Elizabeth Stein, Ph.D.
Government, Lecturer
Department of Government

Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science, Comparative Politics and Quantitative Methods
- M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science, Comparative Politics
- M.S. Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Integrated Marketing Communication, Public Relations
- B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Journalism and Mass Communication (Visual Communication); Fulfilled requirements for B.A. in International Studies (Latin America, Political Science)
Courses Taught
- Latin American Politics
- Politics in Authoritarian Regimes
Selected Publications
- Stein, Elizabeth A. and Karine Belarmino. 2023. “The Past and Future of Media Giants in Latin America: The Legacy of Clientelism in Brazil’s Broadcast Television Development.” In The Future of Television in the Global South: Reflections from Selected Countries. (Ed.) George Otieno Ogola. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 131-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18833-6
- Stein, Elizabeth A. 2020. “The Pink Tide: media access and political power in Latin America, edited by Lee Artz, London and New York, Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2017, 209 pp., index, $41.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-78660-240-4.” Democratization 27(7): 1333-1334. Accessible at https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2019.1694910
- Frantz, Erica and Elizabeth A. Stein. 2017. “Countering Coups: Leadership Succession Rules in Dictatorships.” Comparative Political Studies 50(7): 935-962. Accessible at https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0010414016655538
- Stein, Elizabeth A. 2017 “Are ICTs Democratizing Dictatorships? New Media and Mass Mobilization.” Social Science Quarterly 98 (3): 913-941. Special issue: The New World of Comparative Political Communication. Accessible at https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12439″>
- Kellam, Marisa and Elizabeth A. Stein. 2016. “Silencing Critics: Why and How Presidents Restrict Media Freedom in Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies 49(1): 36-77. Accessible at https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0010414015592644
- Stein, Elizabeth A. 2016. “Censoring the Press: A Barometer of Government Tolerance for Anti-regime Dissent under Authoritarian Rule.” Journal of Politics in Latin America 8(2): 101-142. Accessible at https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/960/
- Stein, Elizabeth. 2016. “Information and Civil Unrest in Dictatorship,” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, (ed.) William R. Thompson. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, online resource. Accessible at https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2013.867949 [Encyclopedia entry]
- Stein, Elizabeth A. and Marisa Kellam. 2014. “Programming Presidential Agendas: Partisan and Media Environments that Lead Presidents to Fight Crime and Corruption.” Political Communication 31(1): 25-52. Accessible at https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2012.762075
- Stein, Elizabeth A. 2013. “The Unraveling of Support for Authoritarianism: The Dynamic Relationship of Media, Elites and Public Opinion in Brazil, 1972-1982.” International Journal of Press/Politics 18(1): 85-107. Accessible at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1940161212460762
- Frantz, Erica and Elizabeth Stein. 2012. “Comparing Political Leadership in Non-Democratic Regimes.” In Ludger Helms (ed.), Comparative Political Leadership. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 292-313. [Chapter in edited volume]
Research Interests and Agenda
- Information and contentious politics in repressive regimes
- New media, ICT and protest in non-democracies
- Media freedom and democratic accountability in Latin America
- Media ownership and clientelist legacies in Brazil
- Public resources, transparency and elections in Brazilian municipalities
Co-Organizer, Comparative Political Communication Workshop
Broadening our Approach: A Workshop on Comparative Political Communication hosted by The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, Durham, North Carolina, March 2022Fellowships
- Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Fellow on Global Media, Development, & Democracy School of Global & International Studies, Indiana University (co-sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy’s Center for International Media Assistance, Washington, D.C.)
- Invited Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- CLAIS Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship – Center of Latin American and Iberian Studies, The Whitney & Betty MacMillan Center of International and Area Studies, Yale University
- Teaching Mentorship Scholarship – Department of Political Science, UCLA
- Shorenstein Fellow in Residence – Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Fulbright IIE Fellowship, funding for fieldwork in Brazil & Chile – Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Portuguese – Latin American Institute, UCLA
- Edward A. Dickson Fellowship, support for research and studies in Communication – Department of Communication Studies, UCLA Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Spanish – Latin American Institute, UCLA
Professional Associations
- American Political Science Association
- International Political Science Association
- International Studies Association
- Latin American Association of Political Science
- Latin American Studies Association
- Midwestern Political Science Association
- Northeastern Political Science Association
- Southern Political Science Association