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

Article	Citations
From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening	126
Formal contracting and state–business relations in Russia. A case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	26
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.	25
The perfect storm: political alienation, ideological resonance, and the role of influencers in the 2024 Romanian parliamentary elections	25
Changes in Czech foreign policy positions: European migration crisis and Russian attack against Ukraine	23
Polarisation through deviation discourse: strategic usage of Europeanisation by political and media actors in Georgia	18
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions	17
Do citizens respond to tax reforms during conflict? Experimental evidence from Ukraine	16
“They all are the red plague”: anti-communism and the Romanian radical right populists	13
Help me help you: how the EU made Romania’s anticorruption reforms a (temporary) success	11
Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine	11
Elite-public gaps in attitudes towards Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: new evidence from a survey of Czech parliamentarians and citizens	10
Left authoritarianism and positional shifts of populist parties in Central and Eastern Europe	10
Do populist governments reduce corruption?	10
Leader vs. the party dilemma: the case of a party rebirth in Czechia	9
The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary	9
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
Building bridges: the pro-EU vote in the 2024 referendum in Republic of Moldova	9
Towards pillarisation? Coalitions of Polish protest in 2020	8
Ukrainian public opinion and the path to peace with Russia	8
Abortion, mobilisation of feminist movements in Poland and the war in Ukraine	8
The grassroots of Putin’s ideology: civil origins of an uncivil regime	8
Riders on the storm: the politics of disruption in European member states during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Democracy without engagement? Understanding political participation in post-communist Romania	7
Informers up close: stories from communist Prague	7

Generational dynamics of political trust and satisfaction in Czechia: the enduring impact of political socialisation during socialism	7
Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe , by Lenka Bustikova, Cambridge, Cambridg	6
“The Defenders of Shiyes”: traditionalism as a mobilisation resource in a Russian protest camp	6
Who is to blame? Centralisation and titular ethnic groups’ electoral behaviour in the Russian republics	6
The role of religion in sovereignist narratives of European integration: symbolic thickening and identity marking	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
Czech political parties and the war in Ukraine: continuity of foreign policy stances	5
Win big, buy more: political parties, competition and electoral clientelism	5
Building active youth in post-Soviet countries through civic education programmes: evidence from Poland	5
Pro-Ukraine activism in Serbia: diasporas and locals against the war in a state of adversity	5
“In Defence of Europe”: pro-Ukraine activism and civil society mobilisation across Central and Southeast Europe	5
A digital party organisation? Evolution of the Czech Pirates	5
Beyond ingroup favouritism: local demography and the dynamics of vote-buying in multiethnic societies	5
Exploring the catalysts of lobbying coalitions in Central and Eastern Europe	5
Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left	4
Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe	4
Angry and afraid: emotional drivers of protest for abortion rights in Poland	4
Eurosceptic narratives in the age of COVID-19: the Central European states in focus	4
To resist or not to resist: “Skopje 2014” and the politics of contention in North Macedonia	4
The Sputnik V moment: biotech, biowarfare and COVID-19 vaccine development in Russia and in former Soviet satellite states	4
A grassroots conservatism? Taking a fine-grained view of conservative attitudes among Russians	4
Explaining legislative party discipline in a new democracy: the case of Lithuania	4
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	3
Pro-Ukrainian social mobilisation in Hungary: solidarity in the shadow of the Hungarian government's Janus-faced communication	3
Introduction to the symposium “Asymmetrical resource exchange. Business, state and social welfare provision in Russian regions”	3
Opposition and resistance: how judges and professional associations in Poland, Hungary, and Romania defend their independence	3
Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia	3
Patterns of international organizations’ engagement in reform and policy making in the post-Soviet space	3
How do social movements take the “electoral turn” in unfavourable contexts? The case of “Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own”	3
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
Cut from the same cloth? Identifying a diﬀerence between populist parties in CEE and Western Europe	2
Micro-states and de-facto states in the context of borders and political–economic development	2
Thin but visible: the role of populist attitudes and their subdimensions in populist support within the 2021 Czech legislative election	2
East Central Europe in the COVID-19 crisis	2
Making sense of conservative narratives in Kyrgyzstan: the case of illiberal public activists	2
Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections	2
“Conservative” voting in Russia: the religiosity and the political choice of orthodox believers	2
Pre-electoral fiscal policies and opportunistic spending: the case of the recently decentralised Macedonian local governments	2
The new Kremlinology: understanding regime personalization in Russia	2
They came after us: mainstream left’s response to the rise of the populist radical right in Romania and Bulgaria	2
Boosting resilience against climate change? A post-development and climate justice deconstruction of EU climate resilience-building in the South Caucasus	1
Memory activism and the victimhood paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina: commemorating the “War Child” in the resistance against ethnic nationalism	1
New parties with old labels: party families and perceived party positions in Eastern and Western Europe	1
Political opportunities and mobilisation on the far-right in Ukraine	1
Russia’s “conservative turn” after 2012: evidence from the European Social Survey	1
Populism as a political trust booster? Populist support and degrees of political power in Central Europe	1
Labour markets in a moral crisis: structural unemployment and the employment service reform in Lithuania	1
Who supports the New Left? Evidence from Croatia	1

Judges as activists: how Polish judges mobilise to defend the rule of law	1
Russia and Central European illiberal actors: mutual legitimation amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine	1
To help or not to help? Analyzing individual support for Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia	1
Education and the politics of memory in Russia and Eastern Europe infested with history	1
Calls for a strong president and support for autocracy: exploring semi-presidential regimes in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Legitimation strategies of Russian companies: a bricolage of social responsibility	1
No I in team? parties' and voters' gendered response to pronominal choice in parliamentary speechmaking in Estonia	1
Social movements in Southeast Europe: from urban mobilisation to electoral competition	1
Non-democratic federalism and decentralization in post-soviet states	1
“Can you beat your wife, yes or no?”: a study of hegemonic femininity in Kazakhstan’s online discourses	1
Outsourcing elderly care to private companies in Russia: (non)compliance and creative compliance as responses to the principal-agent problem	1
There are such people: the role of corruption in the 2021 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria	1
Participation of populist radical right parties in coalition governments of Central and Eastern Europe: do national party systems matter?	1
The demography of intolerance: communist legacy, demographic threat, and attitudes toward homosexuality	1