Research


BOOKS

Formal models of domestic politics


Scott Gehlbach

Analytical Methods for Social Research, Second edition, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2021


Reform and rebellion in weak states


Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach

Cambridge Elements in Political Economy, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2020


Representation through taxation: Revenue, politics, and development in postcommunist states


Scott Gehlbach

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008

ARTICLES

Autocracy

Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy


Scott Gehlbach, Zhaotian Luo, Anton Shirikov, Dmitriy Vorobyev

2024


The Russian media


Scott Gehlbach, Tetyana Lokot, Anton Shirikov

Susanne A. Wengle, Russian Politics Today, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2022, pp. 390-407


What is next for the study of non-democracy?


Scott Gehlbach

Claude Ménard, Mary M. Shirley, A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2018, pp. 20--26


Formal models of nondemocratic politics


Scott Gehlbach, Konstantin Sonin, Milan W. Svolik

Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 19, 2016, pp. 565-584


Electoral manipulation as bureaucratic control


Scott Gehlbach, Alberto Simpser

American Journal of Political Science, vol. 59(1), 2015, pp. 212-224


Government control of the media


Scott Gehlbach, Konstantin Sonin

Journal of Public Economics, vol. 118, 2014, pp. 163-171


Private investment and the institutionalization of collective action in autocracies: Ruling parties and legislatures


Scott Gehlbach, Philip Keefer

Journal of Politics, vol. 74(2), 2012, pp. 621-635


Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies


Scott Gehlbach, Philip Keefer

Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 39(2), 2011, pp. 123-139

Historical Political Economy

Interdisciplinary collaboration in historical political economy


Tracy Dennison, Scott Gehlbach

Jeffery A. Jenkins, Jared Rubin, Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2024


Historical political economy: Past, present, and future


Volha Charnysh, Eugene Finkel, Scott Gehlbach

Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 26, 2023, pp. 175-191


Democratization as a continuous choice: A comment on Acemoglu and Robinson’s correction to “Why Did the West Extend the Franchise?”


Paul Castañeda Dower, Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach, Steven Nafziger

Journal of Politics, vol. 82(2), 2020, pp. 776-780


Collective action and representation in autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s great reforms


Paul Castañeda Dower, Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach, Steven Nafziger

American Political Science Review, vol. 112(1), Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 125-147


Does reform prevent rebellion? Evidence from Russia’s emancipation of the serfs


Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach, Tricia D. Olsen

Comparative Political Studies, vol. 48(8), 2015, pp. 984-1019

Political Connections

The oligarch vanishes: Defensive ownership, property rights, and political connections


John S. Earle, Solomiya Shpak, Anton Shirikov, Scott Gehlbach

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 17(4), 2022, pp. 513-546


The productivity consequences of political turnover: Firm-level evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution


John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

American Journal of Political Science, vol. 59(3), 2015, pp. 708-723


Businessman candidates


Scott Gehlbach, Konstantin Sonin, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

American Journal of Political Science, vol. 54(3), 2010, pp. 718-736

Economic Reform

The grand experiment that wasn't? New institutional economics and the postcommunist experience


Scott Gehlbach, Edmund J. Malesky

Sebastian Galiani, Itai Sened, Institutions, Property Rights and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2014


Privatization


J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

Michael Alexeev, Shlomo Weber, The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2013


Did post-communist privatization increase mortality?


John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 53, 2011, pp. 239-260


The contribution of veto players to economic reform


Scott Gehlbach, Edmund J. Malesky

Journal of Politics, vol. 72(4), 2010, pp. 957-975


Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness


J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

American Political Science Review, vol. 103(2), 2009, pp. 264-283


Revenue traps


Scott Gehlbach

Economics and Politics, vol. 19(1), 2007, pp. 73-96


The consequences of collective action: An incomplete-contracts approach


Scott Gehlbach

American Journal of Political Science, vol. 50(3), 2006, pp. 802-823


A spoonful of sugar: Privatization and popular support for reform in the Czech Republic


John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

Economics and Politics, vol. 15(1), 2003 Mar, pp. 1-32

Other Topics

Damaged collateral and firm-level finance: Evidence from Russia's war in Ukraine


Solomiya Shpak, John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach, Mariia Panga

Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 51(4), 2023, pp. 1334-1343


Who reports crime? Citizen engagement with the police in Russia and Georgia


Lauren A. McCarthy, Scott Gehlbach, Timothy Frye, Noah Buckley

Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 73(1), 2021, pp. 8-35


Electoral institutions and the national provision of local public goods


Scott Gehlbach

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 2(1), 2007, pp. 5-25


A formal model of exit and voice


Scott Gehlbach

Rationality and Society, vol. 18(4), 2006, pp. 395-418

Shorter Papers

Is Putin's popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes


Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach, Kyle L. Marquardt, Ora John Reuter

Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 39(3), 2023, pp. 213-222


Correlates of forest-cover change in European Russia, 1989–2012


Delgerjargal Uvsh, Scott Gehlbach, Peter V. Potapov, Catalina Munteanu, Eugenia V. Bragina, Volker C. Radeloff

Land Use Policy, vol. 96, 2020, p. 104648


(Good) land and freedom (for former serfs): Determinants of peasant unrest in European Russia, March–October 1917


Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach, Dmitrii Kofanov

Slavic Review, vol. 76(3), 2017, pp. 710-721


Is Putin's popularity real?


Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach, Kyle L Marquardt, Ora John Reuter

Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 33(1), 2017, pp. 1-15


Cooperating with the state: Evidence from survey experiments on policing


Noah Buckley, Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach, Lauren A. McCarthy

Journal of Experimental Political Science, vol. 3(2), 2016, pp. 124-139


Reflections on Putin and the media


Scott Gehlbach

Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 26(1), 2010, pp. 77-87


What is a big bureaucracy? Reflections on Rebuilding Leviathan and Runaway State-Building


Scott Gehlbach

Czech Sociological Review, vol. 44(6), 2008, pp. 1189-1197


Shifting electoral geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 presidential elections


Scott Gehlbach

Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, vol. 41(5), 2000, pp. 379-387

Commentary

The fallacy of multiple methods


Scott Gehlbach

Comparative Politics Newsletter, vol. 25(2), 2015, pp. 11-12


Media freedom: What matters?


Scott Gehlbach

2010