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Anna Grzymala-Busse

Associate Professor
PhD Harvard

7751 Haven
(734) 763-4699
abusse@umich.edu

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Research Interests:

Anna Grzymala-Busse's principal interests include political parties and political competition, state development and transformation, and post-communist politics.  Other research interests include informal institutions as well as temporality and causality in social science explanations. She has written about the paradoxical comeback of communist successor parties, party competition and its impact on constraining rent-seeking, state theory, and the unintended consequences of EU enlargement. A new research project will examine why organized religions influence the public politics of some countries more than others.

Selected Publications

Books:

  • Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies. Cambridge University Press, 2007
  • Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Successor Parties in East Central Europe After 1989. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Articles:

  • “The Great Divide: Precommunist Schooling and Postcommunist Trajectories.” (with Keith Darden) World Politics, October 2006.
  • “The Discreet Charm of Formal Institutions: Post-Communist Party Competition and State Oversight,” Comparative Political Studies, April 2006.
  • “Authoritarian Determinants of Democratic Party Competition,” Party Politics, April/ May 2006.
  • “Political Competition and the Politicization of the State,” Comparative Political Studies, December 2003.

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