Jan Matti Dollbaum

jan.dollbaum@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 7975
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3399-6137

Assistant Professor
Department of European Studies and Slavic Studies

PER 21 bu. E328
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg

PER 21, E328

+41 26 300 7975

Biography

Jan Matti Dollbaum joined the University of Fribourg in August 2024 as Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics. He directs the BA programme Politics and Society and co-organizes the BA and MA programme East European Studies in Fribourg and Bern. Previously he was at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich where he continues to lead a research project on party politics in Eastern Europe.

After studies in Heidelberg, Mainz, St. Petersburg and London, Jan Matti received his PhD from Bremen University and was a guest researcher at UNC Chapel Hill. Before going to LMU Munich to lead a project financed with a grant from the Elite Network of Bavaria, he held post-doc positions at the Research Centre for East European Studies and in the working group on Social Conflict at Bremen University's Research Centre for Inequality and Social Policy.

Jan Matti studies protest and social movements as well as party strategies and voter behaviour. His research straddles democratic and authoritarian environments with a regional focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and Perspectives on Politics, among others. Beyond academic research, Jan Matti is data curator at Discuss Data and editor of the Moldovan Analytical Digest, an English-language publication for a braod readership covering political, social and economic affairs in Moldova. The first issue is due in January 2025.

Research and publications

Publications

18 publications

Local protest event analysis: providing a more comprehensive picture?
Priska Daphi, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Sebastian Haunss, Larissa Meier, West European Politics (2024) | Journal article

Protest types and protester profiles: testing meso−micro-associations between event characteristics and participant attitudes
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Larissa Daria Meier, Priska Daphi, Sebastian Haunss, Acta Politica (2024) | Journal article

Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Seongcheol Kim, Post-Soviet Affairs (2024) | Journal article

The Activist Personality: Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Opposition Activism in Authoritarian Regimes
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Graeme B. Robertson, Comparative Political Studies (2023) | Journal article

Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society
Fabian Burkhardt, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2023) | Journal article

Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives
JAN FABIAN DOLLBAUM and JAN MATTI DOLLBAUM, European Journal of Political Research (2022) | Journal article

Navalny’s Digital Dissidents: A New Dataset on a Russian Opposition Movement
Jan Matti Dollbaum and Andrei Semenov, Problems of Post-Communism (2022) | Journal article

When Does Diffusing Protest Lead to Local Organization Building? Evidence from a Comparative Subnational Study of Russia’s “For Fair Elections” Movement
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Perspectives on Politics (2022) | Journal article

Social Policy on Social Media: How Opposition Actors Used Twitter and VKontakte to Oppose the Russian Pension Reform
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Problems of Post-Communism (2021) | Journal article

Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Media and Communication (2021) | Journal article

Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?
Jan Matti Dollbaum (Oxford University Press, 2021), ISBN: 9780197611708 | Book

Using protest event analysis to study labour conflict in authoritarian regimes: The Monitoring of Labour Protest dataset
Petr Bizyukov and Jan Matti Dollbaum, Global Social Policy (2021) | Journal article

Protest trajectories in electoral authoritarianism: from Russia’s “For Fair Elections” movement to Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Post-Soviet Affairs (2020) | Journal article

Trajectories of political protest in post-Soviet spaces: an introduction
Jan Matti Dollbaum and Heiko Pleines and Susanne Schattenberg, Post-Soviet Affairs (2020) | Journal article

A top-down movement with grass-roots effects? Alexei Navalny’s electoral campaign
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Social Movement Studies (2018) | Journal article

When Life Gives You Lemons: Alexei Navalny’s Electoral Campaign , in Russian Analytical Digest
(11.2017) | Press article

Civil society development in Russia and Ukraine: Diverging paths
Susan Stewart and Jan Matti Dollbaum, Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2017) | Journal article

Curbing protest through elite co-optation? Regional protest mobilization by the Russian systemic opposition during the ‘for fair elections’ protests 2011–2012
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Journal of Eurasian Studies (2017) | Journal article

Teaching and courses

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