Rubber Stamp Repression: Autocratic Control through Bureaucratic Administration in Russia

• In Event: Repression in Authoritarian Regimes and Backlash

Brief Overview

How do bureaucrats decide to repress? We present a delegation model to study when bureaucrats approve or deny political protests and when autocratic regimes hold firmer lines and punish bureaucrats for protests in their jurisdiction.

Authors

• Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford

• Emily Hencken Ritter, Vanderbilt University