Susan Stokes is the John S. Saden Professor of Political Science and director of the Yale Program on Democracy.  She received her PhD from Stanford University in 1988. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Her research interests include 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 (with Matthew Cleary, Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America (Cambridge, 2001), received prizes from the APSA Comparative Democratization section and from the Society for Comparative Research. Other recent publications include “Perverse Accountability,” American Political Science Review, and “Endogenous Democratization,” with Carles Boix, World Politics. She teaches courses on Latin American politics and development, political parties and democracy, and clientelism, patronage, and vote buying.