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Books

• Formal Models of Domestic Politics: Second Edition. 2021. Cambridge University Press (Analytical Methods for Social Research). Details.
• Reform and Rebellion in Weak States. 2020. With Evgeny Finkel. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements in Political Economy). (Details, replication data.)
• Formal Models of Domestic Politics. 2013. Cambridge University Press (Analytical Methods for Social Research).
• Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States. 2008. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). AAASS Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, honorable mention. Based on Ph.D. dissertation, Mancur Olson Award for best dissertation in political economy. Details.

Articles

Historical Political Economy

• Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future. 2023. With Volha Charnysh and Eugene Finkel. Annual Review of Political Science. 26:175-191.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Historical Political Economy. 2023. With Tracy Dennison. In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (Jeffrey A. Jenkins and Jared. Rubin, eds.).
• Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms. 2018. With Paul Castañeda Dower, Evgeny Finkel, and Steven Nafziger. American Political Science Review. 112(1):125-147. Michael Wallerstein Award for best paper published in political economy. European Politics and Society Best Article Award, honorable mention. (Web appendix, replication data.)
  • Related: Democratization as a Continuous Choice: A Comment on Acemoglu and Robinson’s Correction to “Why Did the West Extend the Franchise?” 2020. With Paul Castañeda Dower, Evgeny Finkel, and Steven Nafziger. Journal of Politics. 82(2):776–780.
• Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs. 2015. With Evgeny Finkel and Tricia Olsen. Comparative Political Studies.48(8):984-1019. European Politics and Society Best Article Award. Comparative Political Studies Editorial Board Best Paper Award. (Web appendix, replication data.)

Autocracy

• The Russian Media. 2022. With Tetyana Lokot and Anton Shirikov. In Russian Politics Today (Susanne Wengle, ed.).
• What is Next for the Study of Nondemocracy? 2018. In The Research Agenda in New Institutional Economics (Claude Ménard and Mary Shirley, eds.).
• Formal Models of Nondemocratic Politics. 2016. With Konstantin Sonin and Milan Svolik. Annual Review of Political Science. 19:565-84. (Web appendix.)
• Electoral Manipulation as Bureaucratic Control. 2015. With Alberto Simpser. American Journal of Political Science. 59(1):212–224.
• Government Control of the Media. 2014. With Konstantin Sonin. Journal of Public Economics. 118:163-171.
• Private Investment and the Institutionalization of Collective Action in Autocracies: Ruling Parties and Legislatures. 2012. With Philip Keefer. Journal of Politics. 74(2):621-635. (Replication data.)
• Investment Without Democracy: Ruling-Party Institutionalization and Credible Commitment in Autocracies. 2011. With Philip Keefer. Journal of Comparative Economics. 39(2):123-139. Lead article.

Political Connections

• The Oligarch Vanishes: Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections. 2022. With John S. Earle, Solomiya Shpak, and Anton Shirikov. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 17(4):513-546. American Association for Ukrainian Studies prize for best article in in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature, and culture. (Replication data.)
• The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. 2015. With John S. Earle. American Journal of Political Science. 59(3):708-723. (Replication data.)
• Businessman Candidates. 2010. With Konstantin Sonin and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. American Journal of Political Science. 54(3):718-736. (Web appendix, replication data.)

Economic Reform

• The Grand Experiment That Wasn’t? New Institutional Economics and the Postcommunist Experience. 2014. With Edmund J. Malesky. In Institutions, Property Rights and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North (Sebastian Galiani and Itai Sened, eds.).
• Privatization. 2013. With J. David Brown and John S. Earle. In The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy (Michael Alexeev and Shlomo Weber, eds.). (Replication data.)
• Did Postcommunist Privatization Increase Mortality?
  • Summary, published as Did Mass Privatisation Really Increase Post-Communist Mortality? 2010. With John S. Earle. Lancet. 375(9712):372. (Web appendix.)
  • Full paper. 2011. With John S. Earle. Comparative Economic Studies. 53(2):239-260. Abram Bergson Prize for best paper published in Comparative Economic Studies in the previous two years.
• The Contribution of Veto Players to Economic Reform. 2010. With Edmund J. Malesky. Journal of Politics. 72(4):957-975. (Web appendix, replication data.)
• Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness. 2009. With J. David Brown and John S. Earle. American Political Science Review. 103(2):264-283. (Replication data.)
• Revenue Traps. 2007. Economics and Politics. 19(1):73-96.
• The Consequences of Collective Action: An Incomplete-Contracts Approach. 2006. American Journal of Political Science. 50(3):802-823.
• A Spoonful of Sugar: Privatization and Popular Support for Reform in the Czech Republic. 2003. With John S. Earle. Economics and Politics. 15(1):1-32. Lead article.

Other

• Damaged Collateral and Firm-Level Finance: Evidence from Russia’s War in Ukraine. 2023. With Solomiya Shpak, John S. Earle, and Mariia Panga. Journal of Comparative Economics. Forthcoming (special issue).
• Who Reports Crime? Citizen Engagement with the Police in Russia and Georgia. 2021. With Lauren McCarthy, Timothy Frye, and Noah Buckley. Europe-Asia Studies. 73(1):8-35. Lead article (special issue).
• Electoral Institutions and the National Provision of Local Public Goods. 2007. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2(1):5-25. Lead article. (Web appendix.)
• A Formal Model of Exit and Voice. 2006. Rationality and Society. 18(4):395-418. Lead article.

Shorter Papers

• Is Putin’s Popularity (Still) Real? A Cautionary Note on Using List Experiments to Measure Popularity in Authoritarian Regimes. 2023. With Timothy Frye, Kyle L. Marquardt, and Ora John Reuter. Post-Soviet Affairs. Forthcoming. (Replication data.)
• Correlates of Forest-Cover Change in European Russia, 1989–2012. 2020. With Delgerjargal Uvsh, Peter V. Potapov, Catalina Munteanu, Euginia V. Bragina, and Volker C. Radeloff. Land Use Policy. 96(104648). (Replication data.)
• (Good) Land and Freedom (for Former Serfs): Determinants of Peasant Unrest in European Russia, March–October 1917. 2017. With Evgeny Finkel and Dmitrii Kofanov. Slavic Review. 76(3):710–721. (Replication data.)
• Is Putin’s Popularity Real? 2017. With Timothy Frye, Kyle L. Marquardt, and Ora John Reuter. Post-Soviet Affairs. 33(1):1–15. (Replication data.)
• Cooperating with the State: Evidence from Survey Experiments on Policing. 2016. With Noah Buckley, Timothy Frye, and Lauren McCarthy. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 3(2):124–139. (Web appendix, replication data.)
• Reflections on Putin and the Media. 2010. Post-Soviet Affairs. 26(1):77-87.
• What is a Big Bureaucracy? Reflections on Rebuilding Leviathan and Runaway State-Building. 2008. Czech Sociological Review. 44(6):1189-1197.
• Shifting Electoral Geography in Russia’s 1991 and 1996 Presidential Elections. 2000. Post-Soviet Geography and Economics. 41(5):379-387.

Other

• The Fallacy of Multiple Methods (Comparative Politics Newsletter, Fall 2015)
• Media Freedom: What Matters?
• What Can Firm and Household Surveys Tell Us About Expert Assessments of Corruption?

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