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     Scott Gehlbach


Title: Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science
Website: http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/gehlbach/
Office: 110 North Hall
Office Hours: Monday 12:45-2:45, 110 North Hall
Phone: 608.263.2391
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: gehlbach@polisci.wisc.edu



Scott Gehlbach is Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science, Lyons Family Faculty Fellow, and Romnes Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow; and Research Associate of the Centre for Economic and Financial Research at the New Economic School in Moscow. A specialist in Russia, Professor Gehlbach has made fundamental contributions to the study of economic reform and other questions in political economy.

Known for employing a wide range of research methods in his work, Gehlbach is the author of the forthcoming textbook Formal Models of Domestic Politics, the award-winning monograph Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States, and numerous articles in top journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. His work has been supported by two Fulbright-Hays Fellowships and many other grants. Professor Gehlbach received his Ph.D. in political science and economics from the University of California–Berkeley.
 


Recent Publications

Scott Gehlbach, Philip Keefer. "Private Investment and the Institutionalization of Collective Action in Autocracies: Ruling Parties and Legislatures." Journal of Politics 74, 2 (2012): 621-635   
Scott Gehlbach, Philip Keefer. "Investment Without Democracy: Ruling-Party Institutionalization and Credible Commitment in Autocracies." 2011. Journal of Comparative Economics 39(2):123-139.   
Scott Gehlbach, John S. Earle and Scott Gehlbach, “Did Post-communist Privatization Increase Mortality?" Comparative Economic Studies 53, 2 (2011)   
Scott Gehlbach, John S. Earle. "Mif o biorokratii. Nevernaia problema, oshibochnoe reshenie [The Myth About Bureaucracy. Wrong Problem, Mistaken Solution]." Vedomosti. February 17, 2011.
  
Scott Gehlbach, John S. Earle. "Bigger Bureaucracy Can Be Better." Moscow Times. January 25, 2011.
  
Scott Gehlbach, Scott Gehlbach and Edmund J. Malesky. 2010. “The Contribution of Veto Players to Economic Reform.” Journal of Politics 72(4): 957-75.   
Scott Gehlbach, Konstantin Sonin, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. 2010. “Businessman Candidates.”  American Journal of Political Science.  54(3):718-736.   
Scott Gehlbach 2010. “Reflections on Putin and the Media.” Post-Soviet Affairs 26(1):77-87.   
Scott Gehlbach, John S. Earle. 2010. “Did Mass Privatisation Really Increase Post-Communist Mortality?” The Lancet 375 (9712).   
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.