BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:REDS Seminar: Why Risk It? Political Participation Under Autoc racy X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260720T161857Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_47560994982382 DTSTART:20241114T200000Z DTEND:20241114T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Bryn Rosenfeld discusses how citizens approach political risks in repressive environments like Putin’s Russia\n\nIn nondemocracies\, su ch varied political acts as protest participation\, voting for the opposit ion and abstaining from supporting regime candidates entail risks. Yet cit izens' attitudes toward risk-taking have seldom been studied directly in a uthoritarian settings. This talk considers how citizens’ attitudes towar d risk shape political participation under authoritarian rule. It proposes a theory of how affective factors interact with an individual’s baselin e tolerance for risk to explain risky political behavior—even when the s trong organizational ties emphasized by exiting literature on high-risk pa rticipation are absent. I test this argument using survey data from Russia on expressions of regime support (and evasive responding)\, voting behavi or (including non-voting and opposition voting)\; and a survey experiment on willingness to protest after regime repression. This research on which this talk is based is the first to benchmark the predictive power of risk attitudes relative to other known determinates of regime support and votin g in an autocracy. It also contributes to our understanding of how ordinar y citizens in repressive environments overcome their baseline aversion to political risk-taking. \n\nBryn Rosenfeld is an Assistant Professor of Gov ernment at Cornell University and a co-Principal Investigator of the Russi an Election Study\, supported by the National Science Foundation and the N ational Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Her research inte rests include comparative political behavior\, with a focus on regime pref erences and voter behavior in nondemocratic systems\, development and demo cratization\, protest\, post-communist politics\, and survey methodology. Her first book\, The Autocratic Middle Class (Princeton University Press\, 2021)\, explains how middle-class economic dependence on the state impede s democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience. It won the 2022 Best Book award from the APSA's Democracy & Autocracy section\, the E d A. Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political econom y of Russia\, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe by the Association for Slavic\ , East European\, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)\, and an Honorable Mention for the APSA's William H. Riker award for best book in political economy. She is also the recipient of a Frances Rosenbluth best paper prize\, as w ell as a Best Article Award honorable mention and Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation\, both by the APSA's Democracy & Autocracy section. Her arti cles appear in the American Political Science Review\, the American Journa l of Political Science\, the Journal of Politics\, the Annual Review of Po litical Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, and Sociological Methods & Research\, among other outlets. Previously\, she was an Assistant Profe ssor of Political Science at the University of Southern California and a P ostdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College\, University of Oxfo rd. She is also a former editor of The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blo g and has worked for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Opinio n Research\, where she designed and analyzed studies of public opinion in the former Soviet Union. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.\n\n \n\n*If you need any disability-related accommodation\, please contact Sha nnon Johnson at sj1874@stanford.edu. Requests should be made by November 7 \, 2024.\n\n\nREDS: RETHINKING EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY\n\n\nThe REDS Seminar Series aims to deepen the research agenda on the new challeng es facing Europe\, especially on its eastern flank\, and to build intellec tual and institutional bridges across Stanford University\, fostering inte rdisciplinary approaches to current global challenges.\n\nREDS is organize d by The Europe Center and the Center on Democracy\, Development and the R ule of Law\, and co-sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Center for Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies.\n\nLearn more about REDS an d view past seminars here. GEO:37.427319;-122.164625 LOCATION:Encina Hall\, Philippines Conference Room SUMMARY:REDS Seminar: Why Risk It? Political Participation Under Autocracy URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/reds-seminar-why-risk-it-po litical-participation-under-autocracy CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR