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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New publication! Claudia Laštro has published a new article in @eepolitics.bsky.social, asking do elite splits stabilise autocratic regimes under certain conditions? Give it a read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Stability through rupture: elite splits and coalition realignment in Serbia and Montenegro
This article challenges the assumption that elite splits inherently destabilise autocratic regimes. It proposes that some elite ruptures facilitate adaptive reorganisation, through three stabilisin...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
✨ New & #Free article: 'Democratic hypocrisy in practice: a panel study of revealed preferences for liberal democracy in #Poland' 🇵🇱 by @benstanley.eu (@uniwersytetswps.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1080/2159...
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Democratic hypocrisy in practice: a panel study of revealed preferences for liberal democracy in Poland
Democratic hypocrisy – the tendency for citizens to express support for democratic norms in the abstract while tolerating violations of those norms when doing so serves their partisan interests – h...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Ildar Daminov @ildardaminov.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My new article in East European Politics looks at how state capacity shapes the diffusion of #digitalauthoritarianism in Eurasia. Using Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan as cases, the article shows that borrowing authoritarian “blueprints” is one thing, but implementing them effectively is another.
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Borrowed blueprints, broken systems: the moderating effect of state capacities on the diffusion of “digital authoritarianism” in Eurasia
Authoritarian diffusion theories explain cooperation among autocracies to sustain stability through resources or policy learning. Existing research centres on autocracy promotion or “authoritarian ...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🏆 We are thrilled to announce that the 2025 Best Article Prize goes to @tranfi.bsky.social for the excellent article 'From parish to parliament: resources and alliances of anti-gender movements in Southeast Europe' which is now #FREE to download! 🙌 www.tandfonline.com/journals/fjc...
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East European Politics Best Article Prize
Explore the article collection: East European Politics Best Article Prize. Published in East European Politics.
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
⚡️New issue incl. #FREE content out now!👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4... 🙌 @pzag.bsky.social @alexanderdavenport.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social
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Pauli Lenik @pauli-lenik.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#ResearchAlert I am excited to share that my article is now open access in @eepolitics.bsky.social Using @ess-survey.bsky.social data “From Protest to Piety” looks at how PiS's support in Poland evolved from protest-driven to a deeper cultural consolidation rooted in religiosity. Link below 👇
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From protest to piety: the cultural consolidation of PiS voters in Poland
This study investigates the evolving profile of voters supporting Poland's Law and Justice party (PiS) between 2012 ande 2023, asking: How have individual-level traits shaped electoral support for ...
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Andrea Pirro @andreapirro.it · 10/06/2026
At @eepolitics.bsky.social, we are delighted to share this new article by Licia Cianetti (@unibirmingham.bsky.social) on democratic resilience and re-democratisation. Enjoy the read! @adamfagan.bsky.social @petrkopecky.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2159...
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Democratic resilience and re-democratisation
Almost two decades into the current wave of autocratisation, regime scholars have been turning their attention to the potential for democracies to resist mounting authoritarian pressures and for de...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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The relationship between hope and societal stability in Kosovo
Dashed hope leads to potentially destabilising anger. I highlight examples of the link between dashed hope and anger/unrest in Kosovo, before focusing on the post-independence period. The hopes rai...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Ethnic minority party formation and success in Europe
What causes ethnic minority parties (EMPs) to emerge, and why do only some of them become electorally successful? I test commonly offered explanations for variation in EMP emergence and success wit...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Condoning postwar corruption: how legacies of war prevent democratic accountability in contemporary Southeast Europe
Do voters in postwar societies punish corrupt politicians? Or are their electoral preferences distorted by their own or the candidates’ war pasts? We answer these questions by analysing the results...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Home bias and political ideology: experimental evidence on attitudes toward FDI in Southeast Europe
This study explores home bias in foreign direct investment (FDI) preferences through an experiment involving 12,419 participants across six Southeast European countries. Respondents evaluated hypot...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
🇽🇰🗳️Today: parliamentary elections in #Kosovo! Read some excellent pieces on Kosovo in the comments 👇
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Explaining the pattern of Russian authoritarian diffusion in Armenia
The literature dealing with the international dimensions of authoritarianism suggests that regional hegemons may exploit linkage and leverage to counter democracy and diffuse authoritarian ideas an...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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The European Union as a normative power: the case of Armenia
In September 2013, Armenia, after four years of negotiations, declared that it would join the Russian-led Eurasian Customs Union. That caused the interruption of the Association Agreement (AA) talk...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Autocrats and peaceful resignation in the post-Soviet space: is there a political culture explanation?
When faced with large-scale dissent, autocracies often use repression. However, in some cases, autocrats resign peacefully, raising the question of why they do not prioritise the survival of their ...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Interdependences with external actors and regime persistence in Eastern Partnership countries*
This article addresses how both external democratic and non-democratic actors impact the persistence of non-democratic regimes in third countries. We focus on asymmetrical interdependences and adva...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Patterns of international organizations’ engagement in reform and policy making in the post-Soviet space
The paper explains how states and international organisations interact in policy making by focusing on five countries of the post-Soviet space. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in Armenia, Be...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
🇦🇲🗳️ Tomorrow: parliamentary elections in #Armenia! Read some great articles on Armenia posted in the comments below 👇
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
How do young opposition MPs navigate everyday representation in an electoral autocracy? @annamariasebestyen.bsky.social introduces a novel typology of opposition representation based on interviews with young Hungarian opposition MPs. #PoliticalRepresentation #ElectoralAutocracy #HungaryPolitics
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
New & #FREE article: 'Representative strategies of opposition MPs in an electoral autocracy: a typology of young #Hungarian parliamentarians' by @annamariasebestyen.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159... 🇭🇺
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Representative strategies of opposition MPs in an electoral autocracy: a typology of young Hungarian parliamentarians
This article examines the representative strategies of young Hungarian opposition MPs to improve our understanding of opposition behaviour in electoral autocracies. Based on fifteen semi-structured...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
💡New & #Free article: 'A comparative analysis of the geopolitical orientations of #Belarusian elites in the aftermath of 2020 and 2022' by @leukavets.bsky.social ( @sceeus-ui.bsky.social )👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159...
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A comparative analysis of the geopolitical orientations of Belarusian elites in the aftermath of 2020 and 2022
This article analyses how and why the geopolitical orientations of Belarusian elites diverged after 2020, comparing the trajectories of the Lukashenka regime and the Belarusian democratic forces in...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
💡New & #FREE article: 'Practices of de-Europeanisation in #Georgia: culture strategy 2025 as a case of policyfailing' by Olga Chumicheva ( @uomseed.bsky.social ) 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159... 🇬🇪
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Practices of de-Europeanisation in Georgia: culture strategy 2025 as a case of policyfailing
The article critically examines Georgia’s Culture Strategy 2016–2025 as a case of policy transfer in the context of Europeanisation and its further political dismantling alongside the authoritarian...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New & #FREE article: 'Mapping the nation: a multi-scalar imagination in a dichotomised #Montenegro' by Christopher L. C. Kee ( @uni-graz.at ) 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159... 🇲🇪
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Mapping the nation: a multi-scalar imagination in a dichotomised Montenegro
While discussions about Montenegro’s national identities have been the object of different studies, these have not centred the role of geography or, more specifically, the perception of space. Usin...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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There are such people: the role of corruption in the 2021 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria
Voters often express a dislike for corruption, yet on election day, they still vote for corrupt politicians. While existing research highlights the impact of information and concern about corruptio...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov’s surprise survival in Bulgaria
Prime Ministers (PMs) in Central and Eastern Europe have been relatively weak, although substantial variation in the survival both within and across countries exists. In Bulgaria, Boyko Borissov ca...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Weak pluralism and shallow democracy: the rise of identity politics in Bulgaria and Romania
The rise of identity politics has been surprising in two countries that have benefitted extensively from EU membership. To address the puzzle, the paper suggests that the EU vision of common and in...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🇧🇬🗳️Ahead of tomorrow's parliamentary elections in #Bulgaria, read some great analyses recently published in our journal (see in the comments)👇
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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New !! @eepolitics.bsky.social Symposium ‘Understanding Ukraine’s resistance, resilience and reform in the face of Russia’s war’ tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections
The 2024 European Parliamentary elections yielded an opposition landslide in Hungary. Respect and Freedom (TISZA), a genuinely new party led by a Fidesz defector, emerged as Orbán's unequivocal cha...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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State advertising as an instrument of transformation of the media market in Hungary
The study uses a comparative-historical perspective to examine the practice of state advertising in the Hungarian media by looking at the relevant practices of three governments. Using previous eco...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary
Heresthetic and emphasis framing are essential techniques for inducing and shaping public opinion in political communication. The results of a public opinion survey experiment (N = 1000) show that ...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🗳️Following the parliamentary elections in #Hungary today? Read some excellent & #FREE analyses in the comments below! 🇭🇺👇👇
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
if you only follow #Hungarian politics every four years, you might be wondering who is suddenly voting for #TISZA. My @eepolitics.bsky.social article comes to the rescue: doi.org/10.1080/2159...
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Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections
The 2024 European Parliamentary elections yielded an opposition landslide in Hungary. Respect and Freedom (TISZA), a genuinely new party led by a Fidesz defector, emerged as Orbán's unequivocal cha...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
💡The NEW issue incl. #FREE content is out now! 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4... 🙌 @emmamateo.bsky.social @oonuch.bsky.social @tymofiibrik.bsky.social @alinanychyk.bsky.social @popovaprof.bsky.social @bencehamrak.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @andreapirro.it
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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Read the full text in www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @eepolitics.bsky.social @emmamateo.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uompols.bsky.social @huribooks.bsky.social @harvard.edu
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🎈 #RepresentativeDisconnect No.8 📉 Based on @eepolitics.bsky.social research, Annamária Sebestyén argues that in #Hungary + other countries experiencing #DemocraticBacksliding, 💭 opposition MPS must develop innovative strategies to remain politically relevant. 👉️ bit.ly/4uO5WPr
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🎈 How opposition MPs survive in electoral autocracies
In countries experiencing democratic backsliding, opposition MPs must confront not only the crisis of political representation but also structural constraints that limit their influence. Drawing on re...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Coping with the new party challenge: patterns of prime ministerial survival in Croatia and Slovenia
The recent surge of genuinely new parties (GNPs) in Central and Eastern Europe has made the political environment of prime ministers (PMs) more difficult, by increasing uncertainty in coalition gov...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left
This article traces the transformation of the new left in Slovenia from a protest movement into the political force United Left/The Left during the anti-establishment protest wave against the conse...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Aligning populist worldviews of citizens to media preferences: peculiarities of an illiberal political context
In this article we look at how people’s relations to the media shape their anti-establishment, people-centrist and exclusionist populist worldviews. We propose to establish the relation between the...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Calls for a strong president and support for autocracy: exploring semi-presidential regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
Do people favour a strong presidency because they support the incumbent president, or do such attitudes reflect endorsement of non-democratic regimes and strongman rule? We examine this research qu...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🗳️ Parliamentary elections in #Slovenia today! 🇸🇮 Read some excellent analyses in the comments 👇
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damirkasum.bsky.social @damirkasum.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Delighted to share my first paper since returning to the ivory tower! 🎓 Co-authored with @spacpeter.bsky.social and published in @eepolitics.bsky.social: "Direct Mayoral Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Ethnic Zero-Sum Game". 🇧🇦 It feels great to be back in the research game. 📖👇
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Direct mayoral elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina: an ethnic zero-sum game
This article examines how the demographic composition of municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina shapes the strategic behaviour of co-ethnic political parties in direct mayoral elections. It argue...
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Gocha Ugulava @gochaugulava.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How do democracies decay without rewriting their rules? Study on Georgia shows how institutional drift erodes accountability under a democratic facade. My new article in East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social Link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FMZMF...
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Institutional drift in post-soviet political economy: the case of Georgia
This study examines institutional drift as a mechanism of democratic backsliding in Georgia. Using V-Dem data (2010–2024), it develops an Institutional Drift Index measuring declines in horizontal,...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This analysis of Georgia’s authoritarian turn shows how autocratisation is reinforced by the return of geopolitics. Leaders act as gatekeepers constructing storylines that connect broader geopolitical phenomena to local politics and use them for legitimacy-building & repression
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
⚡️New & #FREE article: 'Geopolitics and autocratisation in hybrid regimes: the case of #Georgia' by @perekman.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159...
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Geopolitics and autocratisation in hybrid regimes: the case of Georgia
This article explains how incumbents in hybrid regimes use geopolitics to strengthen regime durability. It develops two autocratisation strategies: declarative Europeanisation, a deliberate tool th...
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PTimofejevs @pftimofejevs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Glad to say that @eepolitics.bsky.social just published my article on how Sweden Democrats changed their security and defence position, specifically, their stance on NATO membership, just months before the Swedish general election in 2022: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Changes in radical right’s security and defence policy position: the case of Sweden democrats, 2022
Although scholarship on security and defence policy of radical right parties (RRPs) is growing, limited attention has been paid to why some RRPs change their positions and geopolitical orientations...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
☀️New & #FREE article: 'Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during #Russia’s war against #Ukraine' - @tymofiibrik.bsky.social @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social @adamfagan.bsky.social @andreapirro.it 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159...
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Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine
Russia’s war against Ukraine constitutes a severe multi-aspect challenge for Ukraine’s economy. Existing studies stress the positive role the 2014 decentralisation reform in Ukraine has had in comb...
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I have a new article out, which unfortunately isn't open-access, but the publisher is offering 50 free eprints! The article dispels the common myth that Ukraine is too corrupt to join the EU. It shows that Ukrainian corruption is average... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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(Anti)corruption and conditionality in the geopolitical enlargement: Ukraine’s EU accession in comparative perspective
Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, geostrategic urgency has revived EU enlargement, raising fears that speed may erode conditionality. This article argues instead that Ukraine's accession pat...
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