Daniel Treisman

Daniel Treisman is a British-American political scientist. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has served as the interim director of UCLA's Center for European and Russian Studies. 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 news outlets and current events publications such as ''Foreign Affairs'', ''Foreign Policy'', ''The Washington Post'', and CNN. From 2007–10, Treisman was the acting lead editor and then co-editor of the ''American Political Science Review''. He has spent years as a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences) in Vienna. Provided by Wikipedia