Protest in electoral autocracies: a new dataset

Lankina, Tomila V.; Tertytchnaya, Katerina

doi:10.1080/1060586x.2019.1656039

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“…The data on regional incidents of protests come from Lankina and Tertytchnaya (2020) and cover all Russian regions for 2007-2016. Lankina and Tertytchnaya (2020) assemble the dataset using the information from a crowd-sourced online platform (namarsh.ru) that aggregates reports on the various public forms of citizen protest collected by journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens. All entries were verified by human coders to include only events of public gathering (one or more participants), at the same time excluding petitions, entries that describe only intentions to protest, and political activities organized by the state authorities and pro-governmetal organizations (e.g., by pro-governmental youth movements or the ruling party, United Russia).…”

Section: Protestsmentioning

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“…On the other hand, oil rents have been previously found to decrease the likelihood of political protests (Smith, 2004;Vadlamannati and Soysa, 2020) by allowing the incumbent politicians to buy out the opposition or finance a sizable security apparatus (Basedau and Lay, 2009). We employ a newly assembled dataset on regional protests in Russia introduced by Lankina and Tertytchnaya (2020) that differentiates between various categories of protests. 2 We find a significant positive effect of rising inequality instrumented with oil price shocks under rent-seeking on the "social" protests -"protests by, and specifically furthering the aims of, socially vulnerable groups of people" (Lankina and Tertytchnaya, 2020: 34), but not the protests associated with other issues such as anti-government, cultural, environmental, or against specific legal or economic policies.…”

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2021

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“…This data set is the first of two that is based on activist websites. To compile it, a team around Tomila Lankina coded all entries on protest that were posted on the website namarsh.ru between 2007 and 2016 (Lankina & Tertytchnaya, 2020). The site is funded by the opposition politician Garry Kasparov, who led the cross-ideological opposition group "Other Russia."…”

Section: Lankina/lankina Russian Protest Event Datasetmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This offers the chance to compare the CPR data to LAruPED regarding the thematic coverage of protest. As Lankina and Tertytchnaya (2020) have pointed out, LAruPED may be biased in favour of political protest, leading to the final hypothesis: H6) LAruPED oversamples political protest, which leads to a higher share of political protest compared with CPR.…”

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Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources

Dollbaum

2021

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The investigation of long-term trends in contentious politics relies heavily on protest event analysis based on newspaper reports. This tends to be problematic in restricted media environments. To mitigate the effects of bias and (self-)censorship, researchers of protest in authoritarian regimes have experimented with other sources such as international media and dissident websites. However, even though classical news media are easier targets for repression, journalistic reports might still outperform other sources regarding the quality of information provided. Although these advantages and disadvantages are known in the literature, different types of sources have seldom been tested against each other in an authoritarian context. Using the example of Russia between 2007 and 2012, the present article systematically compares protest event data from English-language news agencies, dissident websites, and several local sources, first and foremost with a view to improving methodological knowledge. The analysis addresses broad trends across time and space as well as the coverage of specific regions and single protest events. It finds that although the data sources paint different pictures of protest in Russia, this divergence is systematic and can be put to productive use. The article closes with a discussion on how its findings can be applied in other contexts.

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Russia in a changing climate

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Robertson

et al. 2023

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate change will shape the future of Russia, and vice versa, regardless of who rules in the Kremlin. The world's largest country is warming faster than Earth as a whole, occupies more than half the Arctic Ocean coastline, and is waging a carbon‐intensive war while increasingly isolated from the international community and its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Officially, the Russian government argues that, as a major exporter of hydrocarbons, Russia benefits from maintaining global reliance on fossil fuels and from climate change itself, because warming may increase the extent and quality of its arable land, open a new year‐round Arctic sea route, and make its harsh climate more livable. Drawing on the collective expertise of a large group of Russia‐focused social scientists and a comprehensive literature review, we challenge this narrative. We find that Russia suffers from a variety of impacts due to climate change and is poorly prepared to adapt to these impacts. The literature review reveals that the fates of Russia's hydrocarbon‐dependent economy, centralized political system, and climate‐impacted population are intertwined and that research is needed on this evolving interrelationship, as global temperatures rise and the international economy decarbonizes in response.This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > National Climate Change Policy Trans‐disciplinary Perspectives > National Reviews Trans‐disciplinary Perspectives > Regional Reviews

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Protest in electoral autocracies: a new dataset

Cited by 38 publications

References 46 publications

Who Profits from Windfalls in Oil Tax Revenue? Inequality, Protests, and the Role of Corruption

Who Profits from Windfalls in Oil Tax Revenue? Inequality, Protests, and the Role of Corruption

Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources

Russia in a changing climate

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