Dr. Julian G. Waller is a Research Scientist in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA Corporation) and a Professorial Lecturer in Political Science at George Washington University. His research focuses on authoritarian politics, comparative political regimes, elite strategic decision-making, political-military affairs, and ideological illiberalism in post-Soviet Eurasia, Europe, and elsewhere. He is coauthor of Autocrats Can’t Always Get What They Want: State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritarianism (University of Michigan Press, 2024). He has published widely, with scholarly articles appearing in Political Studies Review, Problems of Post-Communism, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, The Journal of Advanced Military Studies, The Journal of International Affairs, and The International Journal of Constitutional Law as well as public-facing essays and articles in Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks, The National Interest, RIDDLE Russia, and other publications.
Julian G. Waller
Research Scientist, Russia Studies Program, Center for Naval Analyses
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Commentary
A managed result, but not a meaningless one: Reflections ahead of Russia’s Duma election
Russia’s elections may be repressive and predictable, but that does not make them meaningless. While no one predicts that United Russia will be denied a majority in the upcoming Duma election, managing the political space has become more difficult than in the past. As Julian G. Waller writes, deviation from the Kremlin’s desired result could have wider consequences for elite politics.