Lisa Blaydes
Fellowship year
2023-24 - Stanford University - Study 38
2015-16 - Stanford University - Study 34
Faculty Fellow year
2026-27 - Stanford University
2025-26 - Stanford University
2024-25 - Stanford University
Studies of contemporary authoritarian politics tend to focus on the institutional features of regimes, particularly the extent to which autocrats rely on militaries, political parties, or personalization of power to maintain control. Faculty fellow Lisa Blaydes studies how social identity categories are generated and reproduced by authoritarian regimes in order to maintain forms of political, economic, and social control in the contemporary Middle East.
Blaydes is professor of political science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton University Press, 2018). She was a Mellon Foundation Fellow at CASBS in 2015-16 and was a returning fellow in 2023-24.
For more, please visit https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/lisa-blaydes
Tyler Books
| Book Cover | Book Title and link |
|---|---|
 | Blaydes, Lisa.. 2018. State of repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press |
Tyler Journal Articles
Blaydes, Lisa; Grzymala-Busse, Anna; . 2024. Historical State Formation Within and Beyond Europe. 77(1): 205-222.
Blaydes, Lisa; Gengler, Justin; Lari, Noora; . 2024. Constraints on Female Labor Force Participation in Qatar: Understanding the Effects of Marriage, Family, and Traditional Values. 16(3): 293-315. https://brill.com/view/journals/melg/16/3/article-p293_001.xml
Blaydes, Lisa; . 2025. The Politics of Legal Pluralism in a Muslim Society. 53(1): 225-227. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/CF22DAA4C4CB627110A3C76F32BBFFBE
Blaydes, Lisa; Paik, Christopher; . 2024. Old World trade diasporas. 11(): 1-41.
Blaydes, Lisa; Gengler, Justin; . 2023. Arab identity and attitudes toward migration in Kuwait and Qatar. 10(4): 20531680231223289. https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680231223289
Blaydes, Lisa; Grimmer, Justin; McQueen, Alison; . 2018. Mirrors for princes and sultans: Advice on the art of governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic worlds. 80(4): 1150-1167. https://doi.org/10.1086/699246
Blaydes, Lisa; . 2017. State Building in the Middle East. 20(1): 487-504. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051215-023141
Blaydes, Lisa; Paik, Christopher; . 2016. The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development in Medieval Europe. 70(3): 551-586.