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Yuko Sato is a Research Fellow at the Democracy Institute, Central European University, with affiliations at the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute and Waseda University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Missouri (2021), an MA and BSc from Kobe University. Her research focuses on political protests, democratic transitions, and polarization, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. She examines how protests influence voter identities and polarization, and the consequences of populism/autocratization. Her work combines quantitative methods with field research in Brazil.
Key projects include analyzing disinformation's impact on regime stability, protest effects on policy agendas, and authoritarian legacies on far-right voting. She has published in Electoral Studies, Democratization, and Policy Studies Journal. Her funding sources include the Kinder Institute and K. Matsushita Memorial Foundation. Sato teaches courses on democratic backsliding and comparative democratization at the MA level.
