Journal articles
Hidden Transformation of Authoritarian Regionalism: Tracing Organizations' Functions through Officials' Biographies. Forthcoming in Politische Vierteljahresschrift (full text here)
The Role of Historical Legacies in the Process of Decentralization in Russia: Compliant Activism in the Context of the Crises of the 2020s. Forthcoming in Territory, Politics, Governance (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
State Violence and Target Group Adaptation: Maintaining Social Status in the Face of Repressions in Soviet Russia. Forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research (with Tomila Lankina and Katerina Tertytchnaya) (full text here)
Communist Legacy, Anti-Regime Sentiments, and Modernization Theory: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2024, 57(1): 45-73 (with Olga Vasilyeva) (full text here)
Eurasian Continuities: Historical Legacies in the Post-Communist World - Ideologies, Practices or Social Construction? Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2024, 57(1): 1-18 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Negative Konvergenz: Autoritarismus in China und in Russland im Vergleich. Osteuropa, 2023, 73(7-9): 161-176 (full text here)
Russlandforschung vor einer Neuorientierung: Russlands Krieg, die Isolation und die Folgen. Osteuropa, 2023, 73(5-6): 127-142 (full text here)
Historical Family Structure as a Predictor for Liberal Voting: Evidence from a Century of Russian History. Economic Systems, 2023, 47(2): Article 101077 (with Maria Kravtsova) (full text here)
Children of Communism: The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution. Eastern European Economics, 2023, 61(3): 199-237 (with Olga Popova) (full text here)
Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-National Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia. British Journal of Political Science, 2023, 53(1): 835-860 (with Dmitrii Kofanov, Vladimir Kozlov and Nikita Zakharov) (full text here)
Military Intervention as a Spectacle? Authoritarian Regionalism and Protests in Kazakhstan. International Affairs, 2023, 99(3): 1293-1312 (with Igor Davidzon) (full text here)
Credibility Revolution and the Future of Russian Studies. Post-Soviet Affairs, 2023, 39(1-2): 60-69 (full text here)
Does Integration Rhetoric Help? Eurasian Regionalism and Rhetorical Dissonance of Russian Elites. Europe-Asia Studies, 2022, 74(9): 1574-1595 (full text here)
Russian Power and the State-Owned Enterprise. European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73: Article 102122 (with Randall Stone and Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development. American Political Science Review, 2021, 115(3): 948-966 (with Tomila Lankina) (full text here here, supplementary material here)
A Centralist Approach to Regional Development: The Case of the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East. Europe-Asia Studies, 2021, 73(6): 1125-1148 (with Andrei Yakovlev) (full text here)
Global Governance and Interaction between International Institutions: The Challenge of the Eurasian International Organizations. Post-Communist Economies, 2021, 33(2-3): 147-149 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Eurasian Regionalism and the WTO: A Building Block or a Stumbling Stone? Post-Communist Economies, 2021, 33(2-3): 246-264 (full text here)
Global Governance and Eurasian International Organizations: Lessons Learned and Future Agenda. Post-Communist Economies, 2021, 33(2-3): 359-377 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Exposure to Conspiracy Theories in the Lab. Economic and Political Studies, 2021, 9(1): 90-112 (with Loukas Balafoutas, Vasileios Selamis and Björn Vollan) (full text here)
Geschichte, Slawistik und der Rest: Osteuropaforschung in Deutschland. Osteuropa, 2021, 71(7): 133-153 (with Niklas Platzer) (full text here)
Krise oder Blüte? Sozialwissenschaftliche Osteuropaforschung. Osteuropa, 2020, 70(1-2): 171-191 (full text here)
Board Empowerment: What Motivates Board Members of Founder-Owned Companies? Journal of Management Inquiry, 2020, 29(2): 188-205 (with Tatiana Dolgopyatova and Andrei Yakovlev) (full text here)
The Real Costs of Plagiarism: Russian Governors, Plagiarized PhD Theses, and Infrastructure in Russian Region. Scientometrics, 2020, 125(3): 2793-2820 (full text here) (with Anna Abalkina)
Varieties of Authoritarianism Matter: Elite Fragmentation, Natural Resources and Economic Growth. European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63: Article 101869 (full text here) (with Olga Vasilyeva)
Proletarian Internationalism in Action? Communist Legacies and Attitudes towards Migrants in Russia. Problems of Post-Communism, 2020, 67(4-5): 402-416 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here, supplementary material here)
Historical Persistence of the Alcohol-Induced Mortality in the Russian Federation: Legacy of Early Industrialization. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2019, 54(6): 656-661 (with Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Soviet Legacies of Economic Development, Oligarchic Rule and Electoral Quality in Eastern Europe's Partial Democracies: The Case of Ukraine. Comparative Politics, 2019, 52(1): 127-148 (with Tomila Lankina) (full text here)
Inequality and Historical Legacies: Evidence from Post-Communist Regions. Post-Communist Economies, 2019, 39(6): 699-724 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Post-Socialist Transition, Authoritarian Consolidation and Social Origin of Political Elites: The Case of Russian Regional Governors. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2019, 60(3): 257-283 (with Alexander Demin and Laura Eras) (full text here)
Anti-Western Conspiracy Thinking in China and Russia: Empirical Evidence and Its Link to Expectations of Collusion. Homo Oeconomicus, 2019, 36(3): 135-163 (with Björn Vollan) (full text here)
Understanding Authoritarian Regionalism. Journal of Democracy, 2018, 29(4): 151-165 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit: Historisches Erbe und quantitative Sozialwissenschaften. Osteuropa, 2018, 68(6): 49-66 (full text here)
Unintended Benefits of Empowering Boards in Conglomerates: The Case Study of AFK Sistema. Journal of East European Management Studies, 2018, 23(2): 177-202 (with Tatiana Dolgopyatova and Andrei Yakovlev) (full text here)
The Tail Wagging the Dog? Top-Down and Bottom-Up Explanations for Bureaucratic Appointments in Authoritarian Regimes. Russian Politics, 2018, 3(2): 239-259 (with Fabian Burkhardt) (full text here, supplementary material here)
Political Regimes, Income and Health: Evidence from Sub-National Comparative Method. Social Science Research, 2018, 72: 20-37 (with Dina Rosenberg and Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Sticks or Carrots? Comparing Effectiveness of Government Informal Economy Policies in Russia. Comparative Economic Studies, 2018, 60(4): 605-637 (with Janis Kluge) (full text here)
Testosterone and Repression in Non-Democracies: Evidence from a Sample of Russian Governors. Kyklos, 2018, 71(2): 244-278 (with Andre Schultz and Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here; supplementary material here)
Regional International Organizations as a Strategy of Autocracy: The Eurasian Economic Union and Russian Foreign Policy. International Affairs, 2018, 94(5): 1037-1058 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Autocracies and Regional Integration: The Eurasian Case. Post-Communist Economies, 2018, 30(3): 334-364 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Russian Power Politics and the Eurasian Economic Union: The Real and the Imagined. Rising Powers Quarterly, 2017, 2(1): 81-103 (full text here)
Subnational Political Regimes and Formal Economic Regulation: Evidence from Russian Regions. Regional and Federal Studies, 2017, 27(2): 127-151 (full text here)
The Legacy of Compliant Activism in Autocracies: Post-Communist Experience. Contemporary Politics, 2017, 23(2): 195-213 (with Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Appropriation and Subversion: Pre-Communist Literacy, Communist Party Saturation, and Post-Communist Democratic Outcomes. World Politics, 2016, 68(2): 229-274 (with Tomila Lankina and Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions. Comparative Political Studies, 2016, 49(12): 1599-1629 (with Tomila Lankina and Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Tax Return as a Political Statement. Review of Law and Economics, 2016, 12(2): 377-445 (with Andre Schultz and Thomas Graeber) (full text here)
Krise als Normalzustand: Anpassungsstrategien an die Stagnation in Russland. Osteuropa, 2016, 66(5): 81-94 (full text here)
Commitment to Local Autonomy in Non-Democracies: Russia and China Compared. Constitutional Political Economy, 2015, 26(2): 221-245 (with Barbara Krug) (full text here)
Is There a Local Knowledge Advantage in Federations? Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Public Choice, 2015, 162(1): 25-42 (with Andre Schultz) (full test here; supplementary material here; details on robustness checks here)
Words or Deeds - What Matters? On the Role of Symbolic Action in Political Decentralization. Empirical Economics, 2015, 49(3): 801-838 (full text here)
CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia. Political Studies, 2015, 63(S1): 173-190 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Understanding the Survival of Post-Communist Corruption in Contemporary Russia: The Influence of Historical Legacies. Post-Soviet Affairs, 2015, 31(4): 304-338 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Vorauseilender Gehorsam: Russlands Sozialwissenschaften unter Druck. Osteuropa, 2015, 65(11-12): 119-124 (full text here)
Eine zersplitterte Wissenschaft: Russlands Volkswirtschaftslehre und ihr politischer Einfluss. Osteuropa, 2015, 65(4): 29-46 (full text here)
Demand for Litigation in the Absence of Traditions of Rule of Law: An Example of Ottoman and Habsburg Legacies in Romania. Constitutional Political Economy, 2014, 25(2): 177-206 (with Martin Mendelski) (full text here)
Economic Integration in China: Politics and Culture. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(2): 470-492 (with Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Xiaofan Yu) (full text here)
International Trade as a Limiting Factor in Democratization: An Analysis of Subnational Regions in Post-Communist Russia. Studies in Comparative International Development, 2014, 49(2): 168-196 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here; supplementary material here)
Judicial Alignment and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Russian Courts. Post-Soviet Affairs, 2014, 30(2-3): 137-170 (with Andre Schultz and Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here; supplementary material here)
Governance of Commons in a Large Nondemocratic Country: The Case of Forestry in the Russian Federation. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2014, 44(2): 298-323 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Protection or Repression: The Impact of Judiciary Behavior on SME Development in Russia. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge, 2014, 2(1): 14-27 (with Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Understanding the Foreign Policy of Autocratic Actors: Ideology or Pragmatism? Russia and the Tymoshenko Trial as a Case Study. Contemporary Politics, 2014, 20(3): 347-364 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Do Economic Crises Impede or Advance Regional Economic Integration in the Post-Soviet Space? Post-Communist Economies, 2014, 26(3): 341-358 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Ceremonial Science: The State of Russian Economics Seen Through the Lens of the Work of "Doctor of Science" Candidates. Economic Systems, 2014, 38(3): 360-378 (with Joachim Zweynert) (full text here)
Informal Governance and Participation in Non-Democratic International Organizations. Review of International Organizations, 2013, 8(2): 221-243 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Is the USSR Dead? Experience from the Financial and Economic Crisis of 2008-2009. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2013, 46(1): 109-122 (with Mikhail Golovnin, Daria Ushkalova and Alexandra Yakusheva) (full text here)
Strategic Tax Collection and Fiscal Decentralization: The Case of Russia. German Economic Review, 2013, 14(4): 449-482 (with Lars P. Feld) (full text here)
Sub-National Variation of Corruption in Russia: What Do We Know About It? REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 2013, 2(2): 153-180 (with Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Are Human Rights and Economic Well-Being Substitutes? The Evidence from Migration Patterns across the Indian States. European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31: 139-164 (with Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Gaurav Yadav) (full text here)
National Autocratization and the Survival of Sub-National Democracy: Evidence from Russia's Parliamentary Elections of 2011. Acta Politica, 2013, 48(4): 459-489 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Natural Resources and Sub-National Economic Performance: Does Sub-National Democracy Matter? Energy Economics, 2013, 37: 82-99 (full text here)
Communism or Communists? Soviet Legacies and Corruption in Transition Economies. Economics Letters, 2013, 119(1): 101-103 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here; supplementary material here)
The Impact of External Factors on Regime Transition: Lessons from the Russian Regions. Post-Soviet Affairs, 2012, 28(3): 346-401 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Democracy, Size of Bureaucracy, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Russian Regions. Empirical Economics, 2012, 43(3): 1321-1352 (full text here)
Sub-National Political Regimes and Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization. Constitutional Political Economy, 2012, 23(4): 302-336 (full text here)
Roving Bandits in Action: Outside Option and Governmental Predation in Autocracies. Kyklos, 2012, 65(4): 526-562 (with Andre Schultz and Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Post-Soviet Integration and the Interaction of Functional Bureaucracies. Review of International Political Economy, 2012, 19(5): 867-894 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Regional Integration and Economic Convergence in the Post-Soviet Space: Experience of the Decade of Growth. Journal of Common Market Studies, 2012, 50(1): 112-128 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Learning to be Different: Quantitative Research in Economics and Political Science. Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2012, 3:178-184 (full text here)
Democracy and Growth: Is the Effect Non-Linear? Economic Research Guardian, 2012, 2(1): 99-120 (full text here)
Russian Federalism and Post-Soviet Integration: Divergence of Development Paths. Europe-Asia Studies, 2011, 63(8): 1323-1355 (full text here)
Is It Really Different? Patterns of Regionalization in Post-Soviet Central Asia. Post-Communist Economies, 2011, 23(4): 469-492 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38(4): 395-418 (full text here)
A Small Victorious War: Domestic Revolution and International Conflict. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2010, 16(1): Article 10 (full text here)
Regionalization and Regionalism in the Post-Soviet Space: Current Status and Implications for Institutional Development. Europe-Asia Studies, 2007, 59(3): 401-430 (full text here)
Government-Business Relations and Catching Up Reforms in the CIS. European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 3(2):263-288 (full text here)