Denis Stukal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1199279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Stukal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Stukal |
| SIGNATURE | STUKAL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Национальный исследовательский университет “Высшая школа экономики” |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6240-5714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
National power of modern states
This article develops an understanding of various aspects of the concept of national power in political science and international studies. National power is understood primarily as a measurable ability of an actor to influence the behavior of other actors in politics. This influence can be exercised though various means. Authors continue the research initiated at MGIMO and continued at the Higher School of Economics, including the research within…
Политический атлас современного мира 2.0”
В статье представлены контуры созданного в 2022 г. консорциума МГИМО МИД России и НИУ ВШЭ для совместного осуществления исследовательского проекта “Политический атлас современного мира 2.0”. Одна из центральных задач данного проекта – исследование характеристик государств, определяющих их положение в мировой системе. При этом очевидный научный вызов перед коллективом консорциума связан с тем, что и государства, и мировая система, в которой госуда…
Эмпирические вызовы и методологические подходы в сравнительной политологии (сквозь призму “Политического атласа современного мира 2.0”)
Растущие объемы, разнообразие и охват данных в последние десятилетия не только открывают перед учеными новые или меняют уже существующие области исследования, но и превращают данные в значимый элемент политики. В этом контексте эмпирические исследования, ставшие на рубеже XX-XXI вв. мейнстримом политической науки, с одной стороны, претендуют на статус строго научного обоснованного знания, а с другой – сталкиваются с некоторыми опасениями, происте…
Technical vocabulary in languages for special purposes
Why Botter
There is abundant anecdotal evidence that nondemocratic regimes are harnessing new digital technologies known as social media bots to facilitate policy goals. However, few previous attempts have been made to systematically analyze the use of bots that are aimed at a domestic audience in autocratic regimes. We develop two alternative theoretical frameworks for predicting the use of pro-regime bots: one which focuses on bot deployment in response t…
What Bots Can (and Can’t) Do? (Model of Protest and Counter-Protest Political Mobilization)
Despite the increasing interest among scholars in the effect of Internet bots, or automated social media accounts, on the processes of political communication and mobilization in the online sphere, the extent of bots’ effectiveness and the specific mechanisms of their use remain largely understudied. The deficit of the overarching conceptual understanding and concrete results is arguably due to researchers’ aspiration to solve a problem in the em…
Developing and Validating an Academic Vocabulary List in Russian
To date, attempts at empirically validating a construct of academic vocabulary in the form of a frequency list in languages other than English remain conspicuously absent in peer‐reviewed journals. This study aims to close this gap by using Russian as a case study to develop an academic vocabulary list and prove its viability through a variety of data science methods, including cross‐validation and out‐of‐sample coverage. Our findings support the…
How Autocrats Manipulate Economic News
Conventional wisdom says that autocrats manipulate news through censorship. But when it comes to economic affairs—a highly sensitive topic for modern autocrats—the government’s ability to censor information effectively is limited, because citizens can benchmark the official news against their incomes, market prices, and other observables. We propose that instead of censoring economic facts, the media tactically frames those facts to make the gove…
For Whom the Bot Tolls
Computational propaganda and the use of automated accounts in social media have recently become the focus of public attention, with alleged Russian government activities abroad provoking particularly widespread interest. However, even in the Russian domestic context, where anecdotal evidence of state activity online goes back almost a decade, no public systematic attempt has been made to dissect the population of Russian social media bots by thei…
Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation
Turning the Virtual Tables
We introduce a novel classification of strategies employed by autocrats to combat hostile activity on the web and in social media in particular. Our classification looks at these options from the point of view of the end internet user and distinguishes both online from offline response and exerting control from engaging in opinion formation. For each of the three options – offline action, infrastructure regulation and online engagement – we provi…
Two Decades of Post-Soviet and Post-Socialist Stateness
The collapse of the socialist system prompted the former USSR countries to “re-invent” their stateness. The paper focuses on factors that impede or smooth stateness transformations in post-Soviet countries. First, the paper examines internal and external factors of state formation in selected countries. Next, it introduces empirical research tools and empirical findings that present alternative patterns of stateness and outcomes of state formatio…
How Autocrats Manipulate Economic News
Conventional wisdom says that autocrats manipulate news through censorship. But when it comes to economic affairs—a highly sensitive topic for modern autocrats—the government’s ability to censor information effectively is limited, because citizens can benchmark the official news against their incomes, market prices, and other observables. We propose that instead of censoring economic facts, the media tactically frames those facts to make the gove…
Turning the Virtual Tables
We introduce a novel classification of strategies employed by autocrats to combat hostile activity on the web and in social media in particular. Our classification looks at these options from the point of view of the end internet user and distinguishes both online from offline response and exerting control from engaging in opinion formation. For each of the three options – offline action, infrastructure regulation and online engagement – we provi…
Why Botter
There is abundant anecdotal evidence that nondemocratic regimes are harnessing new digital technologies known as social media bots to facilitate policy goals. However, few previous attempts have been made to systematically analyze the use of bots that are aimed at a domestic audience in autocratic regimes. We develop two alternative theoretical frameworks for predicting the use of pro-regime bots: one which focuses on bot deployment in response t…
For Whom the Bot Tolls
Computational propaganda and the use of automated accounts in social media have recently become the focus of public attention, with alleged Russian government activities abroad provoking particularly widespread interest. However, even in the Russian domestic context, where anecdotal evidence of state activity online goes back almost a decade, no public systematic attempt has been made to dissect the population of Russian social media bots by thei…
Two Decades of Post-Soviet and Post-Socialist Stateness
The collapse of the socialist system prompted the former USSR countries to “re-invent” their stateness. The paper focuses on factors that impede or smooth stateness transformations in post-Soviet countries. First, the paper examines internal and external factors of state formation in selected countries. Next, it introduces empirical research tools and empirical findings that present alternative patterns of stateness and outcomes of state formatio…
Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation
Turning the Virtual Tables
We introduce a novel classification of strategies employed by autocrats to combat hostile activity on the web and in social media in particular. Our classification looks at these options from the point of view of the end internet user and distinguishes both online from offline response and exerting control from engaging in opinion formation. For each of the three options – offline action, infrastructure regulation and online engagement – we provi…
How Autocrats Manipulate Economic News
Conventional wisdom says that autocrats manipulate news through censorship. But when it comes to economic affairs—a highly sensitive topic for modern autocrats—the government’s ability to censor information effectively is limited, because citizens can benchmark the official news against their incomes, market prices, and other observables. We propose that instead of censoring economic facts, the media tactically frames those facts to make the gove…
For Whom the Bot Tolls
Computational propaganda and the use of automated accounts in social media have recently become the focus of public attention, with alleged Russian government activities abroad provoking particularly widespread interest. However, even in the Russian domestic context, where anecdotal evidence of state activity online goes back almost a decade, no public systematic attempt has been made to dissect the population of Russian social media bots by thei…
Developing and Validating an Academic Vocabulary List in Russian
To date, attempts at empirically validating a construct of academic vocabulary in the form of a frequency list in languages other than English remain conspicuously absent in peer‐reviewed journals. This study aims to close this gap by using Russian as a case study to develop an academic vocabulary list and prove its viability through a variety of data science methods, including cross‐validation and out‐of‐sample coverage. Our findings support the…
What Bots Can (and Can’t) Do? (Model of Protest and Counter-Protest Political Mobilization)
Despite the increasing interest among scholars in the effect of Internet bots, or automated social media accounts, on the processes of political communication and mobilization in the online sphere, the extent of bots’ effectiveness and the specific mechanisms of their use remain largely understudied. The deficit of the overarching conceptual understanding and concrete results is arguably due to researchers’ aspiration to solve a problem in the em…
Technical vocabulary in languages for special purposes
Why Botter
There is abundant anecdotal evidence that nondemocratic regimes are harnessing new digital technologies known as social media bots to facilitate policy goals. However, few previous attempts have been made to systematically analyze the use of bots that are aimed at a domestic audience in autocratic regimes. We develop two alternative theoretical frameworks for predicting the use of pro-regime bots: one which focuses on bot deployment in response t…
Политический атлас современного мира 2.0”
В статье представлены контуры созданного в 2022 г. консорциума МГИМО МИД России и НИУ ВШЭ для совместного осуществления исследовательского проекта “Политический атлас современного мира 2.0”. Одна из центральных задач данного проекта – исследование характеристик государств, определяющих их положение в мировой системе. При этом очевидный научный вызов перед коллективом консорциума связан с тем, что и государства, и мировая система, в которой госуда…
Эмпирические вызовы и методологические подходы в сравнительной политологии (сквозь призму “Политического атласа современного мира 2.0”)
Растущие объемы, разнообразие и охват данных в последние десятилетия не только открывают перед учеными новые или меняют уже существующие области исследования, но и превращают данные в значимый элемент политики. В этом контексте эмпирические исследования, ставшие на рубеже XX-XXI вв. мейнстримом политической науки, с одной стороны, претендуют на статус строго научного обоснованного знания, а с другой – сталкиваются с некоторыми опасениями, происте…
National power of modern states
This article develops an understanding of various aspects of the concept of national power in political science and international studies. National power is understood primarily as a measurable ability of an actor to influence the behavior of other actors in politics. This influence can be exercised though various means. Authors continue the research initiated at MGIMO and continued at the Higher School of Economics, including the research within…
Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 works)