Articles & Chapters
“The Decay of Family Rule in Saudi Arabia.” 2022. In Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World: Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring, ed. Lisa Blaydes, Amr Hamzawy, and Hesham Sallam. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 102-23. (The entire book is open access and available here.)
André Bank, Eva Bellin, Michael Herb, Lisa Wedeen, Sean Yom, Saloua Zerhouni. “Authoritarianism Reconfigured: Evolving Forms of Political Control.” 2022. In The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings, ed. Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean L. Yom. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 35-61.
Hamad Albloshi and and Michael Herb. “Karamet Watan: An Unsuccessful Nonviolent Movement.” 2018. The Middle East Journal 72 (3): 408-30.
“A Nation of Bureaucrats: Political Participation and Economic Diversification in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates,” 2009, International Journal of Middle East Studies,” 41, no. 3 (August), 375-395
“Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates,” in Politics and Society of the Contemporary Middle East,” edited by Michelle Penner Angrist. 2012, 2nd edition (first edition 2010). Boulder: Lynne Reinner.
“Kuwait: Parliamentary Politics and Obstacles to Democracy.” 2008. In Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf. Ed. Joshua Teitelbaum. New York: Columbia University Press.
“No Representation without Taxation? Rents, Development and Democracy,” 2005, Comparative Politics 37, no.3 (April): 297-317.
“Princes and Parliaments in the Arab World.” 2004. Middle East Journal. 58, no. 3 (Summer): 367-384.
“Taxation and Representation,” 2003, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38, no. 3 (Fall): 3-31.
“Emirs and Parliaments in the Gulf.” 2002. Journal of Democracy. 13, no. 4 (October): 41-47.
“Iran and the Shi’a of the Arab States of the Gulf.” 1999. In Ethnic Conflict and International Politics in the Middle East, edited by Leonard Binder. University Press of Florida.
Short Pieces
Michael Herb and Marc Lynch. 2019. “Introduction: the politics of rentier states in the Gulf.” In The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. The Project on Middle East Political Science. POMEPS Studies 33.
“Labor markets and economic diversification in the Gulf rentiers.” 2019. In The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. The Project on Middle East Political Science. POMEPS Studies 33.
“Ontology and Methodology in the Study of the Resource Curse.” 2017. LSE Kuwait Programme Paper Series. June 2017.
“The Political Realities of Economic Reform in the Gulf Monarchies.” 2017. 25. ERF Policy Brief. Economic Research Forum.
“The Origins of Kuwait’s National Assembly.” 2016. LSE Kuwait Programme Paper Series. London School of Economics and Political Science. March 2016.
“Kuwait’s Endless Elections: The Opposition in Retreat,” Policy Brief, Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), September 2013.
“The Saudi Succession and Challenges Facing the Kingdom,” Expert Analysis, NOREF Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, August 2014.
“A Respite In Kuwait?” Middle East Channel, foreignpolicy.com, 21 December 2012
“Monarchism Matters” Middle East Channel, foreignpolicy.com, 26 November 2012
“Parliaments in the Gulf Monarchies: A Long Way from Democracy,” 2004. Arab Reform Bulletin, 2, no. 10: 7-8.
Textbook Chapters
“The Lower Gulf States,” in The Middle East, edited by Ellen Lust, 2023. 16th edition. Washington: CQ Press. (This is an updated version of a chapter that also appeared in the 15th edition, 2020, and the 14th edition, 2017).
“Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates,” in Politics and Society of the Contemporary Middle East, edited by Michelle Penner Angrist. 2019. 3rd edition (This is an updated version of a chapter that also appeared in the 2nd edition, 2013, and in the 1st edition, 2010). Boulder: Lynne Reinner.