Responding to Crises in Authoritarian Environments: Russian Think Tanks between Policy Evaluation and State Legitimation

• In Event: Policy Process Theories in Authoritarian Settings

Brief Overview

How much intellectual independence do think tanks have in authoritarian environments? This paper tackles this question in a case study of Russian think tanks’ discursive responses to two protracted crises: the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change.

Author

• Vera Axyonova, University of Vienna