OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of East European Politics is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
To resist or not to resist: “Skopje 2014” and the politics of contention in North Macedonia	58
Outsourcing elderly care to private companies in Russia: (non)compliance and creative compliance as responses to the principal-agent problem	17
“The Defenders of Shiyes”: traditionalism as a mobilisation resource in a Russian protest camp	16
Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe	16
Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov’s surprise survival in Bulgaria	13
Political attitudes among the urban Polish youth: assessing the role of cities on support for the European Union	11
Eurosceptic narratives in the age of COVID-19: the Central European states in focus	10
Governance improvement by sectoral cooperation: toward a framework of policy designs for the Eastern neighbourhood	10
The Sputnik V moment: biotech, biowarfare and COVID-19 vaccine development in Russia and in former Soviet satellite states	8
Participation of populist radical right parties in coalition governments of Central and Eastern Europe: do national party systems matter?	7
Formal contracting and state–business relations in Russia. A case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	7
Trolls, bots and everyone else: the analysis of multilingual social media manipulation campaigns on Twitter during 2019 elections in Ukraine	7
Democracy without engagement? Understanding political participation in post-communist Romania	6
Mission adapted: the hidden role of governors in shaping central bank operating missions in Hungary	5
Explaining legislative party discipline in a new democracy: the case of Lithuania	5
Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions: the role of populism, trust and Euroscepticism	5
Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left	5
Heterogeneity in the effects of resources, proximity, and identity on preference voting in PR systems	5
Referendums as extended arms of the government: evidence from an illiberal regime	5
Playing on distance: a relational rhetorical analysis of Viktor Orbán's Euroscepticism	5
Legitimation strategies of Russian companies: a bricolage of social responsibility	4
How peace movement emerges: protest networks, mechanisms and outcomes of Czech anti-war campaigns	4
Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe , by Lenka Bustikova, Cambridge, Cambridg	4
Democracy beyond elections: government accountability in the media age. (Challenges to democracy in the 21st century) Democracy beyond elections: government accountability in the media	4
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions	4

Persistent efforts and opportune moments: women’s groups and gender quota adoption in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Help me help you: how the EU made Romania’s anticorruption reforms a (temporary) success	4
“They all are the red plague”: anti-communism and the Romanian radical right populists	4
A grassroots conservatism? Taking a fine-grained view of conservative attitudes among Russians	3
Electoral Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina – is there anything beyond the ethnic rule?	3
Russia’s “conservative turn” after 2012: evidence from the European Social Survey	3
Polish martial law of 1981 as seen on Facebook. A comparative analysis between the Facebook posts of political parties	3
Populism as a political trust booster? Populist support and degrees of political power in Central Europe	3
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.	3
Uninformed or informed populists? The relationship between political knowledge, socio-economic status and populist attitudes in Poland	3
The relationship between hope and societal stability in Kosovo	3
The language of political incorporation: Chinese migrants in Europe	3
Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia	3
There are such people: the role of corruption in the 2021 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria	3