Center Fellow at Stanford University | Political Scientist
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Didi Kuo
Center Fellow at Stanford University | Political Scientist
At-a-Glance
Center Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.
Author of "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave -and Why They Don't" (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Author of "Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy: The Rise of Programmatic Politics in the United States and Britain" (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Previously Senior Research Scholar and Associate Director for Research at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
A 2018 New America National Fellow.
Non-resident fellow in political reform at New America.
Biography
Didi Kuo is a Center Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. As a political scientist, she focuses her research on American and comparative politics, democracy, state-building, and political parties.
