Susan Hyde

Susan Hyde is Assistant Professor of Political Science, and is affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2006. Before joining the Yale faculty she was a Research Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include international influences on domestic politics, elections in developing countries, international norm creation, and the use of natural and field experimental research methods. Her current research explores the effects of international democracy promotion efforts, with a particular focus on international election observation. She has served as an international observer with The Carter Center and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for elections in Albania, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and has worked for the Democracy Program at The Carter Center. She teaches courses on international organizations, democracy promotion, the global spread of elections, and the role of non-state actors in world politics.

Campus address: TBA
Phone: 432-5672
Email: susan.hyde@yale.edu

Personal Web Page: http://hyde.research.yale.edu/