Hans Luders, Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Hans holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and is currently a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He is also a Postdoctoral Affiliate at Stanford's Immigration Policy Lab. Before joining the Hoover Institution, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. 

Hans's research addresses fundamental questions of political participation and government responsiveness: why and how do citizens in both democratic and autocratic regimes participate in politics? And how and when do political authorities respond to the demands of citizens? 

Hans is working on a book project demonstrating how domestic migration transforms electoral politics and civil society in rich democracies. He is also working on a book project with GLD's Erica Metheney and Ellen Lust on how different social institutions influence entry into and life in communities in southern Africa. In addition, he studies political participation and government responsiveness in the context of closed authoritarian regimes and from the perspective of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. This work asks how marginalized people navigate life and politics where they lack a political voice by construction.

His research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), World Politics, the Journal of Politics, Democratization, the European Political Science Review, and the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, among others.