Yuko Sato

Yuko Sato was a postdoctoral fellow at the V-Dem Institute. Her research focuses on popular protests, voting behavior, democratization or autocratization, with a regional focus on Latin America.

She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Missouri in 2021. Before taking up her position at Gothenburg, she was a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University.

Her research focuses on the effect of protests on democratization or policy change, consequences of populism in Latin America, the determinant of far-right parties' support in new democracies, and sequences of democratization or autocratization. Across those topics, I have published articles in Policy Studies Journal, Electoral Studies, and Democratization.