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World Ranking
52
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science Raising the scientific standards regarding the analysis of the relations between democracy, capitalism and economic development.
  • 2001 - Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Adam Przeworski is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics, Demography, and Law.

Their work covers several main topics, including Political Conflict and Governance, American Constitutional Law and Politics, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Global Security and Public Health, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Adam Przeworski include:

  • "Rights and Deaths: Government Reactions to the Pandemic" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Democracy and its Vulnerabilities: Dynamics of Democratic Backsliding" (2022), published in Quarterly Journal of Political Science
  • "Formal Models of Authoritarian Regimes: A Critique" (2022), published in Perspectives on Politics
  • "Who Decides What Is Democratic?" (2024), published in Journal of Democracy
  • "Authoritarianism, Authority, and Representation" (2020), published in Asian Survey

Adam Przeworski frequently collaborates with other researchers, including José Antônio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, Zhaotian Luo, Ji Yeon Hong, and Ye Wang.

Their publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Quarterly Journal of Political Science
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Journal of Democracy
  • Presidential Studies Quarterly

Among the awards received by Adam Przeworski are the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2010 for contributions related to democracy, capitalism, and economic development; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association in 2001; and becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America

    Adam Przeworski

  • Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990

    Adam Przeworski;Michael E. Alvarez;Jose Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Modernization: Theories and Facts

    Adam Przeworski;Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi

  • Democracy and Development: List of Tables and Figures

    Adam Przeworski;Michael E. Alvarez;Jose Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Capitalism and social democracy

    Adam Przeworski

  • Political Regimes and Economic Growth

    Adam Przeworski;Fernando Limongi

  • Authoritarian Institutions and the Survival of Autocrats

    Jennifer Gandhi;Adam Przeworski

  • Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism

    Adam Przeworski;John D. Sprague

  • Democracy, accountability, and representation

    Adam Przeworski;Susan Carol Stokes;Bernard Manin

  • Capitalism and Social Democracy

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  • Classifying political regimes

    Mike Alvarez;José Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi;Adam Przeworski

  • COOPERATION, COOPTATION, AND REBELLION UNDER DICTATORSHIPS

    Jennifer Gandhi;Adam Przeworski

  • What Makes Democracies Endure

    Adam Przeworski;Michael Alvarez;Jose Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Capitalismo y socialdemocracia

    Adam Przeworski

  • The effect of IMF programs on economic growth

    Adam Przeworski;James Raymond Vreeland

  • Structural Dependence of the State on Capital

    Adam Przeworski;Michael Wallerstein

  • Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government

    Adam Przeworski

  • Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Presidentialism and Parliamentarism

    José Antonio Cheibub;Adam Przeworski;Sebastian M. Saiegh

  • Economic Reforms in New Democracies: A Social-Democratic Approach

    Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira;José María Maravall;Adam Przeworski

  • Decentralization and the Quality of Government

    Daniel Treisman;Sanchita Bannerjee;Stephen Bloom;Anton Rushakov

  • Institutions Matter?1

    Adam Przeworski

  • Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffrage Extensions

    Adam Przeworski

  • Elections and representation

    Bernard Manin;Adam Przeworski;Susan C. Stokes;Susan C. Stokes

  • Democracy as an equilibrium

    Adam Przeworski

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Limongi
Fernando Limongi Universidade de São Paulo
José Antonio Cheibub
José Antonio Cheibub University of Pittsburgh
Susan C. Stokes
Susan C. Stokes University of Chicago
Miriam A. Golden
Miriam A. Golden Stanford University
David Austen-Smith
David Austen-Smith Northwestern University
Jeffry Frieden
Jeffry Frieden Harvard University
Peter Evans
Peter Evans University of California, Berkeley
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Gøsta Esping-Andersen Pompeu Fabra University
Karl Ove Moene
Karl Ove Moene University of Oslo
James C. Scott
James C. Scott Yale University

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