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Putin’s support is weakening. Will that show up in Russia’s regional elections this weekend?

(Monkey Cage) On Sunday, Russia will hold regional elections. Voters will cast ballots in some 9,000 races in 83 regions, with everything from elections to fill national legislature vacancies to elections for…

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Communist Legacies and Left-Authoritarianism

(Comparative Political Studies) (Co-authored by Joshua Tucker) Abstract: Communist regimes were avowedly leftist authoritarian regimes, a relative rarity among autocracies. The growing literature on regime legacies would lead us to…

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Revolution and Reform in Ukraine: Evaluating Four Years of Reform

By Silviya Nitsova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University, and Graeme Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In February 2014, Ukraine grabbed the world’s attention…

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Ukrainians are getting less divided by language, not more. Here’s the research.

(WP) The journal Post-Soviet Affairs recently published a special issue on politics and identity in Ukraine. The question of Russian vs. Ukrainian identity has been central to the study of Ukrainian politics for decades…

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Identity Politics in Times of Crisis: Ukraine as a Critical Case | Giuliano, Hale, Kulyk, Pop-Eleches, Robertson, Shevel, and more

(Post-Soviet Affairs) Introduction: Studying identity in Ukraine—While it is common wisdom that “identity matters” in Ukrainian politics, we still lack a robust understanding of precisely when and how it matters.…

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Revolutions in Ukraine: Shaping Civic Rather Than Ethnic Identities

(PONARS Policy Memo) Since independence, politics in Ukraine has often turned on issues of identity. Ethnic and linguistic cleavages have tended to underlie political divisions and have been used by politicians to…

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Ukrainians are protesting corruption — and using a new approach. Here’s how it works.

(WP) (Co-authored by Grigore Pop-Eleches) For the last three years, Ukrainian activists have been trying to beat back systemic government corruption — but now that “Revolution of Dignity” is hanging by a…

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