Biography

Robert Kubinec is a comparative political economist whose research examines the long-term drivers of wealth creation and democratization in developing countries. His book, Making Democracy Safe for Business: Corporate Politics During the Arab Uprisings (Cambridge University Press), examines the profound influence of prominent businesspeople on the political outcomes of the Arab Uprisings. He is also actively engaged in research into data-scientific methods, including causal inference, Bayesian statistics, and measurement, and is the author of the R packages idealstan and ordbetareg. He has published journal articles in Nature Human Behavior, The Journal of Politics, PLOS One, The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, The Journal of Peace Research, Scientific Data, World Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Analysis.