Daniel Treisman is an American economist, who is most notable for being the author of the bestselling book

Spin Dictators ''Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century'' is a political science book by Russian economist Sergei Guriev and American political scientist Daniel Treisman. It examines how modern dictators and autocrats – pionee ...

Education

He completed his bachelor's degree at the

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in 1986. He completed his master's degree at the

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in 1988. He completed his Diploma in Russian Language at Plekhanov Institute of Economics in Moscow in 1988. He completed his PhD at the

in 1995. His doctoral advisor was professor Timothy Colton.

Career

Since 2004 he has served as a professor in the Department of Political Science at the

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Awards

He is most notable for having received the

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. He has also received the

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fellowship.

Bibliography

His books include:
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: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century'' * ''The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev'' * ''The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia'' * ''Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia'' * ''The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization'' * ''The Economics and Politics of Transition to an Open Market Economy: Russia'' * ''Subnational Budgeting in Russia: Preempting a Potential Crisis''

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