The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 12
List of Figures......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
Hybrid Regimes......Page 23
Russian Lessons and a Theory of Protest in Hybrids......Page 25
Theoretical Implications......Page 27
Politics in Russia through the Lens of Protest......Page 32
Structure of the Book......Page 35
1 - Protest and Regimes......Page 37
How Regimes Affect Contention......Page 38
Organizational Ecology......Page 43
State Mobilizing Strategies......Page 49
Elite Competition......Page 53
Summary of Regime Effects on Contention......Page 54
How Contention Affects Regimes......Page 57
2 - Protest and Regime in Russia......Page 59
Post-Communism and Protest......Page 61
Data on Protest......Page 63
What, Who, and Why......Page 68
Conclusion: Protests without Movements......Page 81
3 - The Geography of Strikes......Page 86
Strike Patterns......Page 88
The Ecology of Organizations and Protest......Page 91
Mobilization Strategies, Elite Competition, and Strike Patterns......Page 98
Hypotheses and Measures......Page 100
Alternative Explanations: Business Cycles, Information, and Hardship......Page 103
Strike Data......Page 106
Models and Results......Page 107
Other Forms of Protest......Page 112
Organizational Realities and Hybrid Regimes......Page 115
4 - A Time for Trouble......Page 118
Protest and Time......Page 119
Demonetization, Wage Arrears, and Protest......Page 123
Center-Periphery Conflict Over Rules and Resources......Page 127
Primakov's Appointment and Protest Dynamics......Page 130
Conclusion......Page 141
5 - Elections and the Decline of Protest......Page 142
Political Protest and the Paradox of the 1999 Elections......Page 144
Theories of Protest Decline......Page 148
Putin's Political Strategy and Protest Decline......Page 150
Parallel Elections and the Separation of the National and the Local......Page 155
Conclusion: Bandwagons, Protest, and Regime......Page 163
6 - Vladimir Putin and Defeat-Proofing the System......Page 165
Incorporating Labor into the "Vertical"......Page 167
Enlisting the Regional Political Machines......Page 169
Defeat-Proofing the Electoral System......Page 173
Potential Problems, Sources of Weakness......Page 182
7 - Protest, Repression, and Order from Below......Page 185
Managing Contention in Hybrids......Page 188
Putin, Protest, and Print Dresses......Page 192
The Response: Coercion and Channeling......Page 196
After the Revolution: The New Politics of the Streets......Page 201
Coercion in Russia: Brezhnev and Putin......Page 206
Channeling under Putin......Page 208
Russian Repression in the Broader Context......Page 215
8 - Implications for Russia and Elsewhere......Page 218
Implications for Other Cases......Page 220
Social Movements, Political Opportunities and Repression in Hybrids......Page 225
Implications for Russian Politics......Page 228
Democratization from the Ground Up?......Page 230
Bibliography......Page 237
Appendix 1 - Event Protocol......Page 255
Appendix 2 - Sectoral and Seasonal Strike Patterns......Page 287
Appendix 3 - A Statistical Approach to Political Relations......Page 293
Index......Page 297