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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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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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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@eepolitics.bsky.social Symposium ‘Understanding Ukraine’s resistance, resilience and reform in the face of Russia’s war’ tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4...

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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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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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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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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🎈 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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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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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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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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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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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...

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". 🇧🇦

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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,...

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
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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

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...

⚡️New & #FREE article: 'Geopolitics and autocratisation in hybrid regimes: the case of #Georgia' by @perekman.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159...

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...

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....

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...

☀️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...

(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...

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...
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When do voters with left-wing economic views support populist radical right parties?

Many supporters of 🇵🇱 PiS are left-authoritarians (left-wing econ & authoritarian socio-cult views)... 1/4 👇

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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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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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