<p>This week on Democratic Dialogues, co-hosts Rachel Beatty Riedl and Esam Boraey speak with Susan C. Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy.</p>
<p>Drawing from her book <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9780691271545">The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies </a>(Princeton UP, 2022), Stokes examines why elected leaders sometimes choose to erode the democratic institutions that brought them to power. She explores the structural, economic, and political incentives that drive these choices—and how citizens, parties, and institutions can push back.﻿</p>

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