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View article: Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda on Chinese Social Media After the Ukraine Invasion
Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda on Chinese Social Media After the Ukraine Invasion Open
Authoritarian states actively engage in cross-border propaganda. While the effects and the narratives of this propaganda targeting democracies have been studied in the past, little attention has been paid to how sudden and significant geop…
View article: Is <i>Homo Economicus</i> Performative? Evidence From a Beauty Contest Experiment With Mainstream and Non‐Mainstream Academic Economists
Is <i>Homo Economicus</i> Performative? Evidence From a Beauty Contest Experiment With Mainstream and Non‐Mainstream Academic Economists Open
Does studying mainstream microeconomics cause individuals to behave more like the textbook version of homo economicus ? Most studies suggesting a positive answer have used student samples and focused on self‐interested behaviors in collect…
View article: War in Ukraine: Is Russia Challenging the US Global Dominance?
War in Ukraine: Is Russia Challenging the US Global Dominance? Open
Russian leadership for decades has been skeptical of the US-centric world, considering it both a threat to Russia’s sovereignty and the great power status. At the same time, the main goal of Russia appears to be less making Russia the new …
View article: Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together?
Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together? Open
In Russia, positive attitudes toward a free market economy and competition are firmly associated with the “Western” intellectual imports the country experienced in the 1990s. Anti‐Western intellectuals and politicians typically embrace an …
View article: Text-as-Data: An Economics Perspective
Text-as-Data: An Economics Perspective Open
Formal quantitative methods of text analysis – approaches collectively called “text-as-data” – are playing an increasingly important role in contemporary social sciences. At the same time, while their introduction in political science and …
View article: Regional Patterns of Plagiarism: Evidence from PhD Theses in Russia
Regional Patterns of Plagiarism: Evidence from PhD Theses in Russia Open
The paper explains the regional patterns of plagiarism in PhD theses (dissertations) in Russia. Using data from more than 108 thousand dissertations dated between 1996 and 2021, which exhibit a significant amount of text similarities with …
View article: Crises, Adaptation, and Resilience—Exploring Crises Responses of Regional Organizations from the Perspective of EU Studies and Comparative Regionalism
Crises, Adaptation, and Resilience—Exploring Crises Responses of Regional Organizations from the Perspective of EU Studies and Comparative Regionalism Open
How do different types of regional organizations react to current challenges and crises? This special issue of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift explores this question by bringing together contributions from European Union studies and co…
View article: Mirrors and Mosaics: Deciphering Chinese and Russian Domestic Bloc-Building Narratives
Mirrors and Mosaics: Deciphering Chinese and Russian Domestic Bloc-Building Narratives Open
Authoritarian states are intensifying bloc-building efforts. While the authoritarian regionalism literature suggests that membership in these “clubs of autocrats” can bolster domestic support for authoritarian leaders, such external recogn…
View article: Hidden Transformation of Authoritarian Regionalism: Tracing Organizations’ Functions Through Officials’ Biographies
Hidden Transformation of Authoritarian Regionalism: Tracing Organizations’ Functions Through Officials’ Biographies Open
Authoritarian regionalism constitutes a challenging topic for empirical research due to a substantial gap between official mandates and the actual practices of regional organizations (ROs). While formally most authoritarian ROs “download” …
View article: Foreign Economic Conditions for Russia's Development: Isolation and Reorientation
Foreign Economic Conditions for Russia's Development: Isolation and Reorientation Open
The paper considers the main factors of foreign economic relations dynamics of Russia in the last two years. Contrary to the original expectations, Western sanctions did not lead to the full isolation of the Russian economy. Rather, it exp…
View article: Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities Open
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue devoted to historical continuities in Eurasia and different conceptualizations of the communist legacies. It highlights the main research challenges the special issue deals with a…
View article: State violence and target group adaptation: Maintaining social status in the face of repressions in Soviet Russia
State violence and target group adaptation: Maintaining social status in the face of repressions in Soviet Russia Open
How does state-led repression targeting communities influence the social reproduction of victimized groups? Although several excellent studies have explored the sociopolitical consequences of a broad set of conflict-trauma legacies, notabl…
View article: Area Studies in the Social Sciences
Area Studies in the Social Sciences Open
In the last decades, area studies have been subject to substantial criticism by the most mainstream social sciences. Area specialists are perceived as lacking the knowledge of modern research methodology and rather following the interests …
View article: The role of historical legacies in the process of decentralisation in Russia: compliant activism in the context of the crises of the 2020s
The role of historical legacies in the process of decentralisation in Russia: compliant activism in the context of the crises of the 2020s Open
This study explores the case of recent trends in Russian centre–periphery decentralisation under Vladimir Putin: increasing regional rhetoric (2018) and delegating authority to the administrative regions (in 2020 and 2022). Why and how in …
View article: The Rise and Fall of the Eurasian Regionalism
The Rise and Fall of the Eurasian Regionalism Open
The essay traces the evolution of the Eurasian regionalism over the last three decades. It focuses on the inherent contradictions between the centripetal market forces and the geopolitical clashes affecting the economic integration perspec…
View article: Interdisciplinary Research and Mixed Methods: Perspectives and Limitations
Interdisciplinary Research and Mixed Methods: Perspectives and Limitations Open
Contemporary scientific community declares interdisciplinarity to be one of its primary goals. Within individual scholarly disciplines (in particular political science) researchers welcome a combination of different methodological approach…
View article: Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia
Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia Open
This article investigates the determinants and consequences of manipulating COVID-19 statistics in an authoritarian federation using the Russian case. It abandons the interpretation of the authoritarian regime as a unitary actor and acknow…
View article: Replication Data for: Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-National Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia
Replication Data for: Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-National Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia Open
Replication file (datasets and do files) for: Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-National Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia
View article: The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class, and Democratic Development
The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class, and Democratic Development Open
We contribute to research on the democratic role of middle classes. Our paper distinguishes between middle classes emerging autonomously during gradual capitalist development and those fabricated rapidly as part of state-led modernization.…
View article: Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society
Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society Open
This article deals with the problem of assessing and interpreting expansionist elements in Poland's international political behaviour. The problem is approached using the concept of the strategic culture of states, which covers beliefs, pe…
View article: Replication Data for: The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development
Replication Data for: The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development Open
The dataset contains the replication material for "The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development". The project investigates the democratic role of the middle classes. It arg…
View article: Replication Data for: The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development
Replication Data for: The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development Open
The dataset contains the replication material for "The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development". The project investigates the democratic role of the middle classes. It arg…
View article: Exposure to conspiracy theories in the lab
Exposure to conspiracy theories in the lab Open
Conspiracy theories are widespread in the modern information era. Being exposed to conspiracy theories may affect behaviour, for example, by spreading mistrust among people and within organisations, even if it does not necessarily generate…
View article: Global governance and Eurasian international organisations: lessons learned and future agenda
Global governance and Eurasian international organisations: lessons learned and future agenda Open
The paper summarises the findings of this special issue and suggests avenues for future research. It concludes that the Eurasian regionalisms’ development in the 2010s was influenced, among other factors, by Russia’s concerns about externa…