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Overview

Scott Gehlbach is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics in political science, sociology, economics, and related fields. The focus lies particularly on political conflict, governance, corruption, electoral systems, social policy, and historical economic studies.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Is Putin's popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes" (2023) published in Post-Soviet Affairs
  • "Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future" (2022) published in Annual Review of Political Science
  • "Who Reports Crime? Citizen Engagement with the Police in Russia and Georgia" (2021) published in Europe Asia Studies
  • "Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy" (2025) published in American Journal of Political Science
  • "Correlates of forest-cover change in European Russia, 1989-2012" (2020) published in Land Use Policy

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Delgerjargal Uvsh
  • Peter Potapov
  • Catalina Munteanu
  • Eugenia Bragina
  • Volker C. Radeloff

Scott Gehlbach has published extensively in several venues, most notably:

  • Harvard Dataverse (96 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
  • American Journal of Political Science (3 publications)
  • Post-Soviet Affairs (1 publication)
  • Annual Review of Political Science (1 publication)

The scientist has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including:

  • "Reform and Rebellion in Weak States" (2020)
  • "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (2021)

Their research areas intersect several fields and subfields, including:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Demography
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Statistics and Probability

Main topics of their work cover:

  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Corruption and Economic Development
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Best Publications

  • Investment without Democracy : Ruling-Party Institutionalization and Credible Commitment in Autocracies

    Scott Gehlbach;Philip Keefer

  • Private Investment and the Institutionalization of Collective Action in Autocracies: Ruling Parties and Legislatures

    Scott Gehlbach;Philip Keefer

  • Formal Models of Nondemocratic Politics

    Scott Gehlbach;Konstantin Sonin;Konstantin Sonin;Konstantin Sonin;Milan W. Svolik

  • Businessman Candidates: BUSINESSMAN CANDIDATES

    Scott Gehlbach;Konstantin Sonin;Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

  • Is Putin’s popularity real?

    Timothy Frye;Scott Gehlbach;Kyle L. Marquardt;Ora John Reuter

  • A Formal Model of Exit and Voice

    Scott Gehlbach

  • The Contribution of Veto Players to Economic Reform

    Scott Gehlbach;Edmund J. Malesky

  • Electoral manipulation as bureaucratic control

    Scott Gehlbach;Alberto Simpser

  • Reflections on Putin and the Media

    Scott Gehlbach

  • The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

    John S. Earle;Scott Gehlbach

  • Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

    J. David Brown;John S. Earle;Scott G. Gehlbach

  • Formal Models of Domestic Politics

    Scott Gehlbach

  • Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence From Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs:

    Evgeny Finkel;Scott Gehlbach;Tricia D. Olsen

  • Representation through Taxation

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  • Representation through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States

    Scott Gehlbach

  • Formal Models of Domestic Politics

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  • Investment without Democracy: Ruling-Party Institutionalization and Credible Commitment in Autocracies

    Scott Gehlbach;Philip Keefer

  • Formal Models of Domestic Politics

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  • The Consequences of Collective Action: An Incomplete-Contracts Approach

    Scott Gehlbach

  • Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North

    Sebastián Galiani;Itai Sened

  • Reform and Rebellion in Weak States

    Evgeny Finkel;Scott Gehlbach

  • What Is a Big Bureaucracy? :Reflections on ‘Rebuilding Leviathan’ and ‘Runaway State-building’

    Scott Gehlbach

  • Property rights in post-Soviet Russia: violence, corruption, and the demand for law

    Scott Gehlbach

  • Social Networks and Corruption

    Scott Gehlbach

  • Shifting Electoral Geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 Presidential Elections

    Scott Gehlbach

  • Mass Privatization, Distributive Politics, and Popular Support for Reform in the Czech Republic

    John S. Earle;John S. Earle;Scott G. Gehlbach;Zuzana Saková

  • Taxability, Elections, and Government Support of Business Activity

    Scott G. Gehlbach

  • Did Post-communist Privatization Increase Mortality?

    John S Earle;Scott Gehlbach

  • Online Appendixes for \Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia's Emancipation of the Serfs"

    Evgeny Finkel;Scott Gehlbach;Tricia Olsen

  • Preying on the State: The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989 . By Venelin I. Ganev. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 222p. $39.95.

    Scott Gehlbach

  • Cooperating with the State: Evidence from Survey Experiments on Policing

    Noah Buckley;Noah Buckley;Timothy Frye;Timothy Frye;Scott Gehlbach;Lauren A. McCarthy

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Earle
John S. Earle George Mason University
Konstantin Sonin
Konstantin Sonin University of Chicago
Timothy Frye
Timothy Frye Columbia University
Edmund J. Malesky
Edmund J. Malesky Duke University
Philip Keefer
Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank
Peter Potapov
Peter Potapov University of Maryland, College Park
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya Paris School of Economics

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