Papers and Data

Below is a list of my refereed publications. It includes links to the relevant journal issue and, where permissible, the full (pre-copyedited) text for non-open access articles. Links to replication data are also provided where applicable.

(Updated October 2020)

  • Michael Ewers, Justin Gengler, and Bethany Shockley, "Bargaining Power: A Framework for Understanding Varieties of Migration Experience," International Migration Review, accepted 2021.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link

  • Justin Gengler, Mark Tessler, Russell Lucas, and Jonathan Forney, "'Why Do You Ask?' The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World," British Journal of Political Science, 51(1): 115–136, 2021.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link | Replication Data

  • Justin Gengler, Bethany Shockley, and Michael Ewers, "Refinancing the Rentier State: Welfare, Inequality, and Citizen Preferences toward Fiscal Reform in the Gulf Oil Monarchies," Comparative Politics 53(2): 283–317, 2021.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link

  • Bethany Shockley and Justin Gengler, "Social Identity and Coethnic Voting in the Middle East: Experimental Evidence from Qatar," Electoral Studies 67, 2020 (online pre-print).

    Journal Link (open access)

  • Justin Gengler, "Information, Peer Comparison, and Social Interdependence: Theorizing the Impacts of Covid-19 on Gulf Domestic Politics," Global Discourse 10(4), 2020.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link

  • Justin Gengler, "Society and State in Post-Blockade Qatar: Lessons for the Arab Gulf Region," Journal of Arabian Studies 10(2): 238–255, 2020.

    Journal Link (open access)

  • Justin Gengler, "Sectarianism from the Top Down or Bottom Up? Explaining the Middle East's Unlikely De-sectarianization after the Arab Spring," The Review of Faith & International Affairs 18(1): 109–113, 2020.

    Journal Link (open access)

  • Justin Gengler, Kien T. Le, and Jill Wittrock, "Citizenship and Surveys: Group Conflict and Nationality-of-Interviewer Effects in Arab Public Opinion Data," Political Behavior, 2019 (online pre-print).

    Journal Link | Open Text Link | Replication Data

  • Justin Gengler and Buthaina Al-Khelaifi, "Crisis, State Legitimacy, and Political Participation in a Non-Democracy: How Qatar Withstood the 2017 Blockade," Middle East Journal 73(3): 397–416, 2019.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link

  • Jocelyn S. Mitchell and Justin Gengler, "What Money Can't Buy: Wealth, Inequality, and Economic Satisfaction in the Rentier State," Political Research Quarterly 72(1): 75–89, 2019.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link | Replication Data

  • Justin Gengler, Mariam Alkazemi, and Alanoud Alsharekh, "Who Supports Honor-based Violence in the Middle East? Findings from a National Survey of Kuwait," Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018 (online pre-print).

    Journal Link | Open Text Link | Survey Instrument

  • Bethany Shockley, Michael Ewers, Yioryos Nardis, and Justin Gengler, "Exaggerating Good Governance: Regime Type and Score Inflation among Executive Survey Informants," Governance, 31(4): 643–664, 2018.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link | Replication Data

  • Justin Gengler and Jocelyn S. Mitchell, "A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage: Evidence from Qatar," International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 30(1): 103–124, 2018.

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  • Michael C. Ewers, Ryan Dicce, Jesse P. H. Poon, Jeffery Chow, and Justin Gengler, "Creating and Sustaining Islamic Financial Centers: Bahrain in the Wake of Financial and Political Crises," Urban Geography, 39(1): 3–25, 2018.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link

  • Justin Gengler and Laurent A. Lambert, "Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal Reform in the GCC," Middle East Journal, 70(2): 321–329, 2016.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link

  • Justin Gengler, Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf: Rethinking the Rentier State, Indiana University Press, 2015.

    Publisher Link | Amazon Preview

  • Justin Gengler, Mark Tessler, Darwish Al-Emadi, and Abdoulaye Diop, "Civic Life and Democratic Citizenship in Qatar: Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey," Middle East Law and Governance, 5(3): 258–279, 2013.

    Journal Link | Open Text Link

  • Justin Gengler, "Royal Factionalism, the Khawalid, and the Securitization of ‘the Shīʿa Problem’ in Bahrain," Journal of Arabian Studies, 3(1): 53–79, 2013.

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  • Justin Gengler, "The Political Costs of Qatar’s Western Orientation," Middle East Policy, 19(4): 68–76, 2012.

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Selected other (non-journal) publications:
  • Justin Gengler, "Segregation and Sectarianism: Geography, Economic Distribution, and Sectarian Resilience in Bahrain," in Countering Sectarianism in the Middle East, Jeffrey Martini, et al., eds., RAND Corporation, 2019.

    Publisher Link | Open Text Link

  • Justin Gengler, "The Political Economy of Sectarianism in the Gulf," Luce Foundation Paper, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 2016.

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