Overview
Research Interests
- Politics in Hybrid Regimes
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, 2016-
- 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
- [Under Review] Political Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
- [2016, 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
Papers Under Review
- Voting Together: Economic Adversity and Voter Turnout in Authoritarian Elections Link
- Participation Dilemma: The Logic of Voter Turnout in Authoritarian Elections Link
- Strategic Distribution in Multiparty Systems Evidence from AKP’s Kurdish Policy Link
- Why Parties (under Authoritarianism)? Radical Party Entry and Mobilization of New Voters
Papers in Preparation/Working Papers
- Navid Hassanpour and Daria Vakhrusheva, Economic Concerns or International Prestige? Determinants of Participation in the 2018 Russian Presidential Elections, Link
- Navid Hassanpour, Alexander Demin and Kirill Kazantsev, Redistribution and Democracy: Evidence from Privatization in the 1990s Russia
- Navid Hassanpour and Ekaterina Kologrivaya, Elite Competition or Redistributive Policy? The Logic of Chinese Anti-Corruption Campaign
- Navid Hassanpour, Ilya Filipov and Alexander Demin, Methods of Political Ideology Estimation Using Communicative Interactions Online
- Navid Hassanpour and Dominic Gohla, Logic of Radical Party Emergence: Evidence from Germany, Past and Present
- Navid Hassanpour and Ena Redzic, Public Goods Provision and Ethnic Diversity: Far Right Parties, Immigration and Welfare in Germany
Select Papers in Press
- [Political Communication January 2014 – 31(1) ] “Media Disruption and 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
Previous Drafts
- A Quasi-Experimental Study of Contagion and Coordination in Urban Conflict: Evidence from The Syrian Civil War in Damascus Link
- Hushed Dissent: Permanent Incumbency Advantage and Varieties of Online Political Dialogue under Competitive Authoritarianism Link
- The Strategy of Perception in Third Party Interventions, Link
- Transparency and Repression: An Explanation for the Democratic Civil Peace, Link
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