Faculty

Dinissa Duvanova

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University
E-mail: duvanova@buffalo.edu

Phone: 716-645-8437

Office: 420 Park Hall

Current CV in PDF format: Dinissa Duvanova's 2009 CV

Areas 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:

PSC 351, Politics in East European Post-Soviet States
PSC 503, Comparative Politics

(at Ohio State University)

PS 100, Introduction to Comparative Politics

PS 597.01, Politics of Economic Development

Current Research:

The Role of the Post-communist States and Industry in Developing Economic Regulation; Political and Institutional Foundations Underling the Creation and Development of Business Associations in the Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Eurasia; Theoretical Issues Surrounding Civil Service Reforms in Eastern Europe.

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.  She spent the 2007-2008 academic year at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, developing book manuscript entitled “Defending Common Business: Industry Associations vs. Predatory Bureaucrats in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.”

Selected Recent Research:

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

(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.