Research
Books and Chapters
2019. Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan D. Hyde, Craig McIntosh, and Gareth Nellis, eds., with Claire L. Adida, Eric Arias, Clara Bichalho, Taylor C. Boas, Mark T. Buntaine, Sarah S. Bush, Simon Chauchard, Anirvan Chowdhury, Jessica Gottlieb, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Marcus Holmlund, Ryan Jablonski, Eric Kramon, Horacio Larreguy, Malte Lierl, John Marshall, Gwyneth McClendon, Marcus A. Melo, Daniel L. Nielson, Paula M. Pickering, Melina R. Platas, Pablo Querubín, Pia Raffler, Catlan Reardon, and Neelanjan Sircar. Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I. Cambridge University Press.
The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Observation Became an International Norm, 2011 from Cornell University Press. Support the publisher here or Amazon here.
Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation, Edited with R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall. 2008. Washington: Brookings Institution Press. My chapter, "How International Observers Detect and Deter Election Fraud" as Chapter 12.
"International Dimensions of Elections" in Dynamics of Democratization, Edited by Nathan Brown. 2011. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
"Why Believe International Election Monitors?" in Credibility and Non-Governmental Organizations in a Globalizing World: When Virtue is Not Enough, edited by Peter Gourevitch, David A. Lake, and Janice Gross Stein. Cambridge University Press.
"Election Administration, Election Observation and Election Quality" in Handbook on Comparative Political Institutions, edited by Jennifer Gandhi and Ruben Ruiz-Rufino. 2014. Routledge.
"Conducting Research with NGOs: Relevant Counterfactuals from the Perspective of Subjects" (with David W. Nickerson) in Ethics and Experiments: Problems and Solutions for Social Scientists and Policy Makers, edited by Scott Desposato. 2015. Routledge.
Published or Forthcoming Articles
Forthcoming, Susan D. Hyde, Emily Lamb, and Oren Samet, “Promoting Democracy Under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence from Cambodia.” Comparative Political Studies. Published on Firstview Nov 15, 2022.
Susan D. Hyde "International Actors and Domestic Politics in an Era of Global Challenges to Democracy," in Larry M. Bartels, Ursula E. Daxecker, Susan D. Hyde, Staffan I. Lindberg, and Irfan Nooruddin, "The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding." International Studies Review, Vol. 25:2. June 2023.
Susan D. Hyde, "Democracy's Backsliding in the International Environment," Science 04 Sep 2020: Vol. 369, Issue 6508, pp. 1192-1196. Abstract, [Full text], Reprint
Susan D. Hyde and Elizabeth N. Saunders, "Recapturing Regime Type in International Relations: Leaders, Institutions, and Agency Space," Spring 2020, International Organization.
Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan D. Hyde, Craig McIntosh, Gareth Nellis, Claire L. Adida, Eric Arias, Clara Bicalho, Taylor C. Boas, Mark T. Buntaine, Simon Chauchard, Anirvan Chowdhury, Jessica Gottlieb, G. Daniel Hidalgo, Marcus Holmlund, Ryan Jablonski, Eric Kramon, Horacio Larreguy, Malte Lierl, John Marshall, Gwyneth McClendon, Marcus A. Melo, Daniel L. Nielson, Paula M. Pickering, Melina R. Platas, Pablo Querubín, Pia Raffler, and Neelanjan Sircar. 2019. “Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a preregistered meta-analysis of coordinated trials.” Science Advances, 5:7.
Simone Dietrich, Susan D. Hyde, and Matthew S. Winters, “Overseas Credit Claiming and Domestic Support for Foreign Aid.” Journal of Experimental Political Science. Published online May 14, 2019.
Daniel L. Nielson, Susan D. Hyde, and Judith Kelley, “The Elusive Sources of Legitimacy Beliefs: Civil Society View of International Election Observers.” Review of International Organizations. Available online, January 03, 2019.
"Surviving Elections: Election Violence, Incumbent Victory, and Post-Election Repercussions" (with Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Ryan Jablonski. in British Journal of Political Science. 2018, 48:2 pp. 459-488. Published online 19 Dec 2016.
"Does Fraud Trump Partisanship? The Impact of Contentious Elections on Voter Confidence" (with Thad E. Hall and Elizabeth Iams Wellman), 2017. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
"Experiments in International Relations: Lab, Survey, and Field" 2015, Annual Review of Political Science. 18: pp. 403-424.
"Information and Self-Enforcing Democracy: The Role of International Election Observation" (with Nikolay Marinov) 2014, International Organization. 68:2, pp. 329-359. -Replication Data Archive
"When Do Governments Resort to Election Violence?" (with Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Ryan S. Jablonski). 2014, British Journal of Political Science. 44: 1, pp 149-179.
"Which Elections Can Be Lost?" (with Nikolay Marinov) 2012, Political Analysis. 20,2: 191-210.
"Catch Us if You Can: Election Monitoring and International Norm Creation" 2011, American Journal of Political Science. Volume 55, Issue 2.
"International Scrutiny and Pre-Electoral Fiscal Manipulation" (with Angela O'Mahony). Vol. 72, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 1-14. Journal of Politics.
"Experimenting with Democracy Promotion: International Observers and the 2004 Presidential Elections in Indonesia." 2010. Perspectives on Politics.
"The Future of Field Experiments in International Relations" 2010. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
"The Observer Effect in International Politics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," 2007. World Politics.
"In the Shadow of Democracy Promotion: Strategic Manipulation, International Observers, and Election Boycotts" (with Emily Beaulieu), March 2009 in Comparative Political Studies.
Other Publications
2022. Susan D. Hyde and Elizabeth Saunders, “Follow the Leader,” Journal of Democracy, October, 22(4): 165-68. Invited debate in response to Jason Brownlee and Kenny Miao, “Why Democracy Survives.”
2020. Susan D. Hyde and Elizabeth Saunders. “Our Democracy, Though Resilient, Isn’t Unbreakable,” The New York Times, Opinion, section A, page 23. December 16.
2020. Susan D. Hyde, “How Trump’s destructive behavior emboldens authoritarian leaders abroad,” Los Angeles Times, Opinion, Section A, page 11. November 25 (invited).
2020. Susan D. Hyde, “The Unsubtle Art of Real Election Fraud,” The Wall Street Journal, Life and Arts, section C page 3, November 14 (invited).
2020. Susan D. Hyde, “The U.S. election is over. What did international observers think?” Invited guest post, The Monkey Cage blog at The Washington Post, November 9.
2018. Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan Hyde, and Craig McIntosh, "Reflections on Challenges in Cumulative Learning from the Metaketa Initiative." The Political Economist, Spring.
2014. “The power to condemn elections?” Invited guest post, The Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. May 26.
2014. “Replicate it! A proposal to improve the study of political accountability.” With Thad Dunning. Guest post at the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. May 16.
2014. “What makes some elections violent?” with Emilie M. Hafner-Burton. Invited guest post at the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post.
2013. “Symposium on the Profession: Making Elections – and Democracy – Work in Practice.” APSA Representation and Electoral Systems Section Newsletter. Volume 29, Edition 1, November 2013.
2011. “Anybody’s Luck? Natural Experiments and Democratization.” Contribution to “Symposium on the Experimental Turn in the Study of Democratization,” Comparative Democratization Section Newsletter, American Political Science Association.
2011. “The Limits of Election Monitoring: What Independent Observation Can (and Can’t) Do,” with Judith G. Kelley. Foreign Affairs. June 28, 2011.
Original Data