Michael Rochlitz’s  joint paper with Evgeniya Mitrokhina and Irina Nizovkina “Bureaucratic discrimination in electoral authoritarian regimes: Experimental evidence from Russia” is now available online at the European Journal of Political Economy. The authors used a randomized experiment in which they sent 1504 emails with a short question and a number of randomized treatments to 188 investment promotion agencies in 70 Russian regions to examine political discrimination by regional bureaucracies in Russia. They find that Russian regional bureaucracies give preferential treatment to entrepreneurs affiliated with United Russia, but discriminate against the political opposition.  The effect strongly depends on regional levels of political competition, with higher levels of discrimination in regions that are less politically competitive.