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A complete listing of the 30+ years of research published in Demokratizatsiya. Articles published since 2014 are available via Project MUSE. Articles published in 2014 and earlier can be downloaded for free.
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Volume 31, 2023
Issue 4
The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Test of Russia’s Subnational State Capacity - Cameron Ross, Rostislav Turovsky, and Marina Sukhova View
“Lots of Money, Few Restrictions, and a Lot of Creativity:” The Changing Role of Political Strategists in Russia - Svetlana Barsukova and Elena Denisova-Schmidt View
Opposition Cooperation in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Theory and Evidence from Russia - Dima Kortukov View
Beyond Drugs and Arms: Uncovering Eurasia’s Understudied World of Illicit Trade - Alexander Kupatadze View
Issue 3
Domestic and International Dimensions of Ukraine's Decentralization: Kyiv's Local Governance Reform and Post-Soviet Democratization - Valentyna Romanova and Andreas Umland View
Flexible Authoritarian Governance in Russia: The Politics of Ideas on Family Policy - Marina Khmelnitskaya, Ann-Mari Sätre, and Ulla Pape View
Russia and the Middle East: From "Honest Broker" to "Status-Keeper" - Leonid Issaev View
Do People Protest for Democracy? Investigating the Democratic Theory of Protest Participation in Armenia's Velvet Revolution of 2018 - Dinara Pisareva View
Issue 2
The Legitimacy of Power in Modern Russian Prisons: Between Harsh Discipline and Managed Self-Governance - Kseniia Runova View
When Juries Come to Russian District Courts: Lay Participation Expansion and Court System Non-Compliance - Ekaterina Khodzhaeva View
Moot Courts as a Site for Valorization of the Russian Legal Profession - Grigory Gorbun View
Four Months of "Discrediting the Military": Repressive Law in Wartime Russia - Lauren A. McCarthy, Douglas Rice, and Aleks Lokhmutov View
The Swan, the Pike, and the Crayfish: The Deep Cleavages in Russian Legal Education - Aryna Dzmitryieva and Timur Bocharov View
Contradictions of Justice in Russia: An Introduction to the Special Issue - Evgenia Olimpieva View
Issue 1
The Differential Impact of Traditional and Social Media on Public Confidence: The Case of Kazakhstan - Hoyoun Koh and Kyungmin Baek View
The KGB and Glasnost: A Contradiction in Terms? - Sanshiro Hosaka View
Informal Networks of Regional Elites in Russia: A Cross-Temporal Perspective - Kirill Melnikov View
Culturalizing the Nation: A Quantitative Approach to the Russkii/Rossiiskii Semantic Space in Russia’s Political Discourse - Marlene Laruelle, Ivan Grek, and Sergey Davydov View
Volume 30, 2022
Issue 4
Demokratizatsiya at 30: Introduction to the Special Issue - Ellen Powell View
Political Developments in Georgia - Svante Cornell View
Armenia: A Stealthy Thermidor? - Alexander Iskandaryan View
The Belarusian Revolution: Two Years after the Storm - Arkady Moshes and Ryhor Nizhnikau View
Digitalized Protests in Belarus and Symbolic Walls: Some Lessons Related to Youth - View
Turkmenistan’s 2022 Leadership Change through the Personalist Paradigm - Slavomír Horák View
Revisiting Judicial Reform in Russia - Peter Solomon View
Unfinished Business: 1991 as the End of the CPSU but Not of the KGB - Sanshiro Hosaka View
The Consequences of Putin’s Centralization of Power - Robert Orttung View
Are Russians Imperialists? - Michael McFaul View
Revisiting the Problem of Organized Crime in Post-Soviet Development - Louise Shelley View
Revisiting a “Sad Saga” of Russo-Ukrainian Relations Twenty Years On - Igor Torbakov View
Issue 3
Cooperation and Control at the Micro Level of Soviet Internationalism: Moscow's Lumumba University, 1960-1970 - Nikolaus Graf Vitzthum View
Governance and Human Rights in Transnistria: Between Theory and Praxis - Lucia Leontiev View
Sixty Shades of Statism: Mapping the Ideological Divergences in Russian Elite Discourse - Ivan Fomin View
Digitalization of the Menu of Manipulation: Electoral Forensics of Russian Gubernatorial Elections - Kristin Eichhorn View
Subnational State Capacity in Russia: The Implementation of the 2012 Presidential "May Decrees" - Cameron Ross, Rostislav Turovsky, and Marina Sukhova View
Issue 2
Party-Based Euroscepticism: The Case of Georgia - Sandro Tabatadze View
Journalistic Role Performance in the Russian Press: A Post-Soviet Model for the Third Decade, 2012-2022 - Svetlana Pasti, Olga Logunova and Sergey Davydov View
On Subregional Differences in Attitudes toward Petty Corruption in the Russian Far East - Elena Denisova-Schmidt and Anna Solovyeva View
Probing, Brokering, and Resisting the State: Place-Based Activism in Moscow - Maria Davidenko and Victor Attila Albert View
Issue 1
The Publication Race in Russian Universities as an Impediment to Academic Freedom - Irina Dezhina View
University Leader Appointment Procedure in Russia: Building a Vertical of Power in Higher Education - Daria Gerashchenko View
Building a World-Class University in Russia: Redefining the Relationship between Academic and Managerial Governance - Katerina Guba View
Faculty Self-Governance, Professorial Power, and Academic Freedom in Russia - Mikhail Sokolov View
Academic Freedom or Freedom of Speech? Russian Social Scientists' Understanding of Academic Freedom - Dmitry Dubrovsky and Irina Meyer (Olimpieva) View
Speaking Up at Work: Narrative Analysis of Academic Freedom in Russia - Elizaveta Potapova View
Volume 29, 2021
Issue 4
Narrating Western Education as a Pathway to Change-Making: Evidence from Post-Euromaidan Ukraine - Maryna Rabinovych View
Where in the World Is Ukraine? Confronting Russian and European Representations of Ukraine - Clarisse Didelon-Loiseau and Yann Richard View
Ukrainian Youth and Ukraine in Europe: A Cohort Analysis of the Drivers of Attitudes toward the EU - Olga Onuch and Cressida Arkwright View
Friends, Supporters, and Allies? Understanding IR Roles through Metaphor Scenarios - Natalia Chaban and Viktor Velivchenko View
Ukraine through a Baltic Lens: Regional Networks of Meanings - Donald Matheson, Linda Jean Kenix, and Natalia Chaban View
Diverging Horizons? How Citizens and Young Elites Narrate Foreign Policy in Ukraine and the Baltic States - Alister Miskimmon and Ben O'Loughlin View
Introduction - Natalia Chaban, Alister Miskimmon, Ben O’Loughlin, and Pauline Sophie Heinrichs View
Negotiating Global Uncertainty, Identity, and Europeanization: An Examination of Youth Narrative Processes between Ukraine and the Three Baltic States - Iana Sabatovych and Pauline Heinrichs View
Issue 3
Perestroika and the End of the Cold War - Jack F. Matlock, Jr. View
Gorbachev's Non-Violence Revolution - Andrei Illarionov View
Perestroika as a Humanist Project - Svetlana Savranskaya View
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Origins of Perestroika: A Retrospective - Mark Kramer View
Mikhail S. Gorbachev: An Exceptional Leader - George W. Breslauer View
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Transformational Leader - Archie Brown View
Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective - Mikhail S. Gorbachev View
Issue 2
Identity Politics as Pretext and Prediction: Vote-Buying and Group Boundaries in Ukraine - Simon Schlegel View
Mixed Values and Societal Constraints: The Weak Prospects for Authoritarianism in Ukraine - Yuriy Matsiyevsky View
Strategic Transgressions: Russia’s Deviant Sovereignty and the Myth of Evgenii Prigozhin - Jardar Østbø View
The Belarusian Revolution: Sources, Interim Outcomes, and Lessons to Be Learned - Arkady Moshes and Ryhor Nizhnikau View
Issue 1
Georgia’s Europeanization: Performative Games and Peculiarities of “Enforced Socialization” - Lia Tsuladze and Irine Osepashvili View
Taming the Oligarchs? Democratization and State Capture: The Case of Moldova - Ion Marandici View
Why Political Machines Fail: Evidence from Bashkortostan - Stanislav Shkel View
The Silovik-Industrial Complex: Russia’s National Guard as Coercive, Political, Economic and Cultural Force - Mark Galeotti View
Volume 28, 2020
Issue 4
The Political Values of the State and Private Sectors of the Russian Middle Class - Svetlana Mareeva and Cameron Ross View
The Russian State and the Arctic Indigenous Peoples: Is Politics Coming Back? - Arbakhan Magomedov View
New Generation of Victors: Narrating the Nation in Russian Presidential Discourse, 2012–2019 - Veera Laine View
Observing Elite Support for Democracy: The Prison Vote in Poland and Ukraine - Stephen Bloom and Benjamin Bricker View
Issue 3
Integration or Absorption? Analyzing the Propagandist Narratives Generated by Russia-Backed Online Regional Media in Belarus - Vasil Navumau View
Identity Discourse in Local Newspapers Before, During, and After Military Conflict: A Case Study of Kramatorsk - Jon Roozenbeek View
Local Dimensions of Media Freedom: A Comparative Analysis of News Media Landscapes in 33 Russian Regions - Anna Litvinenko and Kamilla Nigmatullina View
State Information Contracts: The Economic Leverage of Regional Media Control in Russia - Olga Dovbysh and Oscar Mukhametov View
Poverty and Morality: A Field Theory Analysis of Russia’s Struggling Provincial Journalism - Elina Erzikova and Wilson Lowrey View
Local Media of Post-Soviet Countries: Evidence from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine - Olga Dovbysh and Katja Lehtisaari View
Issue 2
Regulating Society after the Color Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of NGO Laws in Belarus, Russia, and Armenia - Leah Gilbert View
Exploring Civil Society in the North-West Caucasus: The State, Local Government, and Communities on a Convoluted Path toward Social Stability - Murat Shogenov, Alexey Gunya, and Aslan Chechenov View
The Far Right in Pre- and Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: From Ultra-Nationalist Party Politics to Ethno-Centric Uncivil Society - Andreas Umland View
Promoting the Legal Protection of Anti-Corruption Whistleblowers in Ukraine - Olena Shostko View
Explaining Variation in the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Activism in Ukraine’s Regions: The Role of Local Context, Political Will, Institutional Factors, and Structural Factors - Oksana Huss, Max Bader, Andriy Meleshevych, and Oksana Nesterenko View
Issue 1
Law Enforcement and the Politics of Religious Minority Rights in Azerbaijan - Sophia Wilson View
Assessing the Potential for Renegades among Russian Millennial Lawyers - Kathryn Hendley View
No Revolution of Dignity for Ukraine’s Judges: Judicial Reform after the Euromaidan - Maria Popova and Daniel Beers View
Mechanisms of Decoupling from Global Regimes: The Case of Anti-Corruption Reforms in Russia and Ukraine - Marina Zaloznaya and William M. Reisinger View
Taxes, Banking, and Legal Development in Russia: Lessons about Institutional Complementarities and the Rule of Law - Jordan Gans-Morse View
The Decriminalization of Domestic Violence in Russia - Olga Semukhina View
A Law & Society Take on Legality in the Former Soviet Union: An Introduction to the Special Issue - View
Volume 27, 2019
Issue 4
Islam and Local Politics in Counties of South Dagestan under Governor Ramazan Abdulatipov (2013–2017) - Kimitaka Matsuzato and Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov View
Foreign Agents and Gay Propaganda: Russian LGBT Rights Activism Under Pressure - Lucy Pakhnyuk View
“Who and Where are We?” Landscapes as Mediums of Identity Negotiation for Georgia’s Azeri-Turks - Karli-Jo T. Storm View
The Problematic Nature of Russian Banking - Anders Aslund View
Big Business in Putin’s Russia: Structural and Instrumental Power - Ilya Matveev View
Issue 3
How State-Controlled Media Can Set the Agenda on the Internet: Coverage of Three Tragedies on Different Types of Russian Media - Anastasia Kazun and Anton Kazun View
Russian Nationalism Shifting: The Role of Populism Since the Annexation of Crimea - Sofia Tipaldou and Philipp Casula View
Belarus at the United Nations: An Analysis of Belarus’s Global Policy Alignment Following the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine - Olena Lennon and Aemin Becker View
Social Media as a Source of Counter-Hegemonic Discourses: Micro-Level Analysis of the Belarusian “Silent Actions” Protest Movement - Vasil Navumau View
(Dis)Engaging Youth in Contemporary Belarus through a Pro-Presidential Youth League - Kristiina Silvan View
Issue 2
Tribute to Joyce Poole Horn, 1939-2019 - Sally W. Stoecker, Louise Shelley and Fredo Arias-King View
The Georgian Dream? Outcomes from the Summer of Protest, 2018 - Phillip Oravec and Edward Holland View
Roadblocks: Georgia’s Long Road to NATO Membership - Joe Kyle View
Russian Center-Periphery Relations from Khrushchev to Putin, 1957-2018 - Joel Moses View
Democratic Culture in Belarus: Insights on Democratic Citizenship, Trust, and Participatory Intentions among Adolescents - Natallia Sianko View
Hegemony of the European Project in Georgia: From Foreign Policy Initiative to the Logic of State Building and Development - Tamar Gamkrelidze View
Flexible Memory Narratives in the Physical Landscape: A Case Study of Tbilisi, Georgia - Karli Storm View
Issue 1
Buying Directly from Farmers: Tactics of St. Petersburg Consumers - Olga Gromasheva View
Moonlighting Politicians in Russia: Defense Capacities of Businesspeople in Regional and Local Legislatures - Maria Sakaeva View
Regions in Search of a Violent Entrepreneur - Leonid Blyakher View
Informal Practices of Big Business in the Post-Soviet Period: From Oligarchs To "Kings of State Orders" - Svetlana Barsukova View
The Informal Economy and Post-Socialism: Imbricated Perspectives on Labor, the State, and Social Embeddedness - Jeremy Morris View
Russia's Informal Economy: Rules of the Game for Business - Irina Meyer (Olimpieva) View
Volume 26, 2018
Issue 4
Post-Velvet Revolution Armenia's Foreign Policy Challenges - Alexander Markarov and Vahe Davtyan View
Velvet Revolution, Armenian Style - Levon Abrahamian and Gayane Shagoyan View
My Step Aside from Sasna Tsrer: The Dynamics of Protest Coalitions in Armenia, 2016 and 2018 - Nikolai Silaev and Ivan Fomin View
The Velvet Revolution in Armenia: How to Lose Power in Two Weeks - Alexander Iskandaryan View
The Armenian Anomaly: Toward an Interdisciplinary Interpretation - Georgi Derluguian and Ruben Hovhannisyan View
Good News from the Caucasus? An Introduction to the Special Issue - Editorial View
Issue 3
Perspectives: Gubernatorial Turnover in the Russian Regions, 2005-2012 - Ekaterina Paustyan View
Is Kazakhstan Immune to Color Revolutions? The Social Movements Perspective - Nurseit Niyazbekov View
Media Security Structural Indicators: The Case of Moldova - Alla Rosca View
The Kremlin’s “Active Measures” Failed in 2013: That’s When Russia Remembered Its Last Resort—Crimea - Sanshiro Hosaka View
Russian State Television Coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election - Tina Burrett View
Issue 2
Guardians of the Status Quo: Stopping the Diffusion of Popular Challenges to Authoritarian Rule - Karrie J. Koesel View
Diffusion Brokers and Regime Change Waves: The US Role in the Wave of Central and Eastern European Electoral Breakthroughs - Tsveta Petrova View
The Electoral Model without Elections?: The Arab Uprisings of 2011 and the Color Revolutions in Comparative Perspective - Alanna C. Van Antwerp, Nathan J. Brown View
Mass Actions and Middlemen of Communism and the Color Revolutions - Jane Leftwich Curry View
Modes of Popular Mobilizations against Authoritarian Rulers: A Comparison of 1989, the Color Revolutions, and the MENA Uprisings - Valerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik View
Introduction: Mass Mobilization in Comparative Perspective - Valerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik View
Issue 1
Parameters of Police Reform and Non-Reform in Post-Soviet Regimes: The Case of Armenia - Nona Shahnazarian, Matthew Light View
Between Mob and Multitude: Youth Ambivalence Toward Mass Mobilization in a Ukrainian Protest Movement - Anna Fournier View
Coalitional Configurations: A Structural Analysis of Democratization in the Former Soviet Union - Andrew Buck, Jeffrey Hass View
Protests in Russia: The Example of the Blue Buckets Society - Al Evans View
Volume 25, 2017
Issue 4
Informal Governance & Electorate Perceptions in Hybrid Regimes: The 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia - Bidzina Lebanidze, Kornely Kakachia View
Regime Development and Patron–Client Relations: The 2016 Transnistrian Presidential Elections and the “Russia Factor” - Pål Kolstø, Helge Blakkisrud View
Against the Stream: Political Opposition in the Russian Regions During the 2012–2016 Electoral Cycle - Andrei Semenov View
Electoral Sources of Authoritarian Resilience in Russia: Varieties of Electoral Malpractice, 2007–2016 - Margarita Zavadskaya, Max Grömping, Ferran Martinez i Coma View
The Mechanism of Direct Democracy in Authoritarian Countries: The Case of the Constitutional Referendum in Azerbaijan - Samuele Dominioni View
Menus of Manipulation: Authoritarian Continuities in Central Asian Elections - Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Rob Kevlihan View
“The Election Game:” Authoritarian Consolidation Processes in Belarus - Sofie Bedford View
Guiding Voice to Exit: Elections of Sitz-Chairman in Moldova, Inc. - Ryhor Nizhnikau View
The Same but Different: “Re-understanding” Elections in Contemporary Post-Soviet Space - Ryhor Nizhnikau, Sofie Bedford View
Issue 3
Protest and Legitimacy: Emerging Dilemmas in Putin’s Third Term - Geir Flikke, Jardar Østbø View
Searching for a Russian National Idea: Putin Team Efforts and Public Assessments - Pat Willerton View
Putin and the Russian Mythscape: Dilemmas of Charismatic Legitimacy - Bo Petersson View
Russia’s Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate: HQ for Defeat-Proofing Russian Politics - Carolina Vendil Pallin View
Between Opportunist Revolutionaries and Mediating Spoilers: Failed Politicization of the Russian Truck Drivers’ Protest, 2015–2016 - Jardar Østbø View
“Monstrations for Mocracy”: Framing Absurdity and Irony in Russia’s Youth Mobilization - Geir Flikke View
Issue 2
Female Heroes in a Man's World: The Construction of Female Heroes in Kyrgyzstan's Symbolic Nation-building - Helge Blakkisrud, Nuraida Abdykapar kyzy View
Lake Baikal and Russia's Environmental Policy Process - Ellen Martus View
The Rise and Fall of Local Self-Government in Petrozavodsk - Mikhail Turchenko View
The Donbass War: Outbreak and Deadlock - Kimitaka Matsuzato View
Issue 1
Blogging Strategies and Political Tactics in Runet: Introduction to the Special Issue - Mikhail Suslov View
Leadership and Leaders in Networked Social Movements - Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa View
Parody Microbloggers as Chroniclers and Commentators on Russian Political Reality - Anastasia Denisova View
Blogging in Russian Academia: Practices of Self-Representation in Public Contexts - Galina Zvereva View
Holy Fools in the Digital Age: Strategies of Self-Positioning in the Russian-language Orthodox Blogosphere - Mikhail Suslov View
Self-Representation in the Web World of Opera: What Do the Blogs and Social Network Accounts of Famous Russian Opera Singers Tell Us About? - Irina Kotkina View
Volume 24, 2016
Issue 4
Karen Dawisha: Scholar, Intellectual, Institution-Builder - Venelin I. Ganev View
Diffusion-Proofing and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Valerie Bunce, Aida Hozić View
The Dynamics of Global-Domestic Institutional Interaction in Postcommunist Russia and Elsewhere - Gulnaz Sharafutdinova View
Assessing Foreign Policy Commitment Through Migration Policy in Russia - Caress Schenk View
The Rise of Vladimir Putin: Elite Politics in Early Postcommunism - Venelin I. Ganev View
Jumping out of the “Hobbesian Fishbowl” and Into the Fire: Lebanon, Elections, and Chronic Crisis - Stephen Deets, Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss View
Issue 3
The Domestic Effects of the Russian Food Embargo - Susanne Wengle View
Canaries in a Coal Mine: The Uphill Struggle of Russia’s Non-System Liberals - Geir Flikke View
Framing Sanctions in the Russian Media: The Rally Effect and Putin’s Enduring Popularity - Anastasia Kazun View
Explanatory Factors for Electoral Turnout in the Russian Federation: The Regional Dimension - Petr Panov, Cameron Ross View
Kazakhstan’s Presidential Transition and the Evolution of Elite Networks - Michael Mesquita View
Is Russia Declining? - Simon Saradzhyan View
Issue 2
Analysis of Current Events: Structural Impediments to Reforms in Ukraine - Taras Kuzio View
Network Governance in Russia: Costs and Benefits - Elena Bogdanova, Olga Tkach, Aadne Aasland View
NGOs, Policy Entrepreneurship and Child Protection in Russia: Pitfalls and Prospects for Civil Socie - Elena Bogdanova, Eleanor Bindman View
“You are Responsible for Your People”: The Role of Diaspora Leaders in the Governance of Immigrant I - Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Olga Tkach View
Post-Soviet “Political”?: “Social” and “Political” in the Work of Russian Socially Oriented CSOs - Meri Kulmala View
Domestic Politics in Crimea, 2009-2015 - Kimitaka Matsuzato View
Smart Sanctions against Russia: Human Rights, Magnitsky and the Ukrainian Crisis - Emma Gilligan View
Issue 1
Boris Nemtsov: A Tragedy of Resistance Introduction to the Special Section - Andrey Makarychev View
Boris Nemtsov, 1959-2015 The Rise and Fall of a Provincial Democrat - Andre Mommen View
Nemtsov: A Variety of Perspectives: Boris Nemtsov: A True Russian Patriot - David J. Kramer View
Boris Nemtsov: From Kremlin Heir to Dissident - Vladimir V. Kara-Murza View
Encountering Boris Nemtsov in 1992 - Howard Wiarda View
Nemtsov and Democracy in Nizhny Novgorod - Sharon Werning Rivera View
The Legacy of Boris Nemtsov - Stefan Meister View
Boris Nemtsov and the Chechen-Russian Conflict - Miguel Vázquez Liñán View
Boris Nemtsov: A Ukrainian Afterword - Yulia Kurnyshova View
Boris Nemtsov and the Reproduction of the Regional Intelligentsia - Tomila Lankina View
The Nemtsov Vote: Public Opinion and Pro-Western Liberalism’s Decline in Russia - Henry E. Hale View
Rocking the Sochi Olympics Narrative: Boris Nemtsov and Putin’s Sovereignty - Andrey Makarychev, Alexandra Yatsyk View
Oligarchs and Politics in Ukraine - Heiko Pleines View