Daniel Treisman

Daniel Treisman
Daniel Treisman
Treisman in 2024
Born (1964-11-19) November 19, 1964 (age 59)
Oxford, UK
CitizenshipAmerican, British
Academic background
Alma materOxford University (BA), Harvard University (Ph.D)
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical economy, comparative politics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Daniel Treisman is a British-American political scientist. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has served as Interim Director of UCLA's Center for European and Russian Studies.[1] He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Treisman has published books and journal articles on Russian politics and economics, authoritarianism, democratization, political decentralization, and corruption. He also writes regularly for the press and current events publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, and CNN.com. In 2007-10, Treisman was Acting Lead Editor and then Co-editor of the American Political Science Review.[2] He has spent years as a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences) in Vienna.

  1. ^ UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies. (2024). Daniel Treisman. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
  2. ^ Notes from the editors. (2012). American Political Science Review, 106(4), iii–ix.