Published Articles/Chapters


Cayton, Frances and Bryn Rosenfeld. 2025. “Democratic Backsliding and the Politicization of Public

Employment.” In Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy and Resilience, Valerie J. Bunce, Thomas Pepinsky, Rachel Beatty Riedl, and Kenneth M. Roberts (eds). Cambridge University Press.


Rosenfeld, Bryn and Jeremy Wallace. 2024. “Information Politics and Propaganda in Authoritarian

Societies.” Annual Review of Political Science. 27: 263–281.

Rosenfeld, Bryn. 2023. "Survey Research in Russia: In the Shadow of War." Post-Soviet Affairs 39(1-2): 38-48. [Abstract] [Download Paper]

Paskhalis, Tom, Bryn Rosenfeld and Katerina Tertytchnaya. 2022. "Independent Media under Pressure: Evidence from Russia." Post-Soviet Affairs 38(3): 155-174. [Abstract] [Download Paper]

Rosenfeld, Bryn. 2022. "Belarusian Public Opinion and the 2020 Uprising." Post-Soviet Affairs, 38(1-2): 150-154. [Abstract][Download Paper]

Pop-Eleches, Grigore, Graeme Robertson and Bryn Rosenfeld. 2022. "Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine's Euromaidan Revolution." The Journal of Politics 84(2): 625-638. [Abstract] [Download Paper][Replication Archive]

Rosenfeld, Bryn. 2021. "State Dependency and the Limits of Middle Class Support for Democracy." Comparative Political Studies 54(3-4): 411-444. [Abstract][Download Paper][Replication Archive]

Chou, Winston, Kosuke Imai, and Bryn Rosenfeld. 2020. “Sensitive Survey Questions with Auxiliary Information.” Sociological Methods & Research 49(2): 418-454. [Abstract][Download Paper][Replication Archive]

Rosenfeld, Bryn, Kosuke Imai, and Jacob N. Shapiro. 2016. “An Empirical Validation Study of Popular Survey Methodologies for Sensitive Questions.” American Journal of Political Science 60(3): 783–802. [Abstract][Download Paper][Replication Archive]


Working Papers 



Anxiety and Information in an Autocracy: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia (with Grigo Pop-Eleches and Graeme Robertson, R&R) [Download Paper


Who Follows the Autocrat? Evidence from a Panel Survey Spanning Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

(with Timothy Frye, Henry Hale and John Reuter, Under review) [Download Paper


Sensitivity Bias in Regime Support: Evidence from Panel Surveys in an Autocracy at War (with

Timothy Frye, Henry Hale and John Reuter) [Download Paper]


Risk Attitudes and Political Participation under Authoritarian Rule [Download Paper


Polarization and Support for Undemocratic Behavior: The Case of Russia (with Yunus Orhan, John Reuter, and David Szakonyi) [Abstract][Download Paper]


A Case-Control Method for Studying Protest Participation and Other Rare Events [Abstract]


Repression, Emotions and Legitimacy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia (with Grigo Pop-Eleches, Graeme Robertson and Samuel Greene)