STEVEN D. SCHAAF
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Peer-Reviewed Publications​​

  • When Do Courts Constrain the Authoritarian State? Judicial-Decision-Making in Jordan and Palestine. Comparative Politics, 54(2), 2022.
  • Contentious Politics in the Courthouse: Law as a Tool for Resisting Authoritarian States in the Middle East. Law & Society Review 55(1), 2021.
  • Is There a Trump Effect? An Experiment on Political Polarization and Audience Costs, with Miles Evers and Aleksandr Fisher. Perspectives on Politics, 17(2), 2019.

Articles Under Review

  • Citizenship in the Shadow of Law: Legal Ambiguity and Authoritarian Power in Jordan. With Lillian Frost.
    • Presented at European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference 2022.
  • The Color of International Trade: An Experiment on Racial Prejudice in Individual Trade Attitudes. With Miles M. Evers.
    • Presented at International Studies Association Annual Conference 2022.
  • Is the Tinkerbell Effect Stable? American Support for Democracy before and after the 2020 Election. With Miles M. Evers.

Book Projects

  • Authoritarianism from the Inside: How State Institutions Realize Autonomy under Authoritarian Regimes, with Nathan Brown, Samer Anabtawi and Julian Waller. Completed book manuscript, submitted for review.
  • Litigating the Authoritarian State: Legal Mobilization and Judicial Politics in the Middle East. ​Book project based on doctoral dissertation.

Edited Book Volumes

  • ​Administrative Courts and Dual States: Moving and Patrolling the Border in Egypt, with Nathan Brown, in Tackling the Authoritarian Rule of Law, Ed. Jens Meierhenrich. New York: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

Book Reviews

  • Review of Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights and the Malaysian State by Tamir Moustafa. Law and Politics Book Review, 28(2), 2018.

Ongoing Research

  • How Do Global Pandemics Affect Authoritarian Survival? Experimental Evidence from Russia, with Miles Evers and Aleksandr Fisher.
  • ​Assessing the Predictive Power of Statistical Models of International Conflict, with Yonatan Lupu and Matthew Fuhrmann. Working paper (presented at Peace Science conference).
  • Choosing the Court's Vehicle: Supreme Court Agenda Setting, with Paul Wahlbeck. Working paper (presented at Midwest Political Science Association conference).

Policy Writing

  • If Trump Backs Down from His Latest Iran Threat, Will He Lose Support? with Miles Evers and Aleksandr Fisher. Washington Post, Monkey Cage, June 2019.
  • The Administrative Judiciary in Jordan. American Center for Oriental Research in Jordan, December 2017.

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