Dinissa Duvanova is Associate Professor in the Department of
International Relations at Lehigh University. Her research interests
include international and comparative political economy, political
economy of corruption, political institutions, regulatory politics,
technology-enabled forms of political participation, and the politics
of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. She is the author of
Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe and
Eurasia: Collective Goods, Selective Incentives, and Predatory States
(Cambridge UP, 2013), which won the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize. Her
articles have appeared in various publications, including Comparative
Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, World Development,
and the Journal of Comparative Economics. Her latest book Thieves,
Opportunists, and Autocrats: Building Regulatory States in Russia and
Kazakhstan is published by Oxford UP this year.
