How Does Corruption Mobilize Anti-Regime Action in Autocracies? Evidence from Russia and China

• In Event: Mobilization in Autocracies: Causes, Mechanisms, and Regime Reactions

Brief Overview

This paper examines how different types of corruption - such as voluntary and coercive petty corruption as well as perceived grand corruption in government - are linked to citizen pushback against autocratic regimes in Russia and China.

Authors

• Marina Zaloznaya, University of Iowa

• Jennifer Glanville, University of Iowa

• William M. Reisinger, University of Iowa