Susan Roberts was born in Lexington, Kentucky. Her parents had met at the University of Kentucky there. The story goes that her father, Frank, had spied a “pretty gal,” Doris Jeanne (Deje) playing the ...

Early in her career, Prof. Susan C. Stokes saw a wave of democratization. In Southern Europe, Latin America and the former Soviet Union, authoritarian regimes were tumbling. But in this first quarter ...

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