Lisa Blaydes

Lisa Blaydes

Lisa Blaydes

  • Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • Professor of Political Science
  • Affiliated faculty at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
  • Affiliated faculty at the Center for International Security and Cooperation

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Biography

Lisa Blaydes is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the author of State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Professor Blaydes received the 2009 Gabriel Almond Award for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics from the American Political Science Association for this project.  Her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Middle East Journal, and World Politics. During the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, Professor Blaydes was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She holds degrees in Political Science (PhD) from the University of California, Los Angeles, and International Relations (BA, MA) from Johns Hopkins University.

 

publications

Conference Memos
January 2023

A League of Authoritarian States? The Middle East and Autocratization in Eurasia

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Books
October 2022

Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World

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Commentary
September 2021

Democracy and Autocracy, Volume 19(2), September 2021

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In The News

Lisa Blaydes presents during a CDDRL research seminar on April 4, 2024.
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States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region

Lisa Blaydes, Stanford Professor of Political Science and FSI Senior Fellow, explains how regime policies in Kuwait have helped longstanding elite families maintain their social prestige in the contemporary era.
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A migrant domestic worker with her employer, Kuwait City, September 2022
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Highlighting the experience of migrant domestic workers in the Arab Gulf region

Professor Lisa Blaydes examines the treatment of migrant domestic workers in Arab Gulf states as part of the King Center’s initiative on gender-based violence.
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Commentary

Scholars Examine Egypt’s Political Landscape on the Eve of the January 25 Revolution’s 5th Anniversary [VIDEO]

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