Books:
Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections, Oxford University Press, January 2025. With Ora John Reuter and David Szakonyi.

Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia, 2021. Princeton University Press.
Shortlisted 2022 Pushkin House Prize. 2022 Toronto International Festival of Authors.

Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia (2000). University of Michigan Press. Winner of the 2001 Hewett Prize for outstanding publication in political economy given by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

The Policy World Meets Academia: Designing U.S. Policy toward Russia (2010). Co-edited with Timothy Colton and Robert Legvold. American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Cambridge, MA.

Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy (2010). Cambridge University Press. Awarded Best Book published in 2010 by the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the 2011 Hewett Prize for outstanding publication in political economy given by the Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies.

 

Property Rights and Property Wrongs: How Power, Institutions and Norms Shape Economic Conflict in Russia. Cambridge University Press (2017).


Articles: 

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• “What Moves Public Support for Aid to Ukraine? Issue Attention, Partisanship and Normative Appeals,” Political Science Quarterly, forthcoming.

 

• “Do Violations of Democratic Norms Change Political Attitudes: Evidence from the January 6th Insurrection,” American Politics Research, December 2023 Online. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1532673X231221987

 

• “Is Putin’s Popularity (Still) Real? A Cautionary Note on Using List Experiments to Measure Popularity in Authoritarian Regimes,” Post-Soviet Affairs, 2023 3:213-22. With Scott Gehlbach, Kyle Marquardt, and Ora John Reuter. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1060586X.2023.2187195

 

• “Who Reports Crime: Citizen Engagement With the Police in Russia and Georgia,” Europe-Asia Studies, January 2021. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2020.1851354

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• “Vote Brokers, Clientelist Appeals and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Russia and Venezuela.” forthcoming World Politics. With Ora John Reuter and David Szakonyi. October 2019.

 

• “Elections, Protest, and Trust: A Natural Experiment from Russia.” Journal of Politics. forthcoming. With Ekaterina Borisova.  July 2019. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/702944?mobileUi=0

 

• “Economic Sanctions and Public Opinion: Survey Experiments From Russia.”  November 2018 Comparative Political Studies.   https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0010414018806530

 

• “Hitting Them With Carrots: Voter Intimidation and Vote Buying in Russia.” British Journal of Political Science.   February 2018.  With Ora John Reuter and Davis Szakonyi. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123416000752

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• "Elections and Property Rights: A Natural Experiment from Russia." 2016. January. Comparative Political Studies. With Andrei Yakovlev. 

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• "Is Putin's Popularity Real?" 2016. Post-Soviet Affairs. With Scott Gehlbach, Kyle Marquardt, and Ora John Reuter.  Replication Data.

 

• "Cooperating with the State: Survey Experiments on Policing." forthcoming. Journal of Experimental Politics. With Noah Buckley, Scott Gehlbach, and Lauren McCarthy.  Replication Data.

 

• "What Do Voters in Ukraine Want? A Survey Experiment on Candidate Ethnicity, Language, and Policy Orientation." 2015. Problems of Postcommmunism. July.

 

• “Political Machines at Work: Workplace Mobilization and Electoral Subversion in Russia.” April, 2014. World Politics.  With John Reuter and David Szakonyi.

 

• "The Political Economy of Russian Gubernatorial Election and Appointment,” with Noah Buckley, Guzel Garifullina, and John Reuter. Europe-Asia Studies. 2014.

 

• “Everybody Hates Privatization, but Why? Survey Evidence from the Postcommunist World.” 2012. With Irina Denisova, Markus Eller, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya.  Journal of Comparative Economics.  40:1, 44-61. Honorable Mention, National Prize in Applied Economics, 2010. Russia.  

 

• “In from the Cold: Institutions and Causal Inference in Postcommunist Studies.” Annual Review of Political Science. June 2012. 

 

• “Government Directors and Business–State Relations in Russia.” co-authored with Ichiro Iwasaki.  European Journal of Political Economy. 27 (2011) 642–658.

 

• "Corruption and the Rule of Law in Russia." Russia after the Global Crisis. Ed. Anders Aslund, Sergei Guriev, and Andrew Kuchins, Peterson Institute. Washington, D.C. 2010.

 

• "The Politics of Chinese Investment in the US." In Investing in the US: Is the US Ready for FDI from China? Ed. Karl P. Sauvant. Edward Elgar. Cheltenham, UK, 2010. With Pablo M. Pinto

 

• "Who Wants to Revise Privatization? The Complementarity of Market Skills and Institutions."American Political Science Review, May 2009, Irina Denisova, Markus Eller and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. Honorable Mention, National Prize in Applied Economics, 2010. Russia.

 

• "The "Other" Russian Economy: How Everyday Firms View the Rules of the Game in Russia." Social Research. Spring 2009. With Andrei Yakovlev and Yevgeny Yasin.

 

• "Economic Transformation and Comparative Politics." Oxford Handbook of Political Science. eds. Susan Stokes and Carles Boix. Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

• “Ownership, Voting, and Job Creation in Russia.” European Journal of Political Economy. June 2006.

 

• “Original Sin, Good Works, and Property Rights in Russia.” World Politics. July 2006. (accepted in June 2007)

 

• "Governing the Banking Sector." The State after Communism: Governance in the New Russia.eds., Timothy J. Colton and Stephen Holmes. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

 

• “Credible Commitment and Property Rights: Evidence from Russia.” American Political Science Review.  August 2004.

 

• “Timing is Everything: Elections and Trade Liberalization in the Post-Communist World.” Comparative Political Studies. With Edward D. Mansfield. May 2004.

 

• ing Fragmenting Protection: The Political Economy of Trade Policy in the Post-Communist World.”British Journal of Political Science. With Edward D. Mansfield. Fall 2003.

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• "Capture or Exchange: Business Lobbying in Russia." Europe-Asia Studies,  November 2002,

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• “Private Protection in Russia and Poland.” American Journal of Political Science. June 2002

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• “The Perils of Polarization: Economic Performance in the Post-Communist World.” World Politics. April 2002.

 

• “Rackets, Regulations, and the Rule of Law.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. With Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. October 2000. [Reprinted in Economic Approaches to Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Series Editors, Richard A. Posner and Franceso Parisi, 2006.]

 

• “The Politics of Post-Communist Economic Reform.” Transition Report 1999. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. London. With Simon Commander.

 

• “Governing the Russian Equities Market.” Post-Soviet Affairs. November 1997.

 

• “A Politics of Institutional Choice: Post-Communist Presidencies.” Comparative Political Studies. October 1997.

 

• “The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand: Private Shops in Moscow and Warsaw.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. June 1997. With Andrei Shleifer. [Reprinted in Economic Approaches to Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Series Editors, Richard A. Posner and Franceso Parisi, 2006.]

 

• "Privatization and the Limits of Credible Commitment." The Political Economy of Property Rights. ed. Dave Weimer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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• "Credible Commitment and Property Rights: The Role of Strategic Interaction between Political and Economic Actors." The Political Economy of Property Rights. ed. Dave Weimer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. with D. Diermeier, J. Ericson, and S. Lewis.

 

• "Contracting in the Shadow of the state: Private Arbitration Courts in Russia." The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia. ed. Jeffrey Sachs. Boulder. CO: Westview Press, 1997.

 

• "Caveat Emptor: Institutions, Credible Commitment, and Commodity Exchanges in Russia." Institutional Design, ed. Dave Weimer. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.