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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Valerie Bunce is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their professional work includes contributions to academia recognized through the award of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

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Best Publications

  • Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State

    Valerie Bunce

  • Comparative Democratization Big and Bounded Generalizations

    Valerie Bunce

  • Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries

    Valerie J. Bunce;Sharon L. Wolchik

  • Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience

    Valerie Bunce

  • Defeating Dictators: Electoral Change and Stability in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes

    Valerie J. Bunce;Sharon L. Wolchik

  • Should Transitologists Be Grounded

    Valerie Bunce

  • Diffusion-Proofing: Russian and Chinese Responses to Waves of Popular Mobilizations against Authoritarian Rulers

    Karrie J. Koesel;Valerie J. Bunce

  • Uncertainty in the Transition: Post-communism in Hungary:

    Valerie Bunce;Mária Csanádi

  • The Political Economy of Postsocialism

    Valerie Bunce

  • International Diffusion and Postcommunist Electoral Revolutions

    Valerie J. Bunce;Sharon L. Wolchik

  • FAVORABLE CONDITIONS AND ELECTORAL REVOLUTIONS

    Valerie J. Bunce;Sharon L. Wolchik

  • Do New Leaders Make a Difference?: Executive Succession and Public Policy Under Capitalism and Socialism

    Valerie Bunce

  • Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World

    Valerie Bunce;Michael McFaul;Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

  • Paper Curtains and Paper Tigers

    Valerie Bunce

  • Comparing East and South

    Valerie Bunce

  • The National Idea: Imperial Legacies and Post-Communist Pathways in Eastern Europe

    Valerie Bunce

  • Regional Differences in Democratization: The East Versus the South

    Valerie Bunce

  • 3. Diffusion and Demonstration

    David Patel;Valerie Bunce;Sharon Wolchik;Marc Lynch

  • Putin, Popular Protests, and Political Trajectories in Russia: A Comparative Perspective

    Karrie J. Koesel;Valerie J. Bunce

  • The Political Economy of the Brezhnev Era: The Rise and Fall of Corporatism

    Valerie Bunce

  • DEMOCRATIZATION AND ECONOMIC REFORM

    V. Bunce

  • getting real about "real causes"

    Valerie Bunce;Sharon Wolchik

  • Youth and Electoral Revolutions in Slovakia, Serbia, and Georgia

    Valerie J. Bunce;Sharon L. Wolchik

  • The Succession Connection: Policy Cycles and Political Change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

    Valerie Jane Bunce

  • Transnational networks, diffusion dynamics, and electoral revolutions in the postcommunist world

    Valerie Bunce;Sharon L. Wolchik

  • Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945–1990. By Woodward Susan L.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 443p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

    Valerie Bunce

  • Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries: Conclusions

    Valerie J. Bunce;Sharon L. Wolchik

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Michael McFaul Stanford University

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