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Bureaucratic discrimination in electoral authoritarian regimes: Experimental evidence from Russia

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  • Rochlitz, Michael
  • Mitrokhina, Evgeniya
  • Nizovkina, Irina

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Are investors in electoral authoritarian regimes discriminated against for political activism? In this paper, we implement a simple experiment to test whether affiliation with the ruling party or the political opposition affects the probability that investors receive advice from investment promotion agencies in Russian regions. Between December 2016 and June 2017, we sent 1504 emails with a short question and a number of randomized treatments to 188 investment promotion agencies in 70 Russian regions. Although investment promotion agencies are nominally depoliticized in Russia, we find that switching the political affiliation of a potential investor from the opposition party “Yabloko” to the government party “United Russia” on average increases the chances to receive a reply by 30%. The effect strongly depends on regional levels of political competition, with higher levels of discrimination in regions that are less politically competitive.

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  • Rochlitz, Michael & Mitrokhina, Evgeniya & Nizovkina, Irina, 2021. "Bureaucratic discrimination in electoral authoritarian regimes: Experimental evidence from Russia," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:poleco:v:66:y:2021:i:c:s0176268020301051
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101957
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    1. Olga Masyutina & Ekaterina Paustyan & Grigory Yakovlev, 2022. "Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions," Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation 2206, University of Bremen, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics.

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    Keywords

    Electoral authoritarianism; Bureaucratic discrimination; Investment; Conjoint experiment; Russia;
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    JEL classification:

    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
    • P26 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Property Rights

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