OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of East European Politics is 2. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding in Central Europe	137
Whose Poland is it to be? PiS and the struggle between monism and pluralism	48
What do we know about civil society and regime change thirty years after 1989?	45
Illiberalism: a conceptual introduction	36
Democratic backsliding in the European Union: the role of the Hungarian-Polish coalition	29
… Because the homeland cannot be in opposition: analysing the discourses of Fidesz and Law and Justice (PiS) from opposition to power	25
Pandemic power grab	17
Riding the Covid waves: authoritarian socio-economic responses of east central Europe’s anti-liberal governments	14
Keeping a roof over your head: housing and anti-debt movements in Croatia and Serbia during the Great Recession	14
The “refugee crisis” and the transformation of the far right and the political mainstream: the extreme case of the Czech Republic	14
Ethnopopulist denial and crime relativisation in Bosnian Republika Srpska	13
How to head count ethnic minorities: validity of census surveys versus other identification strategies	12
Europe forever? Czech political parties on the orientation of Czech foreign policy	12
Judges as activists: how Polish judges mobilise to defend the rule of law	10
Caught between stability and democracy in the Western Balkans: a comparative analysis of paths of accession to the European Union	9
Greater than the sum of its part(ie)s: opposition comeback in the 2019 Hungarian local elections	9
East Central Europe in the COVID-19 crisis	8
Uninformed or informed populists? The relationship between political knowledge, socio-economic status and populist attitudes in Poland	8
The demand side of vaccine politics and pandemic illiberalism	7
Riders on the storm: the politics of disruption in European member states during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Promoting domestic bank ownership in Central and Eastern Europe: a case study of economic nationalism and rent-seeking in Hungary	7
“Eco-terrorists”: right-wing populist media about “ecologists” and the public opinion on the environmental movement in Poland	7
Civil society and external actors: how linkages with the EU and Russia interact with socio-political orders in Belarus and Ukraine	7
Analysing the “what” and “when” of women’s substantive representation: the role of right-wing populist party ideology	6
Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in eastern and Western Europe: the role of health, political and economic factors	6

Back-to-normality outsiders: Zelensky’s technocratic populism, 2019–2021	5
Prime ministers, presidents and ministerial selection in Lithuania	5
The Sputnik V moment: biotech, biowarfare and COVID-19 vaccine development in Russia and in former Soviet satellite states	5
Pragmatism and support for the EU in Slovakia’s politics	5
Сonservative populism in Italy and Estonia: playing the multicultural card and engaging “domestic others”	5
“Can you beat your wife, yes or no?”: a study of hegemonic femininity in Kazakhstan’s online discourses	4
Opening in times of crisis? Examining NATO and the EU's support to security sector reform in post-Maidan Ukraine	4
Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe	4
Interdependences with external actors and regime persistence in Eastern Partnership countries*	4
Formal contracting and state–business relations in Russia. A case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	4
Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov’s surprise survival in Bulgaria	4
The grassroots of Putin’s ideology: civil origins of an uncivil regime	4
Hybrid geopolitics in EU-Russia relations: understanding the persistence of conflict and cooperation	4
Anniversary Symposium, “1989 at 30 years”	3
Introduction to the symposium on women’s political representation in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Russia’s “conservative turn” after 2012: evidence from the European Social Survey	3
“They all are the red plague”: anti-communism and the Romanian radical right populists	3
The framing effects of COVID-19 on ethnic intolerance: evidence from Romania	3
Politicisation of the Czech Republic’s ministries: still trailing behind the West?	3
How do social movements take the “electoral turn” in unfavourable contexts? The case of “Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own”	3
Legitimation strategies of Russian companies: a bricolage of social responsibility	3
Eurosceptic narratives in the age of COVID-19: the Central European states in focus	3
Coping with the new party challenge: patterns of prime ministerial survival in Croatia and Slovenia	3
Building active youth in post-Soviet countries through civic education programmes: evidence from Poland	3
Persistent efforts and opportune moments: women’s groups and gender quota adoption in Central and Eastern Europe	3
A grassroots conservatism? Taking a fine-grained view of conservative attitudes among Russians	3
The left returns to Polish Parliament: a change of people’s hearts? Determinants of right and left identification on the individual level	3
Towards open access social orders in Eastern Europe	2
Electoral Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina – is there anything beyond the ethnic rule?	2
Crisis response, path dependence, and the joint decision trap: the EU’s eastern and Russia policies after the Ukraine crisis	2
First-time voters and honest political leaders: evidence from the 2019 presidential election in Romania	2
Making sense of conservative narratives in Kyrgyzstan: the case of illiberal public activists	2
Does the democratic performance really matter for regime support? Evidence from the post-communist Member States of the European Union	2
Do populist governments reduce corruption?	2
Populism as a political trust booster? Populist support and degrees of political power in Central Europe	2
Mission adapted: the hidden role of governors in shaping central bank operating missions in Hungary	2
Ethnic minority party formation and success in Europe	2
Rent creation, clientelism and the emergence of semi-democracies: the case of Hungary	2
Striking out women: preferential voting and gender bias in Latvian Saeima elections	2
Development and (re)organisation of the Czech LGBT+ movement (1989–2021)	2
Stepping out of the shadow of the past: how career attributes shape ministerial stability in post-communist democracies	2
Theorising cooperation and conflict in Euro-Russian relations	2
The unusual weakness of the economic agenda at protests in times of austerity: the case of Serbia	2
Scaling up? From urban movements to citizen's platforms in Serbia	2
Parties in Russia: party system nationalisation in dominant party systems	2
Benefits or services? Politics of welfare retrenchment in Russia, 2014–2017	2