Scholars@Duke
Irina Soboleva

Irina Soboleva

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications

A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

Journal Article Nature · January 4, 2024 Featured Publication AbstractScientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2. In April 2020, an influential paper3 Full text Cite

The globalizability of temporal discounting

Journal Article Nature Human Behaviour · July 11, 2022 Featured Publication AbstractEconomic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

The globalizability of temporal discounting

Journal Article PsyArXiv Preprints · October 1, 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Efficacy, Openness, Ingenuousness: Micro-Foundations of Democratic Engagement

Thesis Dissertation · May 20, 2020 Featured Publication What drives civic engagement in weak democracies? What are the psychological processes responsible for overcoming post-authoritarian learned helplessness? This dissertation argues that in non-Western political contexts, traditional psychological predictors ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Navalny's gamesters: Protest, opposition innovation, and authoritarian stability in Russia

Journal Article Russian Politics · January 1, 2016 This paper explores the legacy of the For Fair Elections (ffe) protest movement in 2011-2012 for electoral competition in Russia. We argue that through strategic innovation, oppositions in authoritarian countries can challenge the autocratic state on multi ... Full text Cite

Political Awareness and Self-Blame in the Explanatory Narratives of LGBT People Amid the Anti-LGBT Campaign in Russia

Journal Article Sexuality and Culture · June 1, 2015 How do homo- and bisexual people explain the launch of a homophobia campaign that violates their basic human rights? Which narratives do they use to adjust to the hostile environment? On the basis of 77 in-depth problem-centered interviews with LGBT in Rus ... Full text Cite

Trial by fire: A natural disaster's impact on support for the authorities in rural Russia

Journal Article World Politics · September 15, 2014 This article aims to explore the microfoundations of political support under a nondemocratic regime by investigating the impact of a natural disaster on attitudes toward the government. The research exploits the enormous wildfires that occurred in rural Ru ... Full text Cite

Looking beyond the economy: Pussy Riot and the Kremlin's voting coalition

Journal Article Post-Soviet Affairs · July 4, 2014 The arrest of the protest punk band Pussy Riot (PR) in March 2012 and the subsequent prosecution of three band members pose a significant puzzle for political science. Although PR's performances presented a coherent alternative to the Putin regime's image ... Full text Cite

Economic and Social Policy Trade-Offs in the Russian Regions: Evidence from Four Case Studies

Journal Article Europe - Asia Studies · December 1, 2013 Through case studies of four Russian regions, we examine the trade-offs between social and economic policy at the regional level. All four regions studied seek to stimulate entrepreneurship while preserving or expanding social welfare coverage. Regions dif ... Full text Cite

A well-organized play symbolic politics and the effect of the pro-Putin rallies

Journal Article Problems of Post-Communism · March 1, 2013 Pro-Putin rallies before the 2012 presidential elections became campaign venues in which the Kremlin used political symbols - woven into a narrative of nationalism and tradition - to define and activate core voters across the Russian Federation. © 2013 M.E ... Full text Cite