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 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
The perfect storm: political alienation, ideological resonance, and the role of influencers in the 2024 Romanian parliamentary elections	22
Help me help you: how the EU made Romania’s anticorruption reforms a (temporary) success	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
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
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