Didi Kuo, Ph.D.

jdkuo@stanford.edu


Center Fellow

Stanford University

Year of PhD: 2013

Country: United States (California)

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About Me:

Didi Kuo is a Center Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She works on issues in comparative and American politics, including democratization, clientelism and corruption, political parties, and political reform. She is the author of The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy: the Rise of Programmatic Politics in the United States and Britain (Cambridge University Press). She received a PhD in political science from Harvard University, an MSc in economic history from Oxford University (Marshall Scholarship) and a BA from Emory University.

Research Interests

Comparative Democratization

Political Parties and Interest Groups

Comparative Political Institutions

Clientelism

Corruption

Political Parties

Political Representation

Political Economy