Online Political Participation in the Regions of the Russian Federation: Analysis of the Petitions of the Russian Public Initiative

Student: Korshunova Oksana

Supervisor: Olesya Vólchenko

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Modern Social Analysis (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The paper examines such a type of political participation as electronic petitions. The main objectives of the study: to identify which topics of petitions are most relevant at the level of Russian regions and whether the peculiarities of the regions of the Russian Federation affect the number of signatures under the petition and their content. The analysis is carried out on the basis of electronic petitions from the ROI platform. The results show that the number of petitions filed in the region is influenced by such characteristics of the regions as the share of people with wages below the subsistence level and the region's GRP per capita.

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