Shooting for the tsars : heterogeneous political volatility and institutional change in Russia

Hartwell, Christopher A.

doi:10.1080/09546553.2020.1732939

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22527

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Shooting for the tsars : heterogeneous political volatility and institutional change in Russia
Authors:	Hartwell, Christopher A.
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1080/09546553.2020.1732939 10.21256/zhaw-22527
Published in:	Terrorism and Political Violence
Volume(Issue):	34
Issue:	4
Page(s):	706
Pages to:	724
Issue Date:	14-Apr-2020
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0954-6553 1556-1836
Language:	English
Subjects:	Institution; Regime change; Terrorism; Political instability
Subject (DDC):	320: Politics
Abstract:	Can deliberate political instability, including terrorism and/or political violence, have an effect on changing formal political institutions? This paper offers two major contributions toward answering this question, one focused on data and one focused on methodology. In the first instance, this paper introduces a brand-new dataset of monthly political instability in Russia from 1788 to 1914; Czarist Russia was a country plagued by informal instability and political violence throughout the nineteenth century, and which saw waves of reform and reaction. As such, it makes an excellent test case for examining the relationship between informal political instability and formal political change. Secondly, in order to trace the evolution of Russia’s political institutions in the presence of various forms of instability, I utilize non-traditional estimation in the form of Poisson, IV-Poisson-GMM, and logistic regressions to account for the slow-moving nature of political regime change. The results of these estimations show that some forms of instability did indeed “work” in forcing a modicum of liberalization. On the other hand, large-scale unrest or external conflict had no correlation with political regime change and actually appeared to be counterproductive.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/22527
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit:	International Management Institute (IMI)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

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Hartwell, C. A. (2020). Shooting for the tsars : heterogeneous political volatility and institutional change in Russia. Terrorism and Political Violence, 34(4), 706–724. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2020.1732939

Hartwell, C.A. (2020) ‘Shooting for the tsars : heterogeneous political volatility and institutional change in Russia’, Terrorism and Political Violence, 34(4), pp. 706–724. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2020.1732939.

C. A. Hartwell, “Shooting for the tsars : heterogeneous political volatility and institutional change in Russia,” Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 706–724, Apr. 2020, doi: 10.1080/09546553.2020.1732939.

HARTWELL, Christopher A., 2020. Shooting for the tsars : heterogeneous political volatility and institutional change in Russia. Terrorism and Political Violence. 14 April 2020. Bd. 34, Nr. 4, S. 706–724. DOI 10.1080/09546553.2020.1732939

Hartwell, Christopher A. 2020. “Shooting for the Tsars : Heterogeneous Political Volatility and Institutional Change in Russia.” Terrorism and Political Violence 34 (4): 706–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2020.1732939.

Hartwell, Christopher A. “Shooting for the Tsars : Heterogeneous Political Volatility and Institutional Change in Russia.” Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 34, no. 4, Apr. 2020, pp. 706–24, https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2020.1732939.