Robert Kubinec

Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA Wheaton College; MA George Washington University; PhD University of Virginia

Research Areas: Business Influence on Politics, Entrepreneurship, Bayesian Statistics, Online Survey Methodology


Robert Kubinec is a political scientist who studies the influence of powerful business interests on policy outcomes in developing countries, especially in the Middle East and North Africa. In addition, he is involved in the development of Bayesian statistical methods for measuring difficult topics like corruption and political ideology. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Nature Human Behavior, Political Analysis, the Journal of Peace Research, Social Science Quarterly and PLOS ONE.

His book Making Democracy Safe for Business: Corporate Politics After the Arab Uprisings explores the effect of powerful businesspeople on the process of democratization in Egypt and Tunisia after the Arab Spring.

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