Projektnummer

0066480

Zusammenfassung

In the second part of the research project on protest actions in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union, the project teams plan to examine social protests. These differ from political protests - the object of investigation in the first part - in several regards. First, since social protests are concerned with the distribution of resources, welfare measures, labour conditions, and wages, authoritarian and hybrid regimes like the ones under study have more leeway in making concessions to protestors, since they do not necessarily challenge the incumbents' hold on power. Second, social pro...