Dr. Olga Masyutina

affiliated researcher

masyutina@uni-bremen.de

Research Interests

Authoritarian politics; Russia and post-soviet countries; institutional change; subnational elites; environmental politics; business-government relations; corruption.


Short CV

Education

2023: Doctoral degree (PhD), University of Bremen. Dissertation title: ”Papers on the Political Economy of Authoritarianism”

2010-2013: Master of Arts, Roads to Democracy(-ies), University of Siegen, Germany/ University of Coimbra, Portugal

2004-2009: Diploma (with honours), Area Studies, minor in German and English, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia

Professional experience

Since 2023: Research fellow, Research project ”Hydrogen for Bremen’s Industrial Transformation”, University of Bremen

2019 – 2023: Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen

2014-2019: Project manager/Research assistant, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID), Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia


Publications

"Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions" (with Ekaterina Paustyan and Grigory Yakovlev). 2023. Russian Politics 8(3): 305-330 

“Authoritarian durability, prospects of change and individual behaviour: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia” (with Yulia Khalikova, Michael Rochlitz and Koen Schoors). 2023. Working paper 2023/1061, Department of Economics, Ghent University

"The Political Economy of Waste Management in Russia" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. Russian Analytical Digest 285: 13-15

"Die politische Ökonomie der Abfallwirtschaft in Russland" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. Russland-Analysen 421: 23-26

"Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. IERP Discussion paper 2206

"The Putin Paradox, by Richard Sakwa". 2021. Europe-Asia Studies 73(4): 766-767 (book review)