Exploring Local Political Opportunity Structures: Protest and Social Control in Russia’s Provinces

IF 0.7 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Allison D. Evans
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Abstract Why does the scale and intensity of protest vary so widely across Russian cities? This article answers this question by disaggregating political opportunity structures to consider the interaction between formal and informal political factors through a paired comparison of two similar Russian cities during the turbulent 1990s. Drawing on archival documents, interviews, and an analysis of local media, I argue that the observed variation depends on elite strategies for social control and local governmental institutions. Specifically, when a city’s institutions and political elite strategy match, either with undemocratic institutions and a closed political elite strategy, or with democratic institutions and an open political elite strategy, protests are likely to be small and insignificant. In contrast, when the institutional architecture and political elite strategies mismatch, protests are more likely to be large and intense because there is an opening for protest, but not institutionalized paths for participation.
探索地方政治机会结构:俄罗斯各省的抗议和社会控制
为什么俄罗斯各城市抗议的规模和强度差异如此之大?本文通过对动荡的20世纪90年代两个相似的俄罗斯城市进行配对比较,通过分解政治机会结构来考虑正式和非正式政治因素之间的相互作用,从而回答了这个问题。根据档案文件、访谈和对当地媒体的分析,我认为观察到的变化取决于社会控制和地方政府机构的精英策略。具体来说,当一个城市的制度和政治精英战略匹配时,无论是非民主制度和封闭的政治精英战略,还是民主制度和开放的政治精英战略,抗议活动都可能是小而微不足道的。相反,当制度架构和政治精英的策略不匹配时,抗议活动更有可能是大规模和激烈的,因为有抗议的机会,但没有制度化的参与途径。
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Russian Politics
Russian Politics Arts and Humanities-History
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