Victor Menaldo

Assistant Professor

University of Washington Political Science Department

vmenaldo@u.washington.edu

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Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)

Published Academic Articles & Working Papers

Blog

Op-eds & Policy Papers

The Aftermath of Revolution

The New York Times

(with Mike Albertus)

Afghanistan and the 'Resource Curse'

The Wall Street Journal

(with Stephen Haber)

A democracy's best bet: Revolution first

USA TODAY

(with Mike Albertus)

Burma Can Bring it

Foreign Policy

(with Mike Albertus)

A Democratic Middle East?

Defining Ideas

(with Stephen Haber)

Media Coverage of my Work

Wall Street Journal

New York Times

Wall Street Journal

The Economist

Bloomberg News

Foreign Policy

Marginal Revolution

Freakonomics Blog

The Monkey Cage

Foreign Policy

Daily Beast

Yahoo News

Marginal Revolution

The Monkey Cage

Invited Talks, Lectures and Discussions

(Slideshows)

University of Michigan on Conflict, Legitimacy and Authoritarian Rule: Monarchical Exceptionalism in the MENA

USC Center for International Studies: The Institutions Curse

Penn State Conference on Political Change and the Arab Spring: The Institutions Curse

Olympia World Affairs Council: Latin American Exceptionalism

Georgetown Current Research on Issues and Topics In Comparative Scholarship: Gaming Democracy

Thomas F. Gleed Chair in the Albers School of Business at Seattle University Lecture: Governance Institutions: From Geographic Causes to Business Consequences.

Critique of Michael Ross's The Oil Curse presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference 2012

Discussion of Ben Ansell and David Samuels' Inequality & Democracy: A Contractarian Approach at the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Seminar

Discussion of Thad Dunning, Valeria Brusco, Marcelo Nazareno, and Susan Stokes' Buying Votes: Distributive Politics in Democracies at the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Seminar

Discussion of Erik Wibbels' Trade, Development and Social Insurance in the other 85 Percent of the World at the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Seminar

Supplementary (web) Appendices for Published Papers

Supplementary Appendices for Albertus, Michael and Victor Menaldo. 2012. "If You're Against Them You're With Us: The Effect Of Expropriation On Autocratic Survival." Comparative Political Studies.

Appendix 1: Dataset Codebook

Appendix 2: Dynamic Signaling Model of Large-scale Expropriation under Dictatorship

Supplementary Material for Victor Menaldo. 2012. "The Middle East and North Africa's Resilient Monarchies." Journal of Politics.

Replication Dataset

Supplementary Material for Mike Albertus and Victor Menaldo. Forthcoming. "Gaming Demoracy."British Journal of Political Science.

Replication Dataset

Odds & Ends

What Makes a Great Paper Great

Endogeneity Bias & Instrumental Variables