I am the Lecturer in Russian Politics at University College London in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
I was previously the Herbert Nicholas Junior Research Fellow in Politics at New College, University of Oxford.
I am also currently Senior Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, in the Laboratory for Regional Political Studies. In 2017-18, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
I am interested in what legislatures do in authoritarian regimes. Specifically, my current research examines how factionalised executive actors with divergent policy preferences use legislative institutions to reconcile conflicts in the policy-making process. I focus on Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union.
My other research interests include: the policy-making process for criminal law in the former Soviet Union; Russian regional politics; and budgeting dynamics in non-democratic states. I use a mixture of qualitative and quantitative techniques in my research, and am particularly interested in developing methods for their combination when studying authoritarian regimes.
I have published work in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Legislative Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, and Post-Communist Economies.
University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies page
Higher School of Economics, Moscow page
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