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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening	108
Formal contracting and state–business relations in Russia. A case study from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	25
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions	22
The perfect storm: political alienation, ideological resonance, and the role of influencers in the 2024 Romanian parliamentary elections	22
“They all are the red plague”: anti-communism and the Romanian radical right populists	20
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.	18
Help me help you: how the EU made Romania’s anticorruption reforms a (temporary) success	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
Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine	10
Elite-public gaps in attitudes towards Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: new evidence from a survey of Czech parliamentarians and citizens	9
Do populist governments reduce corruption?	9
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
Left authoritarianism and positional shifts of populist parties in Central and Eastern Europe	8
Towards pillarisation? Coalitions of Polish protest in 2020	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
The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary	8
Leader vs. the party dilemma: the case of a party rebirth in Czechia	8
Abortion, mobilisation of feminist movements in Poland and the war in Ukraine	7
Ukrainian public opinion and the path to peace with Russia	7
Informers up close: stories from communist Prague	6
Democracy without engagement? Understanding political participation in post-communist Romania	6
Generational dynamics of political trust and satisfaction in Czechia: the enduring impact of political socialisation during socialism	6

“The Defenders of Shiyes”: traditionalism as a mobilisation resource in a Russian protest camp	6
Win big, buy more: political parties, competition and electoral clientelism	5
Parties in Russia: party system nationalisation in dominant party systems	5
Building active youth in post-Soviet countries through civic education programmes: evidence from Poland	5
Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe , by Lenka Bustikova, Cambridge, Cambridg	5
A digital party organisation? Evolution of the Czech Pirates	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
The role of religion in sovereignist narratives of European integration: symbolic thickening and identity marking	4
Explaining legislative party discipline in a new democracy: the case of Lithuania	4
Exploring the catalysts of lobbying coalitions in Central and Eastern Europe	4
The Sputnik V moment: biotech, biowarfare and COVID-19 vaccine development in Russia and in former Soviet satellite states	4
Angry and afraid: emotional drivers of protest for abortion rights in Poland	4
To resist or not to resist: “Skopje 2014” and the politics of contention in North Macedonia	4
Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe	4
Czech political parties and the war in Ukraine: continuity of foreign policy stances	4
A grassroots conservatism? Taking a fine-grained view of conservative attitudes among Russians	3
How do social movements take the “electoral turn” in unfavourable contexts? The case of “Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own”	3
Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia	3
Eurosceptic narratives in the age of COVID-19: the Central European states in focus	3
Introduction to the symposium “Asymmetrical resource exchange. Business, state and social welfare provision in Russian regions”	3
Patterns of international organizations’ engagement in reform and policy making in the post-Soviet space	3
Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left	3
Pro-Ukrainian social mobilisation in Hungary: solidarity in the shadow of the Hungarian government's Janus-faced communication	3
Opposition and resistance: how judges and professional associations in Poland, Hungary, and Romania defend their independence	3
The new Kremlinology: understanding regime personalization in Russia	2
Russian Westernizers and change in international relations the promised West	2
Thin but visible: the role of populist attitudes and their subdimensions in populist support within the 2021 Czech legislative election	2
The role of organised interests in shaping Croatia's negotiating positions in the Council of the EU	2
Development and (re)organisation of the Czech LGBT+ movement (1989–2021)	2
“Conservative” voting in Russia: the religiosity and the political choice of orthodox believers	2
Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections	2
East Central Europe in the COVID-19 crisis	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
Pre-electoral fiscal policies and opportunistic spending: the case of the recently decentralised Macedonian local governments	2
Decentralization, regional diversity, and conflict. The case of Ukraine	2
Social movements in Southeast Europe: from urban mobilisation to electoral competition	2
Political opportunities and mobilisation on the far-right in Ukraine	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
Cut from the same cloth? Identifying a diﬀerence between populist parties in CEE and Western Europe	1
Making sense of conservative narratives in Kyrgyzstan: the case of illiberal public activists	1
Russia and Central European illiberal actors: mutual legitimation amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine	1
Judges as activists: how Polish judges mobilise to defend the rule of law	1
Participation of populist radical right parties in coalition governments of Central and Eastern Europe: do national party systems matter?	1
Micro-states and de-facto states in the context of borders and political–economic development	1
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
Education and the politics of memory in Russia and Eastern Europe infested with history	1
To help or not to help? Analyzing individual support for Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia	1

Non-democratic federalism and decentralization in post-soviet states	1
They came after us: mainstream left’s response to the rise of the populist radical right in Romania and Bulgaria	1
Who supports the New Left? Evidence from Croatia	1