Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya

Associate Professor in Comparative Politics (UG)
Room: 2.02, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: k.tertytchnaya@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

Before joining UCL I was the Clayman Junior Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Oxford, and held a Fulbright-Schuman predoctoral fellowship at Columbia University in the city of New York. I have a DPhil in Politics and an MPhil in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Oxford.

Research

My research interests include public opinion, protests, and authoritarian politics. Drawing on evidence from Russia, I examine how nondemocratic incumbents use propaganda and nonviolent repression to lower the costs of staying in power. Other projects study the political consequences of migrant remittances, with a focus on Central Asia.

Publications

Publications:

• Tertytchnaya, Katerina and Lankina, Tomila. 2020. Electoral Protests and Political Attitudes under Electoral Authoritarianism. The Journal of Politics. 82:1, 285-299.
• Tertytchnaya, K. 2019. Protests and Voter Defections in Electoral Autocracies: Evidence from Russia. Comparative Political Studies. Online first.  Summary at LSE Euro Crisis
• Tertytchnaya, K., De Vries, C. E. Solaz, H., & Doyle, D. 2018. When the Money Stops: Fluctuations in Financial Remittances and Incumbent Approval. American Political Science Review. 112(4): 758-774.
• Tertytchnaya, K., & De Vries, C.E. 2018. The political consequences of self-insurance: Evidence from Central Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Political Behavior. 41:1047.

Data Papers:

• Lankina, T. and Tertytchnaya, K. 2020. Protests in Electoral Autocracies: A New Dataset. Post-Soviet Affairs. 36(1):20-36.

Teaching

• I teach modules in comparative politics, protest and revolution.
• I would be interested in supervising students working on authoritarian and contentious politics, the politics of the post-Soviet region, and economic voting.