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Matthew A. Light

Observed names: Light, Matthew, Matthew Light
ORCID: 0000-0001-6806-6514
Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-6806-6514
OpenAlex ID: A5018734597
Police reforms in the Republic of Georgia: the convergence of domestic and foreign policy in an anti-corruption drive
2013 · Matthew Light · Policing & Society · 70
What Does It Mean to Control Migration? Soviet Mobility Policies in Comparative Perspective
2012 · Matthew A. Light · Law & Social Inquiry · 68
Policing Migration in Soviet and Post-Soviet Moscow
2010 · Matthew Light · Post-Soviet Affairs · 56
Fragile Migration Rights
2016 · Matthew Light · Routledge eBooks · 49
Policing following political and social transitions: Russia, Brazil, and China compared
2015 · Matthew Light, Mariana Mota Prado, et al. · Theoretical Criminology · 38
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Fragile Migration Rights: Freedom of movement in post-Soviet Russia
2016 · Matthew Light · 17
Crime and criminal justice after communism: Why study the post-Soviet region?
2015 · Gavin Slade, Matthew Light · Theoretical Criminology · 17
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Constraints on the growth of private policing: A comparative international analysis
2017 · Anne-Marie Singh, Matthew Light · Theoretical Criminology · 15
How gun control policies evolve: Gun culture, ‘gunscapes’ and political contingency in post-Soviet Georgia
2019 · Matthew Light, Eugene Slonimerov · Theoretical Criminology · 11
Migration, ‘Globalised’ Islam and the Russian State: A Case Study of Muslim Communities in Belgorod and Adygeya Regions
2012 · Matthew Light · Europe Asia Studies · 10
The Politics of Low Fertility: Global Markets, Women's Employment, and Birth Rates in Four Industrialized Democracies
2008 · Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Matthew Light, et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal · 9
Different Ideas of the City: Origins of Metropolitan Land-Use Regimes in the United States, Germany, and Switzerland
1999 · Matthew Light · bepress Legal Repository · 8
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The Misuse of Numbers: Audits, Quantification, and the Obfuscation of Politics
2004 · James C. Scott, Matthew A. Light · Yale University Press eBooks · 7
The Russo-Georgian War of 2008: A Conflict Announced in Advance?
2010 · Matthew Light · Europe Asia Studies · 6
The Politics of Gender Equality
2004 · Frances Rosenbluth, Matthew Light, et al. · Journal of Women Politics & Policy · 5
Introduction to Special Issue on comparative criminology: Context, scope and applicability in critical criminological research
2022 · Matthew Light, Anne-Marie Singh · Theoretical Criminology · 4
Zwischen Liberalisierung und Restriktion: Entwicklungen der russischen Migrationspolitik
2017 · Matthew Light · Russland-Analysen · 4
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Regional migration policies in post-Soviet Russia: From pervasive control to insecure freedom
2006 · Matthew Light · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 4
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia
2022 · Matthew Light, Anne-Marie Singh, et al. · Theoretical Criminology · 3
Parameters of Police Reform and Non-Reform in Post-Soviet Regimes: The Case of Armenia
2018 · Nona Shahnazarian, Matthew Light · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 3
Interpersonal violence by authoritarian rulers: Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin compared
2013 · Matthew Light, Rosemary Gartner, et al. · Post-Soviet Affairs · 3
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective
2025 · Matthew Light, Anne-Marie Singh, et al. · Policing & Society · 2
Beyond Fortress Europe: instrumentalised migration management in Central and Eastern Europe
2024 · Diego Caballero-Vélez, Maggy Lee, et al. · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2
Regulation, recruitment, and control of immigration
2015 · Matthew Light · Routledge eBooks · 2
Russia, the death penalty, and Europe: the ambiguities of influence
2013 · Matthew Light, Nikolai Kovalev · Post-Soviet Affairs · 2
Works count: 46
Citation count: 418
H-index: 10
I10-index: 10
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