Dr. Jan Matti Dollbaum

Post-doc researcher

Project "Comparing Protest Actions"

Room OEG 3660
dollbaum@uni-bremen.de 

 

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Research interests

• Stability of authoritarian regimes
• Social movements and protest in authoritarian and hybrid regimes
• Society and politics in the post-Soviet space

Education

01/2020 Successful defense of the doctoral dissertation at the University of Bremen

09/2018-10/2018: Visiting researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

03/2018: Research stay at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow

since 08/2016: Doctoral researcher at the Research Centre of East European Studies at the University of Bremen in the project Comparing Protest Actions funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

10/2013-06/2016: MA in Empirical Studies of Democracy at the University of Mainz; Title of MA thesis: Reducing protest through elite co-optation? Parliamentary opposition parties and political protest in Russia’s regions

2014/15: Exchange student (graduate taught) at King‘s College London

2011: Exchange student at St. Petersburg State University

2009-2012: BA in Political Science and Slavonic Studies at the University of Heidelberg; Title of BA thesis: The Russian Public Chamber and the consolidation of authoritarian rule


Work experience

10/2015-06/2016: Editor and in-house expert (Russian politics) at www.dekoder.org

2014-2016: Coordinator of the Research Link between the Research Centre for East European Studies and the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (Moscow) on Social Developments and New Forms of Mass Opinion Research in Contemporary Russia

02/2014-04/2014: Intern at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin (Research group on Eastern Europe and Eurasia)

2013: Editor of the Ukrainian Analytical Digest (Ukraine-Analysen) at the Research Centre for East European Studies

2012/13: Responsible for the collection of documents of Russian political parties and human rights NGOs at the Research Centre for East European Studies

2012: Teaching assistant (economic and social statistics) at the University of Heidelberg

Further internships: Memorial (St. Petersburg), Centre for German Studies (Minsk)


Scholarships and awards

2018: BremenIDEA scholarship for a research stay at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2018: Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service for a research stay at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow

2016: Award for an outstanding M.A. thesis, University of Mainz, issued by the Friends‘ association of the Institute for Political Science at the University of Mainz (FMPW)

2014/15: PROMOS scholarship by the DAAD for an exchange semester at King’s College London


Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals


Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2020). When Does Diffusing Protest Lead to Local Organization Building? Evidence from a Comparative Subnational Study of Russia’s “For Fair Elections” Movement, in: Perspectives on Politics (online first)

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2020): Social Policy on Social Media: How Opposition Actors Used Twitter and VKontakte to Oppose the Russian Pension Reform, in: Problems of Post-Communism (online first)

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2020): Protest Trajectories in Electoral Authoritarianism: From Russia’s ‚For Fair Elections‘ Movement to Alexei Navalny’s Presidential Campaign, in: Post-Soviet Affairs, 36 (3), 192-210.

Dollbaum, Jan Matti, Semenov, Andrei and Sirotkina, Elena (2018): A top-down movement with grass-roots effects? Alexei Navalny’s electoral campaign, in: Social Movement Studies, 17 (5), 618–625.

Stewart, Susan and Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2017): Civil society development in Russia and Ukraine: Diverging paths, in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 50 (3), 207–220.

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2017): Curbing protest through elite co-optation? Regional protest mobilization by the Russian systemic opposition during the "for fair elections" protests 2011-2012, in: Journal of Eurasian Studies, 8 (2), 109-122.


Other publications

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2020): Aktion und Reaktion. Russland: Protestbewegungen im autoritären System. Osteuropa, 6/2020, pp. 109–120

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2020): Gekommen, um zu bleiben? Ablauf und Entwicklung des Protestzyklus 2011–2013 in den russischen Regionen. In: Oleksandr Zabirko, Jakob Mischke (eds.): Protestbewegungen im langen Schatten des Kreml – Aufbruch und Resignation in Russland und der Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem, pp. 67-102

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2020): Aufstand und Stillstand. Internationale Politik, 26 (2/2020).

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2019): "Wie Politisch Ist Protest? Außerparlamentarische Opposition in Russland." Indes 8 (3): 110–18.

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2019): Outsmarting Electoral Authoritarianism? Alexey Navalny’s “Smart Voting” in Moscow and Beyond, in: Russian Analytical Digest No 239, pp. 5-8.

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2019): Protest in Russia. A multimedia special by www.dekoder.org in cooperation with the Research Centre for East European Studies

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2018): Der Bolotnaja-Prozess. In: Groenewold/ Ignor/ Koch (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Politischen Strafprozesse (mit Fabian Burkhardt).

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2018): Wahlkampf im elektoralen Autoritarismus: Alexej Nawalnyjs Kampagne für die Präsidentschaftswahlen 2018, in: Russland-Analysen Nr. 347, pp. 9-12.

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2017): When Life Gives You Lemons: Alexei Navalny’s Electoral Campaign, in: Russian Analytical Digest No 210, pp. 6-9.

Numerous contributions for dekoder.org, e.g. on Alexai Navalny, the Russian party system, the party United Russia and the concept of the non-systemic opposition

„Das politische Assoziierungsabkommen zwischen der EU und der Ukraine“, in: Ukraine-Analysen No 131.

„Was Nuland sagen wollte – Die EU und ihre Sanktionsdebatte“, in: Ukraine Analyse No 129.


Selected conference papers and presentations

Defining the Russian Opposition: Alexey Navalny’s presidential campaign of 2017/18. Invited talk held in the context of the public lecture series of the Russian Studies Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington, 16 October 2019
 
Protest trajectories in electoral authoritarianism: From Russia’s “For Fair Elections” movement to Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 29 August – 01 September 2019
 
Protest trajectories in electoral authoritarianism: From Russia’s “For Fair Elections” movement to Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign. Paper presented at the BASEES Annual Conference, Cambridge (UK), 12-14 April 2019

Sustaining Local Democratic Activism after Failed Mass Protests in Russia. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, 30 August - 02 September 2018

How to keep it alive: Local institutionalization of the "For Fair Elections" movement in the Russian regions. Presentation in the framework of the Political Science Departemental Seminar Series, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 23 March 2018.

Life after the end of a protest cycle: Comparing local development paths of nation-wide pro-tests in electoral authoritarianism. Paper presented at the conference How a Spark Creates a Fire: Micro-Foundations of Large-Scale Social Changes, Centre for Comparative History and Political Studies (CCHPS), Perm State University, 16. – 17. Juni 2017

Comparing regional development paths of protest in electoral authoritarianism. The case of Russia 2011-2016. Paper presented at the Second Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, Tartu University, 05 – 06 June 2017

Reducing protest through elite co-optation? Parliamentary opposition parties and political protest in Russia’s regions, paper presented at the ECPR Graduate Conference 2016, Tartu, 10 – 13 July 2016

Protest Mobilization by the Russian Systemic Opposition – Testing a Multiple-Source Design, paper presented at the ECPR/COSMOS Summer School on Political Participation and Mobilization an der Scoula Normale Superiore, Florence, 14 – 25 September 2015