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How Multilevel Elite Loyalty Strengthens Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections in Russia
Sirotkina E., Karandashova S.
Maintain autocratic regimes is widely acknowledged to require elites loyalty. However, loyalty of which elites is more important to establish high voting for an autocrat? Basing on empirical evidence of gubernatorial election in Russia we explore how conflicts between the governor and the elites at municipal and regional levels affect incumbents election outcome. We find that conflicts between governors and the mayors of regional capitals have the only robust negative effect on both electoral result and turnout. Encouraging loyalty of these mayors secures smoother political machinery in the most electorally significant areas of the region (regional capitals) and thus has the most pronounced impact on the outcome of an electoral campaign
Tulaeva S. A., Semushkina E. S., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2026 Т. 35 № 3 С. 47–75
Most studies investigating involvement in collective action in environmental protection relate it either to general sociocultural attitudes in society at the macro level or to the strategic actions of eco-activists in specific cases at the micro level. In the first case, this makes it possible to explain variations in environmental actions between different societies/countries; in ...
Added: June 23, 2026
Biryukova A., Zasimova L. S., Вопросы статистики 2026 Т. 33 № 2 С. 40–57
The paper examines changes in the economic affordability of cigarettes in Russian regions in 2011–2023. Using fixed-effects models, it estimates the impact of prices, incomes, and tobacco affordability (the ratio of per capita income to cigarette price), on three indicators: retail sales of cigarettes per capita, adult population spending on tobacco products, and the share of these ...
Added: June 1, 2026
Styrin E. M., Ataeva A., Жатикова Д. В. et al., Регион: Экономика и Социология 2026 № 2(130) С. 31–55
There remains a pronounced interregional differentiation in the level of digital development across the Russian Federation, which necessitates a comprehensive analysis of the factors influencing the digital maturity of public administration bodies in the country’s regions. This article offers a quantitative assessment of the impact of external socioeconomic, institutional, and technological factors on the level ...
Added: May 26, 2026
Кобякова О. С., Стародубов В. И., Авдеев С. Н. et al., Вестник Российской академии медицинских наук 2025 Т. 80 № 4 С. 298–311
The article presents the Russian methodology for assessing avoidable mortality. Based on the analysis of existing scientific data and approaches of other countries to the definition of preventable mortality, the criteria of preventable mortality, taking into account the peculiarities of the Russian health care system, are proposed. The criteria were developed jointly with leading federal ...
Added: February 12, 2026
Anastasiia S., Экономическая политика 2026 Т. 21 № 2 С. 6–31
In the context of an unstable economic situation in Russia, it becomes pertinent to identify the factors of the output of an enterprise. It is crucial to acknowledge that the estimation of the parameters of the production function (i.e. return on factors of production) for Russian enterprises depends on its region. The object of research ...
Added: February 11, 2026
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2025 Т. 69 № 5 С. 131–139
O.V. Gaman-Golutvina examines in the article the factors of economic success of Saudi Arabia based on the analysis of the historical path of this country. Far from deep knowledge of the topic, superficial explanations, known for their commitment to simple answers to complex questions, reduce the factors of Saudi Arabia's achievements to oil, the proceeds ...
Added: December 8, 2025
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Сравнительная политика 2024 Т. 15 № 1 С. 4–21
The editor-in-chief proposes a context for examining the crisis processes in American society explored in the articles. The author suggests that this crisis should be viewed in the context of the American history cycles. Many of the current conflicts in the USA have a similar internal source, which is a sharp intra-elite conflict involving a ...
Added: December 8, 2025
A. A. Tokarev, Margoev A. R., Prikhodchenko A. Y., Contemporary Politics 2021 Vol. 27 No. 5 P. 572–590
The article offers a methodology to overcome the shortcomings in the factionalism approach to studying elite politics in China. The authors study professional ties among 204 full members of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party through social network analysis to identify influential members of the elites and detect their communities. Four types of ...
Added: October 3, 2025
Alexey Tokarev, Margoev A., Prikhodchenko A. Y., Journal of Contemporary Asia 2022 Vol. 52 No. 4 P. 554–573
This article offers a new perspective on Chinese elite politics in the Xi Jinping era by overcoming the drawbacks of the factional approach to the study of the Chinese elite. It analyses professional connections among 71 members of the category of party and state leaders of China based on information drawn from their official biographies ...
Added: October 3, 2025
Yuzbekova K., Политическая наука 2025 № 3 С. 276–298
In the article, based on the analysis of the existing works on the status of the constituent units of the state and related studies of Russian federalism, as well as the presented list of status indicators, which include two main groups of characteristics: formal norms and resources (economic, political, cultural), an attempt is made to ...
Added: September 29, 2025
Раецкий А. М., Терещенко Д. С., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2025 № 2(67) С. 46–64
Investment in R&D is a major driver of economic growth. Its impact on economic growth is formed from the direct effect and spillover effect, due to which investments in a particular region affect the development of nearby regions. The paper employs real GRP and R&D capital stock as indicators of economic growth and investment in R&D. ...
Added: July 9, 2025
Kondryukov I., Российская история 2025 № 1 С. 176–189
The view of the main forms of the influence of the Presidential Executive Office of Russia on regions and local authorities in the mid-1990s is presented in the article: the mechanism of appointment of regional rulers, the ways of control of electoral processes, role of presidential representatives in regions, the formation of unified political and ...
Added: April 23, 2025
Tulaeva S. A., Semushkina E. S., Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований 2025 Т. 17 № 1 С. 116–146
The research discusses the peculiarities of the politicization and depoliticization of environmental issues in Russian regions. The authors examine the most common patterns of population involvement in political actions related to environmental problems. The first scenario is the politicization of the environmental agenda through the collision of citizens with an environmental problem that is significant ...
Added: April 17, 2025
Popova P., / Series WP BRP "Series FE "Financial Economics""". 2025. No. WP BRP 97.
Added: April 6, 2025
Sokolov B., Almakaeva A., Lomakin I. V. et al., Социологическое обозрение 2025 Т. 24 № 1 С. 269–299
This paper explores the cultural differences between Russian regions operationalized in terms of Minkov’s recent revision of Hofstede’s famous individualism — collectivism dimension (I-C). Using a large survey (N = 18,768) conducted in 2019-2020 and spanning 60 regions, we construct a cultural map of the Russian Federation illustrating withincountry variation in I-C. Our measure of ...
Added: April 1, 2025
Abul Hasan M., Analysis and Forecasting. IMEMO Journal 2025 No. 1 P. 61–72
Bangladesh, being a country in South Asia and becoming a key player in the Bay of Bengal region, holds strategic significance at both regional and global levels. The article aims to delve into how Bangladesh has been salient to major powers, and therefore its future is largely shaped by the intricate regional geopolitical dynamics. This ...
Added: March 17, 2025
Anastasiia S., Applied Econometrics 2025 Vol. 79 P. 122–143
This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on firm performance in different parts of Russia. We construct regressions explaining the revenue of small and medium Russian firms by their individual, spatial, and regional characteristics. The strictness of the quarantine during the pandemic did not affect firm performance, while agglomeration effects and the situation in ...
Added: February 27, 2025
Kossova T. V., Вопросы статистики 2024 Т. 31 № 4 С. 21–33
The article analyzes the individual determinants of mortality of the Russian population from respiratory diseases – one of the most common types of disease in the country. Mortality from this class of causes has traditionally occupied the fifth place in the structure of mortality in the Russian Federation. However, since 2020, due to the pandemic of the ...
Added: January 22, 2025
Fedyunina A., Simachev Y. V., Nikitenko S. M., R-Economy 2024 Vol. 10 No. 4 P. 373–390
Relevance. The global imperative for adopting a low-carbon economy resonates worldwide, yet comprehensive assessments specific to the Russian economy remain scant. This is especially important considering the significant differences in the level of transition to sustainable development among Russian regions. Research Objective. This study aims to introduce a robust methodology for evaluating and analyzing the international trade of low-carbon goods ...
Added: January 20, 2025
The Impact of Regional Integration in GVCs on Subsidy Allocation Among Manufacturing Firms in Russia
Simachev Y. V., Fedyunina A., Drapkin I. M., Economy of Regions 2024 Vol. 20 No. 4 P. 1074–1086
While global demand for industrial policy-making continues to rise, increasing attention is being given to how these policies are shaped by participation in global value chains (GVCs), both in developed and developing countries. However, much of the research overlooks the regional dimension of support allocation, particularly the integration of regional economies into GVCs. This study aims to address this ...
Added: December 26, 2024
Semenov A., Snarski Y., Tkacheva T., Russian Politics 2024 Vol. 9 No. 4 P. 503–523
Environmental protests have been a major strand of contention in Russia, yet the cross-regional variation in ecoprotests has not been systematically studied. In this paper, combining several protest event datasets we analyze the patterns of environmental activism across time and regions. The data cover more than 1000 protest events with an environmental agenda in the period 2007–2021. ...
Added: November 22, 2024
Терещенко Д. С., Левкин Н. В., Псковский регионологический журнал 2024 Т. 20 № 4 С. 15–30
This study is devoted to assessing the relationship between the sustainability of the regulatory framework for innovation and innovation activity in Russian regions. Four elements of the regulatory framework were considered, including the presence of an innovation development strategy in the region; the presence in the territorial planning scheme of the allocated territories of priority ...
Added: November 15, 2024