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Scott Gehlbach

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Professor, Department of Political Science and Harris School of Public Policy
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University of Chicago
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Economic Reform, Authoritarianism, Political connections, Accountability in Organizations and Government
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Is Putin’s Popularity (Still) Real? A Cautionary Note on Using List Experiments to Measure Popularity in Authoritarian Regimes

  • May 3, 2022
  • Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach, Kyle L. Marquardt and Ora John Reuter
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Questions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity are inextricable from discussions about Russia’s war on Ukraine. The Russian government has expended great effort selling the war…
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Life and Death During the Transition Depression

  • October 26, 2020
  • Scott Gehlbach
(Broadstreet Blog) The New York Times published an interesting pair of reports on Tuesday. The first related a recent study in Health Affairs that documents a staggering, and unexpected, decline in hospital admissions since the…
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Reform and Rebellion in Weak States

  • May 22, 2020
  • Scott Gehlbach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Buy It Now – Link: Photo: Secondary Author: Scott Gehlbach and Evgeny Finkel
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Reform and Rebellion in Weak States

  • May 22, 2020
  • Scott Gehlbach
NEW BOOK! Throughout history, reform has provoked rebellion – not just by the losers from reform, but also among its intended beneficiaries. Finkel and Gehlbach emphasize that, especially in weak…
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Трамп помогает Путину и всем диктаторам, когда называет выборы в США “фальшивыми”

  • October 31, 2016
  • Scott Gehlbach
Республиканец помогает авторитарным режимам убедить своих граждан, что даже американская система коррумпированная и мошенническая. Дональд Трамп хвалил "лидерство" Владимира Путина. Он предполагал, что, став во главе США, признает российскую аннексию…
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Trump helps Putin — and all dictators — when he calls U.S. elections ‘rigged.’

  • October 27, 2016
  • Scott Gehlbach
(WP) (Co-authored with K. Sonin) Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership, suggested that he would recognize Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, and questioned the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia…

Is Putin’s Popularity Real?

  • November 24, 2015
  • Scott Gehlbach
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Vladimir Putin has managed to achieve and maintain strikingly high public approval ratings throughout his time as president and prime minister of Russia. Kremlin spin doctors…
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A Way Forward for Ukraine

  • March 19, 2014
  • Scott Gehlbach
(Co-authored by Scott Gehlbach, Roger Myerson, and Tymofiy Mylovanov) (The New York Times) However the current crisis over Crimea finally ends, Ukraine will still be left with a crisis of…
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Formal Models of Domestic Politics

  • July 9, 2013
  • Scott Gehlbach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Buy It Now – Link: Photo: Secondary Author: Scott Gehlbach
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