Timothy Michael Frye

Currently on leave

• Personal page on Columbia.edu
• Personal website

Books

• Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy. 2010. Cambridge University Press.
• The Policy World Meets Academia: Designing U.S. Policy toward Russia. 2010. Co-edited with Timothy Colton and Robert Legvold. American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Cambridge, MA.
• Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Market Institutions in Russia. 2000. University of Michigan Press.
• Winner of the 2001 Hewett Prize for outstanding publication in political economy given by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

Selected Academic Articles

•  “Who Wants to Revise Privatization? The Complementarity of Market Skills and Institutions.”
• American Political Science Review, May 2009, Irina Denisova, Markus Eller and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya.
• “The "Other" Russian Economy: How Everyday Firms View the Rules of the Game in Russia.” Social Research.Spring 2009. With Andrei Yakovlev and Yevgeny Yasin
• “Original Sin, Good Works, and Property Rights in Russia.” World Politics.July 2006. (accepted July 2007)
• “Ownership, Voting, and Job Creation in Russia.” European Journal of Political Economy. June 2006.
• “Credible Commitment and Property Rights: Evidence from Russia.” American Political Science Review. August 2004.
• “Timing is Everything: Elections and Trade Liberalization in the Post-Communist World.” Comparative Political Studies. With Edward D. Mansfield. May 2004.
• “Fragmenting Protection: The Political Economy of Trade Policy in the Post-Communist World.” British Journal of Political Science.With Edward D. Mansfield. Fall 2003.
• “Markets, Democracy, and New Private Business in Russia.” Post-Soviet Affairs. January 2003.
• “Capture or Exchange? Business Lobbying In Russia.” Europe-Asia Studies. November 2002.
• “The Perils of Polarization: Economic Performance in the Post-Communist World.” World Politics. April 2002.
• “Private Protection in Russia and Poland.” American Journal of Political Science.June 2002.

General Interest Publications

• “Corruption and the Rule of Law in Russia.” Russia after the Global Crisis. Ed. Anders Aslund, Sergei Guriev, and Andrew Kuchins, Peterson Institute. Washington, D.C. 2010.
• “Promoting Property Rights in Russia: The Value of Private Solutions,” National Council on Eurasian and East European Research Working Paper, 2009.
• “Vladimir Putin and the Succession Dilemma,” Problems of Postcommunism, November-December 2007.
• “Reformy v Rossii Glazami Biznesa” Pro I Kontra, Carnegie Center Moscow, July-October 2007.
• “Show Stoppard. A Review of The Coast of Utopia.” American Interest, July-August 2007.
• “Bucking the Trend: Democracy and Economic Reform in the Postcommunist World.” Harvard International Review, December, 2006.
• “Insiders, Outsiders, and Corporate Governance in Russia and Bulgaria.” U.S. Agency for International Development. 2004. with A. Yakovlev, T. Dolgopyatova, V. Golikova, B. Belev, V. Goev, P. Iliev and V. Minchev.
• “The Two Faces of Russian Courts: Evidence from a Business Survey in Russia.” East European Constitutional Review.Winter/Spring 2002.
• “Corruption: The Polish and Russian Experiences.” Economic Perspectives. An Electronic Journal of the US Information Agency. Volume 3:5. November 1998.

2016: Editor-in-chief, Post-Soviet Affairs.

• Chair, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 2016-
• Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University. 2009-2015
• Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy. Columbia University 2009 -
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 2009 -
• Faculty Associate, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University. 2006-
• Associate Professor. Department of Political Science. Ohio State University. 2003 -2005.
• Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science. Ohio State University. 1997-2003.
• Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science/SIPA Columbia University. 2002-03.

• Editor, Post-Soviet Affairs, 2016-
• Member, Committee to select the Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2010-12.
• Chair, Best Article Award, European Politics, Section, American Political Science Association, 2006-07.
• Chair, Almond Dissertation Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 2005-06.
• Section Head. Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September, 2005.
• Section Head. Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April, 2005.
• Reviewer. American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics of Transition, Journal of Law and Economics, Cambridge University Press, University of Michigan Press, Cornell University Press, Princeton University Press, National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Foreign Language Area Studies, Global Development Network, World Development.

• Certificate Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 1992.
• Fellow Wallis Institute of Political Economy. University of Rochester. 1992-93.