Faculty / Staff

Dinissa Duvanova

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University
On leave for 2007-08
Current CV [in PDF format]: Dinissa Duvanova CV

Area of Teaching and Research Interest: Political Institutions; Interest Group Politics, Parties, and Elections; Political Economy of the Post-Communist Transitions; Democratization in Eastern Europe and State Building in the New States of Eurasia; Politics of Economic Development.

Courses Taught:

(Courses taught at Ohio State University:)
PS 100: Introduction to Comparative Politics
PS 597.01: Politics of Economic Development

Current Research: Political and Institutional Foundations Underling the Creation and Development of Business Associations in the Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Eurasia; Quantitative Analysis of China’s Domestic Market Integration (in collaboration with Mary Cooper); Theoretical Issues Surrounding Civil Service Reforms in Eastern Europe (with Katja Michalak).

Brief Bio: Dinissa Duvanova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at UB. Her research explores the causal factors that condition different patterns of business organizational development across countries and economic sectors and investigates roles and strategies adopted by the post-communist business community. Her work has been published in Comparative Politics and Europe-Asia Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and will spend the 2007-2008 academic year at Princeton University as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Selected Recent Research:

"Bureaucratic Corruption and Collective Action: Business Associations in the Post-Communist
Transition,"Comparative Politics, 37, no. 4 (July 2007).

"Business Associations in Eastern Europe: The Failure of Corporatism?" Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois, April 12-15, 2007.

"Business Associations in the Post-Communist Russia: Explaining Sectoral Variation." Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois, April 20-23, 2006.

(With Jakub Zielinski) "Legislative Accountability in a New Presidential Democracy: Analysis
of the Single Member District Elections to the Russian State Duma," Europe-Asia Studies,
57, no. 8 (December 2005): 1143-1167.