Mari Aburamoto

Mari Aburamoto

Assistant Professor
Contemporary Russian politics, Comparative politics

Contact: aburamoto@slav.hokudai.ac.jp

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Mari Aburamoto

Education:

2013 Ph.D., Law, University of Tokyo
2008 M.A., Law, University of Tokyo
2006 B.A., Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Field of Study:

I study contemporary Russian politics. My initial research interests involved federalism and regional politics in Russia. In my doctoral dissertation entitled "Explaining Political Changes in Post-Soviet Russia: The Formation of Dominant-Party Regime in the Volga Regions, 1991–2011" (submitted in 2013 and published as a monograph in 2015), my aim was to demonstrate how the regional elites had been incorporated into the dominant party, United Russia. In recent years, my research interests have focused more on federal-level politics, specifically the political situation in the late Putin era, with a special emphasis on elections, political parties, so-called "non-systemic" opposition, and social movements. I am currently working on a new project that examines the politics of anti-corruption campaigns, which is characterized by the complex interrelationship between the government, the incumbent elites, and the opposition.

Recent Publications (Selected):

Monographs:
Explaining Political Changes in Post-Soviet Russia: Decentralizaion, Centralization and the Regional Elite Configuration, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2015. (in Japanese)

Journal Articles:

“The Politics of Anti-Corruption Campaigns in Putin’s Russia: Power, Opposition, and the All-Russia People’s Front,” Europe-Asia Studies, forthcoming.
“Struggle over the Regime Legitimacy in Russia: Putin’s Return and the Rise of Opposition,” Russian and East European Studies (Roshia-Tōō Kenkyu) 45, 2017, pp. 47–61. (in Japanese)
Who Takes Care of the Residents? United Russia and the Regions Facing the Monetization of L’goty,” Acta Slavica Iaponica 28, 2010, pp. 101–115.
“The Evolution of the ‘Party of Power’ in Post-Communist Russia,” The Journal of the Association of Political and Social Sciences, University of Tokyo (Kokka Gakkai Zasshi), 121 (11/12), 2008, pp. 1213–1279. (in Japanese)

Book Chapters:

“Liberal Democracy after the Cold War: Revisiting Democratization in Post-Soviet Russia,” in Kiyohiro Matsudo ed., The Century of Revolution and the Soviet Union, Vol. 3 Cold War and Peaceful Coexistence, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2017, pp. 197–220. (in Japanese)
“Revisiting the ‘Failure of Democratization’ in Russia: The Democratization Process and Its Impasse in Samara Oblast’,” in Aiji Tanaka, Kohno Masaru and Kubo Keiichi eds. Institutional Building in the Process of Democratization and Its Political Consequences, Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2013, pp. 183–205. (in Japanese)

Academia:

https://hokudai.academia.edu/MariAburamoto

Courses Taught:


- Contemporary Russian Politics
- Introduction to Slavic-Eurasian Studies
- Study of Slavic Society and Culture
- Fundamentals in Political Science
- Topics in Social Sciences

Grants and Fellowships:


- Political Regime and Elections in Contemporary Russia: Politics of Electoral Integrity (JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2016–2019)
- Publication Grant, University of Tokyo (2015)
- The Formation of a Dominant Party Regime in Contemporary Russia (JSPS Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellow (PD), 2012–2015)
- Nationalization of Political Parties in Post-Communist Russia (JSPS Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellow (DC1), 2008–2011)

Professional Service:


Steering Committee Member, Japan Consortium for Area Studies (2018–present)

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