Dr. Olga Masyutina
Office: SFG 2240
Tel.: +49 421 218 64888
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Research fellow, BMBF Project "hyBit-Hydrogen for Bremen’s Industrial Transformation", University of Bremen
Since September 2019, Olga Masyutina is a doctoral researcher (PhD candidate) in the team of Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz (Professorship of Institutional Change) at the University of Bremen. Before joining Uni Bremen, she worked as a project manager at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, a close research partner of the working group. Olga is a graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University where she majored in Regional (Area) Studies and International relations, and later received an MA degree from the Master's programme ‘Roads to Democracies’ offered by the University of Siegen (Germany) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Olga's dissertation explores the interplay between authoritarian political institutions and socio-economic outcomes. Her research interests include Russian environmental politics, subnational political elites and corruption, as well as state-business relations in Russia and China.
Since 03/2023
Research fellow, BMBF Project "hyBit-Hydrogen for Bremen’s Industrial Transformation", University of Bremen
Since 09/2019
Doctoral researcher, Professorship of Institutional Economics, University of Bremen.
Dissertation title: "Papers on the Political Economy of Authoritarianism"
10/2014 - 09/2019
Project manager, 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 programme „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"
"Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions" (with Ekaterina Paustyan and Grigory Yakovlev), Forthcoming in Russian Politics (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2023)
“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)