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Mikhail Turchenko

Program Area(s):  Methods; Comparative Politics

Research Interests: authoritarianism, democratization, elections, public opinion, transitional justice

Recent Pulbications:

  • Turchenko, Mikhail, Margarita Zavadskaya, and Grigorii V. Golosov. 2025. “Resistance at the Polls: Coordinated Anti-Regime Voting in Russia’s Transition from Competitive to Hegemonic Authoritarianism, 2019–2021.” Democratization, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2025.2507360.
  • Turchenko, Mikhail, and Grigorii V. Golosov. 2023. “Coordinated Voting against the Autocracy: The Case of the ‘Smart Vote’ Strategy in Russia.” Europe-Asia Studies 75 (5): 820–841. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2022.2147485.
  • Tkacheva, Tatiana, and Mikhail Turchenko. 2022. “Electoral Success of Independents under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia’s Local Elections.” Problems of Post-Communism 69 (3): 270–281. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1914112.
  • Golosov, Grigorii V. and Mikhail Turchenko. 2021. “Countering the ‘Sweep Effect’: Opposition Voter Coordination versus Electoral System Effects in Authoritarian Local Elections.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 54 (1–2): 66–82. https://doi.org/10.1525/j.postcomstud.2021.54.1-2.66.
  • Turchenko, Mikhail, and Grigorii V. Golosov. 2021. “Smart Enough to Make a Difference? An Empirical Test of the Efficacy of Strategic Voting in Russia’s Authoritarian Elections.” Post-Soviet Affairs 37 (1): 65–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2020.1796386.
  • Turchenko, Mikhail. 2020. “Electoral Engineering in the Russian Regions (2003–2017).” Europe-Asia Studies 72 (1): 80–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2019.1682522.
  • Turchenko, Mikhail. 2018. “Why Are There so Many or so Few Parties? Factors of Party System Fragmentation in the Russian Regions.” Problems of Post-Communism 65 (4): 233–242. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2016.1237854.
  • Turchenko, Mikhail. 2017. “The Rise and Fall of Local Self-Government in Petrozavodsk.” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post–Soviet Democratization 25 (2): 155–174. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/657201/summary.
  • Turchenko, Mikhail, and Sergey Shevchuk. 2016. “Veto Players and Major Electoral Reforms in Russia.” Russian Politics 1 (2): 203–221. https://doi.org/10.1163/24518921-00102005.