Daniel Treisman

14.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
96 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Daniel Treisman is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Treisman has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 27 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Daniel Treisman's work include Russia and Soviet political economy (24 papers), Local Government Finance and Decentralization (18 papers) and Corruption and Economic Development (15 papers). Daniel Treisman is often cited by papers focused on Russia and Soviet political economy (24 papers), Local Government Finance and Decentralization (18 papers) and Corruption and Economic Development (15 papers). Daniel Treisman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Daniel Treisman's co-authors include Hongbin Cai, Sergei Guriev, Vladimir Gimpelson, Andrei Shleifer, Chen-Ta Lin, C. Simon Fan, Robert Legvold, Jens Blom‐Hansen, Søren Serritzlew and Kurt Houlberg and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Perspectives and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Treisman

90 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

The causes of corruption: a cross-national study 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2007 2007 2008 2017 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Treisman United States 37 5.0k 4.0k 3.2k 1.2k 958 96 8.5k
Susan Rose‐Ackerman United States 39 5.5k 1.1× 1.8k 0.5× 3.2k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 720 0.8× 182 9.0k
Romain Wacziarg United States 25 2.8k 0.6× 1.4k 0.3× 3.7k 1.1× 911 0.8× 1.7k 1.8× 53 7.2k
Gérard Roland United States 46 2.2k 0.4× 3.9k 1.0× 4.4k 1.4× 330 0.3× 1.2k 1.2× 138 9.2k
Christian Bjørnskov Denmark 36 3.2k 0.6× 1.0k 0.3× 2.0k 0.6× 653 0.5× 999 1.0× 194 6.3k
Martín Paldam Denmark 35 2.2k 0.4× 1.8k 0.5× 2.3k 0.7× 690 0.6× 491 0.5× 128 5.2k
Matt Golder United States 22 3.0k 0.6× 4.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.6× 374 0.3× 331 0.3× 34 7.6k
Torsten Persson Sweden 50 3.8k 0.8× 5.0k 1.3× 9.1k 2.8× 496 0.4× 1.0k 1.1× 116 13.3k
Philip Keefer United States 34 7.0k 1.4× 2.8k 0.7× 5.7k 1.8× 1.8k 1.5× 2.0k 2.0× 122 13.6k
José Antônio Cheibub United States 20 5.8k 1.1× 5.1k 1.3× 1.9k 0.6× 453 0.4× 1.0k 1.1× 40 9.2k
Thierry Verdier France 37 4.0k 0.8× 978 0.2× 3.8k 1.2× 746 0.6× 2.1k 2.2× 167 8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel Treisman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Treisman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Treisman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Treisman, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Donald Trump's Words. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 55(4).
2.
Treisman, Daniel. (2024). Psychological Biases and Democratic Anxiety: A Comment on Little and Meng (2023). PS Political Science & Politics. 57(2). 194–197. 2 indexed citations
3.
Treisman, Daniel. (2023). How Great is the Current Danger to Democracy? Assessing the Risk With Historical Data. Comparative Political Studies. 56(12). 1924–1952. 23 indexed citations
4.
Treisman, Daniel. (2023). What is predictable? A commentary on Tetlock et al. (2023). 6(1). 1 indexed citations
5.
Treisman, Daniel. (2020). Democracy by Mistake: How the Errors of Autocrats Trigger Transitions to Freer Government. American Political Science Review. 114(3). 792–810. 61 indexed citations
6.
Guriev, Sergei & Daniel Treisman. (2020). The Popularity of Authoritarian Leaders. World Politics. 72(4). 601–638. 50 indexed citations
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Gimpelson, Vladimir & Daniel Treisman. (2017). Misperceiving inequality. Economics and Politics. 30(1). 27–54. 324 indexed citations breakdown →
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Treisman, Daniel. (2016). Why putin took Crimea. Foreign Affairs. 95(3). 8. 4 indexed citations
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Guriev, Sergei & Daniel Treisman. (2015). How Modern Dictators Survive: Cooptation, Censorship, Propaganda, and Repression. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).
10.
Shleifer, Andrei & Daniel Treisman. (2015). The US and Russia: They Don't Need Us. Foreign Affairs. 1 indexed citations
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Shleifer, Andrei & Daniel Treisman. (2014). Normal Countries: The East 25 Years After Communism. Foreign Affairs. 27 indexed citations
12.
Treisman, Daniel. (2013). Democratization Over Time. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Treisman, Daniel, et al.. (2012). The Other Russia. Foreign Affairs. 1 indexed citations
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Treisman, Daniel. (2010). Is Russia Cursed by Oil. Journal of international affairs. 63(2). 85. 11 indexed citations
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Treisman, Daniel. (2007). What Have We Learned about the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research. SSRN Electronic Journal. 31 indexed citations
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Treisman, Daniel. (2001). The Causes of Corruption: A Cross-National Study. SSRN Electronic Journal. 108 indexed citations
17.
Treisman, Daniel & Vladimir Gimpelson. (1999). Political Business Cycles and Russian Elections, or the Manipulations of Chudar. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics.
18.
Treisman, Daniel. (1996). Why Yeltsin Won: A Russian Tammany Hall. Foreign Affairs. 1 indexed citations
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Treisman, Daniel. (1996). Por qué gano Yeltsin. Política exterior. 10(53). 25–40.
20.
Treisman, Daniel. (1995). Fiscal transfers, voting behavior, and national integration in post-Soviet Russia. University Microfilms International eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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