The Historical Origins of Territorial Claims (2016) w/ David Carter

Forthcoming in The American Political Science Review

Time is Power: The Non-Institutional Sources of Stability in Autocracies (2016) w/ Carlos Velasco-Rivera
Forthcoming in The Journal of Politics

The Economic Origins of the Territorial State (2016)
Forthcoming in International Organization

The Roots of the Industrial Revolution Institutions or (Socially Embodied) Know-How? (2015) w/ Carles Boix

An Institutional Common Score of National Constitutions (2015) w/ Michael Barber

The Resource Curse in the Long-Run: Evidence From European Coal Mining Regions in the 19th Century (2015) w/ Elena Esposito

Conflict, Cooperation, and Exit: a Mechanism Design Approach to the Origins of the State (2015) w/ Jee Seon Jeon

Parliaments, War, & Commerce (2015) w/ Carles Boix

Ernst Haas Best Dissertation Award from the APSA European Politics and Society Section - 2015

The Society for Political Methodology Best Poster Award - 2013

Scott F Abramson

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rochester. I received my PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University in 2015 and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute for AY 2014-2015. You can contact me at sabramso@ur.rochester.edu