The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes
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Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia
Graeme B. Robertson
overview
Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela, protest in the streets has been at least as important as elections in bringing about political change. The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes builds on previously unpublished data and extensive fieldwork in Russia to show how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets. More generally, the book develops a theory of how the nature of organizations in society, state strategies for mobilizing supporters, and elite competition shape political protest in hybrid regimes.
contents
List of Tables page xi
List of Figures xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1 Protest and Regimes: Organizational Ecology, Mobilization
2 Protest and Regime in Russia 40
3 The Geography of Strikes 67
4 A Time for Trouble 100
5 Elections and the Decline of Protest 124
6 Vladimir Putin and Defeat-Proofng the System 147
7 Protest, Repression, and Order from Below 167
8 Implications for Russia and Elsewhere 200
Bibliography 219
Appendix 1 Event Protocol 237
Appendix 2 Sectoral and Seasonal Strike Patterns 269
Appendix 3 A Statistical Approach to Political Relations 275
Index 279