Tanggal 24 Februari 2022, Rusia melancarkan Special Military Operation (SMO) terhadap Ukraina. Operasi itu didasarkan atas rencana keanggotaan Ukraina pada NATO oleh Volodymyr Zelensky tahun 2021. Keputusan ini secara nyata berdampak pemberian sanksi dan kecaman internasional Rusia. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, penelitian ditujukan untuk menjelaskan proses pengambilan kebijakan yang dilalui Vladim...

Recent research on the role of quasi-democratic institutions in non-democratic regimes finds differential effects of legislatures on economic performance and regime stability across subtypes of non-democracy. This empirically observed variation has however remained a “black box” lacking a micro-theoretical foundation. This paper helps bridge this gap by proposing a theory of two types of non-ru...

In established democracies, voters often evaluate incumbents’ performance based on economic outcomes. By contrast, in young democracies leaders are often thought to seek support by exploiting nationalism, exaggerating external threats, and manipulating the media. Such ploys are believed to work because voters are inexperienced and unsophisticated. Using time series data, I examine the determina...

The article presents the author's vision of caricature as an informational mechanism for constructing image Russia's war against Ukraine. subject study was satirical graphics one most famous and authoritative publications in world - British newspaper "The Times" its separate Sunday edition Times". Chronologically, work covers a small but revealing period: first 7 days full-scale armed aggressio...