rhetorical signature” is heavy with Manichean good‐versus‐evil messages, vilification of his opponents, and disdain for institutions and for evidence. But many politicians vilify their opponents and style themselves as uniquely able to solve their society's problems. In fact, Trump's Manichean discourse is typical of populist leader…
When Do the Wealthy Support Redistribution? Inequality Aversion in Buenos Aires
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond Opportunity Costs: Campaign Messages, Anger and Turnout among the Unemployed
Are people under economic stress more or less likely to vote, and why? With large observational datasets and a survey experiment involving unemployed Americans, we show that unemployment depresses participation. But it does so more powerfully when the unemployment rate is low, less powerfully when it is high. Whereas earlier studies have explained lower turnout among the unemployed by stressing the especially high opportunity costs these would-be…
Why Do People Join Backlash Protests? Lessons from Turkey
When people learn that demonstrators are being subjected to harsh treatment by the police, sometimes their reaction is to join demonstrations. What explains the potentially mobilizing power of repression? Information-oriented theories posit that repression changes people’s beliefs about the likely success of the protests or the type of the government, thus encouraging them to join. Social–psychological theories posit that repression provokes a mo…
Accountability for Realists
In Democracy for Realists, Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels argue that voters are shortsighted and punish incumbents for politically irrelevant outcomes. These failings, in the authors’ view, mean that voters are incapable of holding politicians to account. But Achen and Bartels overstate voters’ failure to engage in effective retrospective voting. The authors also understate the degree to which accountability can be compatible with voters’ be…
Catalyst or Cause? Legislation and the Demise of Machine Politics in Britain and the United States
In the nineteenth century, British and American parties competed by hiring electoral agents to bribe and treat voters. British parties abruptly abandoned this practice in the 1880s. The conventional explanation is that legislation put an end to agent‐mediated distribution. But this explanation leaves many questions unanswered. Why did the parties use agents for decades, even though they imposed great expense on candidates and were viewed as untru…
Roundtable on Political Epistemology
On August 30, 2013, the American Political Science Association sponsored a roundtable on political epistemology as part of its annual meetings. Co-chairing the roundtable were Jeffrey Friedman, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin; and Hélène Landemore, Department of Political Science, Yale University. The other participants were Scott Althaus, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mark Be…
Democracy, interrupted: Regime change and partisanship in twentieth-century Argentina
Forthcoming in Volume 44 Number 1
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Reditos Y Peligros Electorales Del Gasto Publico En La Argentina
The Quality of Democracy
For the past two decades the main topic of research in comparative politics has been democratization. The question troubling scholars has been why some countries become and stay democratic, while others either do not democratize or waver between democracy and authoritarianism. This research program has been both pro lific and successful. Today, a considerable amount is known about why democracies are distributed around the world the way they are.…
Forthcoming in Volume 39 Number 2
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Gazette
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Cultures in ConflictSocial Movements and the State in Peru: Social movements and the state in Peru
This ethnography set in contemporary Peru provides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. The author's research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the popular culture of the social activists and shantytown residents she studies. The result is a penetrating look at how social movements evolve, how poor people construct independ…
Why Do People Join Backlash Protests? Lessons from Turkey
When people learn that demonstrators are being subjected to harsh treatment by the police, sometimes their reaction is to join demonstrations. What explains the potentially mobilizing power of repression? Information-oriented theories posit that repression changes people’s beliefs about the likely success of the protests or the type of the government, thus encouraging them to join. Social–psychological theories posit that repression provokes a mo…
Democracy, interrupted: Regime change and partisanship in twentieth-century Argentina
Reditos Y Peligros Electorales Del Gasto Publico En La Argentina
Beyond Opportunity Costs: Campaign Messages, Anger and Turnout among the Unemployed
Are people under economic stress more or less likely to vote, and why? With large observational datasets and a survey experiment involving unemployed Americans, we show that unemployment depresses participation. But it does so more powerfully when the unemployment rate is low, less powerfully when it is high. Whereas earlier studies have explained lower turnout among the unemployed by stressing the especially high opportunity costs these would-be…
Presidential Rhetoric and Populism
Scholars and the general public have been struck by the norm‐shattering rhetoric of President Donald J. Trump. His “rhetorical signature” is heavy with Manichean good‐versus‐evil messages, vilification of his opponents, and disdain for institutions and for evidence. But many politicians vilify their opponents and style themselves as uniquely able to solve their society's problems. In fact, Trump's Manichean discourse is typical of populist leader…
Catalyst or Cause? Legislation and the Demise of Machine Politics in Britain and the United States
In the nineteenth century, British and American parties competed by hiring electoral agents to bribe and treat voters. British parties abruptly abandoned this practice in the 1880s. The conventional explanation is that legislation put an end to agent‐mediated distribution. But this explanation leaves many questions unanswered. Why did the parties use agents for decades, even though they imposed great expense on candidates and were viewed as untru…
When Do the Wealthy Support Redistribution? Inequality Aversion in Buenos Aires
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Quality of Democracy
For the past two decades the main topic of research in comparative politics has been democratization. The question troubling scholars has been why some countries become and stay democratic, while others either do not democratize or waver between democracy and authoritarianism. This research program has been both pro lific and successful. Today, a considerable amount is known about why democracies are distributed around the world the way they are.…
Accountability for Realists
In Democracy for Realists, Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels argue that voters are shortsighted and punish incumbents for politically irrelevant outcomes. These failings, in the authors’ view, mean that voters are incapable of holding politicians to account. But Achen and Bartels overstate voters’ failure to engage in effective retrospective voting. The authors also understate the degree to which accountability can be compatible with voters’ be…
Building Tolerance for Backsliding by Trash-Talking Democracy: Theory and Evidence From Mexico
Leaders who seek to build public toleration for democratic backsliding have a little-noticed strategy at their disposal: degrading their democracies in the eyes of their citizens. If voters can be induced to believe that their democracy is already broken, then nothing of value is lost when leaders attack the courts, vilify the press, or undermine confidence in elections. We call this strategy trash-talking democracy , and study it in the context …
Roundtable on Political Epistemology
On August 30, 2013, the American Political Science Association sponsored a roundtable on political epistemology as part of its annual meetings. Co-chairing the roundtable were Jeffrey Friedman, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin; and Hélène Landemore, Department of Political Science, Yale University. The other participants were Scott Althaus, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mark Be…
Cultures in ConflictSocial Movements and the State in Peru: Social movements and the state in Peru
This ethnography set in contemporary Peru provides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. The author's research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the popular culture of the social activists and shantytown residents she studies. The result is a penetrating look at how social movements evolve, how poor people construct independ…
Gazette
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Forthcoming in Volume 39 Number 2
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Quality of Democracy
For the past two decades the main topic of research in comparative politics has been democratization. The question troubling scholars has been why some countries become and stay democratic, while others either do not democratize or waver between democracy and authoritarianism. This research program has been both pro lific and successful. Today, a considerable amount is known about why democracies are distributed around the world the way they are.…
Reditos Y Peligros Electorales Del Gasto Publico En La Argentina
Forthcoming in Volume 44 Number 1
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Democracy, interrupted: Regime change and partisanship in twentieth-century Argentina
Catalyst or Cause? Legislation and the Demise of Machine Politics in Britain and the United States
In the nineteenth century, British and American parties competed by hiring electoral agents to bribe and treat voters. British parties abruptly abandoned this practice in the 1880s. The conventional explanation is that legislation put an end to agent‐mediated distribution. But this explanation leaves many questions unanswered. Why did the parties use agents for decades, even though they imposed great expense on candidates and were viewed as untru…
Roundtable on Political Epistemology
On August 30, 2013, the American Political Science Association sponsored a roundtable on political epistemology as part of its annual meetings. Co-chairing the roundtable were Jeffrey Friedman, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin; and Hélène Landemore, Department of Political Science, Yale University. The other participants were Scott Althaus, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mark Be…
Why Do People Join Backlash Protests? Lessons from Turkey
When people learn that demonstrators are being subjected to harsh treatment by the police, sometimes their reaction is to join demonstrations. What explains the potentially mobilizing power of repression? Information-oriented theories posit that repression changes people’s beliefs about the likely success of the protests or the type of the government, thus encouraging them to join. Social–psychological theories posit that repression provokes a mo…
Accountability for Realists
In Democracy for Realists, Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels argue that voters are shortsighted and punish incumbents for politically irrelevant outcomes. These failings, in the authors’ view, mean that voters are incapable of holding politicians to account. But Achen and Bartels overstate voters’ failure to engage in effective retrospective voting. The authors also understate the degree to which accountability can be compatible with voters’ be…
Presidential Rhetoric and Populism
Scholars and the general public have been struck by the norm‐shattering rhetoric of President Donald J. Trump. His “rhetorical signature” is heavy with Manichean good‐versus‐evil messages, vilification of his opponents, and disdain for institutions and for evidence. But many politicians vilify their opponents and style themselves as uniquely able to solve their society's problems. In fact, Trump's Manichean discourse is typical of populist leader…
When Do the Wealthy Support Redistribution? Inequality Aversion in Buenos Aires
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond Opportunity Costs: Campaign Messages, Anger and Turnout among the Unemployed
Are people under economic stress more or less likely to vote, and why? With large observational datasets and a survey experiment involving unemployed Americans, we show that unemployment depresses participation. But it does so more powerfully when the unemployment rate is low, less powerfully when it is high. Whereas earlier studies have explained lower turnout among the unemployed by stressing the especially high opportunity costs these would-be…
Building Tolerance for Backsliding by Trash-Talking Democracy: Theory and Evidence From Mexico
Leaders who seek to build public toleration for democratic backsliding have a little-noticed strategy at their disposal: degrading their democracies in the eyes of their citizens. If voters can be induced to believe that their democracy is already broken, then nothing of value is lost when leaders attack the courts, vilify the press, or undermine confidence in elections. We call this strategy trash-talking democracy , and study it in the context …
Backsliding on democracy: A critical dialogue
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
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