Professor Stephen Whitefield
After writing my doctorate in 1991 on Soviet political and economic institutions (published as Industrial Power and the Soviet State by Oxford University Press in 1993 - Ed A. Hewett Prizewinner), I have spent the last 20 yearsstudying post-Communist politics and society via mass surveys conducted repeatedly in 13 post-Communist countries. On the way, I became interested in the character of post-Communist and now West European political parties, which I am also investigating (with Robert Rohrschneider at Indiana University, Bloomington) via expert surveys of their stances towards European integration and social inequality. These interests have expanded recently to include an Egyptian election study and a study of how parties differ among themselves and over time in their emotional appeals to voters.
Curriculum Vitae: Stephen Douglas WHITEFIELD
Education
1985-1991 Nuffield College, D.Phil Politics
University of Oxford: Soviet Industrial Ministries as Political Institutions 1965-90
1981-84 Oriel College, B.A. (Honours) First Class, Philosophy, Politics and Economics
University of Oxford:
Educational Employment
2007- Professor of Politics and University Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations, and Fellow in Politics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
1993-2006 CUF Lecturer in Politics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
1990-3: Lecturer in Russian and East European Politics, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London
Visiting Positions
Spring 2014: Visiting Professor, Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po, Paris
Spring 2000: Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Spring 1999: Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Spring 1996: Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, Duke University
Distinctions and Prizes
October 2002-2005: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
September 2002: Best Paper Award, Religion and Politics Section, American Political Science Association
November 1994: Ed A. Hewett Prize, American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies, for best publication (book or article) in English in 1993 on the subject of the political economy of Soviet-type and transition economies.
Teaching Comparative Government
Political Sociology
Russian Politics and Government
Political Sociology of Post-Communism
Research Design in Comparative Political Science
Pembroke Administration Vicegerent (Deputy-Master), 2016-18
(Selected) Steward, Senior Common Room, 2014-16
Finance and General Purposes Committee, 2015-
Fellowships Committee, 2006-8, 2012-
Senior Tutor, 1996-99
University Administration Chair, OxPO (Oxford-Sciences Po Network), 2016 -
Coordinator, Research Excellence Framework 2020, Politics and International Relations submission
Head of Department, Department of Politics and International Relations, 2010-13
(Selected) Research Director, Department of Politics and International Relations, 2011-13, 2017-18
Management Committee, Blavatnik School of Government, 2010-13
Steering Committee, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2010-13
Director of Graduate Training, Department of Politics and International Relations, 2005-8
Professional Service Academic Director, FCO Chevening Gurukol Programme, University of Oxford, 2017-
Coordinator, Harrison Prize Jury, Political Studies, 2016
Member, International Strategic Committee, Sciences Po 2022 Strategic Review, 2016-
Research Advisory Board, Centre for Research and Social Progress, Italy 2015-
(Selected) Editorial Advisory Board, Review of Economics and Political Science, University of Cairo, 2016-
ESRC Peer Review College, 2015-19
External Strategic Reviewer, Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, 2014
Editorial Board, Comparative Political Studies, 2013 -
International Advisory Board, Centre for Social Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2011 -
External Reviewer, LSE REF submission, 2012
Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Academy, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, Dorling Kindersley, ECPR Press, Electoral Studies, ESRC, Estonian Science Foundation, Europe-Asia Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Government and Opposition, International Political Science Review, Journal of Communist and Transition Studies, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Social Policy, Leverhulme Foundation, National Science Centre of Poland, Nuffield Foundation, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Party Politics, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies, Routledge, Social Science Research, Studia Politica, Studies in Comparative International Development, Volkswagen Foundation, World Politics.
Publications
Monographs
The Strain of Representation. How Parties Represent Diverse Voters in Western and Eastern Europe (with Robert Rohrschneider). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012.
Industrial Power and the Soviet State. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993.
Edited volumes
Issue Dimensionality and Party Competition in Turbulent Times (with Jan Rovny), special issue, Party Politics, 25(1): 2019.
Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe (with Robert Rohrschneider). Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006.
Political Culture and Post-Communism. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2005.
The New Institutional Architecture of Eastern Europe. Macmillan, London 1993.
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
‘How Challenger Parties Can Win Big with Frozen Cleavages: Explaining the Landslide Victory of the Servant of the People Party in the 2019 Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections’ (with Paul Chaisty), Party Politics, forthcoming.
‘The Political Implications of Popular Support for Presidential Term Limits in Russia’ (with Paul Chaisty), Post-Soviet Affairs, 35(4), 2019, 323-337.
‘Issue Dimensionality and Party Competition in Turbulent Times’ (with Jan Rovny), Party Politics, 25(1), 2019, 4-11.
‘Embedding integration: How European integration splits mainstream parties’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Party Politics, 25(1), 2019, 25-35.
‘Party Competition and Emotive Rhetoric’ (with Spyros Kosmidis, Sara Hobolt and Eamonn Molloy), Comparative Political Studies, 52(6): 2019, 811-837.
‘Critical Election or Frozen Cleavages? How Voters Chose Parties in the 2014 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election' (with Paul Chaisty), Electoral Studies, 56: 2018, 158-169.
‘Between Scylla and Charybdis: Religion, the Military and Support for Democracy among Egyptians, 2011 – 2014’ (with Mazen Hassan and Elisabeth Kendall), Democratization, 25(2): 2018, 273-292.
‘Dimensions of Nationalism in Putin’s Russia and their Political Correlates’ (with Paul Chaisty), Russian Politics 1(2): 2017, 123-154.
‘Institutional Preferences in a Time of Crisis: Mass Attitudes towards Regional Decentralisation in War-Torn Ukraine’, (with Paul Chaisty), Political Studies, 65(4): 2017, 824-843.
‘Critical Parties: How Parties Evaluate the Performance of Democracies’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), British Journal of Political Science, 49(1): 2017, 355-379.
‘Party Positions about European Integration in Germany: An Electoral Quandary?’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), German Politics, 2017, 26(1): 83-103.
‘Responding to Growing EU-skepticism? The Stances of Political Parties Towards European Integration in Western and Eastern Europe Following the Financial Crisis’, (with Robert Rohrschneider), European Union Politics, 17(1): 2016, 138-161.
‘Support for Environmental Policies: Are Post-Communist Societies (Still) Different?’ (with Paul Chaisty), Environmental Politics, 24 (4), 2015, 598-616.
‘Media, Cultural Consumption and Political Culture in Post-Revolutionary Egypt’ (with Mazen Hassan and Elisabeth Kendall), Political Studies, 64(3), 2015, 534-551.
‘The Salience of European Integration to Party Competition: Western and Eastern Europe Compared’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), East European Politics and Society, 29 (1), 2015, 12-39.
‘Rethinking Social Inequality and Why It Matters’ (with Chiara Binelli and Matthew Loveless), World Development, 70, 2015, 239-248.
‘Forward to democracy or back to authoritarianism? The attitudinal bases of mass support for the Russian election protests of 2011-12’ (with Paul Chaisty), Post-Soviet Affairs, 29 (5), 2013, 387-403.
‘Social Inequality and Assessments of Democracy and the Market: Evidence from the New Market Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Matthew Loveless), Europe-Asia Studies, 65 (1), 2013, 26-44.
‘Institutional Context and Representational Strain in Party-Voter Agreement in Western and Eastern Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), West European Politics, 35 (6), 2012, 1320-1340. [Reprinted in Christine Arnold and Mark N. Franklin eds., Assessing Political Representation in Europe, Routledge, London, 2013.]
‘The Political Consequences of Russia’s Financial Crisis’ (with Paul Chaisty), Post-Soviet Affairs, 28 (2), 2012, 187-208.
‘Being Unequal and Seeing Inequality: Explaining the Political Significance of Social Inequality in New Market Democracies’ (with Matthew Loveless). European Journal of Political Research, 50 (2), 2011, 239-266.
‘Consistent Choice Sets? The Stances of Political Parties towards European Integration in 10 Central East European Democracies, 2003-2007’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Journal of European Public Policy, 17 (1), 2010, 55-75.
‘The Europeanization of Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe? The Impact of EU Entry on Issue Stances, Salience and Programmatic Coherence’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Journal of Post-Communist and Transition Studies, 25 (4), 2009, 564-584.
‘Russian Citizens and Russian Democracy: Perceptions of State Governance and Democratic Practice, 1993-2007’. Post-Soviet Affairs, 25 (2), 2009, 1-25.
‘Representational Consistency: Stability and Change in Political Cleavages in Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider). Politics and Policy, 37 (5), 2009, 667-690.
‘Understanding Cleavages in Party Systems: Issue Position and Issue Salience in 13 Post-Communist Democracies’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Comparative Political Studies, 42 (2), 2009, 280-313.
‘Representation and New Democracies: Party Stances on European Integration in Post Communist Eastern Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Journal of Politics, 69 (4), 2007, 1148-1161.
‘Do Expert Surveys Produce Consistent Estimates of Party Stances on European Integration? Comparing Expert Surveys in the Difficult Case of Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Milada Anna Vachudova, Marco Steenbergen, Robert Rohrschneider, Gary Marks, Paul Loveless, Liesbet Hooghe), Electoral Studies, 26 (1), 2007, 50-61.
‘Mind the Representation Gap: Explaining Differences in Public Views of Representation in Post-Communist Democracies’, Comparative Political Studies, 40(6), 2006, 733-758.
‘Political Parties, Public Opinion and European Integration in Post-Communist Countries: the State of the Art’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), European Union Politics, 7(1), 2006, 141-160.
‘Explaining the Emergence and Persistence of Class Voting in Post-Soviet Russia, 1993-2001’ (with G. Evans), Political Research Quarterly, 59 (1), 2006, 23-34.
‘Support for Foreign Ownership and Integration in Eastern Europe: Economic Interests, Ideological Commitments and Democratic Context’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Comparative Political Studies, 37, 2004, 313-339.
‘Russian Mass Attitudes Towards the Environment, 1993-2001’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 19, 2003, 95-113.
‘Political Cleavages and Post-Communist Politics’, Annual Review of Political Science, 5, 2002, 181-200.
‘The Political Economy of Targeting and Poverty Alleviation in Ukraine’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 18, 2002, 71-97. (Reprinted in Wsevolod W Isajiw ed., Social Change in Ukraine in Western Perspectives. Toronto, Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2003, 401-426.)
‘Socialno-klassoviy faktor politicheskogo povedeniya v Rossii’ (The Social Class Factor in Political Behaviour in Russia) (with G. Evans), Sotsiologicheskie Issledovanie, 2, 2000.
'Class, Markets and Partisanship in Post-Soviet Russia: 1993-96' (with G. Evans), Electoral Studies, 18, 1999, 155-78.
'Political Culture versus Rational Choice: Explaining Responses to Transition in the Czech Republic and Slovakia' (with G. Evans), British Journal of Political Science, 29, 1999, 129-55. [Translated to Spanish and reprinted in Rodolfo Sarsfield ed., Democracia y opinión pública en países de reciente democratización. Zona Abierta, 2009.]
'The Evolution of Left and Right in Post-Soviet Russia' (with G. Evans), Europe-Asia Studies, 45, 1998, 1023-42.
'The Structuring of Political Cleavages in Post-communist Societies: The Case of the Czech and Slovak Republics' (with G. Evans), Political Studies, 46, 1998, 115-39.
‘Support for Democracy and Political Opposition in Russia, 1993 and 1995’ (with G. Evans), Post-Soviet Affairs, 12, 1996, 218-242.
‘Economic Ideology and Political Success: Communist-successor Parties in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary Compared’ (with G. Evans), Party Politics, 1, 1995, 565-578.
‘Social and Ideological Cleavage Formation in Hungary’ (with G. Evans), Europe-Asia Studies, 47, 1995, 1177-1204.
‘The Politics and Economics of Democratic Commitment: Support for Democracy in Transition Societies’ (with G. Evans), British Journal of Political Science 25 (4), 1995, 485-514. [Reprinted in Pippa Norris, ed. (1998), Elections and Voting Behaviour, Aldershot: Ashgate. And in Stephen White and Daniel Nelson, eds. (2001). The Politics of the Post Communist World, Vol II., in The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, Ashgate, Aldershot.]
‘The Russian Election of 1993: Public Opinion and the Transition Experience’ (with G. Evans), Post-Soviet Affairs, 10, 1994, 38-60.
‘Identifying the Bases of Party Competition in Eastern Europe’ (with G. Evans), British Journal of Political Science, 23 (4), 1993, 521-548. [Reprinted in Stephen White and Daniel Nelson eds (2001). The Politics of the Post Communist World, Vol I., in The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, Aldershot: Ashgate.]
Book chapters
‘Populists in Power: Populism and Representation in Illiberal Democracies’ (with Zsolt Enyedi), Robert Rohrschneider and Jacques Thomassen eds, Handbook on Representation, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2020.
'Putin's Nationalism Problem' (with Paul Chaisty) in Richard Sakwa and Agnieszka Pikulicka eds. Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives, E-International Relations, 2015. Available from: www.e-ir.info/publications/
‘The Study of Communist and Post-Communist Politics’ (with Archie Brown) in Christopher Hood, Desmond King and Gillian Peele (eds.), Forging a Discipline: A Critical Assessment of Oxford’s Development of Politics and IR in Comparative Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp 246-266.
‘Social Inequality: its character, how it is perceived, and the implications of its perceptions for social and political stability’ (with Matthew Loveless and Chiara Binelli), in I.I. Eliseeva et al eds., Social Inequality in Postsocialist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: A Sociological Analysis, Nestor Historia: Moscow, 2011, 15-32.
‘Political Parties, Public Opinion and European Integration. The Theoretical Backdrop’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield eds., Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2006, 1-18.
‘Conclusion. The Political Consequences of Post-Communist Accession’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield eds., Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2006, 241-252.
‘Between East and West: Attitudes towards Political and Economic Integration in Russia and Ukraine, 1993-2001’, in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield eds., Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2006, 217-240.
‘Support for European Integration in the Baltic States’ (with Robert Rohrschneider and Rasa Alisauskene), in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield eds., Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2006, 187-202.
‘Political Culture and Post-Communism’, in Stephen Whitefield ed., Political Culture and Post-Communism, St Antony’s Series, Palgrave-Macmillan, London, 2005, pp. 1-14
‘Culture, Experience, and State Identity: A Survey-Based Analysis of Russians, 1995-2003’, in Stephen Whitefield ed., Political Culture and Post-Communism, St Antony’s Series, Palgrave-Macmillan, London, 2005, pp 125-147.
‘Putin’s Popularity and Its Implications for Democracy in Russia’, in Alex Pravda ed., Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, pp. 139-160.
‘Attitudes Towards the West, Democracy and the Market’ (with G. Evans), in Jan Zielonka and Alex Pravda eds., Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors, Vol.2, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, pp.231-254.
‘Partisan and Party Divisions in Post-Communist Russia’ in Archie Brown (ed.), Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, pp.235-246.
'Explaining the Formation of Electoral Cleavages in Post-Communist Democracies' (with G. Evans), in H-D. Klingemann, E. Mochmann and K. Newton eds., Elections in Central and Eastern Europe: The First Wave, Sigma, Berlin, 2000, pp.36-70.
‘The emergence of class politics and class voting in post-communist Russia’, (with G. Evans), in Evans, G. ed., The End of Class Politics? Class Voting in Comparative Context, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, pp.254-280.
'The Emerging Structure of Partisan Divisions in Russian Politics' (with G. Evans), in M. Wyman, S. White and S. Oates eds., Elections and Voters in Post-Communist Russia, Edward Elgar, London, 1998, pp.68-99
'Electoral Politics in Eastern Europe: Social and Ideological Influences on Partisanship in Post-Communist Societies' (with G. Evans), in J. Higley, J. Pakulski and W. Wesolowski eds., Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe, Macmillan, , London, 1998, pp.226-50.
Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics, Iain McLean ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996 (second edition 2003). (Entries on the Afghan War, apparat, autonomous republic, Bonapartism, Bukharin, collective leadership, collectivisation, Commonwealth of Independent States, communism, Communist Party, contradiction, democratic centralism, dialectical materialism, historical materialism, KGB, Khrushchev, kulak, NEP, nomenklatura, people’s democracy, perestroika, Politburo, Russian Revolution 1991, Solidarity, Soviet Union, Stakhanovism, Stalinism, Supreme Soviet, Titoism, totalitarianism. Total words = 7,845.)
‘Social Responses to Reform in Russia’ in D. Lane ed., Russia in Transition. Politics, Privatisation and Inequality, Longman, London, 1995, pp.91-118.
‘The Ministerial System’ in Archie Brown, Michael Kaser and Gerald S. Smith eds., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp.353-59.
‘Russia’ in S. Whitefield ed., The New Institutional Architecture of Eastern Europe, Macmillan, London 1993, pp.143-161.
Work in Progress
‘The Buck Stops Elsewhere: Authoritarian Resilience and the Politics of Responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia’, (with Paul Chaisty and Christopher Gerry), under review.
‘The Conditional Influence of Parties’ Cultural Conservatism on their Institutional Illiberalism in Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), under review.
‘Substantive Congruence: Do Parties and Voters Agree on the Performance of Democracies?’ (with Robert Rohrschneider).
Other publications
‘Will Vladimir Putin become Russia’s prime minister after 2024?’ (with Paul Chaisty). Washington Post, January 29, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/29/will-vladimir-putin-become-russias-prime-minister-after-2024/
‘Be careful what you wish for: What a responsible People’s Vote should commit to.’ https://ukandeu.ac.uk/what-a-responsible-peoples-vote-campaign-should-commit-to/ Features in FT Brexit Briefing, April 26, 2019.
‘The October Revolution 100 years on: A conversation with David Priestland’. Perspectives, November 2017. https://democraticleft.scot/
‘Long read: Looking for answers – economics, Trump and the US Left. A Conversation with David Ruccio’. Perspectives, August 2017. https://democraticleft.scot/2017/08/07/long-read-looking-for-answers-economics-trump-and-the-us-left/
‘Maxim Kantor: Commensality in his Art and Politics’, in Maxim Kantor, Family versus Empire. Gdansk, 2016, pp.58-70.
‘Britain’s Place in the World: A Conversation with Colin Hay’, Perspectives, No. 42, Spring/Summer, 2016, pp.13-16.
‘The representation gap: Why ignoring Euroscepticism has opened the door for extremist parties’. EUROPP. European Politics and Policy. February, 2016. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/02/25/the-representation-gap-why-ignoring-euroscepticism-has-opened-the-door-for-extremist-parties/
‘Support for separatism in southern and eastern Ukraine is lower than you think’ (with Paul Chaisty). Washington Post, February 6, 2015: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/06/support-for-separatism-in-southern-and-eastern-ukraine-is-lower-than-you-think/
‘All tomorrow’s parties? The future (and past) of politics in Eastern Europe’. Discussion with Kevin Deegan-Krause, Tim Haughton, Jan Rovny and Stephen Whitefield. http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/2015/01/19/all-tomorrows-parties-the-future-and-past-of-politics-in-eastern-europe/ Last checked, January 19, 2015.
‘The Long Shadow of the Great War: A Conversation with Adrian Gregory’, Perspectives, No. 40, Autumn, 2014, pp.13-16.
Research Grants
‘Party Representation in Turbulent Times’. Principal Investigator with Robert Rohrschneider. BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, 2017-19.
‘Nationalism and State-Building at a Crucial Turning Point: Democracy, Authoritarianism and Political Mobilisation in Ukraine and Russia’ (with Paul Chaisty). John Fell Fund, 2014-16.
‘Support for Democracy in Egypt: A Crucial Point for the Country, A Crucial Test Case for Comparative Politics’. Principal Investigator. ESRC Urgent Grant Support, 2013-15.
‘Party Representation in Times of Economic Crisis’. Principal Investigator with Robert Rohrschneider. John Fell Fund Award, 2013.
‘The Dynamics of Political Development and its Cultural Expression in Post-Revolutionary Egypt’. Principal Investigator, with Masen Hassan. British Academy International Mobility Scheme, 2012.
‘The 2012 Russian Presidential Election: A National Survey of Russians’. Co-Principal Investigator with Paul Chaisty. Internal Oxford University funding.
‘Party Stances, Citizen Stances and Party Choice in the Egyptian Elections of 2011 and 2013’. Principal Investigator with Mazen Hassan and Elisabeth Kendall, Co-Investigators. Funding from Chris Rokkos (BrevanHoward Asset Management), 2011 and 2013.
‘“We were just using different words to mean the same thing”: Exploring the Affective Norms of Political Party Manifestos’. Principal Investigator, with Sara Hobolt and Eamonn Molloy. John Fell Fund. 2012-14.
‘Reconsidering Party Divisions in Western Europe: Lessons from the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe’. Principal Investigator, Nuffield Foundation, SGS/34859.
‘Social Inequality and Why It Matters for the Economic and Democratic Development of Europe and Its Citizens. Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective’. Project Coordinator, EU-FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5, Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society.
‘Public Opinion About the EU in Central Europe’. Conference Grant (with R. Rohrschneider) from Friedrich Ebert Foundation (along with Indiana and Oxford Universities).
‘Political Mobilisation and Elite Framing in Generating Support for Supra-National Institutions and European Union Enlargement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe’. Director, Nuffield Foundation Grant, 2003 (with R. Rohrschneider).
‘The Development of Social Class in Russia’. Co-Director, ESRC Project, 2001-2 (with G. Evans)
‘Ethnicity, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Former Soviet Union’. Programme Co-ordinator European Community INTAS Project 1995-98 (with G. Evans)
‘Emerging Forms of Political Representation and Participation in Eastern Europe’. Co-Director ESRC East-West Initiative Project 1993-97 (with G. Evans, A. Heath, and C. Payne)
Conferences Organised
‘Politics in Egypt since the Fall of Mubarak’. Sponsored by the ESRC. Pembroke College, University of Oxford, October 28, 2016.
‘Party Position, Salience and Political Outcomes’. OXPO and LIEPP Workshop, Sciences Po, Paris. October 16, 2015.
‘Religiosity and Politics in Contemporary Egypt’. Sponsored by the ESRC and British Academy. Pembroke College, University of Oxford, March 12-13, 2015.
‘Democracy in Contemporary Egypt’. Sponsored by the ESRC and British Academy. Pembroke College, University of Oxford, September 17-18, 2014.
‘Volcano. A Two Day Symposium to Discuss and Respond to the Global Financial Crisis, with an Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Maxim Kantor’. Co-sponsored by the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University. May 12-13, 2012.
‘Political Leadership, Political Institutions and Political Culture in the Soviet Union and Russia. A conference to mark the retirement of Professor Archie Brown’. Oxford University, June 24-25, 2005 (with Alex Pravda and Bill Tompson).
‘Public Opinion About the EU in Central Europe’. Indiana University, April 2004. Funded by Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Indiana and Oxford Universities (with Robert Rohrschneider).
‘Institutional Design and Democratic Stability’. Oxford University, May 1999. Funded by Oxford University. Participants from the United Kingdom and United States (with Petra Schleiter).
‘Emerging Forms of Political Representation and Participation in Eastern Europe’. Oxford University, May 1993. Funded by ESRC East-West Initiative (with G. Evans, A. Heath, and C. Payne).
Relevant Consulting Work
Assessing Covid-19 Impact and Response in the Eastern Neighbourhood. Mayors for Economic Growth. Advisor. 2020.
Developing the Perceptions on Women Participation in Elections Index (PWPEI). International Advisor. UN Women, 2017.
Electoral Integrity in Albania. Research consultant. Open Society Foundation and UN Women, 2015.
Support to regional and local development in Belarus. Research consultant. European Neighbourhood Project – Ministry of the Economy of Belarus, 2014.
Rehabilitation System: Services for the Disabled. Social survey consultant, Tacis – Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation, 2007-9.
Institutional, Legal and Economic Federalism in the Russian Federation. Political and Economic Consultant, Tacis – Administration of the President of the Russian Federation Project, 2004-6.
Developing Local Democracy and Local Government in Russia. Political Consultant, Tacis – Russian Congress of Municipalities Project, 2002-4.
Support for Social Budget Reform in Russia. Social Survey Consultant, UK Department for International Development Project – Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, 2002.
The Development of Social Class in Russia. Social Survey Consultant, UK Know-How Fund Project 1999.
Support for Reform of Social Assistance in Ukraine. Consultant and Economic and Social Survey Expert, TACIS – Ukrainian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection Project 1998-2000
The Social Consequences of Privatisation in Russia. Consultant and Economic and Social Survey Expert, TACIS – Russian Ministry of Economy Project 1997-99
Selected Advisory Papers
Pengesat për pjesëmarrjen e grave në zgjedhje në Shqipëri: Indeks Kombëtar i pjesëmarrjes së grave në zgjedhje përfshirë 12 rrethet (Obstacles to Women’s Participation in Elections in Albania: A National Index of Women’s Electoral Participation, including across 12 Regions) with Endrit Shabani, UN Women: Tirana, 2018.
‘Определение роли административных факторов, объясняющих различия в региональном экономическом развитии в Беларуси’ (with Irina Statkevich), in Актуальные вопросы совершенствования системы регионального развития в Республике Беларусь, pp. 73-77. ISBN 978-985-7148-61-5. Minsk, 2016. Presented to Belarussian Ministry of Economy.
Исследование потребностей инвалидов и детей- инвалидов, клиентов реабилитационных учреждений, в технических средствах реабилитации, которые им необходимы для нормального функционирования в их повседневной жизни (Analysis of the Demand for Technical Means of Rehabilitation Required for Normal Life Functioning by Disabled Adults and Children and Clients of Rehabilitation Institutions in Russia), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Занятость, образование и профессиональная подготовка инвалидов в Российской Федерации: анализ текущей ситуации по итогам социологического опроса (Employment, education and professional training of disabled citizens in the Russian Federation: analysis of the current situation from survey evidence), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Медико-социальная экспертиза и индивидуальная программа реабилитации по оценкам инвалидов (Medico-social expertise and Individual Programmes of Rehabilitation: Views of Disabled Citizens in the Russian Federation), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Государственная поддержка инвалидов и ее дальнейшие приоритеты по оценкам населения (State support of the disabled and directions for its future priorities in Russian public opinion), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Оценка условий жизни и социальной роли людей с ограниченными возможностями как факторы готовности населения к включению инвалидов в жизнь общества (Life conditions and the perceived social role of disabled citizens as a basis for understanding views of their social inclusion in Russia), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Доступность среды жизнедеятельности в современном российском обществе: результаты социологического опроса, проведенного в четырех регионах (Accessibility of the built environment for the disabled in contemporary Russian society: the results of surveys in four regions), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
‘Analysis of Public Utilisation of Services Traditionally Provided by Municipalities and of Public Attitudes Towards Current and Future Service Provision’. Reports on results of survey of citizens in pilot municipalities of Arsamas, Bor, Ishakskoe, Kugesi, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novocheboksarsk, and Uspenskoe, Russia, presented to Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, October/November 2005.
‘Russia Case Study: Middle Income Country Study’. Department for International Development, United Kingdom, November 2003.
‘Understanding Public Attitudes Towards Local Government’. Reports on the results of social surveys in Astrakhan, Chistopol, Maloyaroslavets and Sumy, Russia, delivered to Congress of Municipalities of the Russian Federation and Mayors of Municipalities, September 2003.
‘Assessing Poverty in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast’. Report for TACIS Project, delivered to the Ukrainian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, 1999.
‘Sotsial’nye posledstviia ekonomicheskikh preobrazovanii i privatizatsii v Rossiiskoi Federatsii: sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia’. (Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring and Privatisation in the Russian Federation) (with Elena Vinogradova) Moscow, 1999.
‘Support for Reform of Social Assistance in Ukraine’. Report for TACIS Project delivered to the Ukrainian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, May 1999.
‘Assessing the Social Impact of Privatisation and Economic Restructuring on Social Assistance in Russia’. Report for TACIS delivered to the Russian Ministry of Economy, 1998.
Selected Conference Papers and Lectures
Invited speaker, ‘From Bosch to Kantor’, Symposium, Vienna, October 4, 2018.
Invited Speaker, ‘International Local Economic Development Forum’, Tbilisi, September 13-14, 2017.
Invited Speaker, ‘Challenges to Democracy’conference, Gdansk, October 9, 2016.
Invited Speaker, ‘Global Transformations: Consequences and Alternatives’. Second Blue Skies Conference, Budapest 29 – 31 October, 2015
Invited Speaker, Graduate Institute, Geneva, ‘Understanding Putinism’, November 2014.
Invited Speaker, University of Glasgow, ‘Polarization over European Integration’, Glasgow, March 25, 2014.
Invited Speaker, European Blue Sky Conference, ‘Landscape of Crises – A New Age of Uncertainty’, Budapest, November 7-9, 2013.
Keynote speaker, 17th International Summer University, 2012 Kőszeg, Hungary, ‘Reinventing the Future: Responses and Alternatives to the Crisis’
Invited participant, ‘Tragedy or Triumph? A Hundred Years of Politics and IR at Oxford’, Oxford, December 1-2, 2011.
Invited Participant, European Science Foundation ‘Forward Looking Consensus’ conference, Central and Eastern Europe beyond Transition: Convergence and Divergence in Europe. Berlin, February 16-17, 2011.
‘Environment or Jobs: Governance and Environmental Policy Making in Central and Eastern Europe’. Society for the Social Study of Science, Tokyo, August 2010.
‘Social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe’. Department of Sociology, Yale University, September 25, 2009
‘Social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe’. Central European University, Budapest, September 19, 2009
‘Social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe’. Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, September 15, 2009
Keynote speaker, Annual European Graduate Conference on Political Parties, University of Birmingham, February 16, 2009.
‘Russian Citizens and Russian Democracy: Perceptions of State Governance and Democratic Practice, 1993-2007’. International Conference on State Governance and Democratic Practice in Russia. Graduate Institute of Russian Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, November 8-9, 2008.
‘Being Unequal and Seeing Inequality: Perceptions of Social Inequality in CEE’. CEELBAS conference on social class and social inequality, St Antony’s College, Oxford, May 30, 2008.
‘Stability and Change in Political Cleavages in Central and Eastern Europe’. CEELBAS Workshop, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, May 8, 2008.
‘Emerging Patterns of Social Inequality in Post-Communist Eastern Europe’ (invited speaker). CEELBAS Launch Conference, UCL-SSEES, London, April 2007.
‘Values and Interests: How Russians Make Sense of the New Russia’ (invited speaker). Villanova University, April 2006.
'Explaining Party-Citizen Linkages: Programmatism, Charisma and Clientelism in Post-Communist Party Systems' (invited speaker). University of East Anglia, November 2005.
‘Political Leadership, Political Institutions, and Political Culture in the Soviet Union and Russia’. A conference to mark the retirement of Professor Archie Brown’ (conference co-organiser with Alex Pravda and William Tompson), Oxford University, June 2005.
‘Comparing Data Sets on the Positioning of National Political Parties’ (invited speaker – with Robert Rohrschneider), Free University, Amsterdam, October 2004.
‘Public Opinion About the EU in Central Europe’, (Conference co-organiser with Robert Rohrschneider), Indiana University, April 2004.
‘Modelling Political Accountability: Principal-Agent Relations in Politics and Government’ (invited speaker), ESCR Research Seminar, Birkbeck College, London, December 2003.
‘Democracy and International Institutions: Support for Foreign Ownership and the European Union in Post-Communist Eastern Europe’, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, April, 2003.
Distinguished Visiting Lecture, Washington and Lee University, March 2003.
American Political Science Association, Boston, September 2002.
Keynote Speech, Post-Communist Studies Section, Political Studies London, February 2002.
American Political Science Association, Boston, September 2002.
Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, September 2001.
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 2001.
Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, April 2001.
American Political Science Association, Washington, September 2000.
‘Ukraine: Politics, Economic and Society’ Conference (invited contributor), Yale University, April 2000.
‘Democratisation in Europe: Ten Years On’ Conference (invited contributor), National Science Foundation Conference, Houston, February 2000.
American Political Science Association, Boston, September 1998.
'International Dimension to Democratisation in Eastern Europe' Conference (invited contributor), European University Institute, Florence, April 1998.
Department of Government, University of Essex, March 1998.
‘Governance and European Integration’ Conference (invited contributor), Rotterdam, May 1997.
‘Party Politics in Post-Communist Russia’ (invited contributor), Glasgow, May 1997.
‘Democratisation in the Balkans’ Conference (invited contributor), University of Bristol, May 1997.
Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, December 1996.
Department of Government, University of Manchester, November 1996.
University of Cape Town, September 1996.
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, August 1996.
ESRC Business Conference (invited contributor), London, May 1996.
European Science Foundation Network on Transition: Political Power Structures (invited contributor), Cambridge, April 1996.
British Council Distinguished Lecturer, Belgrade and Skopje, March, 1996.
Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Glasgow, April 1996.
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, September 1995.
Lectures to Political Science Department, Stanford University and Centre for Survey Research, University of California, Berkeley, April 1995.
‘Public Opinion and Party Formation in Post-Communist and Post-Authoritarian Democracies’ (invited contributor), Duke University, March 1995.
‘Mass Response to the Transformation of Post-Communist Societies’ Conference (invited contributor), St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 16-19 March 1995.
‘Russia in Transition: Elites, Classes and Inequalities’ Conference (invited contributor), Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 15-17 December 1994
Professor Stephen Whitefield
After writing my doctorate in 1991 on Soviet political and economic institutions (published as Industrial Power and the Soviet State by Oxford University Press in 1993 - Ed A. Hewett Prizewinner), I have spent the last 20 yearsstudying post-Communist politics and society via mass surveys conducted repeatedly in 13 post-Communist countries. On the way, I became interested in the character of post-Communist and now West European political parties, which I am also investigating (with Robert Rohrschneider at Indiana University, Bloomington) via expert surveys of their stances towards European integration and social inequality. These interests have expanded recently to include an Egyptian election study and a study of how parties differ among themselves and over time in their emotional appeals to voters.
Curriculum Vitae: Stephen Douglas WHITEFIELD
Education
1985-1991 Nuffield College, D.Phil Politics
University of Oxford: Soviet Industrial Ministries as Political Institutions 1965-90
1981-84 Oriel College, B.A. (Honours) First Class, Philosophy, Politics and Economics
University of Oxford:
Educational Employment
2007- Professor of Politics and University Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations, and Fellow in Politics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
1993-2006 CUF Lecturer in Politics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
1990-3: Lecturer in Russian and East European Politics, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London
Visiting Positions
Spring 2014: Visiting Professor, Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po, Paris
Spring 2000: Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Spring 1999: Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Spring 1996: Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, Duke University
Distinctions and Prizes
October 2002-2005: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
September 2002: Best Paper Award, Religion and Politics Section, American Political Science Association
November 1994: Ed A. Hewett Prize, American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies, for best publication (book or article) in English in 1993 on the subject of the political economy of Soviet-type and transition economies.
Teaching Comparative Government
Political Sociology
Russian Politics and Government
Political Sociology of Post-Communism
Research Design in Comparative Political Science
Pembroke Administration Vicegerent (Deputy-Master), 2016-18
(Selected) Steward, Senior Common Room, 2014-16
Finance and General Purposes Committee, 2015-
Fellowships Committee, 2006-8, 2012-
Senior Tutor, 1996-99
University Administration Chair, OxPO (Oxford-Sciences Po Network), 2016 -
Coordinator, Research Excellence Framework 2020, Politics and International Relations submission
Head of Department, Department of Politics and International Relations, 2010-13
(Selected) Research Director, Department of Politics and International Relations, 2011-13, 2017-18
Management Committee, Blavatnik School of Government, 2010-13
Steering Committee, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2010-13
Director of Graduate Training, Department of Politics and International Relations, 2005-8
Professional Service Academic Director, FCO Chevening Gurukol Programme, University of Oxford, 2017-
Coordinator, Harrison Prize Jury, Political Studies, 2016
Member, International Strategic Committee, Sciences Po 2022 Strategic Review, 2016-
Research Advisory Board, Centre for Research and Social Progress, Italy 2015-
(Selected) Editorial Advisory Board, Review of Economics and Political Science, University of Cairo, 2016-
ESRC Peer Review College, 2015-19
External Strategic Reviewer, Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, 2014
Editorial Board, Comparative Political Studies, 2013 -
International Advisory Board, Centre for Social Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2011 -
External Reviewer, LSE REF submission, 2012
Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Academy, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, Dorling Kindersley, ECPR Press, Electoral Studies, ESRC, Estonian Science Foundation, Europe-Asia Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Government and Opposition, International Political Science Review, Journal of Communist and Transition Studies, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Social Policy, Leverhulme Foundation, National Science Centre of Poland, Nuffield Foundation, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Party Politics, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies, Routledge, Social Science Research, Studia Politica, Studies in Comparative International Development, Volkswagen Foundation, World Politics.
Publications
Monographs
The Strain of Representation. How Parties Represent Diverse Voters in Western and Eastern Europe (with Robert Rohrschneider). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012.
Industrial Power and the Soviet State. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993.
Edited volumes
Issue Dimensionality and Party Competition in Turbulent Times (with Jan Rovny), special issue, Party Politics, 25(1): 2019.
Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe (with Robert Rohrschneider). Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006.
Political Culture and Post-Communism. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2005.
The New Institutional Architecture of Eastern Europe. Macmillan, London 1993.
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
‘How Challenger Parties Can Win Big with Frozen Cleavages: Explaining the Landslide Victory of the Servant of the People Party in the 2019 Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections’ (with Paul Chaisty), Party Politics, forthcoming.
‘The Political Implications of Popular Support for Presidential Term Limits in Russia’ (with Paul Chaisty), Post-Soviet Affairs, 35(4), 2019, 323-337.
‘Issue Dimensionality and Party Competition in Turbulent Times’ (with Jan Rovny), Party Politics, 25(1), 2019, 4-11.
‘Embedding integration: How European integration splits mainstream parties’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Party Politics, 25(1), 2019, 25-35.
‘Party Competition and Emotive Rhetoric’ (with Spyros Kosmidis, Sara Hobolt and Eamonn Molloy), Comparative Political Studies, 52(6): 2019, 811-837.
‘Critical Election or Frozen Cleavages? How Voters Chose Parties in the 2014 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election' (with Paul Chaisty), Electoral Studies, 56: 2018, 158-169.
‘Between Scylla and Charybdis: Religion, the Military and Support for Democracy among Egyptians, 2011 – 2014’ (with Mazen Hassan and Elisabeth Kendall), Democratization, 25(2): 2018, 273-292.
‘Dimensions of Nationalism in Putin’s Russia and their Political Correlates’ (with Paul Chaisty), Russian Politics 1(2): 2017, 123-154.
‘Institutional Preferences in a Time of Crisis: Mass Attitudes towards Regional Decentralisation in War-Torn Ukraine’, (with Paul Chaisty), Political Studies, 65(4): 2017, 824-843.
‘Critical Parties: How Parties Evaluate the Performance of Democracies’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), British Journal of Political Science, 49(1): 2017, 355-379.
‘Party Positions about European Integration in Germany: An Electoral Quandary?’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), German Politics, 2017, 26(1): 83-103.
‘Responding to Growing EU-skepticism? The Stances of Political Parties Towards European Integration in Western and Eastern Europe Following the Financial Crisis’, (with Robert Rohrschneider), European Union Politics, 17(1): 2016, 138-161.
‘Support for Environmental Policies: Are Post-Communist Societies (Still) Different?’ (with Paul Chaisty), Environmental Politics, 24 (4), 2015, 598-616.
‘Media, Cultural Consumption and Political Culture in Post-Revolutionary Egypt’ (with Mazen Hassan and Elisabeth Kendall), Political Studies, 64(3), 2015, 534-551.
‘The Salience of European Integration to Party Competition: Western and Eastern Europe Compared’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), East European Politics and Society, 29 (1), 2015, 12-39.
‘Rethinking Social Inequality and Why It Matters’ (with Chiara Binelli and Matthew Loveless), World Development, 70, 2015, 239-248.
‘Forward to democracy or back to authoritarianism? The attitudinal bases of mass support for the Russian election protests of 2011-12’ (with Paul Chaisty), Post-Soviet Affairs, 29 (5), 2013, 387-403.
‘Social Inequality and Assessments of Democracy and the Market: Evidence from the New Market Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Matthew Loveless), Europe-Asia Studies, 65 (1), 2013, 26-44.
‘Institutional Context and Representational Strain in Party-Voter Agreement in Western and Eastern Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), West European Politics, 35 (6), 2012, 1320-1340. [Reprinted in Christine Arnold and Mark N. Franklin eds., Assessing Political Representation in Europe, Routledge, London, 2013.]
‘The Political Consequences of Russia’s Financial Crisis’ (with Paul Chaisty), Post-Soviet Affairs, 28 (2), 2012, 187-208.
‘Being Unequal and Seeing Inequality: Explaining the Political Significance of Social Inequality in New Market Democracies’ (with Matthew Loveless). European Journal of Political Research, 50 (2), 2011, 239-266.
‘Consistent Choice Sets? The Stances of Political Parties towards European Integration in 10 Central East European Democracies, 2003-2007’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Journal of European Public Policy, 17 (1), 2010, 55-75.
‘The Europeanization of Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe? The Impact of EU Entry on Issue Stances, Salience and Programmatic Coherence’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Journal of Post-Communist and Transition Studies, 25 (4), 2009, 564-584.
‘Russian Citizens and Russian Democracy: Perceptions of State Governance and Democratic Practice, 1993-2007’. Post-Soviet Affairs, 25 (2), 2009, 1-25.
‘Representational Consistency: Stability and Change in Political Cleavages in Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider). Politics and Policy, 37 (5), 2009, 667-690.
‘Understanding Cleavages in Party Systems: Issue Position and Issue Salience in 13 Post-Communist Democracies’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Comparative Political Studies, 42 (2), 2009, 280-313.
‘Representation and New Democracies: Party Stances on European Integration in Post Communist Eastern Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Journal of Politics, 69 (4), 2007, 1148-1161.
‘Do Expert Surveys Produce Consistent Estimates of Party Stances on European Integration? Comparing Expert Surveys in the Difficult Case of Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Milada Anna Vachudova, Marco Steenbergen, Robert Rohrschneider, Gary Marks, Paul Loveless, Liesbet Hooghe), Electoral Studies, 26 (1), 2007, 50-61.
‘Mind the Representation Gap: Explaining Differences in Public Views of Representation in Post-Communist Democracies’, Comparative Political Studies, 40(6), 2006, 733-758.
‘Political Parties, Public Opinion and European Integration in Post-Communist Countries: the State of the Art’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), European Union Politics, 7(1), 2006, 141-160.
‘Explaining the Emergence and Persistence of Class Voting in Post-Soviet Russia, 1993-2001’ (with G. Evans), Political Research Quarterly, 59 (1), 2006, 23-34.
‘Support for Foreign Ownership and Integration in Eastern Europe: Economic Interests, Ideological Commitments and Democratic Context’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Comparative Political Studies, 37, 2004, 313-339.
‘Russian Mass Attitudes Towards the Environment, 1993-2001’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 19, 2003, 95-113.
‘Political Cleavages and Post-Communist Politics’, Annual Review of Political Science, 5, 2002, 181-200.
‘The Political Economy of Targeting and Poverty Alleviation in Ukraine’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 18, 2002, 71-97. (Reprinted in Wsevolod W Isajiw ed., Social Change in Ukraine in Western Perspectives. Toronto, Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2003, 401-426.)
‘Socialno-klassoviy faktor politicheskogo povedeniya v Rossii’ (The Social Class Factor in Political Behaviour in Russia) (with G. Evans), Sotsiologicheskie Issledovanie, 2, 2000.
'Class, Markets and Partisanship in Post-Soviet Russia: 1993-96' (with G. Evans), Electoral Studies, 18, 1999, 155-78.
'Political Culture versus Rational Choice: Explaining Responses to Transition in the Czech Republic and Slovakia' (with G. Evans), British Journal of Political Science, 29, 1999, 129-55. [Translated to Spanish and reprinted in Rodolfo Sarsfield ed., Democracia y opinión pública en países de reciente democratización. Zona Abierta, 2009.]
'The Evolution of Left and Right in Post-Soviet Russia' (with G. Evans), Europe-Asia Studies, 45, 1998, 1023-42.
'The Structuring of Political Cleavages in Post-communist Societies: The Case of the Czech and Slovak Republics' (with G. Evans), Political Studies, 46, 1998, 115-39.
‘Support for Democracy and Political Opposition in Russia, 1993 and 1995’ (with G. Evans), Post-Soviet Affairs, 12, 1996, 218-242.
‘Economic Ideology and Political Success: Communist-successor Parties in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary Compared’ (with G. Evans), Party Politics, 1, 1995, 565-578.
‘Social and Ideological Cleavage Formation in Hungary’ (with G. Evans), Europe-Asia Studies, 47, 1995, 1177-1204.
‘The Politics and Economics of Democratic Commitment: Support for Democracy in Transition Societies’ (with G. Evans), British Journal of Political Science 25 (4), 1995, 485-514. [Reprinted in Pippa Norris, ed. (1998), Elections and Voting Behaviour, Aldershot: Ashgate. And in Stephen White and Daniel Nelson, eds. (2001). The Politics of the Post Communist World, Vol II., in The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, Ashgate, Aldershot.]
‘The Russian Election of 1993: Public Opinion and the Transition Experience’ (with G. Evans), Post-Soviet Affairs, 10, 1994, 38-60.
‘Identifying the Bases of Party Competition in Eastern Europe’ (with G. Evans), British Journal of Political Science, 23 (4), 1993, 521-548. [Reprinted in Stephen White and Daniel Nelson eds (2001). The Politics of the Post Communist World, Vol I., in The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, Aldershot: Ashgate.]
Book chapters
‘Populists in Power: Populism and Representation in Illiberal Democracies’ (with Zsolt Enyedi), Robert Rohrschneider and Jacques Thomassen eds, Handbook on Representation, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2020.
'Putin's Nationalism Problem' (with Paul Chaisty) in Richard Sakwa and Agnieszka Pikulicka eds. Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives, E-International Relations, 2015. Available from: www.e-ir.info/publications/
‘The Study of Communist and Post-Communist Politics’ (with Archie Brown) in Christopher Hood, Desmond King and Gillian Peele (eds.), Forging a Discipline: A Critical Assessment of Oxford’s Development of Politics and IR in Comparative Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp 246-266.
‘Social Inequality: its character, how it is perceived, and the implications of its perceptions for social and political stability’ (with Matthew Loveless and Chiara Binelli), in I.I. Eliseeva et al eds., Social Inequality in Postsocialist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: A Sociological Analysis, Nestor Historia: Moscow, 2011, 15-32.
‘Political Parties, Public Opinion and European Integration. The Theoretical Backdrop’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield eds., Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2006, 1-18.
‘Conclusion. The Political Consequences of Post-Communist Accession’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield eds., Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2006, 241-252.
‘Between East and West: Attitudes towards Political and Economic Integration in Russia and Ukraine, 1993-2001’, in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield eds., Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2006, 217-240.
‘Support for European Integration in the Baltic States’ (with Robert Rohrschneider and Rasa Alisauskene), in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield eds., Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2006, 187-202.
‘Political Culture and Post-Communism’, in Stephen Whitefield ed., Political Culture and Post-Communism, St Antony’s Series, Palgrave-Macmillan, London, 2005, pp. 1-14
‘Culture, Experience, and State Identity: A Survey-Based Analysis of Russians, 1995-2003’, in Stephen Whitefield ed., Political Culture and Post-Communism, St Antony’s Series, Palgrave-Macmillan, London, 2005, pp 125-147.
‘Putin’s Popularity and Its Implications for Democracy in Russia’, in Alex Pravda ed., Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, pp. 139-160.
‘Attitudes Towards the West, Democracy and the Market’ (with G. Evans), in Jan Zielonka and Alex Pravda eds., Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors, Vol.2, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, pp.231-254.
‘Partisan and Party Divisions in Post-Communist Russia’ in Archie Brown (ed.), Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, pp.235-246.
'Explaining the Formation of Electoral Cleavages in Post-Communist Democracies' (with G. Evans), in H-D. Klingemann, E. Mochmann and K. Newton eds., Elections in Central and Eastern Europe: The First Wave, Sigma, Berlin, 2000, pp.36-70.
‘The emergence of class politics and class voting in post-communist Russia’, (with G. Evans), in Evans, G. ed., The End of Class Politics? Class Voting in Comparative Context, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, pp.254-280.
'The Emerging Structure of Partisan Divisions in Russian Politics' (with G. Evans), in M. Wyman, S. White and S. Oates eds., Elections and Voters in Post-Communist Russia, Edward Elgar, London, 1998, pp.68-99
'Electoral Politics in Eastern Europe: Social and Ideological Influences on Partisanship in Post-Communist Societies' (with G. Evans), in J. Higley, J. Pakulski and W. Wesolowski eds., Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe, Macmillan, , London, 1998, pp.226-50.
Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics, Iain McLean ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996 (second edition 2003). (Entries on the Afghan War, apparat, autonomous republic, Bonapartism, Bukharin, collective leadership, collectivisation, Commonwealth of Independent States, communism, Communist Party, contradiction, democratic centralism, dialectical materialism, historical materialism, KGB, Khrushchev, kulak, NEP, nomenklatura, people’s democracy, perestroika, Politburo, Russian Revolution 1991, Solidarity, Soviet Union, Stakhanovism, Stalinism, Supreme Soviet, Titoism, totalitarianism. Total words = 7,845.)
‘Social Responses to Reform in Russia’ in D. Lane ed., Russia in Transition. Politics, Privatisation and Inequality, Longman, London, 1995, pp.91-118.
‘The Ministerial System’ in Archie Brown, Michael Kaser and Gerald S. Smith eds., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp.353-59.
‘Russia’ in S. Whitefield ed., The New Institutional Architecture of Eastern Europe, Macmillan, London 1993, pp.143-161.
Work in Progress
‘The Buck Stops Elsewhere: Authoritarian Resilience and the Politics of Responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia’, (with Paul Chaisty and Christopher Gerry), under review.
‘The Conditional Influence of Parties’ Cultural Conservatism on their Institutional Illiberalism in Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), under review.
‘Substantive Congruence: Do Parties and Voters Agree on the Performance of Democracies?’ (with Robert Rohrschneider).
Other publications
‘Will Vladimir Putin become Russia’s prime minister after 2024?’ (with Paul Chaisty). Washington Post, January 29, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/29/will-vladimir-putin-become-russias-prime-minister-after-2024/
‘Be careful what you wish for: What a responsible People’s Vote should commit to.’ https://ukandeu.ac.uk/what-a-responsible-peoples-vote-campaign-should-commit-to/ Features in FT Brexit Briefing, April 26, 2019.
‘The October Revolution 100 years on: A conversation with David Priestland’. Perspectives, November 2017. https://democraticleft.scot/
‘Long read: Looking for answers – economics, Trump and the US Left. A Conversation with David Ruccio’. Perspectives, August 2017. https://democraticleft.scot/2017/08/07/long-read-looking-for-answers-economics-trump-and-the-us-left/
‘Maxim Kantor: Commensality in his Art and Politics’, in Maxim Kantor, Family versus Empire. Gdansk, 2016, pp.58-70.
‘Britain’s Place in the World: A Conversation with Colin Hay’, Perspectives, No. 42, Spring/Summer, 2016, pp.13-16.
‘The representation gap: Why ignoring Euroscepticism has opened the door for extremist parties’. EUROPP. European Politics and Policy. February, 2016. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/02/25/the-representation-gap-why-ignoring-euroscepticism-has-opened-the-door-for-extremist-parties/
‘Support for separatism in southern and eastern Ukraine is lower than you think’ (with Paul Chaisty). Washington Post, February 6, 2015: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/06/support-for-separatism-in-southern-and-eastern-ukraine-is-lower-than-you-think/
‘All tomorrow’s parties? The future (and past) of politics in Eastern Europe’. Discussion with Kevin Deegan-Krause, Tim Haughton, Jan Rovny and Stephen Whitefield. http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/2015/01/19/all-tomorrows-parties-the-future-and-past-of-politics-in-eastern-europe/ Last checked, January 19, 2015.
‘The Long Shadow of the Great War: A Conversation with Adrian Gregory’, Perspectives, No. 40, Autumn, 2014, pp.13-16.
Research Grants
‘Party Representation in Turbulent Times’. Principal Investigator with Robert Rohrschneider. BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, 2017-19.
‘Nationalism and State-Building at a Crucial Turning Point: Democracy, Authoritarianism and Political Mobilisation in Ukraine and Russia’ (with Paul Chaisty). John Fell Fund, 2014-16.
‘Support for Democracy in Egypt: A Crucial Point for the Country, A Crucial Test Case for Comparative Politics’. Principal Investigator. ESRC Urgent Grant Support, 2013-15.
‘Party Representation in Times of Economic Crisis’. Principal Investigator with Robert Rohrschneider. John Fell Fund Award, 2013.
‘The Dynamics of Political Development and its Cultural Expression in Post-Revolutionary Egypt’. Principal Investigator, with Masen Hassan. British Academy International Mobility Scheme, 2012.
‘The 2012 Russian Presidential Election: A National Survey of Russians’. Co-Principal Investigator with Paul Chaisty. Internal Oxford University funding.
‘Party Stances, Citizen Stances and Party Choice in the Egyptian Elections of 2011 and 2013’. Principal Investigator with Mazen Hassan and Elisabeth Kendall, Co-Investigators. Funding from Chris Rokkos (BrevanHoward Asset Management), 2011 and 2013.
‘“We were just using different words to mean the same thing”: Exploring the Affective Norms of Political Party Manifestos’. Principal Investigator, with Sara Hobolt and Eamonn Molloy. John Fell Fund. 2012-14.
‘Reconsidering Party Divisions in Western Europe: Lessons from the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe’. Principal Investigator, Nuffield Foundation, SGS/34859.
‘Social Inequality and Why It Matters for the Economic and Democratic Development of Europe and Its Citizens. Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective’. Project Coordinator, EU-FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5, Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society.
‘Public Opinion About the EU in Central Europe’. Conference Grant (with R. Rohrschneider) from Friedrich Ebert Foundation (along with Indiana and Oxford Universities).
‘Political Mobilisation and Elite Framing in Generating Support for Supra-National Institutions and European Union Enlargement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe’. Director, Nuffield Foundation Grant, 2003 (with R. Rohrschneider).
‘The Development of Social Class in Russia’. Co-Director, ESRC Project, 2001-2 (with G. Evans)
‘Ethnicity, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Former Soviet Union’. Programme Co-ordinator European Community INTAS Project 1995-98 (with G. Evans)
‘Emerging Forms of Political Representation and Participation in Eastern Europe’. Co-Director ESRC East-West Initiative Project 1993-97 (with G. Evans, A. Heath, and C. Payne)
Conferences Organised
‘Politics in Egypt since the Fall of Mubarak’. Sponsored by the ESRC. Pembroke College, University of Oxford, October 28, 2016.
‘Party Position, Salience and Political Outcomes’. OXPO and LIEPP Workshop, Sciences Po, Paris. October 16, 2015.
‘Religiosity and Politics in Contemporary Egypt’. Sponsored by the ESRC and British Academy. Pembroke College, University of Oxford, March 12-13, 2015.
‘Democracy in Contemporary Egypt’. Sponsored by the ESRC and British Academy. Pembroke College, University of Oxford, September 17-18, 2014.
‘Volcano. A Two Day Symposium to Discuss and Respond to the Global Financial Crisis, with an Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Maxim Kantor’. Co-sponsored by the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University. May 12-13, 2012.
‘Political Leadership, Political Institutions and Political Culture in the Soviet Union and Russia. A conference to mark the retirement of Professor Archie Brown’. Oxford University, June 24-25, 2005 (with Alex Pravda and Bill Tompson).
‘Public Opinion About the EU in Central Europe’. Indiana University, April 2004. Funded by Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Indiana and Oxford Universities (with Robert Rohrschneider).
‘Institutional Design and Democratic Stability’. Oxford University, May 1999. Funded by Oxford University. Participants from the United Kingdom and United States (with Petra Schleiter).
‘Emerging Forms of Political Representation and Participation in Eastern Europe’. Oxford University, May 1993. Funded by ESRC East-West Initiative (with G. Evans, A. Heath, and C. Payne).
Relevant Consulting Work
Assessing Covid-19 Impact and Response in the Eastern Neighbourhood. Mayors for Economic Growth. Advisor. 2020.
Developing the Perceptions on Women Participation in Elections Index (PWPEI). International Advisor. UN Women, 2017.
Electoral Integrity in Albania. Research consultant. Open Society Foundation and UN Women, 2015.
Support to regional and local development in Belarus. Research consultant. European Neighbourhood Project – Ministry of the Economy of Belarus, 2014.
Rehabilitation System: Services for the Disabled. Social survey consultant, Tacis – Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation, 2007-9.
Institutional, Legal and Economic Federalism in the Russian Federation. Political and Economic Consultant, Tacis – Administration of the President of the Russian Federation Project, 2004-6.
Developing Local Democracy and Local Government in Russia. Political Consultant, Tacis – Russian Congress of Municipalities Project, 2002-4.
Support for Social Budget Reform in Russia. Social Survey Consultant, UK Department for International Development Project – Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, 2002.
The Development of Social Class in Russia. Social Survey Consultant, UK Know-How Fund Project 1999.
Support for Reform of Social Assistance in Ukraine. Consultant and Economic and Social Survey Expert, TACIS – Ukrainian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection Project 1998-2000
The Social Consequences of Privatisation in Russia. Consultant and Economic and Social Survey Expert, TACIS – Russian Ministry of Economy Project 1997-99
Selected Advisory Papers
Pengesat për pjesëmarrjen e grave në zgjedhje në Shqipëri: Indeks Kombëtar i pjesëmarrjes së grave në zgjedhje përfshirë 12 rrethet (Obstacles to Women’s Participation in Elections in Albania: A National Index of Women’s Electoral Participation, including across 12 Regions) with Endrit Shabani, UN Women: Tirana, 2018.
‘Определение роли административных факторов, объясняющих различия в региональном экономическом развитии в Беларуси’ (with Irina Statkevich), in Актуальные вопросы совершенствования системы регионального развития в Республике Беларусь, pp. 73-77. ISBN 978-985-7148-61-5. Minsk, 2016. Presented to Belarussian Ministry of Economy.
Исследование потребностей инвалидов и детей- инвалидов, клиентов реабилитационных учреждений, в технических средствах реабилитации, которые им необходимы для нормального функционирования в их повседневной жизни (Analysis of the Demand for Technical Means of Rehabilitation Required for Normal Life Functioning by Disabled Adults and Children and Clients of Rehabilitation Institutions in Russia), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Занятость, образование и профессиональная подготовка инвалидов в Российской Федерации: анализ текущей ситуации по итогам социологического опроса (Employment, education and professional training of disabled citizens in the Russian Federation: analysis of the current situation from survey evidence), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Медико-социальная экспертиза и индивидуальная программа реабилитации по оценкам инвалидов (Medico-social expertise and Individual Programmes of Rehabilitation: Views of Disabled Citizens in the Russian Federation), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Государственная поддержка инвалидов и ее дальнейшие приоритеты по оценкам населения (State support of the disabled and directions for its future priorities in Russian public opinion), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Оценка условий жизни и социальной роли людей с ограниченными возможностями как факторы готовности населения к включению инвалидов в жизнь общества (Life conditions and the perceived social role of disabled citizens as a basis for understanding views of their social inclusion in Russia), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
Доступность среды жизнедеятельности в современном российском обществе: результаты социологического опроса, проведенного в четырех регионах (Accessibility of the built environment for the disabled in contemporary Russian society: the results of surveys in four regions), with Susan Kelly. Presented to Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Russian Federation, 2009.
‘Analysis of Public Utilisation of Services Traditionally Provided by Municipalities and of Public Attitudes Towards Current and Future Service Provision’. Reports on results of survey of citizens in pilot municipalities of Arsamas, Bor, Ishakskoe, Kugesi, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novocheboksarsk, and Uspenskoe, Russia, presented to Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, October/November 2005.
‘Russia Case Study: Middle Income Country Study’. Department for International Development, United Kingdom, November 2003.
‘Understanding Public Attitudes Towards Local Government’. Reports on the results of social surveys in Astrakhan, Chistopol, Maloyaroslavets and Sumy, Russia, delivered to Congress of Municipalities of the Russian Federation and Mayors of Municipalities, September 2003.
‘Assessing Poverty in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast’. Report for TACIS Project, delivered to the Ukrainian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, 1999.
‘Sotsial’nye posledstviia ekonomicheskikh preobrazovanii i privatizatsii v Rossiiskoi Federatsii: sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia’. (Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring and Privatisation in the Russian Federation) (with Elena Vinogradova) Moscow, 1999.
‘Support for Reform of Social Assistance in Ukraine’. Report for TACIS Project delivered to the Ukrainian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, May 1999.
‘Assessing the Social Impact of Privatisation and Economic Restructuring on Social Assistance in Russia’. Report for TACIS delivered to the Russian Ministry of Economy, 1998.
Selected Conference Papers and Lectures
Invited speaker, ‘From Bosch to Kantor’, Symposium, Vienna, October 4, 2018.
Invited Speaker, ‘International Local Economic Development Forum’, Tbilisi, September 13-14, 2017.
Invited Speaker, ‘Challenges to Democracy’conference, Gdansk, October 9, 2016.
Invited Speaker, ‘Global Transformations: Consequences and Alternatives’. Second Blue Skies Conference, Budapest 29 – 31 October, 2015
Invited Speaker, Graduate Institute, Geneva, ‘Understanding Putinism’, November 2014.
Invited Speaker, University of Glasgow, ‘Polarization over European Integration’, Glasgow, March 25, 2014.
Invited Speaker, European Blue Sky Conference, ‘Landscape of Crises – A New Age of Uncertainty’, Budapest, November 7-9, 2013.
Keynote speaker, 17th International Summer University, 2012 Kőszeg, Hungary, ‘Reinventing the Future: Responses and Alternatives to the Crisis’
Invited participant, ‘Tragedy or Triumph? A Hundred Years of Politics and IR at Oxford’, Oxford, December 1-2, 2011.
Invited Participant, European Science Foundation ‘Forward Looking Consensus’ conference, Central and Eastern Europe beyond Transition: Convergence and Divergence in Europe. Berlin, February 16-17, 2011.
‘Environment or Jobs: Governance and Environmental Policy Making in Central and Eastern Europe’. Society for the Social Study of Science, Tokyo, August 2010.
‘Social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe’. Department of Sociology, Yale University, September 25, 2009
‘Social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe’. Central European University, Budapest, September 19, 2009
‘Social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe’. Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, September 15, 2009
Keynote speaker, Annual European Graduate Conference on Political Parties, University of Birmingham, February 16, 2009.
‘Russian Citizens and Russian Democracy: Perceptions of State Governance and Democratic Practice, 1993-2007’. International Conference on State Governance and Democratic Practice in Russia. Graduate Institute of Russian Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, November 8-9, 2008.
‘Being Unequal and Seeing Inequality: Perceptions of Social Inequality in CEE’. CEELBAS conference on social class and social inequality, St Antony’s College, Oxford, May 30, 2008.
‘Stability and Change in Political Cleavages in Central and Eastern Europe’. CEELBAS Workshop, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, May 8, 2008.
‘Emerging Patterns of Social Inequality in Post-Communist Eastern Europe’ (invited speaker). CEELBAS Launch Conference, UCL-SSEES, London, April 2007.
‘Values and Interests: How Russians Make Sense of the New Russia’ (invited speaker). Villanova University, April 2006.
'Explaining Party-Citizen Linkages: Programmatism, Charisma and Clientelism in Post-Communist Party Systems' (invited speaker). University of East Anglia, November 2005.
‘Political Leadership, Political Institutions, and Political Culture in the Soviet Union and Russia’. A conference to mark the retirement of Professor Archie Brown’ (conference co-organiser with Alex Pravda and William Tompson), Oxford University, June 2005.
‘Comparing Data Sets on the Positioning of National Political Parties’ (invited speaker – with Robert Rohrschneider), Free University, Amsterdam, October 2004.
‘Public Opinion About the EU in Central Europe’, (Conference co-organiser with Robert Rohrschneider), Indiana University, April 2004.
‘Modelling Political Accountability: Principal-Agent Relations in Politics and Government’ (invited speaker), ESCR Research Seminar, Birkbeck College, London, December 2003.
‘Democracy and International Institutions: Support for Foreign Ownership and the European Union in Post-Communist Eastern Europe’, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, April, 2003.
Distinguished Visiting Lecture, Washington and Lee University, March 2003.
American Political Science Association, Boston, September 2002.
Keynote Speech, Post-Communist Studies Section, Political Studies London, February 2002.
American Political Science Association, Boston, September 2002.
Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, September 2001.
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 2001.
Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, April 2001.
American Political Science Association, Washington, September 2000.
‘Ukraine: Politics, Economic and Society’ Conference (invited contributor), Yale University, April 2000.
‘Democratisation in Europe: Ten Years On’ Conference (invited contributor), National Science Foundation Conference, Houston, February 2000.
American Political Science Association, Boston, September 1998.
'International Dimension to Democratisation in Eastern Europe' Conference (invited contributor), European University Institute, Florence, April 1998.
Department of Government, University of Essex, March 1998.
‘Governance and European Integration’ Conference (invited contributor), Rotterdam, May 1997.
‘Party Politics in Post-Communist Russia’ (invited contributor), Glasgow, May 1997.
‘Democratisation in the Balkans’ Conference (invited contributor), University of Bristol, May 1997.
Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, December 1996.
Department of Government, University of Manchester, November 1996.
University of Cape Town, September 1996.
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, August 1996.
ESRC Business Conference (invited contributor), London, May 1996.
European Science Foundation Network on Transition: Political Power Structures (invited contributor), Cambridge, April 1996.
British Council Distinguished Lecturer, Belgrade and Skopje, March, 1996.
Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Glasgow, April 1996.
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, September 1995.
Lectures to Political Science Department, Stanford University and Centre for Survey Research, University of California, Berkeley, April 1995.
‘Public Opinion and Party Formation in Post-Communist and Post-Authoritarian Democracies’ (invited contributor), Duke University, March 1995.
‘Mass Response to the Transformation of Post-Communist Societies’ Conference (invited contributor), St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 16-19 March 1995.
‘Russia in Transition: Elites, Classes and Inequalities’ Conference (invited contributor), Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 15-17 December 1994