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Joshua Tucker

27 posts
Professor, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
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New York University
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New York University (Bio), Personal Website
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Russia, Politics, Elections, Public Opinion
PONARS Eurasia Scholars on Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia
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PONARS Eurasia Scholars on Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia

  • February 1, 2021
  • Joshua Tucker
(Washington Post) On Jan. 17, Alexei Navalny, perhaps the best-known domestic critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, returned to Russia in dramatic fashion after recovering in Germany from what he claims was deliberate poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok, allegedly by agents of the…
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Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

  • October 21, 2020
  • Marlene Laruelle, Mikhail Alexseev, Cynthia J. Buckley, Ralph S. Clem, Mikhail Troitskiy, Paul Goode, Ivan Gomza, Henry Hale, Erik Herron, Andrey Makarychev, Sara Huzar, Mariya Omelicheva, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Regina Smyth, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Joshua Tucker, Judyth Twigg and Elizabeth Wishnick
(Problems of Post-Communism) The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly…
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Cross-Platform State Propaganda: Russian Trolls on Twitter and YouTube During the 2016 US Presidential Election

  • April 16, 2020
  • Joshua Tucker
(International Journal of Press/Politics) This paper investigates online propaganda strategies of the Internet Research Agency (IRA)—Russian “trolls”—during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We assess claims that the IRA sought either to…
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The Use of Twitter Bots in Russian Political Communication

  • January 15, 2019
(PONARS Policy Memo) The question of how regimes respond to online opposition has become a central topic of politics in the digital age. In previous work, we have identified three…
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The Use of Twitter Bots in Russian Political Communications

  • October 8, 2018
  • Joshua Tucker
Joshua Tucker (NYU) discusses how authoritarian, and competitive authoritarian, regimes respond to online opposition, as well as his research on the activity of Russian bots. Tucker PONARS Podcast .mp3 Episode…
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Ukrainians are getting less divided by language, not more. Here’s the research.

  • June 9, 2018
  • Joshua Tucker
(WP) The journal Post-Soviet Affairs recently published a special issue on politics and identity in Ukraine. The question of Russian vs. Ukrainian identity has been central to the study of Ukrainian politics for decades…
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В Україну їде американський професор Джошуа Такер, промінентний експерт із виборів і соцмереж

  • May 5, 2017
  • Joshua Tucker
Наступного тижня Україну відвідає професор Університету Нью-Йорка, промінентний експерт із виборів і соціальних мереж Джошуа Такер (Joshua Tucker) – редактор одного з найвпливовіших блогів на Washington Post – Monkey Cage Blog, співзасновник лабораторії NYU…
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Everything you need to know about the Russian art of ‘kompromat’

  • January 12, 2017
  • Joshua Tucker
(WP) On Tuesday, news broke—in rather sensational fashion—that U.S. intelligence agencies had briefed both President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on the possibility that Russia possesses compromising information on Trump. While questions continue to swirlabout the…
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Here’s how Trump’s election will affect U.S.-Russian relations

  • November 10, 2016
  • Joshua Tucker
(Monkey Cage/WP) Contributors: Yoshiko Herrera, Andrew Kydd, Dmitry Gorenburg, Michael Kofman, Andrew Barnes, Mariya Omelicheva, Eric McGlinchey, and Marlene Laruelle.  Over the course of the recent U.S. presidential campaign, Donald…
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What happens if a U.S. presidential candidate withdraws (or dies) before the election is over?

  • September 15, 2016
  • Joshua Tucker
(Washington Post) As I was wrapping up a phone call with my mother recently, she mentioned she had just one more question for me: Exactly what happens if a U.S. presidential…
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