Research

Monograph

Dollbaum, J.M., Lallouet, M, and Noble, B., 2021 [2nd edition 2022]. Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future? Hurst Publishers / Oxford University Press.

Peer reviewed journal articles

Daphi, P., Dollbaum, J.M., Haunss, S. Meier, L.D., (2024). Local Protest Event Analysis: providing a more comprehensive picture? West European Politics, online first. [Open Access]

Dollbaum, J.M., Meier, L.D., Daphi, P., Haunss, S. (2024). Protest types and protester profiles: testing meso-micro associations between event characteristics and participant attitudes. Acta Politica. [Publisher Link]

Dollbaum, J.M., Kim, S. (2024). Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties. Post-Soviet Affairs, 40(3): 222-241. [Open Access]

Burkhardt, F., Dollbaum, J.M. (2023). Lukashenka’s constitutional plebiscite and the polarization of Belarusian society. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 56(3): 98–126. [Open access version here.]

Dollbaum, J.M., Robertson, G.B. (2023). The activist personality: Extraversion, agreeableness, and opposition activism in authoritarian regimes. Comparative Political Studies, 56(11), 1695–1723. [Open Access]

Dollbaum, J.F., Dollbaum, J.M. (2023). Publicize or Perish: Challenger Party Success through Megaphones and Locomotives. European Journal of Political Research, 62(4), 1078–1100. [Open Access]

Wiedemann, G., Dollbaum, J.M., Haunss, S., Daphi, P., and Meier, L.D. (2022). A Generalizing Approach to Protest Event Detection in German Local News. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. [Open Access]

Dollbaum, J.M. (2022). When does diffusing protest lead to local organization building? Evidence from a comparative subnational study of Russia’s “For fair Elections” movement. In: Perspectives on Politics, 20(1), 53–68. [Open Access]

Dollbaum, J.M., Semenov, A. (2022). Navalny’s digital dissidents: A new dataset on Russian opposition supporters. In: Problems of Post-Communism, 69(3), 282–291. [Open Access]

Dollbaum, J.M. (2021). Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources. Media and Communication, 9(4), 104–115. [Open Access]

Dollbaum, J.M. (2021). Social Policy on Social Media: How Opposition Actors Used Twitter and VKontakte to Oppose the Russian Pension Reform. Problems of Post-Communism, 68(6), 509–520. [Open Access]

Bizyukov, P., Dollbaum, J.M. (2021). Using Protest Event Analysis
to study labour conflict in authoritarian regimes: The Monitoring of Labour
Protest dataset. In: Global Social Policy. [Open Access]

Dollbaum, J.M. (2020). Protest Trajectories in Electoral Authoritarianism: From Russia’s ‘For Fair Elections’ Movement to Alexei Navalny’s Presidential Campaign. In: Post-Soviet Affairs, 36(3), 192–210. [Publisher Link (free access)]

Dollbaum, J.M., Semenov, A., Sirotkina, E. (2018). A top-down movement with grass-roots effects? Alexei Navalny’s electoral campaign. In: Social Movement Studies, 17(5), 618–625. [Publisher Link (eprint)]

Dollbaum, J.M. (2017). Curbing protest through elite co-optation? Regional protest mobilization by the Russian systemic opposition during the ‘for fair elections’ protests 2011-2012. In: Journal of Eurasian Studies, 8(2), 109–122. [Open Access]

Stewart, S., Dollbaum, J.M. (2017). Civil society development in Russia and Ukraine: Diverging paths. In: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 50(3), 207–220. [Publisher Link]

Non-peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Dollbaum, J.M. (in press). Die Republik Moldova: Starkes Parlament und fragile Demokratie. In: Sonja Priebus & Timm Beichelt (eds.): Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa: Institutionen, Akteure, Prozesse. Wiesbaden: Springer VS

Dollbaum, J.F., Dollbaum, J.M., Borbáth, E. (2023) A Comment on ‘Manekin & Mitts 2022: Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance’, I4R Discussion Paper Series #86.

Dollbaum, J.M. (2023). Protest and Opposition. In: Graeme Gill (ed.): Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society, 2nd edition.

Dollbaum, J.M (2022). Bedrohte Artenvielfalt: Potenzial und Gefährdung der Protestforschung in Russland. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 35 (3), 540–549.

Dollbaum, J.M. (2022). Der Teufelskreis des elektoralen Protests: Repression und Institutionalisierung in Russland und Belarus. Mittelweg 36, 4, 19–33. (The text appeared as part of a special issue edited by Seongcheol Kim and Martin Nonhoff.)

Semenov, A., Dollbaum, J.M., Sirotkina, E. (in print). Active urbanites in an authoritarian regime: Aleksei Navalny’s Presidential Campaign. In: Regina Smyth, Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov (eds.): Urban Activism in Contemporary Russia, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Dollbaum, J.M. (2020). Aktion und Reaktion: Protestbewegungen im autoritären System. Osteuropa, 70 (6), 109–120. [Open access]

Dollbaum, J.M., Pleines, H., Schattenberg, S. (2020). Trajectories of Political
Protest in Post-Soviet Spaces: An introduction. Post-Soviet Affairs, 36(3),
189–191.

Dollbaum, J.M. (2020). Gekommen, um zu bleiben? Ablauf und Entwicklung Des Protestzyklus 2011-2013 in den Russischen Regionen. In: Aufbruch Und Resignation in Russland Und Der Ukraine: Protestbewegungen Im Langen Schatten Des Kreml, edited by Oleksandr Zabirko and Jakob Mischke, 67–102. Stuttgart: ibidem.

Dollbaum, J.M. (2019). Wie politisch ist Protest? Außerparlamentarische Opposition in Russland. In: INDES: Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft, 8(3), 110-118.

Under review and work in progress

Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope, preprint & under review, by Abel Brodeur et al. (co-author together with Jan Fabian Dollbaum and Endre Borbáth).

Strategic opposition voting in authoritarian party systems. In Preparation.

Sources of support for anti-systemic opposition in authoritarianism: Evidence from a natural experiment. In preparation.

Book project

Dollbaum, J.M. (in preparation). A movement’s troubled legacy. Protest and activism in Russia’s regions after the ‘For Fair Elections’ movement.

This book project extends the results of my PhD thesis by tracing the effects of two instances of nation-wide protest mobilization – the For Fair Elections movement of 2011/12 and Navalny’s anti-corruption protests of 2017 – on local activism. This will inform the social movement scholarship on protest legacies, but it will also contribute to the research on the functioning of electoral authoritarian regimes.