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Past Participants

Spring 2024

  • PRESS #29 (May 1), Emil Kamalov (EUI) and Ivetta Sergeeva (EUI) "Can Migrant Organizations Evade the Long Arm of Autocrats?A Conjoint Experiment on Donation Preferences Among
    Russian Exiles"

  • Discussants: Alexander Dukalskis (University College Dublin), Edward Lemon (Texas A&M University), Yana Gorokhovskaia (Freedom House)

  • PRESS #28 (April 3), Lucan Way (University of Toronto)  "Resource Concentration and Dictatorship"

  • Discussants: Kelly McMann (Case Western Reserve), Sofie Bedford (Uppsala University)

  • PRESS #27 (March 6), Kyle Marquardt (University of Bergen)  "When and why is language salient for separatism?  Evidence from Russian republics*”

  • Discussants: Olga Avdeyeva (University of Illinois-Chicago), Elise Giuliano (Columbia University), Dmitry Gorenburg (CNA)

  • PRESS #25 (February 7), Pauline Jones (University of Michigan), Regina Smyth (Indiana University), and Mikhail Turchenko  "Public Opinion and the Future of the CSTO:
    Domestic Pressures and Alliance Stability in the Wake of Russia’s War in Ukraine"

  • Discussants: Amanzhol Bekmagambetov (University of Georgia), Scott Radnitz (University of Washington), Margaret Hanson (Arizona State University)

Fall 2023

  • PRESS #24 (December 6), Jeremy Morris (Aarhus University)  "Feeling for an Absent Presence: The Meaning Russian Defensive Consolidation"

  • Discussants: Grigory Yudin (Princeton University), Edward Schatz (University of Toronto), Ilya Matveev (UC-Berkeley), Natalia Savelyeva (UW-Madison)

  • PRESS #23 (October 19), Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell University)  "Risk Attitudes and Political Participation under Authoritarian Rule”

  • Discussants: Anna Zhelnina (Utrecht University), Andrei Scherbak (Higher School of Economics), Inga Saikonnen (Abo Akademii)

  • PRESS #22 (September 20), David Szakonyi(George Washington)  "Opposition Rule:  Controlling Competition under Autocracy"

  • Discussants: Stanislav Shkel (Higher School of Economics), Rostislav Turovsky (Higher School of Economics), Benjamin Noble (University College-London)

Spring 2023

  • PRESS #21 (May 24), Masaaki Higashijima (Tohoku University)  "Popular Protests and Elite-Mass Linkages in Autocracies"

  • Discussants: Katerina Tertytchnaya (University College London), Sabina Isnebayeva (Nazarbayev University), Liu Peng (Minnesota)

  • PRESS #20 (April 26), Elizabeth Plantan (Stetson College)  "“Choosing Between Prison or Exile:
    Russian Activists Abroad after the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine”

  • Discussants: Laura Henry (Bowdoin College),Valerie Sperling (Clark University)

  • PRESS #19 (January 25), Noah Buckley (Trinity College Dublin)  "Rotten Eggs or Bad Apples:
    Corruption Arrests and Public Opinion in Authoritarian Russia”"

  • Discussants: Alexey Zakharov (University of Chicago), Marina Zaloznaya (University of Iowa), Mikhail Turchenko (Indiana University)

Fall 2022

  • PRESS #18 (November 9), Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)  "Polarization and Support for Undemocratic Behavior:  The Case of Russia"

  • Discussants: Quintin Beazer (Florida State), Erik Herron (West Virginia University), Danielle Lussier (Grinnell)

  • PRESS #17 (October 12), Maxim Alyukov (King's College)  "Harnessing Distrust: News, Credibility Heuristics,and War in an Authoritarian Regime"

  • Discussants: Andrey Tkachenko (Nazarbayev University), Noah Buckley (Trinity College Dublin), Florian Toepfl (The University of Passau)

Spring 2022

  • PRESS #16 (June 1), Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago)  "Is There Really a Dictator’s Dilemma? Information and Repression in Authoritarian Regimes"

  • Discussants: Dan Treisman (UCLA), Anne Meng (Virginia), Andrew Little (UC Berkeley)

  • PRESS #15 (April 6), Jessica Alina-Pisano, "Volodymyr Oleksandrovych’s Alternative for Russia"

  • Discussants: Dominique Arel (University of Ottawa), Paul D'Anieri (UC-Riverside), Yuliya Ladygina (Penn State)

  • PRESS #14 (February 2), Thomas Remington (Harvard University), "Wealth Concentration in Russia:  Findings from the Forbes Russian and Global Rich Lists"

  • Discussants: Amanda Zadorian (Oberlin), William Pyle (Middlebury), Michael Alexeev (Indiana University)

  • PRESS #13 (January 24), Mariëlle Wijermars(Maastricht University), "Authoritarian news personalisation and the 2021 Russian parliamentary elections"

  • Discussants: Anton Shirikov (UW-Madison), Joshua Tucker (New York University), Maxim Alyukov (Kings College)

Fall 2021

  • PRESS #12 (December 8), Graeme Robertson (UNC) , "Repression, Emotions and Legitimacy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia""

  • Discussants: Egor Lazarev (Yale), Sasha de Vogel (NYU), Kyle Marquardt (HSE)

  • PRESS #11 (November 17), Mikhail Turhchenko (European University, St. Petersburg), "Smart Voting in Challenging Times:  Anti-System Opposition Electorate in Russia in 2021"

  • Discussants: Valeria Umanets (UW-Madison), Yana Gorokovskaia (Freedom House)

  • PRESS #10 (October 13), Margarita Zavadskaya (University of Helsinki), "From Elections to Appointments:  Does Centralization Strengthen Political Support"

  • Discussants: Evgenia Olimpieva (University of Chicago), Olga Gasparyan (Hertie) Quintin Beazer (FSU)

  • Discussants: Paul Goode (Carleton), Cole Harvey (Oklahoma State)

  • PRESS #9 (September 15), Tatiana Tkacheva (HSE, St. Petersburg), "Regional Governors and Political Regime Dynamics in Russia: Resources, Strategies, and Electoral Outcomes"

Spring 2021

  • Discussants: Tatyana Tkacheva (HSE-St. Petersburg), David Szakonyi (George Washington), Jan Dollbaum (University of Bremen)

  • PRESS #8 (July 21), Benjamin Noble (UCL) and Danill Romanov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), ""Regions with the Initiative: Explaining the Supply of Bills to the State Duma from Russian Regional Legislatures""
  • PRESS #7 (June 16), Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), "The Russian Ruling Elite in the Face of External Pressure and a Lost Vision for the Future"

  • Discussants: Vladimir Gel'man (University of Helsinki), Ella Paneyakh (HSE-St. Petersburg), Brian Taylor (Syracuse University)

  • PRESS #6 (April 21), Sam Greene (Kings College London), "The Greengrocers’ Gazette: Autocracy, News & Socialization in Russia and Belarus"

  • Discussants: Noah Buckley (Trinity University, Dublin), Grigorii Syunyaev (Columbia University) Anton Shirikov (UW-Madison)

  • PRESS #5 (March 17), Guzel Garifullina (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "The Effects of Selection Procedures on Officials' Risk-taking: the Case of Russian Municipalities

  • Discussants: Gulnaz Sharafitudinova (Kings College London), Andrei Semenov (Perm State), Alexander Libman (Free University of Berlin)

  • PRESS #4 (February 17), Lauren McCarthy:  "Citizen Oversight of the Legal System in Russia"

  • Discussants: Elizabeth Plantan (Stetson University), Alexei Trochev (Nazarbayev University), Anton Kazun (Higher School of Economics)

  • PRESS #3 (January 27), Scott Radnitz:  "Conspiratorial Soft Power? Assessing the Effects of Russian Propaganda in the Near Abroad"

  • Discussants: Margaret Hanson (Arizona State University), Lucan Way (University of Toronto), Hannah Chapman (Miami University)

Fall 2020

  • PRESS #2 (December 9), Katerina Tertychnaya (with Bryn Rosenfeld and Tom Paskhalis):  "Independent Media under Pressure:  Evidence from Russia"

  • Discussants: Anastasia Kazun (Higher School of Economics), Arturas Rozenas (New York University), Yuri Zhukov (University of Michigan)

  • Discussants: Tomila Lankina (London School of Economics), Quintin Beazer (Florida State University), Boris Sokolov (Higher School of Economics)

  • PRESS #1 (November 18), Henry Hale:  "Fear the Unafraid? Unpacking a Pandemic’s Effect on Incumbent Support throughan Experimental Design in Russia"
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