Teles, F., Gendźwiłł, A., Stănuș, C., & Heinelt, H. (eds.). 2020. Close Ties in European Local Governance: Linking Local State and Society. Palgrave: Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44794-6
Pop, Daniel & Cristina Stănuș (eds.). 2014. The Governance of Educational Welfare Markets: A Comparative Analysis of the European Social Fund in Five Countries. Oxford: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-1899-O.
Stănuș, Cristina. 2012. Libertatea de expresie, mass media și politica în România postcomunistă. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană. ISBN 978-973-595-478-9
Stănuş, Cristina, Ana Maria Suciu şi Daniel Pop. 2009. Studiu de politici privind informarea cetăţenilor despre activitatea aleşilor locali. Cluj-Napoca. Centrul pentru Politici Publice. ISBN 978-973-06261-8.
Pop, Daniel, Cristina Stănuş şi Ana Maria Suciu. 2007. Asociaţia de dezvoltare intercomunitară: efecte probabile şi soluţii posibile. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Napoca Star și Centrul pentru Politici Publice. ISBN 978-973-647-568-9.
Stănuș, Cristina & Gheorghiță, A. 2022. ”Romania: A Case of National Parties Ruling Local Politics”. In A. Gendzwill, U. Kjaer & K. Steyvers, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe. Routledge.
Stănuș, C., Pop, D., & Dragoman, D. 2021. "Changing urban system, changing urban policy: Romania since 1989". In A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109058.00014
Stănuș, Cristina. 2017. The Architecture of a Complex System: The Oradea Metropolitan Area in Romania. In F. Teles & P. Swianiewicz, eds., Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe: Institutions and Governance, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Stănuș, Cristina. 2016. The political representation focuses of second-tier councillors in Europe. În X. Bertrana, H. Heinelt & B. Egner (eds.), Policy Making at the Second Tier of LocalGovernment in Europe (pp. 77-94). Routledge.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2012. Încrederea în mass media în România: o examinare în context electoral a unor factori explicativi [Trust in the mass media in Romania: an examination of explanatory factors in electoral context]. In M.Comșa, A. Gheorghiță, D. Tufiș, eds., Alegerile prezidențiale din România: 2009, Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2012. „Trade Unions, NGOs and the (Re)-Invention of Social Solidarity in Romania”. In Marion Ellison, ed., Reinventing Social Solidarity Across Europe. Bristol: Policy Press.
Stănuş, Cristina și Daniel Pop. 2011. ”Romania”. In Hubert Heinelt and Xavier Bertrana, eds., The Second Tier of Local Government in Europe: Counties, Departaments and Landkreise in Comparison. London: Routledge.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2011. ”Fine Tuning Inter-Municipal Cooperation Policy in Romania”. In Pawel Swianiewicz, ed. Working Together: Intermunicipal Cooperation in Five Central European Countries, Budapest: LGPSRI-OSI.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2011. Informarea despre politică în rândul adolescenţilor [Sources of political information among youth]. In G. Bădescu, M. Comşa, A. Gheorghiţă, C. Stănuş and C. Tufiş, Implicarea civică şi politică a tinerilor. Constanţa: Dobrogea and Soros Foundation Romania.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2010. Eficacitatea votului, mândria de a fi cetăţean european şi prezența la vot la alegerile europene din iunie 2009 [Vote efficacy, the pride of being an EU citizen and turnout in the June 209 EP elections in Romania]. In M. Comşa, A. Gheorghiţă and C. Tufiş Alegerile pentru parlamentul european, România 2009. Iaşi: Polirom.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2005. „Motivating Romanian students while teaching Comparative Politics”. In Gabriela Gregusova, ed., How to Teach Political Science? The Experience of First Time University Teachers, Paris, epsNet and SciencePo.
Stănuș, Cristina, Gheorghiță, Andrei & Horațiu Rusu. 2024. More than meets the eye? Coalition formation in a strong-leader local government system. Social Change Review 22(1). 10.2478/scr-2024-0005.
Stănuș, C. 2022. „Leaders, institutions, or context? Explaining local government compliance with transparency regulations in Romania”. Romanian Journal of Political Science 22(1): 7-24. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1136295
Stănuș, C. 2022. ”Under Construction: Local Government Transparency in a New Democracy”. Filosofija. Sociologija. 33(2). https://doi.org/10.6001/fil-soc.v33i2.4713.
Stănuș, Cristina. 2021. „Policy Research and Education in Romanian Political Science: A Quantitative Look” Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, vol. XXI, no. 2, pp. 353-367
Stănuș, Cristina. 2021. Territorial fragmentation in post-communist Romania: the not so curious case of a de-amalgamation reform" Miscellanea Geographica, vol.25, no.1, pp.62-70. https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0044
Stănuş, Cristina. 2016. „Political Representation and Governance: The Case of Second-Tier Councilors in Romania”. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences No. 48 E/2016, pp. 124-144.
Stănuș, Cristina. 2015. ”Government Engagement in Co-operative Service Delivery inRomania: Knowledge and Acknowledgement”, Romanian Journal of Political Science 15(1).
Stănuș, Cristina. 2014. Private Pre-University Education in Romania. Mixing Control with Lack of Strategy. European Education 46(2): 8-31.
Stănuș, Cristina. 2012. Freedom for lazy people: exploring the internalisation of the freedom of expression principle by Romanian media. Political thought 10(38):71-85.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2011. Politics and The “Ideology” Of Journalism In Romania: Results From Local Case Studies. Social Change Review 2: 109-134.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2011. ”Local Government Characteristics and Patterns of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Romania”. South-Eastern Europe 35(2):191-208.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2006. „The Politics of Media Law in Romania: from Authoritarian to Non-Authoritarian”. In Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Politica, 1.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2003. “Figuri vechi şi noi: presa scrisă românească despre campania pentru alegerile prezidenţiale din 2000″ [Old faces, new faces: Romanian print media coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign]. In Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Seria Politica, 1.
Cristina Stănuș. 2013. Missing the target? The governance of educational service delivery markets created through the ESF in five countries, ESP-OSI Working paper.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2011. A league of their own: Non-state providers of compulsory education in Romania, ESP-OSI Working Paper nr. 9.
Pop, Daniel, Cristina Stănuş, Oana Stoian and Ana Maria Suciu. 2008. Responsabilizare politică şi performanţă în guvernarea locală: rapoartele de activitate ale consilierilor locali din municipiile reşedinţă de judeţ. CENPO Policy and Issue Papers, nr.1.
Pop, Daniel, Cristina Stănuş, Oana Stoian and Ana Maria Suciu. 2008. Democraţie locală şi activitatea consilierilor judeţeni din România: 2004-2007. Cluj-Napoca: CENPO.
Pop, Daniel, Cristina Stănuş and Ana Maria Suciu. 2007. Studiu de politici privind reglementarea regimului juridic al asociaţiilor de dezvoltare intercomunitară. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Napoca Star and CENPO. ISBN 987-973-647-567-2.
Stănuş, Cristina. 2007. „Raport de cercetare: Grant CNCSIS Td 66/2004 – Mass media şi procesul politic în România” în Revista de Politica Ştiinţei şi Scientometrie. Număr Special 2007.
Citizens and Partners: OECD Handbook on Citizen Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-Making, cu Ana Maria Suciu, tradus în limba română, CENPO, Cluj-Napoca, 2009.
New Handbook of Political Science, cap. 28-32, 4, 5, Robert E. Goodin și Hans-Dieter Klingemann eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, tradus în limba română, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005.
The Whom and How of Local Political Representation in Europe: Preliminary Results from a Survey on Councillors, 18th International Conference of the SPSA – Super Election Year 2024, Belgrad, 26-27 septembrie 2024 (autori J. Bučaitė-Vilkė, J. Lysek, C. Stănuș)
The different profiles of representational role orientations: the case of local councilors in Lithuania, ECPR General Conference, Dublin, 12-15 August 2024 (autori J. Bučaitė-Vilkė, J. Lysek, C. Stănuș)
Territorial Fragmentation in Post-Communist Romania: Between Political Opportunity and Policy Rationalities, ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw, 4-7 September 2019
The politics of local government transparency: an analysis of Romanian cities, City Futures IV, EURA-UAA Joint Conference, Dublin, 20-22 June 2019
Councillors in a fishbowl: political disclosure and political transparency in Romanian local government, ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018
The governance of metropolitan development in Romania, RSA Central and Eastern European Conference - Regional Polarisation and Unequal Development in CEE: Challenges for Innovative Place-based Policies, Cluj, 10-13 septembrie 2017
The politics of metropolitan governance in Romania, EURA 2017 Annual Conference – Cities Locked in Networks, Varșovia, 21-24 iunie 2017
The architecture of a complex system: metropolitan cooperation in Romania, Ideologies, values and political behaviours in Central and Eastern Europe Conference, Timișoara, 24-26 martie 2017
The representational focuses of county councillors in Europe”, European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Viena, 25-17 iunie 2015
”The focus of representation: a comparative analysis of county councillors in Europe”. Lucrare distribuită la 25 Years After the Communism: East and West of Europe in Search for Solidarity. Mid-term Conference of ESA RN 36, 16-18 octombrie 2014, Gdańsk.
”Collaborative governance and political representation at the second tier of local government: an analysis of five new democracies”,The challenges of leadership and collaboration in the 21st Century - Policy & Politics Conference, 16-18 septembrie 2014, Bristol
”Political representation and governance-oriented reforms at the second tier of local government in Romania”, Government vs. Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: From Pre-Weberianism to Neo-Weberianism? 22nd NISPAcee Conference, 21-24 mai 2014, Budapesta
”Political representation and local governance in Romania”, International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Association, 8-10 mai 2014, Iași
„Creating welfare markets under ESF funding: the case of educational service delivery in Romania”, Regionalisation and Inter-regional Cooperation 21st NISPAcee Conference, 16-18 mai 2013, Belgrad
„Rules in-use concerning citizen participation at the second tier of local government in Romania”, ESA Research Network 32 - Political Sociology Conference Political Participation and Beyond: Multi-level dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in times of crisis, 30 nov.-1 dec. 2012, Milano.
“Statul şi implicarea societăţii civile în furnizarea serviciilor publice: între calitatea serviciilor şi calitatea democraţiei”, conferinţa anuală a Catedrei de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială a Universităţii Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, 14-15 octombrie 2011, Sibiu
“Social solidarity and participation in NGOs and trade unions in Romania “, Citizenship and Democracy: Memberships, forms of participation, within and across European territories ESA Research Network 32 – Political Sociology Midterm conference, 4-5 Nov. 2010, Lille
„Great Expectations: Mapping the Success of Intermunicipal Cooperation Policy in Romania”,Regional Policy and Decentralisation in South East Europe LSEE Research Conference, 10-11 Mai 2010, Zagreb