United by the State: The Social Basis of Authoritarian Power in Russia

• In Event: Contestation and Mobilization

Brief Overview

The paper develops a theory of authoritarianism in statist (unitary by default) and anti-statist (pluralist by default) societies. The presentation will illustrate this model with empirical examples of grassroots politics from four Russian regions.

Author

• Natalia Forrat, University of Michigan