Jan Matti Dollbaum

Mit Beiträgen von Jan Matti Dollbaum @JanMattiD , Svetlana Erpyleva, Roland Götz, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja, Sandra Dahlke, Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Nikolaj Plotnikov, Andrej Kordotschkin, Dmitrij Birjukov, Regina Elsner @reginaelmo

A fun study that's currently more relevant than we all had hoped!

While large at times, countermobilization in Dresden was more sporadic and divided because it lacked these three factors, which reinforced each other. We thus argue for the fundamental importance of place characteristics in local protest organization.

New paper with Larissa Meier, Priska Daphi and @sehaunss in @MobyJournal: "Resisting the Far-Right: Explaining Divergent Countermobilization Trajectories in Two German Cities" meridian.allenpress.com/mobilization/a…

This is part of a special issue coordinated by Seraphine F. Maerz and @LaserGabi. Thanks for taking us on board!

We find that, in authoritarian Russia and in hybrid Ukraine, support for the political leader is strongly correlated with support for electronic voting technologies. In Belarus, it's driven instead by a preference for the (new) opposition. The findings hold across six surveys.

@fa_burkhardt and I have a new open access paper out in @democ_journal: "Digital ballots, partisan bias: digital authoritarianism and support for internet voting in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine". …online-com.emedien.ub.uni-muenchen.de/doi/full/10.10…

One year after the death of Alexey Navalny, a few thoughts on the crisis at the FBK, the organisation he founded. themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/16/the…

An update here: the pro-Russian PRIM party (Irina Vlah) has asked PSRM (Igor Dodon), Our Party (Renato Usatîi), and MAN (Ion Ceban) to pledge not to form a coalition with the pro-EU PAS after the legislative elections in 2025. Pro-RU and centrist groups are expecting that PAS ...

Proud to have this great piece by @isadesisto and @grigopop in the first issue of the Moldovan Analytical Digest, out today! 🇲🇩

.@JanMattiD, a prominent scholar of contemporary Russian politics, discusses how Russia's opposition has evolved since the invasion of Ukraine and what lies ahead for these movements in the new year. themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/06/rus…

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Coordinated at the Research Centre for East European Studies at U Bremen (@laenderanalysen), the Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES) @UZH_en and @CSS_ETHZurich, supported by @unifr and the Elitenetzwerk Bayern.

End of the year, time to start something new! The first issue of the brand new Moldovan Analytical Digest is almost ready (out mid-January). The quarterly digest will cover politics, economy, society, history and security of Moldova 🇲🇩. Free subscription: css.ethz.ch/en/publication…