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Overview

Timothy Frye is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes in social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations.

The scholar's main fields of study include social sciences, and within this broad area, subfields encompass political science and international relations, economics and econometrics, statistics and probability, sociology and political science, as well as nature and landscape conservation.

Frye's research topics cover a range of areas such as:

  • Russia and Soviet political economy
  • Survey sampling and estimation techniques
  • International relations and foreign policy
  • European Union policy and governance
  • Economic and environmental valuation
  • Crime patterns and interventions
  • Policing practices and perceptions

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Scott Gehlbach
  • Kyle L. Marquardt
  • Ora John Reuter
  • Ekaterina Borisova
  • Koen Schoors

Frye has published multiple papers, some of the recent ones are:

  • "Is Putin's popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes," 2023, Post-Soviet Affairs
  • "Who Reports Crime? Citizen Engagement with the Police in Russia and Georgia," 2021, Europe Asia Studies
  • "Do Violations of Democratic Norms Change Political Attitudes? Evidence From the January 6th Insurrection," 2023, American Politics Research
  • "Fear, Trust and Demand for Regulation: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Response to Stephen Crowley's Review of Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia," 2022, Perspectives on Politics

The scholar frequently publishes in venues including SSRN Electronic Journal, Post-Soviet Affairs, Perspectives on Politics, American Journal of Political Science, and Europe Asia Studies.

Best Publications

  • The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand

    Timothy Frye;Timothy Frye;Andrei Shleifer;Andrei Shleifer

  • A Politics of Institutional Choice Post-Communist Presidencies

    Timothy Frye

  • Capture or Exchange? Business Lobbying in Russia

    Timothy Frye

  • Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy

    Timothy Frye

  • Credible Commitment and Property Rights: Evidence from Russia

    Timothy Frye

  • The Perils of Polarization: Economic Performance in the Postcommunist World

    Timothy Frye

  • Is Putin’s popularity real?

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

  • Original Sin, Good Works, and Property Rights in Russia

    Timothy Frye

  • Original Sin, Good Works, and Property Rights in Russia

    Timothy Frye

  • Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Market Institutions in Russia

    Timothy M. Frye

  • Private Protection in Russia and Poland

    Timothy Frye

  • Fragmenting Protection: The Political Economy of Trade Policy in the Post-Communist World

    Timothy Frye;Edward D. Mansfield

  • Everyone Hates Privatization, but Why? Survey Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries

    Irina Denisova;Markus Eller;Timothy Frye;Timothy Frye;Ekaterina Zhuravskaya;Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

  • Hitting Them With Carrots: Voter Intimidation and Vote Buying in Russia

    Timothy Frye;Ora John Reuter;David Szakonyi

  • Timing is Everything: Elections and Trade Liberalization in the Postcommunist World

    Timothy Frye;Edward D. Mansfield

  • Government directors and business–state relations in Russia

    Timothy M. Frye;Ichiro Iwasaki

  • What Do Voters in Ukraine Want?: A Survey Experiment on Candidate Ethnicity, Language, and Policy Orientation

    Timothy Frye

  • The Political Economy of Russian Gubernatorial Election and Appointment

    Noah Buckley;Timothy Frye;Guzel Garifullina;Ora John Reuter

  • Vote Brokers, Clientelist Appeals, and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Russia and Venezuela

    Timothy Frye;Ora John Reuter;David Szakonyi

  • Property Rights and Property Wrongs: How Power, Institutions, and Norms Shape Economic Conflict in Russia

    Timothy Frye

  • In From the Cold: Institutions and Causal Inference in Postcommunist Studies

    Timothy Frye;Timothy Frye

  • Governing the Russian Equities Market

    Timothy Frye

  • Economic Transformation and Comparative Politics

    Timothy Frye

  • Brokers and Bureaucrats

    Timothy M. Frye

  • Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin

    Timothy Frye

  • The Politics of Chinese Investment in the US

    Timothy Frye;Pablo M. Pinto

  • Property Rights and Development

    Timothy Frye

  • Bringing Kitschelt back in: a comment on “Rethinking Structure and Agency in Post-Soviet Regime Dynamics”

    Timothy Frye

  • Weak Strongman : The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia

    Timothy Frye

  • Partisan Politics in Transition Economies

    Timothy Frye

  • The Limits of Legacies: Property Rights in Russian Energy

    Timothy Frye;Mark Beissinger;Stephen Kotkin

  • Vladimir Putin and the Succession Dilemma

    Timothy Frye

  • Cashing In: The Political Economy of Constitutional Stability

    Timothy Frye

  • Jewish Emigration from Russia and the Soviet Union

    Timothy M. Frye

  • Roundtable on Gulnaz Sharafutdinova’s the red mirror: putin’s leadership and russia’s insecure identity

    Timothy Frye;Brian D. Taylor;Will Pyle;Klaus Segbers

  • Building States and Markets After Communism: The Pace and Consistency of Reform

    Timothy Frye

  • Russia: Polarization, Autocracy, and Reform

    Timothy Frye

Frequent Co-Authors

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya Paris School of Economics
Scott Gehlbach
Scott Gehlbach University of Chicago
Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer Harvard University
Edward D. Mansfield
Edward D. Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
Joshua A. Tucker
Joshua A. Tucker New York University

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