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     Scott Gehlbach


Title: Associate Professor
Website: http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/gehlbach/
Office: 201A North Hall
Office Hours: Monday 2:30-3:30, Wednesday 2:30-3:30
Phone: 608.263.2391
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: gehlbach@polisci.wisc.edu
Keywords: Political Economy, Russia, Transition


Scott Gehlbach is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  He is also a research associate of CEFIR in Moscow, where he spent the 2007–2008 academic year as a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellow, and is a recent recipient of an SSRC Eurasia Program Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.  He is the author of Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) and numerous articles in various journals, including the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science.  His dissertation on the political economy of taxation in postcommunist states won the Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in the field of political economy.  Professor Gehlbach received his Ph.D. in political science and economics from the University of California – Berkeley.
 


Recent Publications

Scott Gehlbach, David Brown and John S. Earle. “Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness.” American Political Science Review 103, 2 (2009): 264-83.
https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=6&fid=5832028&jid=PSR&volumeId=103&issueId=02&aid=5832024&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0003055409090182  
Scott Gehlbach: “What is a Big Bureaucracy? Reflections on Rebuilding Leviathan and Runaway State-Building.” Czech Sociological Review.  44, 6 (2008):1189-1197.   
Scott Gehlbach Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2008.   
 

Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010

836 - Formal Models in Political Science

Instructors: Scott Gehlbach      Field: Political Methodology

949 - Seminar - Post Communist Politics

Instructors: Scott Gehlbach      Field: Comparative Politics