Masyutina, Olga
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Item type:Publication, Papers on the political economy of authoritarianism(2023-07-05); ; ; This doctoral thesis discusses several important and less studied aspects of the political economy of authoritarian regimes and draws on the study of Russia, one of the most prominent contemporary non-democracies. An introductory chapter presents the overarching theoretical framework of the dissertation and the state of research, it elaborates on the case of Russia and offers an overview of research questions, main findings, contributions, and limitations. The introductory chapter is followed by three empirical papers that focus on the interplay between authoritarian political institutions and economic and societal outcomes. Chapter 2 joins the ongoing debate over the effect of authoritarianism on environmental performance. Chapter 3 examines individual expectations and intended behavior of the Russian public when faced with the prospect of authoritarian persistence or political change. Chapter 4 seeks to broaden the scholarly understanding of how autocratic elites use legal repression to advance their ends. The thesis makes a theoretical, empirical and methodological contribution to the research field and to the understanding of Russian authoritarian politics and at the same time invites further scholarship on the political economy of non-democracies.doctoral thesis400 653 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions(2022-05-10); ; Russian regions display a significant variation in terms of waste management efforts. This is puzzling considering the importance of waste management for all regional governments and the urgency of the problem for the Russian public as reflected in opinion polls. We study whether more authoritarian regional governments in Russia are better able to solve the problem of waste management. Using a regional panel data set for the period of 2012-2019, we find that our measure of the degree of authoritarianism – the share of votes for the United Russia party in parliamentary elections – has a strong positive effect on the share of recycled waste in the Russian regions. This result indicates that more authoritarian regions tend to recycle more household waste than less authoritarian regions. This finding is consistent with the theory of environmental authoritarianism that suggests that authoritarian governments are better able to tackle environmental challenges.ReportBand:2206963 1448 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Resilience in Place-Based Sustainability Transitions: A Systematic Review of Disturbances, System Capacities and Spatial Contexts(2026-09); ; As complex social systems face increasing environmental and societal pressures, understanding their resilience is central to sustainability transitions. We systematically review 65 empirical studies of resilience in subnational social systems and develop a conceptual synthesis of resilience through three complementary analytical lenses: disturbances, system capacities and spatial contexts. We first classify disturbances along three dimensions–temporal structure, origin and domain–highlighting their overlapping and often multi-causal nature. We further synthesize thirteen resilience characteristics into four interrelated capacities: structural, relational, governance and dynamic. Our findings show that resilience is shaped not by individual capacities but by their combination in response to different disturbances. Their prominence also varies across spatial scales, indicating that resilience is spatially embedded. We argue that resilience is therefore best understood as a place-based, multidimensional process emerging from interactions between disturbances, capacities and the contexts in which systems operate.BookBand:260327 11