Michael Robbins
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Academic Publications
  • "Why Democracy Stalled in the Middle East." Foreign Affairs.
  • "Devotion at Sub-national Level: Ramadan, Night-time Lights, and Religiosity in Egyptian Governorates." International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
  • "Mapping and Explaining Arab Attitudes toward the Islamic State: Findings from an Arab Barometer Survey and Embedded Experiment.'' Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies.
  • ​"Improving Data Quality in Face-to-Face Survey Research." PS: Political Science and Politics.
  • "New Frontiers in Detecting Data Fabrication." Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC), Wiley.
  • The Ascendance of Official Islams. Democracy and Security.
  • Youth, Religion and Democracy after the Arab Uprisings. The Muslim World.
  • Don't Get Duped: Fraud through Duplication in Public Opinion Surveys. Statistical Journal of the IAOS.
  • The State of Social Justice in the Arab World: The Arab uprisings of 2011 and beyond. Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice.
  • After the Arab Spring: People Still Want Democracy. Journal of Democracy.
  • The State of Social Justice in the Arab World, Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice.
  • The Rise of Official Islam in Jordan, Politics, Religion & Ideology.
  • The Effect of Elections on Public Opinion toward Democracy, Comparative Political Studies.
  • New Findings on Arabs and Democracy, Journal of Democracy.
  • What Leads Some Ordinary Men and Women in Arab Countries to Approve of Terrorist Acts Against the United States? Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Dissertation
  • Bound by Brand: Opposition party support under electoral authoritarianism, University of Michigan
          2013 winner of the Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation in the field of religion and politics, American Political
          Science Association

Policy Publications
  • Political System Preferences after the Arab Spring, Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Research Memo.
  • Searching for Stability: The Arab Barometer surveys a divided Libya, Arab Reform Initiative Policy Brief.
  • Skipping the Arab Spring? The Arab Barometer surveys a changing Algeria, Arab Reform Initiative Policy Brief.
  • The World's Muslims: Politics, Religion and Society, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (contributing author).
  • The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (contributing author).
  • Strengthening Democracy Promotion: Understanding conceptions of democracy and their effects among Arab publics, Dubai Initiative Policy Brief, Harvard Kennedy School.
  • What Accounts for the Success of Islamist Parties in the Arab World? Dubai Initiative Working Paper, Harvard Kennedy School.
  • Women in Local Economic Development - Aden, Report prepared for Port Cities Development Program, World Bank.
  • Building Capacity for Public Opinion and Social Research: A resource booklet for academic institutions in the Arab world and elsewhere," U.S. Department of State.
  • Unlocking the Employment Potential: Toward a new social contract, World Bank (contributing author).
  • Yemen Gender Note, World Bank (contributing author).

Media Publications
  • Protests Continue in Algeria. Why? Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, September 19, 2019.
  • How States can Wield `Official Islam' to Limit Radical Extremism. Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, November 3, 2017.
  • Talk of Rigged Elections Undermines Democracy. Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, October 21, 2016.
  • What Do Ordinary Citizens in the Arab World Really Think about the Islamic State? Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, July 27, 2016. (Top 10-most read Monkey Cage article for 2016)
  • Five Years after the Revolution, More and More Tunisians Support Democracy, Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, May 20, 2016.
  • Yes, You Can Trust International Surveys. Mostly, Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog. March 26, 2016.
  • When It Comes to Democracy, Egyptians Hate the Player but Tunisians Hate the Game, Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, October 16, 2015.
  • What the Arab Street Thinks of Iran - and of US Policy toward Iran, The Conversation, July 14, 2015.
  • How Jordan uses Islam against the Islamic State, Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, November 19, 2014.
  • Arab Views on Governance after the Uprisings, Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, October 29, 2015.
  • Is Israel's Blockade Worth Fighting For? Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, August 4, 2014.
  • Algerians Vote for Stability, Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, April 17, 2014.
  • Tunisians Voted for Jobs, Not Islam. ForeignPolicy.com, December 7, 2011.
  • What Egyptians Mean by Democracy, ForeignPolicy.com, September 20, 2011.

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