Susan C. Stokes is the Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where she chairs the Chicago Center on Democracy. Her books include Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America and (with Thad Dunning, Marcelo Nazareno, and Valeria Brusco) Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics.