Rubber Stamp Repression in Russia

• In Event: Influencing Subnational Politics from Above and Below

Brief Overview

We present a delegation model with a single principal with preferences for information on bureaucratic quality and social order and multiple agents competing for favor, deriving implications for when bureaucrats will approve more anti-Putin protests.

Authors

• Emily Hencken Ritter, Vanderbilt University

• Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford