OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of East European Politics is 4. 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
Illiberalism: a conceptual introduction	43
Democratic backsliding in the European Union: the role of the Hungarian-Polish coalition	30
Pandemic power grab	17
Riding the Covid waves: authoritarian socio-economic responses of east central Europe’s anti-liberal governments	16
The “refugee crisis” and the transformation of the far right and the political mainstream: the extreme case of the Czech Republic	15
Ethnopopulist denial and crime relativisation in Bosnian Republika Srpska	15
Keeping a roof over your head: housing and anti-debt movements in Croatia and Serbia during the Great Recession	15
Judges as activists: how Polish judges mobilise to defend the rule of law	13
Europe forever? Czech political parties on the orientation of Czech foreign policy	12
How to head count ethnic minorities: validity of census surveys versus other identification strategies	12
Greater than the sum of its part(ie)s: opposition comeback in the 2019 Hungarian local elections	11
“Eco-terrorists”: right-wing populist media about “ecologists” and the public opinion on the environmental movement in Poland	10
East Central Europe in the COVID-19 crisis	10
Uninformed or informed populists? The relationship between political knowledge, socio-economic status and populist attitudes in Poland	8
Civil society and external actors: how linkages with the EU and Russia interact with socio-political orders in Belarus and Ukraine	8
Riders on the storm: the politics of disruption in European member states during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Analysing the “what” and “when” of women’s substantive representation: the role of right-wing populist party ideology	7
The demand side of vaccine politics and pandemic illiberalism	7
Promoting domestic bank ownership in Central and Eastern Europe: a case study of economic nationalism and rent-seeking in Hungary	7
Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in eastern and Western Europe: the role of health, political and economic factors	6
Сonservative populism in Italy and Estonia: playing the multicultural card and engaging “domestic others”	5
Pragmatism and support for the EU in Slovakia’s politics	5
The Sputnik V moment: biotech, biowarfare and COVID-19 vaccine development in Russia and in former Soviet satellite states	5
Prime ministers, presidents and ministerial selection in Lithuania	5
Russia’s “conservative turn” after 2012: evidence from the European Social Survey	5

Back-to-normality outsiders: Zelensky’s technocratic populism, 2019–2021	5
Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov’s surprise survival in Bulgaria	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
A grassroots conservatism? Taking a fine-grained view of conservative attitudes among Russians	4
The unusual weakness of the economic agenda at protests in times of austerity: the case of Serbia	4
How do social movements take the “electoral turn” in unfavourable contexts? The case of “Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own”	4
Formal contracting and state–business relations in Russia. A case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	4
The grassroots of Putin’s ideology: civil origins of an uncivil regime	4
The relationship between hope and societal stability in Kosovo	4
Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe	4