Allison C White
Biographic Data
| ID | 4385745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison C White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison C |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8364-3164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Invalid Votes in Dictatorships: Patterns in Putin’s Russia (1995–2016)
Policymaking in personalist dictatorships: A theory of outbidding
This article offers a novel perspective on policymaking in personalist dictatorships based on outbidding theory. Originally developed with reference to ethnic conflict and terrorist organizations, outbidding suggests that individuals or organizations compete for support from their relevant audience, which produces predictable outcomes. I present a modified version of outbidding theory derived from the incentives faced by autocratic elites’ desire…
The First- and Second-Nature Geographic Correlates of Federal Budget Transfers and Fiscal Dependence—Evidence from Russia and the United States
This study examines fiscal federalism by interrogating the relationship between first- and second-nature geographic features—most notably distance as well as various economic/infrastructural indicators—and intergovernmental transfers and subnational fiscal dependence in Russia and the United States from 2003 to 2015. Our findings reveal stark differences in the role that geographic factors play in these two federations. While first- and second-na…
Public policy and elections in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from the policy on native languages in Russia
How might public policy changes affect electoral support for authoritarian regimes? Missing from the existing scholarship, which focuses mostly on regimes generating political budget cycles and manipulating electoral rules, is an exploration of how non-fiscal and non-electoral policies may impact incumbent support. We examine this issue with electoral and census data from one of the world’s most prominent authoritarian regimes – Russia – to evalu…
New Perspectives on Electoral Politics and Policy Under Putin
This introduction to the special issue on Electoral Politics and Policy under Putin presents the central arguments of the contributors and situates those within the broader relevant literatures. Collectively, the articles cover a sweeping constellation of electoral issues that have become hallmark considerations of the Putin era, such as opposition party performance in a consolidated dictatorship, the election of women and minority candidates, co…
A Chink in the Autocrat’s Armour: Demographic Change and Voter Turnout in Putin’s Russia
How do changes in ethnic composition affect voter turnout? In Russia, a country that institutionalizes ethnicity through federalism, research demonstrates that geographically concentrated ethnic minorities increase voter turnout, but has not explored how shifts in ethnic composition over time affect participation. This study uses unique fine-grained demographic data from the 2002 and 2010 All-Russia National Censuses and electoral data from the 2…
Shifting Votes on Shifting Sands: Opposition Party Electoral Performance in Dominant Party Authoritarian Regimes
When competition is real but unfair, how do opposition parties make electoral inroads at the local level? I investigate patterns of opposition party support in the largest and most influential dominant party authoritarian regime—Russia—and focus on the most prominent opposition, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF). Drawing on evidence from regimes around the world, I generate hypotheses regarding the electoral environments conduc…
Does electoral fraud spread? The expansion of electoral manipulation in Russia
In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of electoral manipulation in Russia has been driven, in part, by diffusion across neighboring raions through emulation, incentives, and networks. Presumably, in Putin’s Russia all local authorities have some incentives to deliver a high number of votes to United Russia, the “party of power”. However, the perceived pressure to deliver ever higher levels of support for Putin’s party arguably increases con…
More Than a Name? Variation in Electoral Mobilisation of Titular and Non-Titular Ethnic Minorities in Russian National Elections
Do patterns of electoral mobilisation differ between titular and non-titular ethnic minorities in Vladimir Putin’s Russia? Despite the fact that ‘titular privileging’ has been identified as one of the central causal mechanisms for patronage-based electoral mobilisation in Russia, existing literature has not tested this systematically. This study investigates whether turnout patterns differ between titular and non-titular ethnic minorities in Russ…
Electoral Fraud and Electoral Geography: United Russia Strongholds in the 2007 and 2011 Russian Parliamentary Elections
Despite United Russia’s (Edinaya Rossiya—UR) dominance in repeated Russian legislative elections, the correlates of the party’s electoral support remain noticeably understudied beyond the influence of electoral manipulation. I pinpoint the specific contours of UR’s strongholds in the two most recent parliamentary elections in Russia—2007 and 2011—focusing on raion- and regional-level correlates of the vote using an original dataset. UR has been u…
How ethnicity matters in Russian elections: Ethnic minorities and support for the United Russia party
This paper explores the relationship between ethnicity and electoral support for the dominant party in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 Russian legislative elections by leveraging a new and unique data-set comprised of electoral results and demographic data at the smallest administrative unit in Russia for which there is available data, the level of the raion. The empirical evidence provided in a series of multilevel models, spatial statistics, and mappi…
The crisis of Russian democracy: The dual state, factionalism and the Medvedev succession
Richard Sakwa Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN13 9780521768429 (hbk), ISBN13 9780521145220 (pbk), 418 pp In The crisis of Russian democracy, Richard Sakwa reconcile
Does electoral fraud spread? The expansion of electoral manipulation in Russia
In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of electoral manipulation in Russia has been driven, in part, by diffusion across neighboring raions through emulation, incentives, and networks. Presumably, in Putin’s Russia all local authorities have some incentives to deliver a high number of votes to United Russia, the “party of power”. However, the perceived pressure to deliver ever higher levels of support for Putin’s party arguably increases con…
Electoral Fraud and Electoral Geography: United Russia Strongholds in the 2007 and 2011 Russian Parliamentary Elections
Despite United Russia’s (Edinaya Rossiya—UR) dominance in repeated Russian legislative elections, the correlates of the party’s electoral support remain noticeably understudied beyond the influence of electoral manipulation. I pinpoint the specific contours of UR’s strongholds in the two most recent parliamentary elections in Russia—2007 and 2011—focusing on raion- and regional-level correlates of the vote using an original dataset. UR has been u…
More Than a Name? Variation in Electoral Mobilisation of Titular and Non-Titular Ethnic Minorities in Russian National Elections
Do patterns of electoral mobilisation differ between titular and non-titular ethnic minorities in Vladimir Putin’s Russia? Despite the fact that ‘titular privileging’ has been identified as one of the central causal mechanisms for patronage-based electoral mobilisation in Russia, existing literature has not tested this systematically. This study investigates whether turnout patterns differ between titular and non-titular ethnic minorities in Russ…
How ethnicity matters in Russian elections: Ethnic minorities and support for the United Russia party
This paper explores the relationship between ethnicity and electoral support for the dominant party in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 Russian legislative elections by leveraging a new and unique data-set comprised of electoral results and demographic data at the smallest administrative unit in Russia for which there is available data, the level of the raion. The empirical evidence provided in a series of multilevel models, spatial statistics, and mappi…
A Chink in the Autocrat’s Armour: Demographic Change and Voter Turnout in Putin’s Russia
How do changes in ethnic composition affect voter turnout? In Russia, a country that institutionalizes ethnicity through federalism, research demonstrates that geographically concentrated ethnic minorities increase voter turnout, but has not explored how shifts in ethnic composition over time affect participation. This study uses unique fine-grained demographic data from the 2002 and 2010 All-Russia National Censuses and electoral data from the 2…
Shifting Votes on Shifting Sands: Opposition Party Electoral Performance in Dominant Party Authoritarian Regimes
When competition is real but unfair, how do opposition parties make electoral inroads at the local level? I investigate patterns of opposition party support in the largest and most influential dominant party authoritarian regime—Russia—and focus on the most prominent opposition, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF). Drawing on evidence from regimes around the world, I generate hypotheses regarding the electoral environments conduc…
Invalid Votes in Dictatorships: Patterns in Putin’s Russia (1995–2016)
Public policy and elections in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from the policy on native languages in Russia
How might public policy changes affect electoral support for authoritarian regimes? Missing from the existing scholarship, which focuses mostly on regimes generating political budget cycles and manipulating electoral rules, is an exploration of how non-fiscal and non-electoral policies may impact incumbent support. We examine this issue with electoral and census data from one of the world’s most prominent authoritarian regimes – Russia – to evalu…
The crisis of Russian democracy: The dual state, factionalism and the Medvedev succession
Richard Sakwa Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN13 9780521768429 (hbk), ISBN13 9780521145220 (pbk), 418 pp In The crisis of Russian democracy, Richard Sakwa reconcile
How ethnicity matters in Russian elections: Ethnic minorities and support for the United Russia party
This paper explores the relationship between ethnicity and electoral support for the dominant party in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 Russian legislative elections by leveraging a new and unique data-set comprised of electoral results and demographic data at the smallest administrative unit in Russia for which there is available data, the level of the raion. The empirical evidence provided in a series of multilevel models, spatial statistics, and mappi…
More Than a Name? Variation in Electoral Mobilisation of Titular and Non-Titular Ethnic Minorities in Russian National Elections
Do patterns of electoral mobilisation differ between titular and non-titular ethnic minorities in Vladimir Putin’s Russia? Despite the fact that ‘titular privileging’ has been identified as one of the central causal mechanisms for patronage-based electoral mobilisation in Russia, existing literature has not tested this systematically. This study investigates whether turnout patterns differ between titular and non-titular ethnic minorities in Russ…
Electoral Fraud and Electoral Geography: United Russia Strongholds in the 2007 and 2011 Russian Parliamentary Elections
Despite United Russia’s (Edinaya Rossiya—UR) dominance in repeated Russian legislative elections, the correlates of the party’s electoral support remain noticeably understudied beyond the influence of electoral manipulation. I pinpoint the specific contours of UR’s strongholds in the two most recent parliamentary elections in Russia—2007 and 2011—focusing on raion- and regional-level correlates of the vote using an original dataset. UR has been u…
Does electoral fraud spread? The expansion of electoral manipulation in Russia
In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of electoral manipulation in Russia has been driven, in part, by diffusion across neighboring raions through emulation, incentives, and networks. Presumably, in Putin’s Russia all local authorities have some incentives to deliver a high number of votes to United Russia, the “party of power”. However, the perceived pressure to deliver ever higher levels of support for Putin’s party arguably increases con…
Shifting Votes on Shifting Sands: Opposition Party Electoral Performance in Dominant Party Authoritarian Regimes
When competition is real but unfair, how do opposition parties make electoral inroads at the local level? I investigate patterns of opposition party support in the largest and most influential dominant party authoritarian regime—Russia—and focus on the most prominent opposition, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF). Drawing on evidence from regimes around the world, I generate hypotheses regarding the electoral environments conduc…
A Chink in the Autocrat’s Armour: Demographic Change and Voter Turnout in Putin’s Russia
How do changes in ethnic composition affect voter turnout? In Russia, a country that institutionalizes ethnicity through federalism, research demonstrates that geographically concentrated ethnic minorities increase voter turnout, but has not explored how shifts in ethnic composition over time affect participation. This study uses unique fine-grained demographic data from the 2002 and 2010 All-Russia National Censuses and electoral data from the 2…
New Perspectives on Electoral Politics and Policy Under Putin
This introduction to the special issue on Electoral Politics and Policy under Putin presents the central arguments of the contributors and situates those within the broader relevant literatures. Collectively, the articles cover a sweeping constellation of electoral issues that have become hallmark considerations of the Putin era, such as opposition party performance in a consolidated dictatorship, the election of women and minority candidates, co…
The First- and Second-Nature Geographic Correlates of Federal Budget Transfers and Fiscal Dependence—Evidence from Russia and the United States
This study examines fiscal federalism by interrogating the relationship between first- and second-nature geographic features—most notably distance as well as various economic/infrastructural indicators—and intergovernmental transfers and subnational fiscal dependence in Russia and the United States from 2003 to 2015. Our findings reveal stark differences in the role that geographic factors play in these two federations. While first- and second-na…
Public policy and elections in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from the policy on native languages in Russia
How might public policy changes affect electoral support for authoritarian regimes? Missing from the existing scholarship, which focuses mostly on regimes generating political budget cycles and manipulating electoral rules, is an exploration of how non-fiscal and non-electoral policies may impact incumbent support. We examine this issue with electoral and census data from one of the world’s most prominent authoritarian regimes – Russia – to evalu…
Policymaking in personalist dictatorships: A theory of outbidding
This article offers a novel perspective on policymaking in personalist dictatorships based on outbidding theory. Originally developed with reference to ethnic conflict and terrorist organizations, outbidding suggests that individuals or organizations compete for support from their relevant audience, which produces predictable outcomes. I present a modified version of outbidding theory derived from the incentives faced by autocratic elites’ desire…
Invalid Votes in Dictatorships: Patterns in Putin’s Russia (1995–2016)
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