Dr Jody LaPorte

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Lecturer in Qualitative Research Methods

I am Lecturer in Qualitative Research Methods at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, and Fellow and Tutor in Politics and International Relations at Lincoln College.

I research the politics of post-Soviet Eurasia, with particular focus on the Caucasus and Central Asia. I am interested in questions of political economy, political institutions, and the politics of non-democratic regimes.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California-Berkeley, and a B.A. in Russian & East European Studies from Yale University.

 

 

Research Interests

Research Keywords:

  • Non-democratic politics, Formal and informal institutions

Countries:

  • Central Asia and the Caucasus

Research clusters:

  • Global and regional orders
  • Institutional change
  • Methods
Contact Information

Email: jody.laporte@lincoln.ox.ac.uk

Publications

Articles

2021. “Process Tracing and the Problem of Missing Data,” in Sociological Methods and Research, 50:3 (with Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos)

2017. “Foreign versus Domestic Bribery: Explaining Repression in Kleptocratic Regimes,” in Comparative Politics, 50(1): 83-102

2015. “Hidden in Plain Sight: Political Opposition and Hegemonic Authoritarianism in Azerbaijan,” in Post-Soviet Affairs, 31(4): 339-366.

2014. “Confronting a Crisis of Research Design,” in PS: Political Science & Politics, 47(2): 414-417.

2012. “Putting Typologies to Work: Concept-Formation, Measurement, and Analytic Rigor” in Political Research Quarterly, 65(1): 217-232 (with David Collier and Jason Seawright)

2011. “What is the Leninist Legacy? Assessing Twenty Years of Scholarship” in Slavic Review, 70(3): 637-654 (with Danielle Lussier)

Book Chapters

2024. “Preparing a Causal Research Design,” in Jennifer Cyr and Sara Wallace Goodman (eds.), Doing Good Qualitative Research. Oxford University Press.

2022. “Russia’s Super-presidency,” in Susanne Wengle (ed.), Russian Politics Today. Cambridge University Press.

2022. “Leninist Extinction? Critical Junctures, Legacies, and the Study of Post-Communism,” in David Coller and Gerardo L. Munck (eds.), Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies. Rowman & Littlefield (with Danielle Lussier)

2020. “Political Executives in Autocracies and Hybrid Regimes” in Rudy Andeweg, Robert Eldie, Ludger Helms, Julie Kaarbo, and Ferdinand Muller-Rommel (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Political Executives. Oxford University Press.

2016. “Semi-presidentialism in Azerbaijan,” in Robert Elgie and Sophie Moestrup (eds.), Semi-presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Palgrave.