Books and Monographs
Putin v. The People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia, with Samuel A. Greene. Yale University Press. April 2019. 297 pages.
Honorable Mention in The Davis Center Book Prize, awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.
Revolution and Reform in Ukraine: Evaluating Four Years of Reform, with Silviya Nitsova and Grigore Pop-Eleches, Ponars Eurasia, July 2018. 70 pages.
The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 304 pages.
Refereed Articles
Journal of Politics, “Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution”. Co-authored with Grigore Pop-Eleches and Bryn Rosenfeld. Vol. 84, No 2. 2022
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “The microdynamics of spatial polarization: A model and an application to survey data from Ukraine”. Co-authored with Olivia J Chu, Jonathan F. Donges, and Grigore Pop-Eleches.2021. 118(50).
Perspectives on Politics, “Affect and Autocracy: Emotions and Attitudes in Russia after Crimea.” Co-authored with Samuel A. Greene. 2020. 1-15.
Post Soviet Affairs, “Getting the Opposition Together: Protest Coordination in Authoritarian Regimes”. 2020. Co-authored with David Armstrong and Ora John Reuter. Vol. 36.1, 1-19.
Post Soviet Affairs, “Identity and Political Preferences in Ukraine – Before and After the Euromaidan”. 2018. Co-authored with Grigore Pop-Eleches. Vol. 34.2-3, 107-118.
Comparative Political Studies, “Agreeable Authoritarians: Personality and Politics in Contemporary Russia,” Co-authored with Samuel Greene. Vol. 50 (13), 1802-1834. 2017.
British Journal of Political Science, “Political Orientation, Information and Perceptions of Electoral Fraud: Evidence from Russia”, 2017. Vol. 47(3), 589-608.
Electoral Studies, “Election Observer Effects: A Field Experiment in the Russian Duma Election of 2011”. 2016. Co-authored with Andrei Buzin and Kevin Brondum. Vol 44 (2016): 184-191.
Comparative Politics, “Information, Elections, and Political Change”, Co-authored with Grigore Pop-Eleches. July 2015, Vol. 47, No. 4.
Journal of Politics, “Legislatures, Cooptation, and Social Protest in Contemporary Authoritarian Regimes”, Co-authored with Ora John Reuter. January, 2015, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp.235-248.
Problems of Post-Communism, “After the Revolution: Long-term Effects of Electoral Revolutions”, Co-authored with Grigore Pop-Eleches. July-August 2014, Vol. 61, No. 4.
Problems of Post-Communism, “Protesting Putinism: The Election Protests of 2011-12 in Broader Perspective”. March-April 2013, Vol. 60, No.2.
Journal of Politics, “Sub-national Appointments in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Russian Gubernatorial Appointments”, co-authored with Ora John Reuter. October 2012, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp1023-1037.
American Journal of Political Science, “Globalization, Regime Type and Labor Protest in Developing Countries”, co-authored with Emmanuel Teitelbaum. July 2011, Vol.55, No.3, pp.665-677.
Journal of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, “Politics, Justice and the New Russian Strike”, co-authored with Samuel Greene. March 2010, Vol. 43, No.1, pp. 73-95.
Slavic Review, “Managing Society: Protest, Civil Society and Regime in Putin’s Russia” Fall 2009, Vol. 68, No.3, pp 528-547, and “Responses: Political Science, Democracy and Authoritarianism” – a response to Professor Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University, pp.554-6.
American Political Science Review, “Strikes and Labor Organization in Hybrid Regimes” November 2007, Vol. 101, No. 4, pp. 781-98.
Comparative Politics, “Leading Labor: Unions, Politics and Protest in New Democracies”, April 2004, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 253-272.
Other Published Articles/Chapters
The Washington Post, with Samuel A. Greene. Putin’s Rule Depends on Creating Foreign Enemies and Domestic Traitors. (February 24, 2022). This piece also appeared in the newspaper in the Sunday opinion section.
The Washington Post, with Samuel A. Greene. Threatening to invade Ukraine will help Putin at home. Actually invading won’t. (December 8, 2021). This piece also appeared in the newspaper in the Sunday opinion section.
The Washington Post, with Samuel A. Greene. Putin’s new war on the opposition suggests he sees it as a real threat. (January 27, 2021). This piece also appeared in the newspaper in the Sunday opinion section.
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, with Bryn Rosenfeld, Samuel Greene, Grigore Pop-Eleches and Jeremy Morris. Putin’s support is weakening. Will that show up in Russia’s regional elections this weekend? (September 10, 2020).
“State-Mobilized Movements after the Annexation of Crimea: The Construction of Novorossiya” with Samuel A. Greene, in Grzegorz Ekiert, Elizabeth J. Perry and Xiaojun Yan, Ruling by Other Means: State Mobilized Movements (Cambridge University Press: 2020).
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, with Leah Christiani, Marc J. Hetherington, Michael MacKuen, and Emily Wager. To fight the coronavirus, most Americans support universal testing and mandatory quarantines (April 30, 2020).
The New Statesman, “After 20 years of power, are the tides turning against Vladimir Putin?” (December 18, 2019). With Samuel A. Greene.
The Washington Post, “Putin’s Iron Grip is Looser Than We Think”. (September 1, 2019). With Samuel A. Greene. This piece also appeared in the newspaper on the front page of the Sunday opinion section.
The New Statesman, “Vladimir Putin shows that dictators hang on to power not despite the people, but because of them.” (December 18, 2019). With Samuel A. Greene.
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog with Mariam Matevosyan Armenian Protesters Brought Down a Prime Minster. Here is why they are in the streets. (April 30, 2018).
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog with Grigore Pop-Eleches, Ukrainians are protesting corruption — and using a new approach. Here’s how it works. (January 5, 2018).
Journal of Democracy, “How Putin Wins Support”, October 2017, Vol. 28, No. 4. Co-authored with Samuel A. Greene.
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, Russians are protesting! Why? Part 1: Putin’s vulnerable. (March 31, 2017).
Контрапункт – журнал о политике и обществе, “Способность к протесту сохраняется”, No. 3’16. April 2016. Co-authored with Samuel A. Greene. (Counterpoint: A Journal of Politics and Society. “The Capacity for Protest Remains”).
Journal of Democracy, “Waiting for a Fourth Wave: Structural Conditions and the Future of Democratization”, June 2015, Vol. 26, No.3, pp144-156. Co-authored with Grigore Pop-Eleches.
“Democratization”, with Grigore Pop-Eleches, in Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy and John D. Stephens (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State, Oxford University Press. 2015.
“Civil Society and Contentious Politics in Russia”, in Stephen White (ed.), Developments in Russian Politics 8. Duke University Press 2014.
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog with Samuel A. Greene, Explaining Putin’s popularity: Rallying round the Russian flag. (September 9, 2014).
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog with Grigore Pop-Eleches, Do Crimeans actually want to join Russia? (March 6, 2014).
“Russian Protesters: Not Optimistic But Here to Stay”, Russian Analytical Digest, 20 June, 2012, No. 115, pp. 2-8.
“Russia”, Case Studies in Comparative Politics, David J. Samuels (ed.), Pearson Press 2013.
“Протесты, гражданское общество и динамика режима” (Protest, Civil Society and Regime Dynamics), in Россия “двухтысячных” (Russia in the 2000s) e.d. Henry Hale and Ivan Kurilla, Planeta, Moscow, 2011.
Foreign Policy, May-June 2011. “Think Again: Dictatorship”
Pro et Contra,“Новое рабочее движение в России” (The New Workers’ Movement in Russia), co-authored with Samuel Greene. March – July 2008, Vol.12, No.2-3, pp. 36-58.
Journal of Democracy, “Arab Not Muslim Exceptionalism”, co-authored with Alfred Stepan. October 2004, Vol. 15, No.4, pp. 140-6.
Journal of Democracy, “An ‘Arab’ More Than a ‘Muslim’ Democracy Gap”, co-authored with Alfred Stepan. July 2003, Vol. 14, No.3, pp.30-44.
East European Constitutional Review, Russian Quarterly Update (1998 – 2001).
Scottish Economic Bulletin, Summer 1991, “Structural Change In The Scottish Economy”, co-authored with Fiona A. Shera