Guest
Professor Susan Stokes,  John S. Saden Professor of Political Science, and
Director, Yale Program on Democracy

Previous Episodes

hyde

November 4, 2009
Guest: Susan Hyde, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Subject: International election monitoring

dunning

October 28, 2009
Guest: Thad Dunning, Associate Professor of Political Science
Subject: Cross-cutting cleavages and ethnic voting in Mali

clarke

October 21, 2009
Guest: Kamari Clarke, Professor of Anthropology
Subject: International Criminal Court and Legal Pluralism in Africa

harms

October 14, 2009
Guest: Robert Harms, Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies
Subject: Slave traders and colonialism in equatorial Africa

 

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Episode: March 4, 2009

Professor Susan Stokes,  John S. Saden Professor of Political Science and director of the Yale Program on Democracy, researches democratic theory and how democracy functions in developing societies, with a focus on Latin America. Her most recent book is Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico. Professor Stokes talks about why leftist parties in Latin American countries have recently won so much electoral support.

Learn more about Professor Stokes
Globalization and the Left in Latin America