Navid Hassanpour

Research Interests

• Political Development: Modernization and Mobilization in Eurasia
• Social Movements and Civil Conflict: Network Collective Action

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, 2016-present
• Lecturer, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Program, Columbia University, 2015-2016
• Postdoctoral Fellow in Regional Political Economy, The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2014-2015

Ph.D. in Political Science, Yale (2014)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford (2006)
M.S., B.S. Sharif University of Technology (2002,2001)

Books

1. [Under Review] Political Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

2. [2017, Cambridge University Press] Leading from the Periphery & Network Collective Action Link
   • Winner of Best Book Award (2015-17) from American Political Science Association’s Political Networks Section
     

Under Review

1. Navid Hassanpour, From Education and Industrialization to Autocracy? Modernization and Turnout in Authoritarian Elections Link
2. Navid Hassanpour, Nationalism or Welfare? Economic Adversity and Turnout in Non-Competitive Elections Link
3. Navid Hassanpour, Strategic Distribution in Multiparty Systems: Evidence from AKP’s Kurdish Policy Link
4. Navid Hassanpour, Redistribution, Inequality and Democratization: Privatization in the 1990s Russia Link

Papers in Preparation

1. Navid Hassanpour, Elite Competition or Redistributive Policy? The Logic of Chinese Anti-Corruption Campaign

2. Navid Hassanpour, Public Goods Provision and Ethnic Diversity: Far Right Parties, Immigration and Welfare in Germany

3. Navid Hassanpour, Why Anti-Establishment Parties? Radical Party Entry and Mobilization of New Voters

Select Papers in Press

• [Political Communication (2014)–31(1)] “Media Disruption & Revolutionary Unrest: Evidence from Mubarak’s Quasi-Experiment” Link
  • Winner of International Communications Association’s Keith R. Sanders and Lynda Lee Kaid Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award (2015)
  • The New York Times Feature

• [PS: Political Science & Politics April 2013 – 46(2)] “Tracking the Semantics of Politics: A Case for Online Data Research in Political Science” Link

Sample Working Papers and Book Chapters

• Navid Hassanpour (2014), A Quasi-Experimental Study of Contagion and Coordination in Urban Conflict: Evidence from The Syrian Civil War in Damascus Link
• Navid Hassanpour (2013), Hushed Dissent: Permanent Incumbency Advantage and Varieties of Online Political Dialogue under Competitive Authoritarianism Link
• Navid Hassanpour (2012), The Strategy of Perception in Third Party Interventions, Link
• Navid Hassanpour (2011), Transparency and Repression: An Explanation for the Democratic Civil Peace, Link

Awards

Teaching

Citation List

• Google Scholar

Data

• Dataverse

Presentations

Professional Service

Fieldwork

• Ankara, Beijing, Cairo, Istanbul, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tehran

References

• Available Upon Request