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  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Daniel Treisman is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans several topics within political science, economics, and sociology, focusing notably on political conflict, governance, and corruption in economic development.

Their published work includes articles in various scholarly venues, addressing themes such as autocracy, democracy, and economic development. Some recent papers by Daniel Treisman include:

  • Democracy by Mistake: How the Errors of Autocrats Trigger Transitions to Freer Government (2020, American Political Science Review)
  • Economic Development and Democracy: Predispositions and Triggers (2020, Annual Review of Political Science)

In addition to journal articles, Treisman has published books, including titles under Princeton University Press and the London Business School. Notably, Spin Dictators has editions from 2022 and 2023, with citations indicating ongoing academic interest in this work.

Their frequent collaborators encompass scholars such as Sergei Guriev, with whom Treisman has co-authored multiple papers, as well as Cevat Giray Aksoy and Nikita Savin.

Daniel Treisman has contributed scholarly work to a range of publication venues, with repeated presence in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Princeton University Press eBooks
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • The European Legacy

The researcher's main fields and subfields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Demography, Economics and Econometrics, and Development. Their primary research topics cover:

  • Corruption and Economic Development
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Religion and Society Interactions

Among awards received, Daniel Treisman was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

  • The causes of corruption: a cross-national study

    Daniel Treisman

  • What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research?

    Daniel Treisman

  • Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia

    Andrei Shleifer;Daniel S. Treisman

  • The architecture of government : rethinking political decentralization

    Daniel Treisman

  • Political decentralization and corruption: Evidence from around the world

    C. Simon Fan;Chen Lin;Daniel Treisman

  • Misperceiving Inequality

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  • Does Competition for Capital Discipline Governments? Decentralization, Globalization, and Public Policy

    Hongbin Cai;Daniel Treisman

  • Did Government Decentralization Cause China's Economic Miracle?

    Hongbin Cai;Daniel Treisman

  • Decentralization and the Quality of Government

    Daniel Treisman;Sanchita Bannerjee;Stephen Bloom;Anton Rushakov

  • A Normal Country: Russia after Communism

    Andrei Shleifer;Daniel S. Treisman

  • After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia

    Daniel Simon Treisman

  • State corroding federalism

    Hongbin Cai;Daniel Treisman

  • A normal country

    Andrei Shleifer;Daniel Treisman

  • Russia's "Ethnic Revival": The Separatist Activism of Regional Leaders in a Postcommunist Order

    Daniel S. Treisman

  • Informational Autocrats

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  • Decentralization and Inflation: Commitment, Collective Action, or Continuity?

    Daniel Treisman

  • Presidential Popularity in a Hybrid Regime: Russia under Yeltsin and Putin

    Daniel Treisman

  • A Normal Country

    Andrei Shleifer;Daniel Treisman

  • The Politics of Intergovernmental Transfers in Post-Soviet Russia

    Daniel Treisman

  • The Causes of Corruption: A Cross-National Study

    Daniel Treisman

  • Political Decentralization and Economic Reform: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

    Daniel Treisman

  • Jurisdiction Size and Local Government Policy Expenditure: Assessing the Effect of Municipal Amalgamation

    Jens Blom-Hansen;Kurt Houlberg;Søren Serritzlew;Daniel Treisman

  • The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev

    Daniel Treisman

  • Income, Democracy, and Leader Turnover

    Daniel Treisman

  • Fiscal Games and Public Employment: A Theory with Evidence from Russia

    Vladimir Gimpelson;Daniel Treisman

  • Explaining Fiscal Decentralisation: Geography, Colonial History, Economic Development and Political Institutions

    Daniel Treisman

  • A Normal Country: Russia after Communism

    Andrei Shleifer;Andrei Shleifer;Daniel Treisman

  • Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia

    Richard N. Cooper;Andrei Shleifer;Daniel Treisman

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer Harvard University
Chen Lin
Chen Lin University of Hong Kong
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University
Michael Keen
Michael Keen University of Tokyo
Richard N. Cooper
Richard N. Cooper Harvard University
Adam Przeworski
Adam Przeworski New York University
Barbara Geddes
Barbara Geddes University of California, Los Angeles
Jens Blom-Hansen
Jens Blom-Hansen Aarhus University
Søren Serritzlew
Søren Serritzlew Aarhus University

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