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Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Publications

• "Rewarding Impatience: A Bargaining and Enforcement Model of OPEC" International Organization, 58, (Spring 2004).
• "Rewarding Impatience Revisited: A Response to Goodrich" International Organization, 60, (Spring 2006).
• "The Political Economy of Women's Support for Fundamentalist Islam" (with Drew Linzer) World Politics, 60, (July 2008).
• "Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt" (with Lawrence Rubin) Terrorism and Political Violence, 20, (Winter 2008).
• "Women's Electoral Participation in Egypt: The Implications of Gender for Voter Recruitment and Mobilization" (with Safinaz El Tarouty) Middle East Journal, 63, (July 2009).

Working Papers

• "One Man, One Vote, One Time? Modeling the Prospects for Spontaneous Democratization in the Middle East" (with James Lo) Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Politics
• "Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World" (with Mark Kayser)
• "Electoral Budget Cycles under Authoritarianism: Economic Opportunism in Mubarak's Egypt"
• "Who Votes in Authoritarian Elections and Why? Determinants of Voter Turnout in Contemporary Egypt"

Syllabus

• "Freshman Seminar: Everyday Political Life in the Authoritarian Middle East" (PS 44N Autumn 2007)

Unpublished Translations (from Arabic)

• "Makram Mohammed Ahmed interviews the historic leadership of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya inside the Scorpion prison" al-Mussawar, June 2002.
• "Makram Mohammed Ahmed writes from the Wadi Al-Natroun Penitentiary: The Rank and File has a Discussion with their Leadership" al-Mussawar, July 2002.