Books
(2025) (with Stephen Whitefield) How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation. Princeton: Princeton University Press
(2018) (with Nicholas Cheeseman and Timothy Power) Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press
(2006) Legislative Politics and Economic Power in Russia. Basingstoke: Palgrave
(1999) (with Jeffrey Gleisner) Rossiiskaya Gosudarstvennaya Duma: struktura, deyatel'nost' i evolyutsiya v period 1993-1998 godov. Moskva: Tsentr konstitutsionnykh issledovanii, MOHF
Articles
(2025) (with Timothy J. Power), ‘Coalition Management and Governance Outcomes in Multiparty Presidential Regimes’, Political Studies, on-line first
(2024) (with Timothy J. Power), 'Gamson Going Global? Cabinet Proportionality in Comparative Perspective', European Political Science Review ,16:4, 630-646
(2023) (with Stephen Whitefield), 'Building Voting Coalitions in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: A Case Study of the 2020 Constitutional Reform in Russia', Post-Soviet Affairs, 39:4, 273-290
(2023) (with Timothy J. Power), 'Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976–2014'. Government and Opposition, 58: 1, 61-83
(2022) (with Christopher J. Gerry and Stephen Whitefield (2021), 'The Buck Stops Elsewhere: Authoritarian Resilience and the Politics of Responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia', Post-Soviet Affairs, 38:5, 366-385
(2022) (with Stephen Whitefield), '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', Party Politics, 28:1, 115–126
(2019) (with Stephen Whitefield) 'The Political Implications of Popular Support for Presidential Term Limits in Russia', Post-Soviet Affairs, 35:4, 323-337
(2019) (with Timothy J. Power) 'Flying solo: Explaining Single-Party Cabinets under Minority Presidentialism', European Journal of Political Research, 58:1, 163-183
(2018) (with Stephen Whitefield) 'Critical Election or Frozen Cleavages? How Voters Chose Parties in the 2014 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election', Electoral Studies, 56, 158-169
(2017) (with Svitlana Chernykh) ‘How Do Minority Presidents Manage Multiparty Coalitions? Identifying and Analyzing the Payoffs to Coalition Parties in Presidential Systems’, Political Research Quarterly, 70:4, 762–777
(2017) (with Stephen Whitefield) ‘Citizens’ Attitudes towards Institutional Change in Contexts of Political Turbulence: Support for Regional Decentralisation in Ukraine’, Political Studies, 65:4, 824–843
(2017) (with Stephen Whitefield), ‘Understandings of the Nation in Russian Public Opinion: Survey Evidence from Putin’s Russia (2001–2014)', Russian Politics, 2:2, 123-154
(2015) (with Svitlana Chernykh), ‘Coalitional Presidentialism and Legislative Control in Post-Soviet Ukraine’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 31:3, 177-200
(2015) (with Stephen Whitefield), ‘Support for Environmental Policies: Are Post-Communist Societies (Still) Different ?’, Environmental Politics, 24:4, 598-616
(2014) (with Nicholas Cheeseman and Timothy Power), ‘Rethinking the ‘Presidentialism Debate’: Conceptualizing Coalitional Politics in Cross-Regional Perspective’, Democratization, 21:1, 72-94
(2014) ‘Presidential Dynamics and Legislative Velocity in Russia, 1994–2007’, East European Politics, 30:4, 588-601
(2013) (with Stephen Whitefield) ‘Forward to Democracy or Back to Authoritarianism? The Attitudinal Bases of Mass Support for the Russian Election Protests of 2011–2012’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 29:5, 387-403
(2013) ‘The Preponderance and Effects of Sectoral Ties in the State Duma’, Europe-Asia Studies, 65:4, 717-736
(2013) 'The Impact of Party Primaries and the All-Russian Popular Front on the Composition of United Russia's Majority in the Sixth Duma', Russian Analytical Digest', No. 127. 8-12
(2012) (with Stephen Whitefield) ‘The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Russian Political Attitudes’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 28:2, 187-208
(2012) ‘Members and Leaders in Russian Party Organisations’, East European Politics, 28:3, 283-297
(2008) 'The Legislative Effects of Presidential Partisan Powers in Post-Communist Russia', Government and Opposition, 43:3, 424-453
(2007) 'The Influence of Sectoral and Regional Economic Interests on Russian Legislative Behaviour: The Case of State Duma Voting on Production Sharing Agreements Legislation', Post-Soviet Affairs, 23:4, 302-328
(2006) 'Za i protiv mazhoritarizma dlya rossiiskikh zakonodatelei', Sravnitel'noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, 4:57
(2005) 'Party Cohesion and Policy-Making in Russia', Party Politics, 11:3, 299–318
(2003) 'Defending the Institutional Status Quo: Communist Leadership of the Second Russian State Duma, 1996-1999', Legislative Studies Quarterly, 28:1, 5-28
(2002) (with Petra Schleiter) '"Productive but not Valued": The Russian State Duma, 1994-2001', Europe-Asia Studies, 54:5, 701-724
(1997) 'Democratic Consolidation and Parliamentary Reform in Russia, 1990-93', The Journal of Legislative Studies, 3:4, 44-69
Book chapters
(forthcoming) (with Svitlana Chernykh), ‘Electoral Competition and Election Pledges in Ukraine’, in Robert Thomson (ed.) Democratic Mandates: What Politicians Promise and (Fail to) Deliver, (London, UK: Routledge)
(2023) (with Ben Noble) ‘The Federal Assembly – more than just a “rubber stamp”?, in Graeme Gill (eds.) Handbook of Russian Politics and Society, (Abingdon: Routledge)
(2020) (with Nic Cheeseman and Timothy J. Power), ‘Inside the Coordination Paradigm: New Perspectives on Minority Presidents and Coalition Management’, in Rudy B. Andeweg et al (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Political Executives (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
(2019) 'The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Term Limits in Russian Politics’, in Alex Baturo and Robert Elgie (eds.) The Politics of Presidential Term Limits (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
(2015) (with Stephen Whitefield), ‘Putin’s Nationalism Problem’, in Richard Sakwa and Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska (ed.) Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives
(2012) ‘The Descriptive and Substantive Representation of Ethnic Minorities in the Russian Parliament‘, in Oleh Protysk and Benedikt Harzl (eds.) Managing Ethnic Diversity in Russia (Abingdon: Routledge
(2012) 'Business Representation in the State Duma', in Lena Jonson and Stephen White, eds.) Waiting For Reform Under Putin and Medvedev (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
(2011) 'The Federal Assembly and the Power Vertical'. in Graeme Gill and James Young (eds.) Handbook of Russian Politics and Society (Abingdon: Routledge)
(2009) 'Vozdeistvie partiinykh rychagov vlasti prezidenta na zakonodatel'nyi protsess v postkommunisticheskoi Rossii', in E. Meleshkina and G. Mikhaleva (ed.) Politicheskaya konkurentsiya i partii v gosudarstvakh postsovetskogo prostranstva (Moscow: INION RAN)
(2005) 'Majority Control and Executive Dominance: Parliament-President Relations in Putin's Russia', in Alex Pravda (ed.), Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [reprinted in (2013) Joel Ostrow (ed.) Politics in Russia: A Reader]
(2001) 'Legislative Politics in Russia', in Archie Brown (ed.), Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
(2000) (with Jeffrey Gleisner) 'The Consolidation of Russian Parliamentarianism: The State Duma 1993-1998', in Neil Robinson (ed.), Institutions and Change in Russian Politics (London: Macmillan)
Other Publications
(2015) (with Nicholas Cheeseman and Timothy Power), ‘The Coalitional Presidentialism Project: How MPs Understand Coalitional Politics in Presidential System’, Research Report (University of Oxford: Department for Politics and International Relations).
(2015) (with Nicholas Cheeseman and Timothy Power), ‘Prospects for a New Coalition in Ukraine’, Policy Brief (University of Oxford: Department for Politics and International Relations).
(2015) (with Nicholas Cheeseman and Timothy Power), ‘The Prospects for President Rousseff's Coalition Government in Brazil’, Policy Brief (University of Oxford: Department for Politics and International Relations).
(1996) ‘The Ruling Organs of the Russian Supreme Soviet: 1990-1993’, Working Papers on Democratization (University of Leeds: Centre for Democratization Studies)
