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Previously published books
Local Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparing Performance in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia (principal author; co-authors Anneke Hudalla and Hellmut Wollmann). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan St. Antony’s Series, 2008.
This book examines local government performance in key areas of social services and economic promotion in eight towns in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia. It dispels the myth that socio-economic “givens” or inter-governmental systems are key determinants of local development.
Governing the Locals: Local Self-Government and Ethnic Mobilization in Russia. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. Paperback edition, 2006.
Positive reviews in US, UK, Canada, and Germany. Choice: “Highly recommended”; Russian Regional Report: “extremely important”; Canadian Slavonic Papers: “set[s] a very high standard”; Slavonic and East European Review: “The book’s insights into grassroots politics in Russia today, and in the last years of the Soviet Union, have rarely been matched and should be taken note of by anyone with an interest in contemporary Russia”; Europe-Asia Studies: “Lankina’s work stands to make a major contribution to the understanding of subnational politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet period and should be essential reading for anyone interested in regional and local governance in today’s Russia.”
Select Journal Articles
- Lankina, Tomila V. , Alexander Libman and Katerina Tertytchnaya. "State Violence and Target Group Adaptation." Journal of Peace Research. 2023. Forthcoming. Available here.
Lankina, Tomila V., and Aleksander Libman. "The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development ." 2021. American Political Science Review. Available here.
“Protest in Electoral Autocracies: A New Dataset” (with Katerina Tertytchnaya) Post-Soviet Affairs 36 (1) (2020): 20-36. Available here.
“Electoral Protests and Political Attitudes under Electoral Authoritarianism” Tertytchnaya, Katerina and Tomila V. Lankina, The Journal of Politics 82 (1) (2019): 285-299. Available here.
“Soviet Legacies of Economic Development, Oligarchic Rule and Electoral Quality in Eastern Europe’s Partial Democracies: The Case of Ukraine” (with Alexander Libman) Comparative Politics 52 (1) (2019): 127-176. Available here.
“‘Russian Spring’ or ‘Spring Betrayal’? The Media as a Mirror of Putin’s Evolving Strategy in Ukraine” (with Kohei Watanabe) Europe-Asia Studies 69 (10) (2018): 1526-56. Available here.
“Fabricating Votes for Putin: New Tests of Fraud and Electoral Manipulations from Russia”, Skovoroda, Rodion and Tomila V. Lankina, Post-Soviet Affairs 33 (2) (2016): 1-24. Available here.
“Appropriation and Subversion: Pre-communist Literacy, Communist Party Saturation, and Post-Communist Democratic Outcomes” (with Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova) World Politics 68 (2) (2016): 229-274. Available here.
“Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions” (with Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova) Comparative Political Studies 49 (12) (2016): 1599-1629. Available here.
“Boris Nemtsov and the Reproduction of the Regional Intelligentsia” Demokratizatsiya 24 (1) (2016): 45-68. Available here.
“The Dynamics of Regional and National Contentious Politics in Russia: Evidence from a New Dataset.” Problems of Post-Communism 62 (1) (2015): 26-44. Available here.
“New Data on Protest Trends in Russia’s Regions” (with Alisa Voznaya), Europe-Asia Studies 67 (2) (2015): 327-342. Available here.
“Competitive Religious Entrepreneurs: Christian Missionaries and Female Education in Colonial and Post-colonial India” (with Lullit Getachew) British Journal of Political Science 43 (1) (2013): 103-31. Available here.
“Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Post-colonial Democratic Development” (with Lullit Getachew) American Journal of Political Science 56 (2) (2012), 465-83. Available here.
“Authoritarian versus Democratic Diffusions: Explaining Institutional Choices in Russia’s Local Government” (with Vladimir Gel’man), Post-Soviet Affairs 24 (1) (2008): 40-62. Available here.
“A Geographic Incremental Theory of Democratization: Territory, Aid, and Democracy in Post-Communist Regions” (with Lullit Getachew) World Politics 58 (4) (July 2006): 536-82. Available here.
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