Dr. Olga Masyutina
Office: NEOS 4260
Tel.: +49 421 218 64895
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Research fellow, BMBF Project "hyBit-Hydrogen for Bremen’s Industrial Transformation", and artec Sustainabilty Institute, University of Bremen
Since March 2023, Olga Masyutina is a post-doctoral research fellow in the hyBit project. In July 2023 she defended her doctoral thesis "Papers on the Political Economy of Authoritarianism" which explored the interplay between authoritarian political institutions and socio-economic outcomes. In 2019-2023 she was a doctoral researcher (PhD candidate) at the Chair of Institutional Economics at the University of Bremen. Before joining the University of Bremen, she worked as a project manager and research assistant at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. In the hybit project Olga works on the topic of multi-level governance and policy framework of regional green industrial transformation.
Since 03/2023
Research fellow (Post-Doc), BMBF Project "hyBit-Hydrogen for Bremen’s Industrial Transformation", University of Bremen
09/2019 - 07/2023
Doctoral researcher, Professorship of Institutional Economics, University of Bremen.
Dissertation title: "Papers on the Political Economy of Authoritarianism"
10/2014 - 09/2019
Project manager and research assistant, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at the Higher School of Economics Moscow
11/2013 - 10/2014
Personal assistant, Hubert Burda Media Moscow
09/2010 - 03/2013
Master of Arts, Master's program „Roads to Democracies“, University of Siegen (Germany). 09/2011 - 02/2012 - Exchange semester at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Thesis title: "Popular Culture as Political Communication - Televised Political Satire in Thatcherite Britain"
09/2004 - 06/2009
Diploma in Regional (Area) Studies (with the knowledge of the English and German languages), Moscow State Linguistic University (Russia). Thesis title: "Development of forms of interregional cooperation amidst globalisation of the world economy"
"Politicized Corruption in Authoritarian Multilevel States: Anti-Corruption Prosecution of Local Elites in Russia" (forthcoming in Regional & Federal Studies, online first)
"Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions" (with Ekaterina Paustyan and Grigory Yakovlev). 2023. Russian Politics 8(3): 305-330
“Authoritarian Durability, Prospects of Change and Individual Behaviour: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia” (with Yulia Khalikova, Michael Rochlitz and Koen Schoors). 2023. Working paper 2023/1061, Department of Economics, Ghent University
"The Political Economy of Waste Management in Russia" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. Russian Analytical Digest 285: 13-15
"Die politische Ökonomie der Abfallwirtschaft in Russland" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. Russland-Analysen 421: 23-26
"Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. IERP Discussion paper 2206
"The Putin Paradox, by Richard Sakwa". 2021. Europe-Asia Studies 73(4): 766-767 (book review)