She is currently working on several research projects.  One is the compilation of an original data base of approximately 3000 individuals prominent in the Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, or Putin eras, which she is using to write a series of articles.  One such piece reassesses the claim that the elite sector under Putin has become dominated by individuals from the military and security services.  Another, co-authored with Gregory Zalasky ’04, surveys the extent of elite turnover between the Yeltsin and Putin administrations.  A third is a collaborative project investigating the linkage between regime stability and elite turnover in the Soviet/Russian and Chinese cases.  A second larger project is a repeat survey of Russian elites and their attitudes toward democracy and the market.  Originally based on two years of research in the Russian Federation in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Sociology, this project updates and extends her findings.  Finally, she is collaborating with David W. Rivera (Lecturer, Hamilton College) on a paper entitled, “Markets, Leadership, and Democracy in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Did Clinton Lose Russia?”

 

She teaches courses in the politics of Russia and the C.I.S., transitions to democracy, and introductory comparative politics.  She recently received a Class of 1966 Career Development Award from Hamilton College to develop a simulated election campaign for the Government Department’s 100-level course in Comparative Government.  Based on this experience, she and Janet Simons (Instructional Technology Services) are writing a paper entitled, “Engaging Students as Paraprofessionals through Simulations.”

Professor Rivera was a Mellon-Sawyer Post-Doctoral Fellow in Democratization at Cornell University from 1998-1999 and holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).  She has also worked as a consultant on various projects relating to the post-communist region of Eurasia.

 

 

“Interviewing Political Elites: Lessons from Russia,” PS: Political Science and Politics 35, No. 4 (December 2002): 683-88. Co-authored with Polina Kozyreva and Eduard Sarovskii.

 

“Elites in Post-Communist Russia: A Changing of the Guard?” Europe-Asia Studies 52, No. 3 (2000): 413-432.

 

“Historical Cleavages or Transition Mode?  Influences on the Emerging Party Systems in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia,” Party Politics 2, No. 2 (1996): 177-208.

 

“Errata to “Tendentsii formirovaniya sostava post-kommunisticheskoi elity v Rossii: reputatsionnyi analiz (No. 6, 1995, pp. 61-66),” Politicheskie issledovaniya, No. 3 (1996): 156-157.

 

“Tendentsii formirovaniya sostava post-kommunisticheskoi elity v Rossii: reputatsionnyi analiz” [Trends in the Formation of Russia’s Post Communist Elite: A Reputational Analysis], Politicheskie issledovaniya, No. 6 (1995): 61-66.  (Reprinted from Petrov, ed., Novaya elita v Rossii.)

 

“Unikal’nyi put’ Rossii? Svidetel’stva, poluchennye iz obzora politicheskikh ilit” [“A Unique Path for Russia? Evidence from a Survey of Political Elites”], in E. Bazhanov, Diplomaticheskii ezhegodnik 2005 (Moscow, forthcoming).

 

“Interviewing Political Elites: Lessons from Russia,” in David Rochefort, ed., Quantitative Methods in Practice: Readings from PS (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, forthcoming).  Co-authored with Polina Kozyreva and Eduard Sarovskii.  (Updated version of article in PS: Political Science and Politics.)  

 “Tendentsii formirovaniya sostava post-kommunisticheskoi elity v Rossii: reputatsionnyi analiz” [Trends in the Formation of Russia’s Post Communist Elite: A Reputational Analysis], in I. I. Petrov, ed., Novaya elita v Rossii [New Elites in Russia] (Moscow, 1995). 

 

“The Second Russian Revolution," in Daniel Diller, ed., Russia and the Independent States (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1993).

 

"Reforming the Soviet System," in Daniel Diller, ed., The Soviet Union, 3^rd ed. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1990).

 

Review of Tom Bjorkman, Russia’s Road to Deeper Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003), in Europe-Asia Studies 56, No. 4 (2004): 625-627.

 

Review of Eugene Huskey, Presidential Power in Russia (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999), in Europe-Asia Studies 52, No. 4 (2000): 759-760.

 

Review of Baruch Hazan, Gorbachev and His Enemies: The Struggle for Perestroika, in SAIS Review 11, no. 1. (Winter-Spring 1991): 163-164.

 

Review of Daniel N. Nelson, Elite-Mass Relations in Communist Systems, in SAIS Review 9, no. 2 (Summer-Fall 1989): 276-279.

 

Last updated: September 2005.

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