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

The personalist penalty: Varieties of autocracy and economic growth

Christopher Blattman, Scott Gehlbach, Zeyang Yu

2025

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

Scott Gehlbach, Zhaotian Luo, Anton Shirikov, Dmitriy Vorobyev

American Journal of Political Science, Forthcoming, 2025

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

Violent backlash to political reform: Evidence from anti-Jewish pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution

Paul Castañeda Dower, Scott Gehlbach, Dmitrii Kofanov, Steven Nafziger, Vladimir Novikov

2025

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

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

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

Did mass privatization really increase post-communist mortality?

John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

Lancet, vol. 373, 2009, p. 1247

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

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

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

The fallacy of multiple methods

Scott Gehlbach

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

Media freedom: What matters?

Scott Gehlbach

2010

What can firm and household surveys tell us about expert assessments of corruption?

Scott Gehlbach

2009