Susan Stokes is Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and Faculty Chair of the Chicago Center on Democracy. In addition to teaching at the University of Chicago (1990–2005 and 2018–present), she taught at the University of Washington (1988–1990) and at Yale (2005–2018). At Yale she served as Chair of the Department of Political Science and of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies. Stokes is the author of books and articles about political behavior, development, democracy, and Latin American politics. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the Latin American Research Review. Among her award-winning single- and co-authored books are Mandates and Democracy (Cambridge University Press 2001), Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism (CUP 2013), and Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests (CUP 2019). Her book about democratic erosion, entitled Trash-Talking Democracy, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2025. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a co-founder of Bright Line Watch. She is nominated to serve as the president of the American Political Science Association in 2025–26.