Navalny’s Digital Dissidents: A New Dataset on a Russian Opposition Movement

Dollbaum, Jan Matti; Semenov, Andrey

doi:10.1080/10758216.2021.1893123

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“…The survey was conducted between in early 2018 during Navalny’s—ultimately unsuccessful—presidential campaign, using the campaign’s public social media groups on the Russian Facebook equivalent VKontakte (VK) for access to his follower base (see Dollbaum and Semenov (2022) for details). As in the first sample, invitations were stratified by age and gender, using information available on the subscribers’ profile pages.…”

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The Activist Personality: Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Opposition Activism in Authoritarian Regimes

Dollbaum

Robertson

2023

Comparative Political Studies

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Why do people become opposition activists in authoritarian regimes where dissent invites social censure and can be dangerous? We make a new contribution to answering this classic question: personality. For the first time outside of democratic contexts, we investigate the association between personality traits and opposition activism, arguing that some traits work universally, while others interact with political context. We propose that—as in democracies—high extraversion predicts political activism, regardless of its pro- or anti-regime orientation, and, in particular, that extraversion is critical to explain the shift from online to offline action. We also argue that—contrary to democratic contexts—low agreeableness predicts opposition activism in autocracies, because it reduces the perceived costs of non-conformity. We test these arguments based on two independent survey samples from Russia, a stable authoritarian regime. In a series of statistical tests, including two case-control designs, we find consistent support for all hypotheses.

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