Navid Hassanpour

Research Interests

• Political Development
• Social Movements and Civil Conflict

At the moment, I am mainly working on my second book (R&R at Cambridge University Press) on the political origins of democracy and dictatorship in their modern forms, using the political and economic transformations at the turn of the Twentieth Century as evidentiary empirics. In addition to the book, I am involved in a number of projects on the contemporary and historical patterns of autocratic and democratic politics (often making parallels and contrasts between the two), you can find a list of these ongoing projects below.

Contact: navid.hassanpour@yale.edu

Academic Appointments

• Henry Hart Rice Family Foundation Visiting Fellow, Yale University, 2019-20
• Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, April-June 2019
• Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, 2016-2019
• 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. [Revise and Resubmit, Cambridge University Press] 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 (Chair of the Award Committee: John W. Patty)
   • Review in Journal of Politics by Jeff Goodwin
     

Under Review & in Progress

1. Navid Hassanpour, Political Modernization Theory and Electoral Engagement with Bureaucratic Authoritarianism Link
   • historical evidence from the Iranian elections 1906-1975
2. Navid Hassanpour, Nationalism or Welfare? Turnout Mobilization in Non-Competitive Elections  Link
   • data from a survey experiment in Moscow, 2018
3. Navid Hassanpour, The Logic of Niche Parties’ Ideological Linkage and Targeted Redistribution to the Underclass Link
   • evidence from Turkish electoral and socioeconomic stats under AKP
4. Navid Hassanpour, The Political Logic of Redistribution in Elite-Induced Democratizations Link
   • evidence from Russian privatization stats 1992-1996
5. Navid Hassanpour, Welfare or Identity politics? On the logic of Radical Right Mobilization
   • data from surveys and survey experiment in Italy, 2019
6. Navid Hassanpour, Elite Competition or Redistributive Policy? On the Logic of Anti-Corruption Campaigns in (Democracies and) Autocracies
   • evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping
7. Navid Hassanpour, Why Anti-Establishment Parties? Radical Party Entry and Mobilization of New Voters
   • historical evidence from the elections to the Russian Duma and Constituent Assembly 1905-1917

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 (2017), Voting Together: Economic Adversity and Voter Turnout in Supervised Elections Link
• 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

Recent Teaching

Citation List

• Google Scholar

Data

• Dataverse

Presentations

Professional Service

Fieldwork

• Ankara & Istanbul, Beijing, Cairo, Florence & Milan, Moscow & St. Petersburg, Tehran

References

Prof. Carles Boix

Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Director of Institute of Political Economy and Governance (IPEG), Barcelona, Spain
+1 (609) 258-2139
cboix@princeton.edu
Princeton University
433 Robertson Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544

Prof. Staffan I. Lindberg

Director of V-Dem Institute, Professor of Political Science
+46 31 786 1226
staffan.i.lindberg@pol.gu.se
University of Gothenburg
No. 711, 40530, Göteborg, Sweden

Prof. Steven Wilkinson

Nilekani Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Chair, Department of Political Science
+1(203) 432-5240
steven.wilkinson@yale.edu
Yale University
115 Prospect Street, Rosenkranz Hall, Room 235
New Haven, CT 06511