The following guest post is from David Szakonyi, a PhD student at Columbia University who is currently conducting research in Moscow, Russia. These comments originally appeared here. Notwithstanding claims of minor electoral fraud, Putin’s first-round victory was dominant and nearly unquestionable. Granted, the regime-backed candidate scored fewer votes than he had in both the 2008 and […]
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Webcams and Polling Stations: Evidence from Azerbaijan
[Photo by Erik Herron] Couldn’t get enough of Super Tuesday? Well, imagine you could not only watch news reports roll in, but could also observe voters (and poll workers) around the country voting through live webcams in all polling stations. As I noted earlier this week, this was indeed the case in Russia’s presidential election […]
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More on 2012 Russian Presidential Elections and Post-Election Protests
From Regina Smyth, a political scientist at Indiana University who is currently in Moscow and who observed the post-election protests first hand; all views expressed below are those of the author. Preparations for Russian protests have taken on a very predictable pattern. First come the barriers and portable toilets, along with large vehicles (buses, trucks, riot […]
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Russia 2012 Presidential Election Post-Election Report
Displaying a predictive ability at a level of which my Americanist colleague can only dream, I think it is safe to say that most of the claims I made in my pre-election report on the 2012 Russian Presidential election have been substantiated: Vladimir Putin won. Multiple allegations have been raised that the election was neither […]
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Cross-National Diffusion of Protest
Why does protest that starts in one country sometime spread to other countries? This is the question that motivates Cornell University political scientitsts Valerie Bunce and David Patel’s contribution to the most recent newsletter of the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) (and likely is keeping many, many political leaders around […]
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Pre-Election Report: 2012 Russian Presidential Elections
Given my research interests in Russian politics, I will offer my own pre-election report on the March 4, 2012 first round of the Russian presidential elections. I will, however, do so in the time-honored Monkey Cage fashion of a Q&A with myself. Readers should note that the dialogue (minus this introductory paragraph) originally appeared on […]
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Viral Putin
In a sign that someone other than Jeremy Lin can still attract online attention, two Vladimir Putin visual “photo shops” are making the rounds. The first is punny: The second a bit more serious: Even if you don’t speak Russian, you should be able to get the gist of this video – it is a […]
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Tweets vs. Likes: An Analysis of Monkey Cage Data
A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about the question of why some blog posts are more likely to be tweeted and why others are more likely to be “liked”. I threw out some hypotheses, and got a lot of interesting suggestions in the comments. Anton Strezhnev, a Georgetown University undergraduate and soon-to-be Ph.D. […]
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More on Military Partisanship: Officers and Enlisted Soldiers
I am thrilled to see the number of posts that have been generated by my original question regarding whether or not Romney is likely to have a military problem (see here, here, and here on The Monkey Cage and here at The New Republic). I think this is one of the best features of the […]
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Hungary’s Democratic Crisis: Comments from David Stark and János Kornai
Columbia University Professor David Stark sends along the following comments on both the evolving situation in Hungary and a recent article of note by the eminent Hungarian scholar Jnos Kornai which appeared in the Hungarian newspaper Népszbadság on January 28, 2012, and is being made available in English for the first time on The Monkey Cage […]
