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Yuko Sato is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the CEU Democracy Institute's De- and Re-Democratization Research Group, and a research associate at the University of Gothenburg's V-Dem Institute and Waseda University's Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Missouri (2021). Her work focuses on popular protests, voting behavior, and the dynamics of democratization/autocratization in Latin America.
Education: PhD in Political Science (University of Missouri, 2021), MA in Political Science (Kobe University, 2015), BSc in Maritime Science and Technology (Kobe University, 2012). She has held prior roles including Assistant Professor at WIAS (Japan), Postdoctoral Fellow at V-Dem Institute (Sweden), and predoctoral fellowships at Tulane University's CIPR.
Research Interests: Combines quantitative methods (time-series, cross-national studies, surveys) with qualitative fieldwork in Brazil to study protest impacts on polarization, authoritarian transitions, and policy change. Key themes include the role of protests in enhancing affective polarization, opposition strategies against autocratization, and the relationship between populism and democratic backsliding.
Publications: Over a dozen peer-reviewed articles in journals like Political Research Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and Democratization. Current projects include a book manuscript on 'Crisis of Democracy: Protest and Affective Polarization' exploring how protests reinforce partisan identities.
