Russian Politics
International Relations
Institutions
Theories of Revolutions
Transitions to Democracy
Political Economy of Post-Communism
Politics of Southern Africa

Helen and Peter Bing Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

• Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 2003-2004.
• National Science Foundation Grant (with Timothy Colton and Henry Hale) to conduct survey research in Russia, 2003-2004.
• Research Grant, Carnegie Corporation of New York, to conduct research on the 2003 parliamentary elections in Russia, 2003.
• Research Grant, Bradley Foundation, to conduct research on Russian democracy, 2002 & 2003.
• Nominee, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in American Foreign Policy, Beijing, China, 2003.
• Honorable Mention, Vucinich Prize for best book in Slavic Studies, 2002.
• Best Paper, Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) National Convention, 2001.
• National Science Foundation Grant (with Timothy Colton) to conduct survey research in Russia during the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, 1999-2000.
• Research grant from the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research (NCEER), with Timothy Colton, to conduct survey research the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, 1999-2000.
• Grant, Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support my research programs on federalism, political parties, and elections at the Moscow Carnegie Center.
• Helen and Peter Bing Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, 1998.
• Research Grant, Mott Foundation, (collaborative project in Russia) 1996-2000.
• Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos Switzerland, 1997.
• Russian Politics lecture course (Political Science 121M) selected by students as one of ten best courses at Stanford University, Stanford Review, 1996. (This was the first year the course was offered.)
• Research Grant, Earhart Foundation, 1996.
• Research Grant, Eurasia Foundation, 1995-1996.
• MacArthur-SSRC Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Peace and Security, (declined financial support but maintained affiliation), 1993-1995.
• Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Title VIII grant from the Department of State, Hoover Institution, 1991-1992.
• International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship, Moscow, USSR, 1990-1991.
• Ford Foundation Fellow in Combined Soviet/East European and International Security Studies, 1989-1990.
• Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, summer 1989.
• Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, 1988-1989.
• Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford University, 1986-1988.
• Research grants from the Gilbert Murray Trust, Beit Trust, the Cyril Foster Fund, St. John's College, Oxford, and the Committee for Graduate Studies, Oxford, 1987-1988.
• Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education, Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS), 1985-1986.
• Member, Pi Sigma Alpha political science honor's society and Phi Beta Kappa.

• Board Member: Eurasia Foundation, International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy, Institute of Social and Political Studies (Moscow), Firebird Fund, Center for Civil Society International, Institute for Corporate Governance and Law
• Advisory Board Member, Washington-Profile
• Advisory Council Member, Johnson’s Russia List
• Steering Committee Member, Europe and Eurasia division of Human Rights Watch.
• Advisory Board, United Humanitarian Mission.
• Member, District Eight Selection Committee for the Rhodes Scholarship.
• Member, Selection Committee for fellowships sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace, IREX, and ACTR
• Program Chair, Democratization Section, American Political Science Association, 2003.
• "Russia After the 2000 Presidential Election," testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 12, 2000.
• "What Are Russian Foreign Policy Objectives?" testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, United States Congress, May 12, 1999.
• "Russia's Bumpy Road to Democracy," testimony before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States Congress, July 10, 1996, in Prospects for Democracy in Russia (Washington, DC: GPO, 1996).
• Host/Producer, "Lyudi", news program on Russian Television (RTR).
• Television Commentator: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, BBC, ITN, and Reuters.
• Consultant: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, various government agencies.
• Contributing Editor: Current History
• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Democracy, Demokratizatsiya
• Reviewer: American Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, International Organization, International Security, Journal of Democracy, Political Science Quarterly, Slavic Review, and World Politics.
• Member: American Political Science Association, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, International Forum for Democratic Studies, Society for Comparative Research, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security

American Efforts at Promoting Democracy Abroad
Regime Change
Institutional Change in New Democracies
Russian Politics
Revolutions
Post-Communist Democratization
The Political Economy of Post-Communism
U.S.-Russian Relations
American Foreign Policy after 9-11
The International Relations of Eastern Europe
Soviet Foreign Policy
Command Economies
Polish-Jewish Relations
The United Nations in Crisis

Books and Monographs

Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform (with Nikolai Petrov and Andrei Ryabov), (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004).

Breakthrough or Breakdown? The Future of Democracy in Ukraine, (Washington: National Endowment of Democracy, 2003) 80 pages.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Chechnya (Washington: Twentieth Century Foundation, 2003), 60 pages.

Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (with James Goldgeier), (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003).

Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000 (with Timothy Colton), (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003).

Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001). Paperback edition, 2002. Russian and Chinese editions, 2004.

Russia's 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Polarized Politics, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1997) 170 pages.

Russia Between Elections: What the 1995 Parliamentary Elections Really Mean, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1996) 80 pages.

Post-Communist Politics: Democratic Prospects in Russia and Eastern Europe, (Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic & International Studies, 1993), 132 pages.

with Sergei Markov, The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Political Parties, Programs, and Profiles, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1993), 317 pages.

"Southern African Liberation and Great Power Intervention: Towards a Theory of Revolution in an International Context." unpublished, 1991, Ph.D. dissertation, 450 pages.

Edited Volumes

with Kathryn Stoner Weiss, After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). This book includes three chapters written or co-authored by McFaul.

Civil Society in Russia, special double issue edition of Demokratizatsiya, Spring and Summer 2002. (under review for publication as a book).

with Andrei Ryabov, and Nikolai Petrov, Rossiiya v izbiratel'nom tsikle: 1999-2000 godov, (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 2000) 615 pages.

with Andrei Ryabov, and Nikolai Petrov, Primer on Russia’s 1999 Duma Elections (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999) 153 pages. Also published in Russian.

with Andrei Ryabov, Rossiiskoe Obshchestvo: Stanovlenie Demokraticheskikh Tsennostei? [Russian Society: The Formation of Democratic Values?], (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1999) 239 pages.

with Nikolai Petrov, Politicheskii Al'manakh Rossii 1989-1997 [Political Almanac of Russia, 1989-1997] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1998), second edition, 1,700 pages.

with Andrei Ryabov, Formirovanie Partiino-Politicheskoi Systemi v Rossii [Formation of the Political Party System in Russia] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1997) 156 pages. English version forthcoming.

with Nikolai Petrov, Parliamentskie Vybory 1995 Goda v Rossii [1995 Parliamentary Elections in Russia] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1996), 105 pages.

with Nikolai Petrov, Previewing Russia's 1995 Parliamentary Elections, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 1995), 300 pages.

with Tova Perlmutter, eds., Privatization, Conversion, and Enterprise Reform in Russia, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 228 pages.

with Sergei Bogolyubov, Pravo i Mnogopartiinost' v Rossii [Law and Multipartyism in Russia], (Moskva: Yustitsinform, 1994), 128 pages.

Can the Russian Military-Industrial Complex Be Privatized? (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1993), in English and Russian, 60 pages.

Academic Articles

“Retrospective Voting in Putin’s Russia,” (with Henry Hale), Post-Soviet Affairs, forthcoming.

“Russian Democracy in Eclipse: What the Elections Tell Us,” (With Nikolai Petrov) Journal of Democracy, Vol. 15, No. 3 (July 2004), pp. 20-31.

“Russian Democracy Under Putin,” (with Timothy J. Colton) Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 50, No. 4 (July-August 2003) pp. 12-21.

“Generational Change in Russia,” Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 2003) pp. 64-78.

“Are Russians Undemocratic?” (with Timothy Colton) Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 2 (April-June 2002), pp. 91-121. Published in Russian as Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya i sotsial’nye peremeny, No. 54 (54), July-August 2001, pp. 13-26.

“Introduction: Russian Civil Society,” Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 109-116.

"The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World," World Politics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (January 2002) pp. 212-244.

“Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: A Mixed Record, An Uncertain Future,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 4 (October 2001) pp. 87-94.

"Explaining Party Emergence and Non-Emergence in Post-Communist Russia: Institutions, Agents, and Chance," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 34, No. 10 (December 2001), pp. 1159-1187.

“’Managed Democracy’ in Russia: Putin and the Press" (with Masha Lipman) Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer 2001) pp. 117-128.

"The Liberal Core and Realist Periphery in Europe," (with Jim Goldgeier), Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2001) pp. 1-26.

"Reinventing Russia's Party of Power: "Unity and the 1999 Duma Election," (with Timothy Colton) Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer 2000) pp. 201-224.

"Russia Under Putin: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 2000) 19-33. Reprinted in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., The Global Diversity of Democracy. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

"Authoritarian and Democratic Responses to Financial Meltdown in Russia," Problems of Post-Communism, July/August 1999, pp. 22-32.

"What Went Wrong in Russia? The Perils of a Protracted Transition," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 1999) pp. 4-18. Reprinted in Russian as "Onasnosti Zatyanyvshegosya Perekhodnogo Perioda," Pro et Contra, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1999) pp. 175-190.

"Lessons from Russia's Protracted Transition from Communist Rule," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 114, No. 1 (Spring 1999) pp. 103-130.

"Institutional Design, Uncertainty, and Path Dependency during Transitions: Cases from Russia," Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 1999) pp. 27-52.

"Russia's "Privatized' State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation," Part II, Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer 1998), pp. 219-236.

"Russia's "Privatized' State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation," Part I, Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring 1998), pp. 25-33.

"The Precarious Peace. Domestic Politics in the Making of Russian Foreign Policy," International Security, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Winter 1997/98), pp. 5-35.

"Russian Electoral Politics after Transition: Regional and National Assessments," (with Nikolai Petrov), Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, Vol. 38, No. 9 (November 1997), pp. 507-549.

"Russia's 1996 Presidential Elections," Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 4, (October-December 1996), pp. 318-350.

"The Allocation of Property Rights in Russia: The First Round," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 1996), pp. 1-22.

"Russia Between Elections: The Vanishing Center," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 2, (April 1996), pp. 90-104.

"State Power, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Privatization in Russia," World Politics, Vol. 47, No. 2, (January 1995), pp. 210-243.

"Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Explaining the Vote," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 5, No. 2, (April 1994).

"Osmyslenie Parliamenskikh Vyborov 1993 g. v Rossii," [Explaining the 1993 Parliamentary Elections in Russia], Part Two, Polis, Vol. 23, No. 6, (1994), pp. 179-185.

"Osmyslenie Parliamenskikh Vyborov 1993 g. v Rossii," [Explaining the 1993 Parliamentary Elections in Russia], Part One, Polis, Vol. 23, No. 5, (1994), pp. 124-139.

"Russian Centrism and Revolutionary Transitions" Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 9, No. 4, (July-September 1993), pp. 196-222.

"Russia at the Crossroads: Democrats in Disarray" Journal of Democracy, Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 1993), pp. 17-29.

"A Tale of Two Worlds: Core and Periphery in the Post-Cold War Era," (with James M. Goldgeier), International Organization, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring 1992), pp. 467-491.

"Russia's Emerging Political Parties," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 3, No. 1. (January 1992), pp. 25-40.

"The Demise of the World Revolutionary Process: Soviet-Angolan Relations Under Gorbachev," Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 16, No. 3, (March 1990), pp. 165-189.

"Rethinking the `Reagan Doctrine' in Angola," International Security, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Winter 1989/90), pp. 99-135.

Book Chapters

“Elections,” in Richard Sakwa and Stephen White eds., Developments in Russian Politics, 6th edition, (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

“Mezhdu demokratiei i diktaturoi,” in Andre Kuchins and Dmitri Trenin, eds., Rossiya: blizhaishee desyatiletie,” (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 2004) pp. 44-49.

“Yeltsin’s Russia,” in Ronald Suny, ed., The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. III, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

“Putin and Democratization” (with Timothy Colton) in Dale Herspring, ed., The Putin Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003) pp. 13-38.

“Putin and the Media” (with Masha Lipman) in Dale Herspring, ed., in Dale Herspring, ed., The Putin Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003) pp. 63-84.

“Individuals Matter: Yeltsin’s Role in Destroying Communism,” in Condoleezza Rice and Kiron Skinner, eds., Turning Points in the Ending of the Cold War, (Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press, 2003).

“Evaluating Yeltsin and his Revolution,” in Andrew Kuchins, ed., Russia After the Fall (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002) pp. 21-38.

“Russian Electoral Trends,” in Zoltan Borany, ed., Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 19-63.

"The Sovereignty 'Script': The Red Book for Russia's Revolutionaries," in Stephen Krasner, ed., Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), pp. 194-223.

"Realistic Engagement" and "Democracy Assistance," both in Tom Carothers et. al., A New Agenda in U.S.-Russian Relations (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).

"Far East Challenges to Russian Federalism: Myths and Realities," in Sherman Garnett, Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russian-Chinese Relations in a Changing Asia, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000) pp. 313-346.

"Reform during Revolution," forward to Yegor Gaidar, Days: Tragedies and Triumphs, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).

"The Political Economy of Social Policy Reform in Russia: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests," in Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Mitchell Ornstein, and Linda Cook, eds., Left Parties and Social Policy in Post-Communist Europe, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999) pp. 207-234.

"The Changing Function of Elections in Russian Politics," (with Nikolai Petrov) in Anders Aslund and Martha Olcott, eds., Russia After Communism, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999) pp. 27-60.

"Russia's Choice: The Perils of Revolutionary Democracy," in Timothy Colton and Jerry Hough, eds., Growing Pains: Russian Democracy and the Elections of 1993, (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998) pp. 115-140.

"Russia" in Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1995-1996 (New York: Transaction Book, 1997), pp. 14-25.

"American Policy Towards Russia: Framework for Analysis and Guide to Action," in The United States and Russia into the 21st Century (Carlisle, PA: United States Army War College, 1997), pp. 39-70.

"Russian Economic Interest Groups: Winners and Losers in the Politics of Economic Reform" in David Bernstein, ed., Cooperative Business Ventures between U.S. Companies and Russian Defense Enterprises, (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1997), pp. 219-234.

"Russia's Rough Ride," in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), pp. 64-94.

"Revolutionary Transformations in Comparative Perspective: Defining a Post-Communist Research Agenda," in David Holloway and Norman Naimark, eds., Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 167-196.

"Revolutionary Ideas, State Interests, and Russian Foreign Policy," in Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed., Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), pp. 27-52.

"Rossiiskii Elektorat v 1993: Motivatsiya Vybora," [Russian Electorate in 1993: Electoral Motivations], (with Vladimir Bokser and Vasilii Ostashev) in Analiz Elektorata Politicheskikh Sil Rossii, (Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center, 1995), pp. 92-110.

"Demilitarization and Defense Conversion," (with David Holloway) in Gail Lapidus, ed., The New Russia, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 193-222.

"Privatization at Four Enterprises," in David Bernstein, ed., Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia: Case Studies and Analysis, (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1994), pp. 111-136.

"Impuls," (with Elaine Naugle and Tova Perlmutter) and "The Machinostroenie Enterprise," (with Jeffrey Lehrer and Tova Perlmutter) in Bernstein, ed., Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia, pp. 45-58 and pp. 59-78.

"Agency Problems in the Privatization of Large Enterprises in Russia," in Michael McFaul and Tova Perlmutter, eds., Privatization, Conversion, and Enterprise Reform, pp. 39-56.

with James M. Goldgeier, "Core and Periphery in the Post-Cold War Era," in Kay Knickrehm, ed., Toward the 21st Century: A Reader in World Politics, (New York: Prentice Hall, 1994), revised version of the 1992 International Organization article.

"Party Formation after Revolutionary Transitions: The Russian Case", in Alexander Dallin, ed., Political Parties in Russia, (Berkeley, CA: International and Area Studies, 1993), pp. 7-28.

"The Dynamics of Change in Russia and the Former Soviet Union" in Michael Klare and Daniel Thomas, eds., World Security: Challenges for a New Century, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), pp. 63-84.