A Survey of Democracy in Russia's Regions

Regime transition in the regions of Russia: The freedom of mass media: Transnational impact on sub‐national democratization?

“…Each of the 88 regional mass media markets is ‘the product of the cultural traditions of a region, its economy, the unique local relationship between the state and society, the tendency of a region towards a traditional/modernized or agrarian/urban society’ (PEGP 2004: 2). However, while these factors are important and have been analyzed in a number of articles, the role of foreign, transnational factors was hardly taken into account (see, e.g., McMann & Petrov 2000; McFaul et al. 2004).…”

Political Centralization and Economic Performance: Evidence from Russia

“…18. For a description of earlier versions of the dataset, see McMann and Petrov (2000). The main analyses use only the theoretically relevant components, but results are robust to using an index built from the full set of measures.…”

Regional protest and electoral fraud: evidence from analysis of new data on Russian protest

“…Pockets of sub-national authoritarianism may coexist with national democratic governance, and sub-national localities may display far greater degrees of political openness and competition than does a national regime. These regional variations could be products of asymmetrical federal design, long-term socio-structural conditions, ethno-national factors, nature of partisan competition, or shorter-term contingent variables (Argersinger 1985;Gelman, Ryzhenkov et al 2003;Hale 2005;Heller 2000;Lankina 2004Lankina , 2016McMann and Petrov 2000;Obydenkova 2008;Obydenkova and Libman 2012;Remington 2010;Sharafutdinova 2007;Snyder 2001;Treisman 1997;Varshney 2002;Ziblatt 2009). It is important for us to incorporate the effects of these variables into our analysis to ensure that our measure of fraud does not proxy for other variables that might shape citizen propensity to mobilize.…”