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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/134
Buckley et al. 2020 - Staying Out of Trouble - Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors-zusammengefügt-pdfa.pdf
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Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors


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Authors: Buckley, Noah  
Reuter, Ora John 
Rochlitz, Michael  
Aisin, Anton  
Publisher: Institute for Economic Research and Policy (IERP) 
Abstract: 
Although repression against elites is a common occurrence in authoritarian regimes, we know little about which elites are targeted. This paper uses an original dataset on the prosecution of mayors in large Russian cities to examine the factors that make elites more likely to be arrested. We argue that in electoral authoritarian regimes like Russia, regime leaders are reluctant to arrest popular officials. Such officials command political capital that is useful to the regime, and arrests of prominent officials can produce popular backlash. We examine this argument using an original dataset on all arrests of municipal leaders in Russia's 221 largest cities between 2002 and 2018. We find that mayors who won their elections by large margins are less likely to be arrested. In addition, we demonstrate several other substantively important patterns: 1) a mayor's professional background is not related to the likelihood of arrest, 2) opposition mayors are four times more likely to be arrested, and 3) arrests are more likely in ethnic republics.
Keywords: Authoritarian politics; Repression; Anti-corruption campaigns; Subnational political elites; Russia
Issue Date: 9-Jul-2020
Journal: Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation 
Type: Buch, Monographie
ISSN: 2629-3994
DOI: 10.26092/elib/134
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib43497
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: FB07 Wirtschaftswissenschaften 
Institute: Institute for Economic Research and Policy (IERP) 
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