RESEARCH
work in progress
*More information on selected projects can be found at the bottom of the page
Psychology of Opposition Under Repression
presentations: PBAC (Cornell University), EPSA 2025
Historical Origins of Authoritarian Personality
Do Wartime Casualties Affect Support for the Autocrat? Evidence from Russia
(with Nikita Savin and Konstantin Bogatyrev)
State Partisan Congruence Influences Framing Susceptibility
(with Natalia Bogatyreva)
under review
RED: Russian Election Data
(with Nikita Savin and Konstantin Bogatyrev)
Don’t Tread On Me: Orthodox Schism and Voting in Revolutionary Russia
(with Timur Natkhov) | presentations: MPSA 2024, 2022 Workshop in Political Economy of Eurasia (Harriman Institute, Columbia University)
Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science
(with Abel Brodeur, David Valenta, Alexandru Marcoci, Juan P. Aparicio, Derek Mikola, Bruno Barbarioli, Rohan Alexander et al.) | [I4R Discussion Paper Version]
working papers
Hybrid Banditry: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Wagner Group Mercenaries
[working paper] | presentations: APSA 2024, PBAC 2024 (Cornell University)
Historical Origins of Anti-Authoritarian Personality
This projects investigates how deep cultural legacies shape contemporary disobedience and dissent across political regimes. I argue that ancestral cultural units, captured through folklore motifs that valorize resistance to authority, help explain global variation in anti-authoritarian attitudes and behaviors. Linking ethnicity-level folklore data to harmonized surveys, protest records, and indicators of democratic erosion, I show that resistance-related motifs predict support for democracy, protest intention, collective action, and resilience against backsliding.