Lisa Blaydes

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Encina Hall West, Room 408
Phone: (650) 723-0649

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Research


Comparative Politics
Middle Eastern Politics
Political Economy




Affiliations


Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies

Clayman Institute for Gender Research




Awards and Fellowships


  • Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University
  • Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies, Stanford University
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship
  • Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship
  • Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science



Publications and Working Papers


 

“Rewarding Impatience: A Bargaining and Enforcement Model of OPEC,” International Organization 58 (Spring 2004).
“Rewarding Impatience Revisited:  A Response to Goodrich,”  International Organization 60 (Spring 2006).

"The Political Economy of Women's Support for Fundamentalist Islam," (with Drew Linzer) World Politics 60 (July 2008).

"Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt," (with Lawrence Rubin) Terrorism and Political Violence 20 (Winter 2008).


Courses


PS 44N Freshman Seminar: Everyday Political Life in the Authoritarian Middle East
PS 149T Undergraduate Lecture: Middle Eastern Politics
PS 440A Graduate Seminar: Theories in Comparative Politics

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