Dr Fabian Burkhardt

affiliated researcher

burkhardt@ios-regensburg.de

 

 


 

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Research Interests
 

• Political Institutions in the Russian Federation
• Political Systems of post-Soviet Countries
• Authoritarian Regimes
• Comparative Presidentialism

Education and Academic Positions

since 2020: Research in the Political Science Junior Research Group at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg / co-editor of Russland-Analysen and Ukraine-Analysen

2019-2020: Associate, Eastern Europe and Eurasia Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

2018-2019: Postdoctoral fellow, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (Moscow)

2018: conclusion of doctoral studies at the University of Bremen, doctoral project conducted at the Research Centre: Presidential power and institutional change: A study on the presidency of the Russian Federation

2017: Fellow, Research Division Eastern Europe and Eurasia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

2016-2017: Scholarship holder, Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Munich (funded by DFG)

2013-2016: Research Associate, Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, LMU Munich (funded by DFG)

2012-2016: Member, Research Network Constitutional Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

2012-2013: Research Associate, Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, LMU Munich, Research Network Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialism (funded by the BMBF)


Publications

Edited volume

A Successful Failure. Russia after Crime(a), Warsaw: The Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, 2017, 241 pages (with Anton Barbashin, Olga Irisova, Ernest Wyciszkiewicz).


Articles in academic journals (peer-reviewed)

Institutionalising Authoritarian Presidencies: Polymorphous Power and Russia’s Presidential Administration, in: Europe-Asia Studies (2020), online first

The Tail Wagging the Dog? Top-Down and Bottom-Up Explanations for Bureaucratic Appointments in Authoritarian Regimes, in: Russian Politics, 3 (2), 2018, pp. 239-259 (mit Alexander Libman).
 
The Institutionalization of Relative Advantage: Formal Institutions, Subconstitutional Presidential Powers, and the Rise of Authoritarian Politics in Russia, 1994–2012, in: Post-Soviet Affairs, 33 (6), 2017, pp. 472-495.


Chapters in Edited Volumes

Presidential Power in Putin’s Third Term: Was Crimea a Critical Juncture in Domestic Politics? in: A. Barbashin/ F. Burkhardt/O. Irisova/E. Wyciszkiewicz (Eds.): A Successful Failure. Russia after Crime(a), Warsaw: The Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, 2017, pp. 119-141.

Constitutional politics in Belarus, in: A. Fruhstorfer/M. Hein (Hg.): Constitutional Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Between Stability and Change, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016, p. 463-493.

Concepts of the Nation and Legitimation in Belarus, in: M. Brusis/J. Ahrens/M. Schulze Wessel (Hg.): Politics and Legitimacy in Post‐Soviet Eurasia, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, p. 148-171.
 

Articles in Journals and Online Publications (without peer review)

Russia’s “Passportization” of the Donbas. The Mass Naturalisation of Ukrainians Is More Than a Foreign Policy Tool, in: SWP-Comment, 2020/A 58, June 2020, 8 pages. 

Moldova – Key Challenges and Political Developments, in: Südosteuropa Mitteilungen 60(1-2), 2020, p. 147-159 (conference report). 

Executive politics in Russia in times of the pandemic: Shifting responsibility and blame as a technology of governance, in: Pex Network, 28 May 2020. 

The Institutionalization of Personalism? The Presidency and the President after Putin’s Constitutional Overhaul, in: Russian Analytical Digest, No. 250, 9 April 2020, p. 5-10.

Verfassungspolitik und nationale Souveränität in Belarus, in: Belarus-Analysen Nr. 42, 29.03.2019, p. 2-16 (with Maryia Rohava)

Kampf um das Eigentum. Staat und Wirtschaft in Russland, in: OSTEUROPA 68, 10-12/2018, p. 175–187 (with Janis Kluge)

Der Bolotnaja-Prozess, in: Groenewold/ Ignor/ Koch (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Politischen Strafprozesse, April 2018 (with Jan Matti Dollbaum).
 
The non-campaign of the 2018 presidential election in Russia, in: Presidential Power Blog, 07 March 2018.
 
Dress Rehearsal for Russia’s Presidential Election. Moscow Tightens Grip on Regional Governors and Budgets, in: SWP Comments 2017/C 37, October 2017, 4 Pages (with Janis Kluge).

Ordnung der Macht. Die Generation Anton Wainos und Russlands techno-bürokratischer Autoritarismus, in: Russland-Analysen Nr. 322, 07.10.2016, p. 13-19.

„Securitization“ von Geschichte? Russlands Archivagentur Rosarchiv in der Präsidentenvertikale, in:  Erinnerungskulturen. Erinnerung und Geschichtspolitik im östlichen und südöstlichen Europa (Webblog der Graduiertenschule), 30.04.2016, http://erinnerung.hypotheses.org/745.

Gesetze wie heiße Piroggen – Geschichtspolitik und legislative Aktivität in der ukrainischen Rada, in:  Erinnerungskulturen. Erinnerung und Geschichtspolitik im östlichen und südöstlichen Europa (Webblog der Graduiertenschule), 10.06.2015, http://erinnerung.hypotheses.org/211.

Externe Einflüsse auf den ukrainischen Reformprozess: Wer bekommt was, wann und wie? In: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 148, 24.03.2015, p. 21-24.

Die Ukraine-Krise in den deutschen Talkshows, in: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 135, 24.06.2014, p. 10-19.

Neopatrimonializacija vmesto modernizacii: politika Germanii v otnošenii Rossii i «otkat», in: Forum novejshej vostočno-evropejskoj istorii i kul’tury, № 2 (2013), p. 387-399.

Neopatrimonialisierung statt Modernisierung. Deutsche Russlandpolitik plus russischer Otkat, in: OSTEUROPA 63, 8/2013, p. 95-106.