Lisa Blaydes
Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Bio
Lisa Blaydes is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton University Press, 2018). Her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Middle East Journal, Studies in Comparative International Development and World Politics. During the 2008-9 and 2009-2010 academic years, Professor Blaydes was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. During the 2015-16 and 2023-24 academic years, she was a Fellow at the Center for Advance Study in the Behavior Sciences. She holds degrees in Political Science (PhD) from the University of California, Los Angeles and International Relations (BA, MA) from Johns Hopkins University.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Political Science
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Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Administrative Appointments
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Center Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2023 - 2024)
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Fulbright Faculty Award, U.S. Department of State (2022 - 2023)
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Director, Abbasi Program for Islamic Studies (2017 - 2023)
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2015 - 2016)
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University (2014 - 2018)
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National Fellow, Hoover Institution (2012 - 2013)
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Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University (2008 - 2010)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University (2007 - 2014)
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Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (2004 - 2005)
Honors & Awards
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Victoria Schuck Faculty Scholar Chair in Political Science, Stanford University (2022-2025)
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Best Article Award, European Politics & Society Section, American Political Science Association (2017)
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Outstanding Article Award, International History & Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2017)
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Mary Parker Follett Prize, Politics & History Section, American Political Science Association (2014)
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Outstanding Article Award, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association (2014)
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Best Paper Award, Women & Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2011)
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Paul J. Weber Award, Religion & Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2011)
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Gabriel Almond Best Dissertation Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2009)
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Juan Linz Best Dissertation Prize, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association (2009)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Chair, Jervis & Schroeder Book Prize Committee, International Politics & History Section, APSA (2018 - 2019)
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Chair, Luebbert Book Prize Committee, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2017 - 2017)
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Conference Chair, Association for Analytic Learning on Islam and Muslim Societies (2016 - 2016)
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Member, Gabriel Almond Award Committee, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2016 - 2016)
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Chair, Best Paper Prize Committee, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association, 2015 (2015 - 2015)
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Member, Mary Parker Follett Prize Committee, Politics & History Section, American Political Science Association (2015 - 2015)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Stanford University (2013 - 2014)
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Nominating Committee Member, International Studies Association (2012 - 2015)
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Executive Committee Member, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2012 - 2014)
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Best Paper Prize Committee Member, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association (2012 - 2012)
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Conference Chair, Association for Analytical Learning on Islam and Muslim Societies, Stanford University (2012 - 2012)
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Graduate Admissions Committee Member, Department of Political Science, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
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Section Head, Politics of the Middle East, Midwest Political Science Association (2011 - 2011)
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Steering Committee Member and Secretary, Association for Analytical Learning on Islam and Muslim Societies (ALLIMS) (2010 - Present)
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Omnibus Faculty Search Committee Member, Department of Political Science, Stanford University (2010 - 2011)
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Graduate Admissions Committee Member, Department of Political Science, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
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Member, Midwest Political Science Association (2002 - Present)
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Member, American Political Science Association (2000 - Present)
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Member, Middle East Studies Association (2000 - Present)
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Member, American Institute for Maghrebi Studies (1998 - Present)
Program Affiliations
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Iranian Studies
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Program in International Relations
Professional Education
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Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science (2008)
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M.A., Johns Hopkins University, International Economics and Middle Eastern Studies (1998)
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B.A., Johns Hopkins University, International Relations (1997)
2024-25 Courses
- Authoritarian Politics
POLISCI 244A, POLISCI 444A (Aut) - Middle Eastern Politics
POLISCI 149T (Spr) -
Independent Studies (5)
- Curricular Practical Training
POLISCI 209 (Spr) - DDRL Independent Study-Work with Adviser
DDRL 191 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics
POLISCI 249 (Spr) - Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics
POLISCI 349 (Spr) - Directed Reading and Research in International Relations
POLISCI 219 (Spr)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Authoritarian Politics
POLISCI 244A, POLISCI 444A (Aut) - Theories in Comparative Politics
POLISCI 440A (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Authoritarian Politics
POLISCI 244A, POLISCI 444A (Aut) - Theories in Comparative Politics
POLISCI 440A (Aut)
- Authoritarian Politics
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Qianmin Hu, Victoria Liu, Emily Russell -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Natalya Adam-Rahman -
Master's Program Advisor
Khalifa Alqaz -
Postdoctoral Research Mentor
Giulia Buccione, Ashrakat Elshehawy -
Doctoral (Program)
Alicia Chen, Sierra Davis, Rabia Kutlu Karasu, Sunny Li
All Publications
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Constraints on Female Labor Force Participation in Qatar: Understanding the Effects of Marriage, Family, and Traditional Values
MIDDLE EAST LAW AND GOVERNANCE
2024; 16 (3): 293-315
View details for DOI 10.1163/18763375-20241468
View details for Web of Science ID 001362759400001
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The Politics of Legal Pluralism in a Muslim Society
NATIONALITIES PAPERS-THE JOURNAL OF NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY
2024
View details for DOI 10.1017/nps.2024.45
View details for Web of Science ID 001220560300001
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Old World Trade Diasporas
SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
2024; 11: 1-41
View details for DOI 10.15195/v11.a1
View details for Web of Science ID 001144485100001
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Historical State Formation Within and Beyond Europe
WORLD POLITICS
2023; 75 (5)
View details for DOI 10.1353/wp.0.a928842
View details for Web of Science ID 001293866300008
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Arab identity and attitudes toward migration in Kuwait and Qatar
RESEARCH & POLITICS
2023; 10 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1177/20531680231223289
View details for Web of Science ID 001127949000001
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Assessing the Labor Conditions of Migrant Domestic Workers in the Arab Gulf States
ILR REVIEW
2023
View details for DOI 10.1177/00197939221147497
View details for Web of Science ID 000911379200001
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Did Egypt's post-uprising crime wave increase support for authoritarian rule?
JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH
2022
View details for DOI 10.1177/00223433211052374
View details for Web of Science ID 000748969400001
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Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring Introduction
STRUGGLES FOR POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE ARAB WORLD
2022: 1-26
View details for Web of Science ID 000943360000002
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Chinese Soft Power Projection in the Arab World From the Belt and Road Initiative to Global Pandemic Response
STRUGGLES FOR POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE ARAB WORLD
2022: 351-372
View details for Web of Science ID 000943360000016
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Authoritarian media and diversionary threats: lessons from 30 years of Syrian state discourse
POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND METHODS
2021; 9 (4): 693-708
View details for DOI 10.1017/psrm.2020.28
View details for Web of Science ID 000693678200004
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Polarized and demobilized: Legacies of authoritarianism in Palestine (Book Review)
GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
2021
View details for DOI 10.1111/gove.12626
View details for Web of Science ID 000658213700001
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Muslim Trade and City Growth Before the Nineteenth Century: Comparative Urbanization in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia
BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2021; 51 (2): 845–68
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0007123419000267
View details for Web of Science ID 000628826400020
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Rebuilding the Ba'thist State: Party, Tribe, and Administrative Control in Authoritarian Iraq, 1991-1996
COMPARATIVE POLITICS
2020; 53 (1): 93-+
View details for DOI 10.5129/001041520X15839612212809
View details for Web of Science ID 000573216500005
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Religion, family structure, and the perpetuation of female genital cutting in Egypt
JOURNAL OF DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS
2020; 86 (3): 305–28
View details for DOI 10.1017/dem.2020.15
View details for Web of Science ID 000571460900005
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Trade and Political Fragmentation on the Silk Roads: The Economic Effects of Historical Exchange between China and the Muslim East
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2020
View details for DOI 10.1111/ajps.12541
View details for Web of Science ID 000548866100001
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Political cultures: measuring values heterogeneity
POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND METHODS
2020; 8 (3): 571–79
View details for DOI 10.1017/psrm.2019.43
View details for Web of Science ID 000540277500013
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The Domestic Political Implications of Economic Sanctions Evidence from Iraq under Saddam Hussein
UNIV MICHIGAN PRESS. 2020: 22–40
View details for Web of Science ID 000595342000002
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Contesting Authoritarianism: Labor Challenges to the State in Egypt (Book Review)
PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS
2019; 17 (4): 1241–42
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1537592719002962
View details for Web of Science ID 000512647700102
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Mamluks, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Lessons from Medieval Egypt
POLITICS & SOCIETY
2019; 47 (3): 395–424
View details for DOI 10.1177/0032329219861756
View details for Web of Science ID 000479666400001
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Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds
JOURNAL OF POLITICS
2018; 80 (4): 1150–67
View details for DOI 10.1086/699246
View details for Web of Science ID 000445660100009
- State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein Princeton University Press . 2018
- State Building in the Middle East ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 2017; 20: 487-504
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State Building in the Middle East
ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, VOL 20
2017; 20: 487-504
View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051215-023141
View details for Web of Science ID 000401334000026
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The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development in Medieval Europe
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
2016; 70 (3): 551-586
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0020818316000096
View details for Web of Science ID 000382993200004
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Social Capital and Dispute Resolution in Informal Areas of Cairo and Istanbul
STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2014; 49 (4): 448-476
View details for DOI 10.1007/s12116-014-9165-z
View details for Web of Science ID 000346914700003
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How Does Islamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women?
GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
2014; 27 (3): 489-509
View details for DOI 10.1111/gove.12054
View details for Web of Science ID 000337512600007
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Religiosity-of-Interviewer Effects: Assessing the Impact of Veiled Enumerators on Survey Response in Egypt
POLITICS AND RELIGION
2013; 6 (3): 459-482
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1755048312000557
View details for Web of Science ID 000324828600001
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The Feudal Revolution and Europe's Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World before 1500 CE
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
2013; 107 (1): 16-34
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055412000561
View details for Web of Science ID 000315340600002
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The Changing Middle East: A New Look at Regional Dynamics (Book Review)
REVIEW OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
2012; 46 (2): 272-273
View details for DOI 10.1017/S2151348100003633
View details for Web of Science ID 000219232900028
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The Changing Middle East: A New Look at Regional Dynamics (Book Review)
REVIEW OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
2012; 46 (1): 125-127
View details for DOI 10.1017/S2151348100003219
View details for Web of Science ID 000219226300028
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Elite Competition, Religiosity, and Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
2012; 106 (2): 225-243
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055412000135
View details for Web of Science ID 000304830500001
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The Autumn of Dictatorship: Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak (Book Review)
PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS
2012; 10 (1): 205-206
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1537592711004671
View details for Web of Science ID 000301199800060
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One man, one vote, one time? A model of democratization in the Middle East
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL POLITICS
2012; 24 (1): 110-146
View details for DOI 10.1177/0951629811423121
View details for Web of Science ID 000298002300006
- Comment on Eric Chaney's "Democratic Change in the Arab World, Past and Present" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2012
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Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY
2011; 55 (4): 887-908
View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00692.x
View details for Web of Science ID 000297509900001
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Privatizing Welfare in the Middle East: Kin Mutual Aid Associations in Jordan and Lebanon (Book Review)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
2011; 43 (3): 583-585
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0020743811000821
View details for Web of Science ID 000293545900045
- Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak's Egypt Cambridge University Press. 2011
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Anti-Americanism and the American World Order. (Book Review)
PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY
2010; 74 (2): 395-397
View details for DOI 10.1093/poq/nfq020
View details for Web of Science ID 000278731600011
- Spoiling the Peace? Peace Process Exclusivity and Political Violence in North-central Africa Civil Wars 2010; 12 (1)
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Spoiling the Peace? Peace Process Exclusivity and Political Violence in North-Central Africa
CIVIL WARS
2010; 12 (1-2): 3-28
View details for DOI 10.1080/13698249.2010.484896
View details for Web of Science ID 000211967500002
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Women's Electoral Participation in Egypt: The Implications of Gender for Voter Recruitment and Mobilization
MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL
2009; 63 (3): 364-380
View details for DOI 10.3751/63.3.11
View details for Web of Science ID 000268419600002
- The State of Political Competition in Egypt Democracy Review 2009
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WOMEN'S SUPPORT FOR FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM
Annual Meeting of the American-Political-Science-Association
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. 2008: 576-?
View details for Web of Science ID 000260285400002
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Ideological reorientation and counterterrorism: Confronting militant Islam in Egypt
TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
2008; 20 (4): 461-479
View details for DOI 10.1080/09546550802257168
View details for Web of Science ID 000259761800001
- Intraparty Competition and Egypt's National Democratic Party Democracy Review 2008
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'Rewarding Impatience' revisited: A response to Goodrich
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
2006; 60 (2): 515-525
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0020818306060164
View details for Web of Science ID 000237364900008
- Formal and Informal Political Institutions in Egypt Democracy Review 2005
- Formal and Informal Political Institutions in Egypt Al-Ahram 2005
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Rewarding impatience: A bargaining and enforcement model of OPEC
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
2004; 58 (2): 213-237
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0020818304582012
View details for Web of Science ID 000221787100001