OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of East European Politics 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Formal contracting and state–business relations in Russia. A case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	104
From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening	25
Help me help you: how the EU made Romania’s anticorruption reforms a (temporary) success	22
The perfect storm: political alienation, ideological resonance, and the role of influencers in the 2024 Romanian parliamentary elections	22
“They all are the red plague”: anti-communism and the Romanian radical right populists	19
Defection denied: a study of civilian support for insurgency in irregular war Defection denied: a study of civilian support for insurgency in irregular war , by David S.	17
Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine	15
Changes in Czech foreign policy positions: European migration crisis and Russian attack against Ukraine	14
Polarisation through deviation discourse: strategic usage of Europeanisation by political and media actors in Georgia	13
Do citizens respond to tax reforms during conflict? Experimental evidence from Ukraine	11
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions	10
Do populist governments reduce corruption?	9
Elite-public gaps in attitudes towards Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: new evidence from a survey of Czech parliamentarians and citizens	8
Riders on the storm: the politics of disruption in European member states during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Left authoritarianism and positional shifts of populist parties in Central and Eastern Europe	8
The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary	8
The grassroots of Putin’s ideology: civil origins of an uncivil regime	8
Do constitutional courts restrict government policy? The effects of budgetary implications and bloc-politics in the Hungarian Constitutional Court's decisions between 1990 and 2018	8
Leader vs. the party dilemma: the case of a party rebirth in Czechia	8
Ukrainian public opinion and the path to peace with Russia	7
Towards pillarisation? Coalitions of Polish protest in 2020	7
“The Defenders of Shiyes”: traditionalism as a mobilisation resource in a Russian protest camp	7
Informers up close: stories from communist Prague	6
Generational dynamics of political trust and satisfaction in Czechia: the enduring impact of political socialisation during socialism	5
Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe , by Lenka Bustikova, Cambridge, Cambridg	5

Win big, buy more: political parties, competition and electoral clientelism	5
Who is to blame? Centralisation and titular ethnic groups’ electoral behaviour in the Russian republics	5
Looking beyond the East-West divide? Re-appraising the willingness to pay for environmental quality in 19 European countries	5
Democracy without engagement? Understanding political participation in post-communist Romania	5
Building active youth in post-Soviet countries through civic education programmes: evidence from Poland	5
A digital party organisation? Evolution of the Czech Pirates	5
The Sputnik V moment: biotech, biowarfare and COVID-19 vaccine development in Russia and in former Soviet satellite states	4
Czech political parties and the war in Ukraine: continuity of foreign policy stances	4
Parties in Russia: party system nationalisation in dominant party systems	4
Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe	4
Eurosceptic narratives in the age of COVID-19: the Central European states in focus	4
The role of religion in sovereignist narratives of European integration: symbolic thickening and identity marking	4
To resist or not to resist: “Skopje 2014” and the politics of contention in North Macedonia	4
Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left	4
Exploring the catalysts of lobbying coalitions in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Angry and afraid: emotional drivers of protest for abortion rights in Poland	4
Opposition and resistance: how judges and professional associations in Poland, Hungary, and Romania defend their independence	3
Patterns of international organizations’ engagement in reform and policy making in the post-Soviet space	3
Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia	3
Development and (re)organisation of the Czech LGBT+ movement (1989–2021)	3
Introduction to the symposium “Asymmetrical resource exchange. Business, state and social welfare provision in Russian regions”	3
How do social movements take the “electoral turn” in unfavourable contexts? The case of “Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own”	3
The frontline: essays on Ukraine’s past and present The frontline: essays on Ukraine’s past and present , by Serhii Plokhy, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press for t	3
A grassroots conservatism? Taking a fine-grained view of conservative attitudes among Russians	3
Explaining legislative party discipline in a new democracy: the case of Lithuania	3
Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections	2
The role of organised interests in shaping Croatia's negotiating positions in the Council of the EU	2
Russian Westernizers and change in international relations the promised West	2
They came after us: mainstream left’s response to the rise of the populist radical right in Romania and Bulgaria	2
The new Kremlinology: understanding regime personalization in Russia	2
Decentralization, regional diversity, and conflict. The case of Ukraine	2
Pre-electoral fiscal policies and opportunistic spending: the case of the recently decentralised Macedonian local governments	2
Micro-states and de-facto states in the context of borders and political–economic development	2
“Conservative” voting in Russia: the religiosity and the political choice of orthodox believers	2
Thin but visible: the role of populist attitudes and their subdimensions in populist support within the 2021 Czech legislative election	2
Social movements in Southeast Europe: from urban mobilisation to electoral competition	2
East Central Europe in the COVID-19 crisis	2
Democracy beyond elections: government accountability in the media age. (Challenges to democracy in the 21st century) Democracy beyond elections: government accountability in the media	1
Making sense of conservative narratives in Kyrgyzstan: the case of illiberal public activists	1
Education and the politics of memory in Russia and Eastern Europe infested with history	1
Participation of populist radical right parties in coalition governments of Central and Eastern Europe: do national party systems matter?	1
There are such people: the role of corruption in the 2021 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria	1
Russia and Central European illiberal actors: mutual legitimation amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine	1
Non-democratic federalism and decentralization in post-soviet states	1
“Can you beat your wife, yes or no?”: a study of hegemonic femininity in Kazakhstan’s online discourses	1
Outsourcing elderly care to private companies in Russia: (non)compliance and creative compliance as responses to the principal-agent problem	1
Judges as activists: how Polish judges mobilise to defend the rule of law	1
Cut from the same cloth? Identifying a diﬀerence between populist parties in CEE and Western Europe	1
Who supports the New Left? Evidence from Croatia	1
Political opportunities and mobilisation on the far-right in Ukraine	1