OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of East European Politics and Societies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Corruption, Campaigning, and Novelty: The 2020 Parliamentary Elections and the Evolving Patterns of Party Politics in Slovakia	16
Challenging Civil Society Elites in Poland: The Dynamics and Strategies of Civil Society Actors	10
Populism and Memory: Legislation of the Past in Poland, Ukraine, and Russia	10
Circulation, Conditions, Claims: Examining the Politics of Historical Memory in Eastern Europe	8
“Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: A Study of Farmers’ Subjectivities in Rural Poland	7
Preferences for Redistribution, Welfare Chauvinism, and Radical Right Party Support in Central and Eastern Europe	7
From the Bronze Soldier to the “Bloody Marshal”: Monument Wars and Russia’s Aesthetic Vulnerability in Estonia and the Czech Republic	6
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	5
Shrinking, Shifting, and Strengthening: The Dynamics and Diversity of Civic Activism in Poland	5
Navigating Conflicts through the Media: The Sceptical and Self-Responsible Repertoires of Baltic Russian-Speakers	5
Recalling Katyń: Poland, Russia, and the Interstate Politics of History	4
From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia	4
The Unintended Costs and Unfulfilled Promises of Concurrent Elections: A Natural Experiment on Turnout and Invalid Voting	4
Postsocialist and Postcapitalist Questions? Far-Right Historical Narratives and the Making of a New Europe	4
Peripheralization Processes as a Contextual Source of Populist Vote Choices: Evidence from the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany	4
How Historians Got Involved in Memory Politics: Patterns of the Historiography of the Polish People’s Republic before and after 1989	4
Differentiated European Integration of Ukraine in Comparative Perspective	4
The Incumbency Advantage during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the 2020 Polish Presidential Election	3
The Entrepreneur in “Transformation Cinema”: Representing the Economic Changes of the 1990s in Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia	3
Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	3
Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past	3
Remembering a Contentious Past: Resistance and Collaboration in the Former Soviet Union	3
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis	3
The Rise and Decline of Polish Revisionist Marxist Economics: The Fates of Włodzimierz Brus and the Faculty of Political Economy (University of Warsaw), 1953–1968	2
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison	2

Looking to the Past to Survive the Future: The Hungarian Minority in Slovakia	2
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations	2
The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe	2
Russia, the Western Balkans, and the Question of Status	2
The Mobilization for Spatial Justice in Divided Societies: Urban Commons, Trust Reconstruction, and Socialist Memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
When ENVER becomes NEVER: Memory Palimpsest in Berat, Albania	2
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	2
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	2
International Negotiations and Domestic Change in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood: Deconstructing Antidiscrimination Reforms in Moldova	2
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation	2
Performing Memory in Conflicting Settings: Russian Immigrants and the Remembrance of World War II in Finland	2
The Moral Career of a Suspected Legionary: Psychological Language in the Securitate Archives	2
Who Survives and Who Does Not? The Rise and Decline of Personalized Parties	2
Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs	2
The Social Paradox of Citizen Denunciation: Informing Practices in Modern Poland	1
Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic	1
Introduction: Civic Activism in Central and Eastern Europe Thirty Years After Communism’s Demise	1
The Ethnopolitical Motivation behind the Formation of New Municipalities in Montenegro	1
Caring for the Child, Caring for the Family: The Clash over the National Strategy for the Child (2019–2030) in Bulgaria	1
Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gender as a Category of Analysis	1
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	1
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	1
Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest	1
Socialism with an Occult Face: Aesthetics, Spirituality, and Utopia in Late Socialist Bulgaria	1
Consensus-Seeking and Reversed Representation among Polish Officials in the Council of the European Union	1
Different Meanings of Proper Nutrition: The Sociopolitical Dynamics of the Relationship between Body and State in the 1970s and 2010s Poland	1
Idiotic or Columbo’s Wife? Constitutional Conventions in the Czech Republic	1
Civic Engagement and Its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina	1
Premarital Sex in State-Socialist Poland: A Generational Perspective	1
Unsettling Borderlands: The Population Exchange and the Polish Minority in Soviet Belarus, 1944–1947	1
Cultural Liberal and Conservative Mobilizing Potential and Political Participation in Post-Communist Countries	1
In Need of a Leader: Bolesław Piasecki’s Charismatic Leadership in the 1930s	1
The Gaze of the Implicated Subject: Non-Jewish Testimony to Communal Violence during the German Occupation of Lithuania	1
“Work Hard, Play Hard”: The Moral Economy of Company Celebrations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria	1
How Does the “Us” versus “Them” Polarization Work? Capturing Political Antagonism with the Political Antagonism Scale	1
Late Bystander Testimonies in East Galicia: Between Memory, Identity, and Loyalties	1
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	1
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	1
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania	1
Bracketing Democracy: A Comparison of Frames Used to Demarcate Democracy and Its Application to Developments in Poland	1
Pre-War Government and Party Networks in the Rebel Political Institutions: Individual Co-Optation in Eastern Ukraine	1
Populist Juggling with Fear: The Case of Hungary	1
Expression of Dissidence: NOW-a Publishing House as a Social Movement Campaign under an Authoritarian Regime	1
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	1
The Moral Economy of Welfare: Bulgarian Roma Migrants Reclaiming Social Citizenship through Fraud	1
Between Ideological Loyalty and Political Adaptation: The “Agrarian Question” in the Development of Bulgarian Social Democracy, 1891–1912	1
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	1
Trianon in Popular History in Late-Socialist and Post-Transition Hungary: A Case Study	1
Vladimir’s Bakarić’s Idea of a Socialist (Croatian) Nation: From Communist Historicism to Depoliticization	1
Interpretative Frames, Phenomenology, and the Question of the Republican Character of Polish and Czech Dissident Movements of the 1970s and 1980s	1

Ownership Transformations in a Post-Transition Economy: Which Institutions Matter? Evidence from the Polish Banking Sector	1
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	1
Not So Much Societal: The Catholic Church in Poland as a Veto Player	1
Backsliding versus Backlash: Do Challenges to Democracy in East Central Europe Threaten LGBTQIAP Empowerment?	1
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	1
Introduction to the Special Section: National, European, Transnational: Far-Right Activism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries	1
Restoring What Never Existed: The Role of Familism in Narratives of Return in Hungary	1
How Right-Wing Populists Influence Citizenship Education—Evidence from Poland	1
Preaching the “Traditional Family” in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative	1