Recently, Indonesia's middle-class Muslims have come under suspicion for strengthening
the religious foundation of their political preferences. However, while this suspicion has …

Existing research on public opinion under authoritarianism focuses on the deliberative half
of cognition. Yet in psychology, implicit attitudes and subconscious associations are often …

This dissertation uses the case of Putin's Russia to examine how authoritarian regimes build
relationships with their societies in a way that strengthens authoritarian rule. In contrast to …

The paper attempts to determine whether an individual's socio-economic dependence on
the state in Russia translates into a higher propensity to turn out for elections and to vote for …

What explains the durability of the Putin system? Most countries at Russia's level of wealth,
education, and urbanization, and most of Russia's neighbors in Europe, are democracies …