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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Formal contracting and state–business relations in Russia. A case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	30
From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening	27
The perfect storm: political alienation, ideological resonance, and the role of influencers in the 2024 Romanian parliamentary elections	25
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.	20
“They all are the red plague”: anti-communism and the Romanian radical right populists	17
Do citizens respond to tax reforms during conflict? Experimental evidence from Ukraine	15
Help me help you: how the EU made Romania’s anticorruption reforms a (temporary) success	15
Changes in Czech foreign policy positions: European migration crisis and Russian attack against Ukraine	13
Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine	12
Polarisation through deviation discourse: strategic usage of Europeanisation by political and media actors in Georgia	12
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions	11
Elite-public gaps in attitudes towards Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: new evidence from a survey of Czech parliamentarians and citizens	11
Do populist governments reduce corruption?	11
Mapping the nation: a multi-scalar imagination in a dichotomised Montenegro	11
The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary	10
Institutional drift in post-soviet political economy: the case of Georgia	10
Left authoritarianism and positional shifts of populist parties in Central and Eastern Europe	10
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	9
The grassroots of Putin’s ideology: civil origins of an uncivil regime	9
Leader vs. the party dilemma: the case of a party rebirth in Czechia	8
Riders on the storm: the politics of disruption in European member states during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Building bridges: the pro-EU vote in the 2024 referendum in Republic of Moldova	8
Do public administration reforms increase trust in government in transitional settings? Evidence from Ukraine	8
Towards pillarisation? Coalitions of Polish protest in 2020	7
Abortion, mobilisation of feminist movements in Poland and the war in Ukraine	7

Democracy without engagement? Understanding political participation in post-communist Romania	7
Ukrainian public opinion and the path to peace with Russia	7
Win big, buy more: political parties, competition and electoral clientelism	6
Generational dynamics of political trust and satisfaction in Czechia: the enduring impact of political socialisation during socialism	6
Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe , by Lenka Bustikova, Cambridge, Cambridg	6
Building active youth in post-Soviet countries through civic education programmes: evidence from Poland	6
“The Defenders of Shiyes”: traditionalism as a mobilisation resource in a Russian protest camp	6
A digital party organisation? Evolution of the Czech Pirates	6
Informers up close: stories from communist Prague	6
Who is to blame? Centralisation and titular ethnic groups’ electoral behaviour in the Russian republics	6
A comparative analysis of the geopolitical orientations of Belarusian elites in the aftermath of 2020 and 2022	5
Looking beyond the East-West divide? Re-appraising the willingness to pay for environmental quality in 19 European countries	5
Who owns resilience? EU blueprints and local realities in the South Caucasus	5
Exploring the catalysts of lobbying coalitions in Central and Eastern Europe	5
Ideological perceptions and party support in central and Eastern Europe	5
Czech political parties and the war in Ukraine: continuity of foreign policy stances	5
Pro-Ukraine activism in Serbia: diasporas and locals against the war in a state of adversity	5
Democratic hypocrisy in practice: a panel study of revealed preferences for liberal democracy in Poland	5
The role of religion in sovereignist narratives of European integration: symbolic thickening and identity marking	5
Beyond ingroup favouritism: local demography and the dynamics of vote-buying in multiethnic societies	5
“In Defence of Europe”: pro-Ukraine activism and civil society mobilisation across Central and Southeast Europe	5
The Sputnik V moment: biotech, biowarfare and COVID-19 vaccine development in Russia and in former Soviet satellite states	4
Angry and afraid: emotional drivers of protest for abortion rights in Poland	4
Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left	4
Strange bedfellows? Exploring the left-authoritarian attraction to the populist radical right in Poland	4
Explaining legislative party discipline in a new democracy: the case of Lithuania	3
To resist or not to resist: “Skopje 2014” and the politics of contention in North Macedonia	3
Direct mayoral elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina: an ethnic zero-sum game	3
Reparations for competing pasts: the Romanian case	3
Eurosceptic narratives in the age of COVID-19: the Central European states in focus	3
Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe	3
Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections	2
Thin but visible: the role of populist attitudes and their subdimensions in populist support within the 2021 Czech legislative election	2
“Conservative” voting in Russia: the religiosity and the political choice of orthodox believers	2
How do social movements take the “electoral turn” in unfavourable contexts? The case of “Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own”	2
Patterns of international organizations’ engagement in reform and policy making in the post-Soviet space	2
Practices of de-Europeanisation in Georgia: culture strategy 2025 as a case of policyfailing	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
Pro-Ukrainian social mobilisation in Hungary: solidarity in the shadow of the Hungarian government's Janus-faced communication	2
Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia	2
Pre-electoral fiscal policies and opportunistic spending: the case of the recently decentralised Macedonian local governments	2
East Central Europe in the COVID-19 crisis	2
China's normative power in central and Eastern Europe: the case of China-Czech relations	2
Introduction to the symposium “Asymmetrical resource exchange. Business, state and social welfare provision in Russian regions”	2
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	2
Opposition and resistance: how judges and professional associations in Poland, Hungary, and Romania defend their independence	2
Russia and Central European illiberal actors: mutual legitimation amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine	1
The demography of intolerance: communist legacy, demographic threat, and attitudes toward homosexuality	1
Russia’s “conservative turn” after 2012: evidence from the European Social Survey	1

Education and the politics of memory in Russia and Eastern Europe infested with history	1
Labour markets in a moral crisis: structural unemployment and the employment service reform in Lithuania	1
Vernacular geopolitical orientations in Georgia’s contested border regions	1
Political opportunities and mobilisation on the far-right in Ukraine	1
Micro-states and de-facto states in the context of borders and political–economic development	1
Making sense of conservative narratives in Kyrgyzstan: the case of illiberal public activists	1
New parties with old labels: party families and perceived party positions in Eastern and Western Europe	1
Development of new party support in post-communist Europe and the effect of the 2008 economic crisis	1
There are such people: the role of corruption in the 2021 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria	1
Changes in radical right’s security and defence policy position: the case of Sweden democrats, 2022	1
To help or not to help? Analyzing individual support for Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia	1
Social movements in Southeast Europe: from urban mobilisation to electoral competition	1
Who supports the New Left? Evidence from Croatia	1
Cut from the same cloth? Identifying a diﬀerence between populist parties in CEE and Western Europe	1
Memory activism and the victimhood paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina: commemorating the “War Child” in the resistance against ethnic nationalism	1
They came after us: mainstream left’s response to the rise of the populist radical right in Romania and Bulgaria	1
Judges as activists: how Polish judges mobilise to defend the rule of law	1
Calls for a strong president and support for autocracy: exploring semi-presidential regimes in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Non-democratic federalism and decentralization in post-soviet states	1
Legitimation strategies of Russian companies: a bricolage of social responsibility	1
Geopolitics and autocratisation in hybrid regimes: the case of Georgia	1
Outsourcing elderly care to private companies in Russia: (non)compliance and creative compliance as responses to the principal-agent problem	1
Resilience from below: understanding socio-ecologic mobilisation in Georgia	1
Participation of populist radical right parties in coalition governments of Central and Eastern Europe: do national party systems matter?	1
Boosting resilience against climate change? A post-development and climate justice deconstruction of EU climate resilience-building in the South Caucasus	1