Biographie

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.

Recherche et publications

• Publications
  18 publications

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  Local protest event analysis: providing a more comprehensive picture?
  Priska Daphi, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Sebastian Haunss, Larissa Meier, West European Politics (2025) | 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) | Article

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

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

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

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

  Navalny’s Digital Dissidents: A New Dataset on a Russian Opposition Movement
  ti Dollbaum and Andrei Semenov, of Post-Communism (2022) | Article

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

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

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

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

  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) | Article

  Protest trajectories in electoral authoritarianism: from Russia’s “For Fair Elections” movement to Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign
  Dollbaum, Affairs (2020) | Article

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

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

  When Life Gives You Lemons: Alexei Navalny’s Electoral Campaign , dans Russian Analytical Digest
  (11.2017) | Article de presse

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

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