Jan Matti Dollbaum

PhD student 


dollbaum@uni-bremen.de 

 

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PhD-Thesis

Life after the end of a protest cycle: development paths of local protest in
electoral authoritarian regimes. The case of Russia 2011-2016


Research interests

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

Education

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

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

Peer-reviewed articles

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.


Contributions to edited volumes

Dollbaum, Jan Matti (2017, forthcoming): Gekommen, um zu bleiben? Ablauf und Entwicklung des Protestzyklus 2011-2013 in den russischen Regionen. In: Zabirko Oleksandr, Mischke, Jakob (eds): Aufbruch und Resignation in Russland und der Ukraine: Protestbewegungen im langen Schatten des Kreml. Stuttgart: ibidem.


Journalistic contributions

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: Ukrainian Analytical Diges No 131.

„Was Nuland sagen wollte – Die EU und ihre Sanktionsdebatte“, in: Ukrainian Analytical Digest No 129.


Selected conference papers and presentations

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
 
Researching complaints: a data set on messages to the President, presentation at a workshop on Social Developments and New Forms of Mass Opinion Research in Contemporary Russia, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 29 August – 02 September 2015

Digging the Archives - The Collection of Self-published Materials of Russian Political Parties and Human Rights NGOs, presentation given at the conference Explaining Contentious Politics in Russia: Innovations in Theory and Data Collection, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 13 – 14 June 2013.