When do political parties join protests? A comparative analysis of party involvement in «for fair elections» movement
Abstract
Why some political parties join popular protests, whereas others abstain or even oppose? Using paired case-study comparison between party models of interactions with protest movements in the Russian regions, we examine political parties' strategies towards «For Fair Elections» movement in 2011-2012 and explain these choices through two jointly operating mechanisms: level of party institutionalization and cooptation. We show that despite the symbiosis of the state and political parties and overall parties' loyalty to the regime in Russia, on an organizational level they differ in strategy and degree of involvement in social movement. We argue that the mechanism of party institutionalization explains the switch between involvement and abstention, while cooptation does a better job in explaining the «support/ counteract» choice.
About the Authors
Margarita Zavadskaya
European University at St. Petersburg; National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olesya Lobanova
Russian Federation
Andrei Semenov
Perm State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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