APSA 2020 Annual Meeting

116^th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition for the first time was held as an online-conference from 9 to 13 of September, despite being scheduled to take place in San Franscico. The ISCID team members took part in “Blame and Accountability in Authoritarian Regimes” session and presented their papers.

ISCID team members gave the following papers:

• Ekaterina Borisova, Israel Marques, Alexei Zakharov (HSE), Regina A. Smith (Indiana University) “The Popular Logic of Authoritarian Policymaking: Blame and Attribution in Russia”
• Georgiy Syunyaev (HSE, Columbia University) “Public Attribution of Responsibility in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia”
• Andrei Yakovlev, Thomas Remington “Career Management Strategies for Regional Executives in Russia and China”