CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Cohen, William |
|---|---|
| Title | How Hybrid Regimes Respond to Mobilized Protest: The Case of Russia during the 2011-2012 Election Cycle |
| Summary | The Russian election cycle in 2011-2012 was characterized by increased oppositional mobilization and the largest anti-regime protests since the fall of the Soviet Union. This thesis discusses the challenges and dangers that mobilized protest pose to hybrid regimes seeking to maintain a veneer of democracy while simultaneously controlling the outcome of the democratic process. The thesis then goes on to discuss the various strategies that are used by hybrid regimes to manage mobilized protest and garner support for the regime through a combination of coercion, channelling and political technology. This theoretical background is then used as a prism for analysing how the Putin/Medvedev regime responded to increased protest activity during the 2011-2012 election cycle. |
| Supervisor | Fumagalli, Matteo |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/cohen_william-jacob.pdf |
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