Daniel Treisman
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
4289 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472
Tel: 310.968.3274
Fax: 310.825.0778
email: treisman@polisci.ucla.edu
Daniel Treisman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 1995. His work focuses on the politics and political economy of Russia, and on comparative political economy (in particular, the determinants of good government and the politics of macroeconomic policy). He is currently working on a book about Russia’s politics and economy since 1985.
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books
The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia
University of Michigan Press, 1999.
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Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia,
written with Andrei Shleifer, University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Reviews
Selected papers & chapters
Published or Forthcoming
Did Government Decentralization Cause China’s Economic Miracle? with Hongbin Cai, World Politics, July 2006.
What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption From Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research? published in Annual Review of Political Science, 2007.
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- Statistical analysisExplaining Fiscal Decentralization: Geography, Colonial History, Economic Development, and Political Institutions, published in Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 44, 3, 2006.
Decentralization, Fiscal Incentives, and Economic Performance: A Reconsideration, published in Economics and Politics, July 2006, 18, 2, pp.219-35.
Ruble Politics: Evaluating Exchange Rate Management in 1990s Russia, chapter in Timothy J. Colton and Stephen Holmes, eds., The State after Communism: Governance in the New Russia, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, pp.187-224.
A Normal Country: Russia After Communism, with Andrei Shleifer, published in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19, 1, Winter 2005, pp.151-74.
Does Competition for Capital Discipline Governments? Decentralization, Globalization, and Public Policy, with Hongbin Cai, published in American Economic Review, June 2005, 95, 3, pp.817-30
Rational Appeasement, journal article, shorter version published in International Organization, Spring 2004, 58, 2, pp.345-73.
Proofs of Propositions 4 and 5State Corroding Federalism, with Hongbin Cai, journal article, Journal of Public Economics, March 2004, 88, pp.819-43.
Fiscal Politics in Ethnically-Mined, Developing Federal States: Central Strategies and Secessionist Violence, book chapter, with Eduardo Aleman, for Philip Roeder and Donald Rothchild, eds., Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars, Cornell University Press, 2005, pp.173-216.
Stabilization Tactics in Latin America: Menem, Cardoso, and the Politics of Low Inflation, journal article, shorter version published in Comparative Politics, July 2004, 36, 4, pp.399-420.
Cardoso, Menem, and Machiavelli: Political Tactics and Privatization in Latin America, published in Studies in Comparative International Development, Fall 2003, 38, 3, pp.93-109.
Postcommunist Corruption, chapter, in Jan Fidrmuc and Nauro Campos, eds., Political Economy of Transition and Development: Institutions, Politics, and Policies, Kluwer, 2003, pp.201-226.
Fiscal Games and Public Employment: A Theory With Evidence From Russia, with Vladimir Gimpelson, published in World Politics, 54, 2, January 2002, pp.145-83.
Political Business Cycles and Russian Elections, or the Manipulations of 'Chudar', with Vladimir Gimpelson, published in British Journal of Political Science, 31, April 2001, pp.225-46.
Decentralization and Inflation: Commitment, Collective Action, or Continuity?, published in American Political Science Review, 94, 4, December 2000, pp.837-57.
The Causes of Corruption: A Cross-National Study, published in Journal of Public Economics, 76, 3, June 2000, pp.399-457.
Political Decentralization and Economic Reform: A Game Theoretic Analysis, published in American Journal of Political Science, April 1999.
Unpublished
The Popularity of Russian Presidents, unpublished paper, May 2008.
Pricing Death: The Political Economy of Russia’s Alcohol Crisis, March 2008
Political Decentralization and Policy Experimentation, with Hongbin Cai, unpublished paper, May 2007.
Decentralization and the Quality of Government, unpublished paper, October 2002.
Defining and Measuring Decentralization: A Global Perspective, unpublished paper, March 2002.
Short Pieces & Reviews
What keeps the Kremlin up all night? Moscow Times, Feb 18, 2008
The Economy and Popularity: the Roots of Putin’s Rating, Vedomosti, Feb 6, 2008
Putin’s Silovarchs, published in Orbis, Winter 2007.
What Russian thinkers think about when they think about Russia, unpublished article, November 2004.
A Normal Country, with Andrei Shleifer
To view shorter version published in Foreign Affairs, March-April 2004.
To view longer NBER working paper.
see also, Next to its peers, Russia is normal, International Herald Tribune, Feb 28, 2004Globalization and its Discontents, East European Constitutional Review, Spring 2003.
Russia Renewed?, Foreign Affairs, Nov-Dec 2002.
Revolutionary Russia, East European Constitutional Review, Fall 2002.
Clausewitz in Afghanistan, APSA-CP, Winter 2002.
Blaming Russia First, Foreign Affairs, November 2000.
Data
Teaching
Government and Politics of Russia (undergraduate).
Political Economy of Postcommunist Reform (undergraduate).
Topics in Postcommunist Political and Economic Reform (graduate).
Last Updated June 2008
