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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Informers up close: stories from communist Prague	72
To resist or not to resist: “Skopje 2014” and the politics of contention in North Macedonia	19
Outsourcing elderly care to private companies in Russia: (non)compliance and creative compliance as responses to the principal-agent problem	18
“The Defenders of Shiyes”: traditionalism as a mobilisation resource in a Russian protest camp	17
Political attitudes among the urban Polish youth: assessing the role of cities on support for the European Union	17
Trolls, bots and everyone else: the analysis of multilingual social media manipulation campaigns on Twitter during 2019 elections in Ukraine	16
From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening	15
Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe	14
Eurosceptic narratives in the age of COVID-19: the Central European states in focus	8
The Sputnik V moment: biotech, biowarfare and COVID-19 vaccine development in Russia and in former Soviet satellite states	7
Formal contracting and state–business relations in Russia. A case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	7
Playing on distance: a relational rhetorical analysis of Viktor Orbán's Euroscepticism	7
Democracy without engagement? Understanding political participation in post-communist Romania	6
Participation of populist radical right parties in coalition governments of Central and Eastern Europe: do national party systems matter?	6
Heterogeneity in the effects of resources, proximity, and identity on preference voting in PR systems	6
“They all are the red plague”: anti-communism and the Romanian radical right populists	5
Governance improvement by sectoral cooperation: toward a framework of policy designs for the Eastern neighbourhood	5
Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions: the role of populism, trust and Euroscepticism	5
Referendums as extended arms of the government: evidence from an illiberal regime	5
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions	5
Explaining legislative party discipline in a new democracy: the case of Lithuania	5
Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left	5
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.	4
Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine	4
Contesting the EU on the periphery in times of crisis: party-based Euroscepticism in Serbia	4

The language of political incorporation: Chinese migrants in Europe	4
Populism as a political trust booster? Populist support and degrees of political power in Central Europe	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
Help me help you: how the EU made Romania’s anticorruption reforms a (temporary) success	4
Electoral Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina – is there anything beyond the ethnic rule?	3
A grassroots conservatism? Taking a fine-grained view of conservative attitudes among Russians	3
Changes in Czech foreign policy positions: European migration crisis and Russian attack against Ukraine	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
Legitimation strategies of Russian companies: a bricolage of social responsibility	3
Sergei Medvedev, a war made in Russia	3
Introduction to the symposium “Asymmetrical resource exchange. Business, state and social welfare provision in Russian regions”	2
How peace movement emerges: protest networks, mechanisms and outcomes of Czech anti-war campaigns	2
How do social movements take the “electoral turn” in unfavourable contexts? The case of “Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own”	2
Trust in president – a different case? Individual-level patterns of trust in political executives in Central and Eastern Europe	2
Patterns of international organizations’ engagement in reform and policy making in the post-Soviet space	2
Russia’s “conservative turn” after 2012: evidence from the European Social Survey	2
Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe , by Lenka Bustikova, Cambridge, Cambridg	2
Corruption experience does not make voters harsher towards the corrupt incumbents – evidence from a survey experiment in Poland	2
Building active youth in post-Soviet countries through civic education programmes: evidence from Poland	2
Polish martial law of 1981 as seen on Facebook. A comparative analysis between the Facebook posts of political parties	2
The relationship between hope and societal stability in Kosovo	2
Autocrats and peaceful resignation in the post-Soviet space: is there a political culture explanation?	2
Do citizens respond to tax reforms during conflict? Experimental evidence from Ukraine	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
Promoting domestic bank ownership in Central and Eastern Europe: a case study of economic nationalism and rent-seeking in Hungary	1
Theorising the effects of EU emigration for origin countries: win-win, dependency or agency?	1
Development and (re)organisation of the Czech LGBT+ movement (1989–2021)	1
Partisanship and plane crashes: can partisanship drive conspiratorial beliefs?	1
Opposition and resistance: how judges and professional associations in Poland, Hungary, and Romania defend their independence	1
The demography of intolerance: communist legacy, demographic threat, and attitudes toward homosexuality	1
Who is to blame? Centralisation and titular ethnic groups’ electoral behaviour in the Russian republics	1
Do populist governments reduce corruption?	1
Back-to-normality outsiders: Zelensky’s technocratic populism, 2019–2021	1
Labour markets in a moral crisis: structural unemployment and the employment service reform in Lithuania	1
Environmental governance in the Russian federation: firms and regulator perception of environmental NGOs	1
Illiberalism: a conceptual introduction	1
Looking beyond the East-West divide? Re-appraising the willingness to pay for environmental quality in 19 European countries	1
Pragmatism and support for the EU in Slovakia’s politics	1
Win big, buy more: political parties, competition and electoral clientelism	1
A digital party organisation? Evolution of the Czech Pirates	1