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Research Interests
Comparative Politics, Middle Eastern Politics and Political Economy

Lisa Blaydes is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a Affiliated Faculty of CDDRL and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Her research focuses on Comparative Politics, Middle Eastern Politics and Political Economy, and her published works include in International Organization: "Rewarding Impatience: A Bargaining and Enforcement Model of OPEC," (April 2004), "Rewarding Impatience Revisited: A Response to Goodrich," (April 2006); World Politics: "The Political Economy of Women's Support for Fundamentalist Islam," (with Drew Linzer) (July 2008); and Terrorism and Political Violence: "Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt," (with Lawrence Rubin) (Winter 2008).

Her other publications include in the Democracy Review (in both Arabic and English): "Formal and Informal Political Institutions in Egypt," (October 2005) and also "Intraparty Competition and Egypt's National Democratic Party," (with Safinaz El-Tarouty) (April 2008).

She has been a referee for the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Organization, Population Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, and World Politics. She earned a PhD from UCLA, a master's degree with distinction from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and bachelor's degree with honors from Johns Hopkins University.