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Anastassia Obydenkova

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NOMEAnastassia Obydenkova
PRENOMESAnastassia
SOBRENOMEObydenkova
ASSINATURAOBYDENKOVA A
AFILIAÇÕESUniversitat Pompeu Fabra
ORCID0000-0001-5099-5294
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TOTAL DE OBRAS40
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES536
TOTAL COMO AUTOR40
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2006
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H14
  • Democratization and Regional Development Banks

    Open Access•Christopher A Hartwell, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•Political Research Quarterly•2026

    The role of foreign aid in diffusing democratic values remains inconclusive. At the same time, membership in intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), containing a strong aid or transfer component, is associated with increasing democracy in their member states. This paper explores the impact of membership and loans of a particular type of IGOs, regional multilateral development banks (MDBs), on democracy diffusion in recipient member-states during …

  • Peripheral elites and central political institutions

    Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2025•Referências: 26

    The struggle of peripheries to obtain more autonomy (or independence) has been analysed on several occasions. However, little has been said about the strategies of political actors from peripheral territories to cooperate with central political powers to influence national policy and/or integrate their regions into state territory. This topic is addressed in this special issue, which focuses on the complex relationship between peripheral elites a…

  • Arctic Regional Governance

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2024•Referências: 23

    This thematic issue analyzes recent and ongoing changes in Arctic regional governance in new geopolitical, security, and socio-economic contexts. It places current challenges in the Arctic within a historical context, aspiring to identify solutions, and enhances our understanding of modern processes. It presents three perspectives on Arctic regional governance: the first focuses on the challenges to Arctic environmental governance (marine living …

  • Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Communist and Post-Communist…•2024•Citada por: 2•Referências: 39

    This article serves as an introduction to the special issue devoted to historical continuities in Eurasia and different conceptualizations of the communist legacies. It highlights the main research challenges the special issue deals with and how they fit into a more general discussion about the application of the concept of “post-communism” as an analytical category. It further reviews the composition of the special issue and sums up the main sch…

  • The role of historical legacies in the process of decentralisation in Russia

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2023•Referências: 38

    This study explores the case of recent trends in Russian centre–periphery decentralisation under Vladimir Putin: increasing regional rhetoric (2018) and delegating authority to the administrative regions (in 2020 and 2022). Why and how in the last six years (2018–23) have there been recurrent instances when Russia’s government has delegated authority to subnational regions? Why does the central government perceive the risk associated with distrib…

  • The Invention of Legacy

    Владимир Гельман, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Communist and Post-Communist…•2023•Citada por: 2•Referências: 14

    According to elite and mass surveys, the late-Soviet sociopolitical and economic order was largely perceived as the only viable alternative to domestic political and economic status quo in Russia before 2022. Political elites invested significant efforts and funds into deliberative promotion of a complex of ideational legacies through different tools (including cinematography). This complex, labeled a “Good Soviet Union,” is an imagined sociopoli…

  • Sustainable Development and Actors of Regional Environmental Governance

    Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2022•Citada por: 6•Referências: 20

    The year 2022 has witnessed highly turbulent changes in all aspects of world politics and socioeconomic development, directly affecting global environmental politics and posing new challenges to the sustainable development agenda.1 This concluding essay places the articles of this special issue into this new dynamic global context, accounting for the rising importance of new actors and changes in regional environmental governance in Eurasia

  • Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2022•Citada por: 6•Referências: 24

    Regional international organizations (IOs) are considered to be among the most efficient platforms in promoting an environmental agenda at global, regional, and national levels. Yet, the dialogue between studies of global environmental politics and comparative regionalism is quite recent. The emergence of non-democratic regional organizations (NDROs) is among the most recent discoveries in comparative regionalism and their implications for enviro…

  • Public Health, Democracy, and Transition

    Open Access•Zafar Nazarov, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Social Indicators Research•2022•Citada por: 9•Referências: 70

  • Geopolitical games in Eurasian regionalism

    Vladimir S Izotov, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Post-Communist Economies•2021

    This paper analyses the ideational interaction underlying attempts at regional integration and cooperation in Eurasia. While the ideas and values of the European Union have been relatively well-studied within the theory of Europeanisation, the key concepts, ideas, values and principles driving Eurasian regionalism have remained out of the main focus of Western scholarship. This paper aims to shed more light on this ideational basis of Eurasian re…

  • Historical Legacies of Communism

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•BOOK•Historical Legacies of Communism•2021

    Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post-Communist regions in the 21st Century. The authors show how this impact is not driven by Communist ideology but by the clientelistic practices, opportunism and cynicism prevalent in the CPSU. Their study is built on a novel dataset of the CPSU membership rates in Russian regi…

  • The Grand Challenges in the Quest for Peace and Democracy

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova, Thania Paffenholz•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Political Science•2021•Citada por: 2•Referências: 34

    SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article Front. Polit. Sci., 04 June 2021Sec.Peace and Democracy https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.691999

  • Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition

    Open Access•Zafar Nazarov, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2021•Citada por: 7•Referências: 27

    This paper addresses the impact of political regimes on carbon emissions (CO2) from a historical perspective, covering the period of 1970-2015. Our sample consists of 153 countries that we follow for 20 years before the transition and 26 years after it . During transition, post-Communist states experienced a decline in CO2, when controlling for economic variables. Transition had a positive impact on the environment only in cases when it was assoc…

  • Sustainable Development Agendas of Regional International Organizations

    Open Access•Thomas Ambrosio, Stephen Hall et al.•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2021•Citada por: 10•Referências: 31

    The paper analyzes how the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) approach sustainable development in their legal documents and social media. Unlike democracies, autocracies are driven by concerns of regime survival, but they often seek legitimacy through expressed commitments to global norms. We find that while the EBRD has a clear and detailed environmental agenda, this is not so for the E…

  • Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Anastassia V Obydenkova et al.•BOOK•Authoritarian Regionalism in the…•2019

    The post-Cold War world has witnessed the extensive development of regional international organizations world-wide. The realtionship between their membership and democratization remains a topic of intense scholarly debate. This book opens up a new aspect of the debate by examining regional organization as set up by autocracies (e.g. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, and China)—referring to them as “non-democratic regional organizations.” How…

  • Proletarian Internationalism in Action? Communist Legacies and Attitudes Towards Migrants in Russia

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2019•Citada por: 8•Referências: 45

    The paper investigates the effect of Communist legacies on attitudes toward migrants in present-day Russia. Midway through the first decade of the 2000s, Russia established itself as an attractive center of labor migration. This rise of migration triggered an upsurge of xenophobic sentiment and nationalism. This paper examines the variation of anti-migrant sentiments across the regions of the Russian Federation and concludes that it is strongly a…

  • Democracy and Political Trust Before and After the Great Recession 2008

    Open Access•Bruno Arpino, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Social Indicators Research•2019•Citada por: 25•Referências: 36

  • The Limits of Collective Financial Statecraft

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova, Vinícius G Rodrigues Vieira•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2019•Citada por: 11•Referências: 55

    Which limitations does the hegemon face when exerting financial statecraft through multilateral institutions? Recent studies indicate that intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are tools of collective financial statecraft sponsored by the United States, like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, lead developing states to align with Washington in the United Nations (UN). The same effect is verified in the case of US bilateral a…

  • Corruption and Trust in the European Union and National Institutions

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova, Bruno Arpino•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2018•Citada por: 31•Referências: 43

    Does corruption influence trust in national institutions in the same way as trust in international institutions? Did this influence change over the economic crisis 2008? Using data from the European Social Survey, we examined the association between corruption and trust in national and European parliaments before and after the start of the Great Recession 2008. We found that over the Crisis, the effect of corruption on trust in national parliamen…

  • Regional international organizations as a strategy of autocracy

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2018•Citada por: 11

    This article investigates whether and how regional international organizations created by authoritarian countries can aid the regime survival of their member states. Numerous regions of the world have witnessed a proliferation of regional organizations established by powerful authoritarian states. We argue that the external influence of these organizations can affect regime survival and reinforce non-democratic regime trajectories, but in a nuanc…

  • Understanding Authoritarian Regionalism

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of democracy•2018•Citada por: 50•Referências: 8

    This article examines the goals, methods, and implications of regional organizations founded and dominated by autocracies—including the Commonwealth of Independent States (spearheaded by Russia), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (China), Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Venezuela), and Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia). It shows the role that these organizations play in preserving and promoting autocracy and the differen…

  • Appropriation and Subversion

    Open Access•Tomila V Lankina, Alexander Libman et al.•ARTICLE•World Politics•2016•Citada por: 40•Referências: 102

    Twenty-five years after the collapse of communism in Europe, few scholars disagree that the past continues to shape the democratic trajectories of postcommunist states. Precommunist education has featured prominently in this literature’s bundle of “good” legacies because it ostensibly helped foster resistance to communism. The authors propose a differentcausal mechanism—appropriation and subversion—that challenges the linearity of the above assum…

  • Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions

    Open Access•Tomila V Lankina, Tomila Lankina et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2016•Citada por: 58•Referências: 75

    There is a rich body of theorizing on the diffusion of democracy across space and time. There is also an emerging scholarship on authoritarian diffusion. The dynamics of the interaction between external democratic and autocratic diffusion processes and their effects on national and sub-national political regime outcomes have received scant attention in the literature. Do democratic diffusion processes help counter external authoritarian influence…

  • Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Post-Soviet Affairs•2015•Citada por: 32•Referências: 91

    Corruption is widespread throughout the former Communist states, and it is particularly severe and entrenched in Russia. Despite the fact that Russia's contemporary corruption has recently become a subject of analysis, there is, however, no study that has addressed the role of the Communist legacy in the development of various aspects of corruption. This paper contributes to the debates through, first, disentangling the complex phenomenon that is…

  • CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•Political Studies•2015•Citada por: 16•Referências: 90

    This article investigates the impact of Communist historical legacies on the variation of sub-national regimes in a federal state. It focuses on the Russian Federation and studies the role of sub-national variations of membership rates in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the 1970s and 1980s as a predictor of regional democracy in Russia in the 2000s. Using a unique dataset collected by the authors, the article shows that past…

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  • Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions

    Open Access•Tomila V Lankina, Tomila Lankina et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2016•Citada por: 58•Referências: 75

    There is a rich body of theorizing on the diffusion of democracy across space and time. There is also an emerging scholarship on authoritarian diffusion. The dynamics of the interaction between external democratic and autocratic diffusion processes and their effects on national and sub-national political regime outcomes have received scant attention in the literature. Do democratic diffusion processes help counter external authoritarian influence…

  • Understanding Authoritarian Regionalism

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of democracy•2018•Citada por: 50•Referências: 8

    This article examines the goals, methods, and implications of regional organizations founded and dominated by autocracies—including the Commonwealth of Independent States (spearheaded by Russia), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (China), Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Venezuela), and Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia). It shows the role that these organizations play in preserving and promoting autocracy and the differen…

  • Appropriation and Subversion

    Open Access•Tomila V Lankina, Alexander Libman et al.•ARTICLE•World Politics•2016•Citada por: 40•Referências: 102

    Twenty-five years after the collapse of communism in Europe, few scholars disagree that the past continues to shape the democratic trajectories of postcommunist states. Precommunist education has featured prominently in this literature’s bundle of “good” legacies because it ostensibly helped foster resistance to communism. The authors propose a differentcausal mechanism—appropriation and subversion—that challenges the linearity of the above assum…

  • Regime transition in the regions of Russia

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2008•Citada por: 37•Referências: 10

    The mass media have the main function of serving as a mediator between society and the authorities and is, therefore, positioned to be a catalyst for change in society. From the end of the 1980s into the 2000s, under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, the development of the independent mass media played a key role in Russia's regime transition. It is also a good reflection, or indicator, of the pace of transition on the regional level, and an objective crite…

  • Democratization at the grassroots

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Anastassia V Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Democratization•2012•Citada por: 33•Referências: 31

    By the end of Russia's regime transition to democracy (1991–2001), Russia displayed a mosaic of different sub-national regimes. A number of economic, social, and cultural factors have been investigated to explain how the sub-national regime transitions produced such heterogeneous results. This article intends to contribute to the debate by focusing on the role of the European Union (EU) in the democratic regime transition in the regions of Russia…

  • Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Post-Soviet Affairs•2015•Citada por: 32•Referências: 91

    Corruption is widespread throughout the former Communist states, and it is particularly severe and entrenched in Russia. Despite the fact that Russia's contemporary corruption has recently become a subject of analysis, there is, however, no study that has addressed the role of the Communist legacy in the development of various aspects of corruption. This paper contributes to the debates through, first, disentangling the complex phenomenon that is…

  • Corruption and Trust in the European Union and National Institutions

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova, Bruno Arpino•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2018•Citada por: 31•Referências: 43

    Does corruption influence trust in national institutions in the same way as trust in international institutions? Did this influence change over the economic crisis 2008? Using data from the European Social Survey, we examined the association between corruption and trust in national and European parliaments before and after the start of the Great Recession 2008. We found that over the Crisis, the effect of corruption on trust in national parliamen…

  • Governance of Commons in a Large Nondemocratic Country

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Publius The Journal of Federalism•2014•Citada por: 26•Referências: 63

    A substantial portion of Elinor Ostrom's work critically examines the interplay between decentralization and efficient governance of commons. Ostrom's suggestion is to shift from the dichotomous view of decentralization versus centralization to a more complex picture, labeled >polycentric governance.> This article applies this theory and uses a novel data set to test how the allocation of jurisdictions between the center and the regions affects f…

  • Democracy and Political Trust Before and After the Great Recession 2008

    Open Access•Bruno Arpino, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Social Indicators Research•2019•Citada por: 25•Referências: 36

  • The Impact of External Factors on Regime Transition

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Post-Soviet Affairs•2012•Citada por: 23•Referências: 103

    While many studies have examined the external dimensions of democratization, the role of external anti-democratic factors remains unaddressed. Using an original dataset to analyze the presence and impact of external anti-democratic factors, this article aims to untangle the international dimensions of regime transition by singling out foreign trade. International post-Soviet trade links' impact on subnational political regimes in Russia is analyz…

  • CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•Political Studies•2015•Citada por: 16•Referências: 90

    This article investigates the impact of Communist historical legacies on the variation of sub-national regimes in a federal state. It focuses on the Russian Federation and studies the role of sub-national variations of membership rates in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the 1970s and 1980s as a predictor of regional democracy in Russia in the 2000s. Using a unique dataset collected by the authors, the article shows that past…

  • Autocracy-Sustaining Versus Democratic Federalism

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Wilfried Swenden•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2013•Citada por: 15•Referências: 47

    This article provides a comparative assessment of territorial politics in Russia and Western Europe. The consolidation or deepening of regional autonomy in Western Europe contrasts with the transformation of Russia from a segmented and highly centrifugal state into a centralized authoritarian state in the course of just two decades. The consolidation of territorial politics in Western Europe is linked to the presence of endogenous safeguards that…

  • National autocratization and the survival of sub-national democracy

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Acta Politica•2013•Citada por: 15•Referências: 61

  • A Triangle of Russian Federalism

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Anastassia V Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Publius The Journal of Federalism•2011•Citada por: 14•Referências: 6

    The Russian Federation (RF) can be best described as a country of extremes. In less than ten years of regime transition, it has experienced a rapid transformation from an extremely centralized Soviet Union into a highly decentralized Russia in the 1990s and then back to highly centralized, almost unitary, territorial structure in the 2000s. Unsurprisingly, this unique experience attracted extensive academic attention investigating the causes, con…

  • Understanding the foreign policy of autocratic actors

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Contemporary Politics•2014•Citada por: 13•Referências: 60

    While the literature on the autocratic regimes has been rapidly growing in the last years, there still exists a research gap in this field: which impact do autocratic regimes have on the regime transition in the neighbouring countries? The literature on autocracies has demonstrated that autocratic political leaders tend to support each other. This article argues that the external influence of an autocracy may be more complex. The article analyses…

  • Comparative Regionalism

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Journal of Eurasian Studies•2011•Citada por: 12•Referências: 5

    The Post-Soviet regionalism is a new phenomenon and it requires a theory which addresses the very beginning of regional integration. Both Neofunctionalism and (liberal) intergovernmentalism conceptualize the very outset of European integration, thus, presenting the most adequate theoretical framework for understanding post-Soviet case of regionalism. This study seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the impediments to regional integrati…

  • The Limits of Collective Financial Statecraft

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova, Vinícius G Rodrigues Vieira•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2019•Citada por: 11•Referências: 55

    Which limitations does the hegemon face when exerting financial statecraft through multilateral institutions? Recent studies indicate that intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are tools of collective financial statecraft sponsored by the United States, like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, lead developing states to align with Washington in the United Nations (UN). The same effect is verified in the case of US bilateral a…

  • Regional international organizations as a strategy of autocracy

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2018•Citada por: 11

    This article investigates whether and how regional international organizations created by authoritarian countries can aid the regime survival of their member states. Numerous regions of the world have witnessed a proliferation of regional organizations established by powerful authoritarian states. We argue that the external influence of these organizations can affect regime survival and reinforce non-democratic regime trajectories, but in a nuanc…

  • Sustainable Development Agendas of Regional International Organizations

    Open Access•Thomas Ambrosio, Stephen Hall et al.•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2021•Citada por: 10•Referências: 31

    The paper analyzes how the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) approach sustainable development in their legal documents and social media. Unlike democracies, autocracies are driven by concerns of regime survival, but they often seek legitimacy through expressed commitments to global norms. We find that while the EBRD has a clear and detailed environmental agenda, this is not so for the E…

  • Public Health, Democracy, and Transition

    Open Access•Zafar Nazarov, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Social Indicators Research•2022•Citada por: 9•Referências: 70

  • International Trade as a Limiting Factor in Democratization

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•2014•Citada por: 9•Referências: 84

  • Proletarian Internationalism in Action? Communist Legacies and Attitudes Towards Migrants in Russia

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2019•Citada por: 8•Referências: 45

    The paper investigates the effect of Communist legacies on attitudes toward migrants in present-day Russia. Midway through the first decade of the 2000s, Russia established itself as an attractive center of labor migration. This rise of migration triggered an upsurge of xenophobic sentiment and nationalism. This paper examines the variation of anti-migrant sentiments across the regions of the Russian Federation and concludes that it is strongly a…

  • Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition

    Open Access•Zafar Nazarov, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2021•Citada por: 7•Referências: 27

    This paper addresses the impact of political regimes on carbon emissions (CO2) from a historical perspective, covering the period of 1970-2015. Our sample consists of 153 countries that we follow for 20 years before the transition and 26 years after it . During transition, post-Communist states experienced a decline in CO2, when controlling for economic variables. Transition had a positive impact on the environment only in cases when it was assoc…

  • Federalization in Russia and Spain

    Luis Moreno, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Regional & Federal Studies•2013•Citada por: 7•Referências: 21

    The article aims at contributing to the understanding of the dynamics of federalism in Russia and Spain. It traces the dynamics of decentralization in both states and addresses a puzzle on reversible (Russia) and irreversible (Spain) outcomes of territorial reforms and regime transition. Among other explanatory factors, this article argues that the role of the political parties as mediating actors—proactive or reactive—has been crucial in shaping…

  • Sustainable Development and Actors of Regional Environmental Governance

    Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2022•Citada por: 6•Referências: 20

    The year 2022 has witnessed highly turbulent changes in all aspects of world politics and socioeconomic development, directly affecting global environmental politics and posing new challenges to the sustainable development agenda.1 This concluding essay places the articles of this special issue into this new dynamic global context, accounting for the rising importance of new actors and changes in regional environmental governance in Eurasia

  • New Regionalism and Regional Integration

    Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Cambridge Review of International…•2006•Citada por: 3•Referências: 4

    This article focuses, first, on the under-explored issues of new regionalism: its subnational level and transnational regional cooperation as an initial stage of new regionalism. Second, it analyses the development of new regionalism between a country in regime transition (Russia in the 1990s) and stable democratic actors (in Europe). Third, it addresses the question of whether European integration contributes to new regionalism outside Europe's …

  • The international dimension of democratization

    Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Cambridge Review of International…•2007•Citada por: 3•Referências: 5

    This article examines the importance of the international context on regime change. It provides evidence that geographic proximity to the European Union (EU) does not result in the spread of democracy. In contrast, communication and cooperation between EU actors and sub-national regions contributes significantly to the development of democracy in these regions. Considering the role of EU projects, investments and trade in regime transition—measur…

  • Regime transition in the regions of Russia

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2008•Citada por: 37•Referências: 10

    The mass media have the main function of serving as a mediator between society and the authorities and is, therefore, positioned to be a catalyst for change in society. From the end of the 1980s into the 2000s, under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, the development of the independent mass media played a key role in Russia's regime transition. It is also a good reflection, or indicator, of the pace of transition on the regional level, and an objective crite…

  • Energy Issues in the Context of the Regime Transition of Post-Soviet Eurasia

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•The Review of Politics•2010•Referências: 3

    In political science, democracy is generally associated with high levels of economic development. However, some scholars note that this is true only as long as economic development is not based on possession of rich energy resources. Many resource-rich states are nondemocratic regimes. This is sometimes called the “resource curse.” This means that “natural resource abundance may stimulate rent-seeking behavior that, together with highly concentra…

  • Comparative Regionalism

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Journal of Eurasian Studies•2011•Citada por: 12•Referências: 5

    The Post-Soviet regionalism is a new phenomenon and it requires a theory which addresses the very beginning of regional integration. Both Neofunctionalism and (liberal) intergovernmentalism conceptualize the very outset of European integration, thus, presenting the most adequate theoretical framework for understanding post-Soviet case of regionalism. This study seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the impediments to regional integrati…

  • A Triangle of Russian Federalism

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Anastassia V Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Publius The Journal of Federalism•2011•Citada por: 14•Referências: 6

    The Russian Federation (RF) can be best described as a country of extremes. In less than ten years of regime transition, it has experienced a rapid transformation from an extremely centralized Soviet Union into a highly decentralized Russia in the 1990s and then back to highly centralized, almost unitary, territorial structure in the 2000s. Unsurprisingly, this unique experience attracted extensive academic attention investigating the causes, con…

  • Comparative Democratisation

    Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2012•Referências: 6

    Timothy Frye, Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xii + 296pp., £17.99 p/b. Vladimir Gel'man & Otar Marganiya

  • Democratization at the grassroots

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Anastassia V Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Democratization•2012•Citada por: 33•Referências: 31

    By the end of Russia's regime transition to democracy (1991–2001), Russia displayed a mosaic of different sub-national regimes. A number of economic, social, and cultural factors have been investigated to explain how the sub-national regime transitions produced such heterogeneous results. This article intends to contribute to the debate by focusing on the role of the European Union (EU) in the democratic regime transition in the regions of Russia…

  • The Impact of External Factors on Regime Transition

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Post-Soviet Affairs•2012•Citada por: 23•Referências: 103

    While many studies have examined the external dimensions of democratization, the role of external anti-democratic factors remains unaddressed. Using an original dataset to analyze the presence and impact of external anti-democratic factors, this article aims to untangle the international dimensions of regime transition by singling out foreign trade. International post-Soviet trade links' impact on subnational political regimes in Russia is analyz…

  • Autocracy-Sustaining Versus Democratic Federalism

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Wilfried Swenden•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2013•Citada por: 15•Referências: 47

    This article provides a comparative assessment of territorial politics in Russia and Western Europe. The consolidation or deepening of regional autonomy in Western Europe contrasts with the transformation of Russia from a segmented and highly centrifugal state into a centralized authoritarian state in the course of just two decades. The consolidation of territorial politics in Western Europe is linked to the presence of endogenous safeguards that…

  • Federalization in Russia and Spain

    Luis Moreno, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Regional & Federal Studies•2013•Citada por: 7•Referências: 21

    The article aims at contributing to the understanding of the dynamics of federalism in Russia and Spain. It traces the dynamics of decentralization in both states and addresses a puzzle on reversible (Russia) and irreversible (Spain) outcomes of territorial reforms and regime transition. Among other explanatory factors, this article argues that the role of the political parties as mediating actors—proactive or reactive—has been crucial in shaping…

  • National autocratization and the survival of sub-national democracy

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Acta Politica•2013•Citada por: 15•Referências: 61

  • International Trade as a Limiting Factor in Democratization

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•2014•Citada por: 9•Referências: 84

  • Governance of Commons in a Large Nondemocratic Country

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Publius The Journal of Federalism•2014•Citada por: 26•Referências: 63

    A substantial portion of Elinor Ostrom's work critically examines the interplay between decentralization and efficient governance of commons. Ostrom's suggestion is to shift from the dichotomous view of decentralization versus centralization to a more complex picture, labeled >polycentric governance.> This article applies this theory and uses a novel data set to test how the allocation of jurisdictions between the center and the regions affects f…

  • Understanding the foreign policy of autocratic actors

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Contemporary Politics•2014•Citada por: 13•Referências: 60

    While the literature on the autocratic regimes has been rapidly growing in the last years, there still exists a research gap in this field: which impact do autocratic regimes have on the regime transition in the neighbouring countries? The literature on autocracies has demonstrated that autocratic political leaders tend to support each other. This article argues that the external influence of an autocracy may be more complex. The article analyses…

  • Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman•ARTICLE•Post-Soviet Affairs•2015•Citada por: 32•Referências: 91

    Corruption is widespread throughout the former Communist states, and it is particularly severe and entrenched in Russia. Despite the fact that Russia's contemporary corruption has recently become a subject of analysis, there is, however, no study that has addressed the role of the Communist legacy in the development of various aspects of corruption. This paper contributes to the debates through, first, disentangling the complex phenomenon that is…

  • CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•Political Studies•2015•Citada por: 16•Referências: 90

    This article investigates the impact of Communist historical legacies on the variation of sub-national regimes in a federal state. It focuses on the Russian Federation and studies the role of sub-national variations of membership rates in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the 1970s and 1980s as a predictor of regional democracy in Russia in the 2000s. Using a unique dataset collected by the authors, the article shows that past…

  • Appropriation and Subversion

    Open Access•Tomila V Lankina, Alexander Libman et al.•ARTICLE•World Politics•2016•Citada por: 40•Referências: 102

    Twenty-five years after the collapse of communism in Europe, few scholars disagree that the past continues to shape the democratic trajectories of postcommunist states. Precommunist education has featured prominently in this literature’s bundle of “good” legacies because it ostensibly helped foster resistance to communism. The authors propose a differentcausal mechanism—appropriation and subversion—that challenges the linearity of the above assum…

  • Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions

    Open Access•Tomila V Lankina, Tomila Lankina et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2016•Citada por: 58•Referências: 75

    There is a rich body of theorizing on the diffusion of democracy across space and time. There is also an emerging scholarship on authoritarian diffusion. The dynamics of the interaction between external democratic and autocratic diffusion processes and their effects on national and sub-national political regime outcomes have received scant attention in the literature. Do democratic diffusion processes help counter external authoritarian influence…

  • Corruption and Trust in the European Union and National Institutions

    Open Access•Anastassia Obydenkova, Bruno Arpino•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2018•Citada por: 31•Referências: 43

    Does corruption influence trust in national institutions in the same way as trust in international institutions? Did this influence change over the economic crisis 2008? Using data from the European Social Survey, we examined the association between corruption and trust in national and European parliaments before and after the start of the Great Recession 2008. We found that over the Crisis, the effect of corruption on trust in national parliamen…

  • Regional international organizations as a strategy of autocracy

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2018•Citada por: 11

    This article investigates whether and how regional international organizations created by authoritarian countries can aid the regime survival of their member states. Numerous regions of the world have witnessed a proliferation of regional organizations established by powerful authoritarian states. We argue that the external influence of these organizations can affect regime survival and reinforce non-democratic regime trajectories, but in a nuanc…

  • Understanding Authoritarian Regionalism

    Open Access•Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of democracy•2018•Citada por: 50•Referências: 8

    This article examines the goals, methods, and implications of regional organizations founded and dominated by autocracies—including the Commonwealth of Independent States (spearheaded by Russia), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (China), Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Venezuela), and Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia). It shows the role that these organizations play in preserving and promoting autocracy and the differen…

  • Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations

    Anastassia Obydenkova, Anastassia V Obydenkova et al.•BOOK•Authoritarian Regionalism in the…•2019

    The post-Cold War world has witnessed the extensive development of regional international organizations world-wide. The realtionship between their membership and democratization remains a topic of intense scholarly debate. This book opens up a new aspect of the debate by examining regional organization as set up by autocracies (e.g. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, and China)—referring to them as “non-democratic regional organizations.” How…

  • Proletarian Internationalism in Action? Communist Legacies and Attitudes Towards Migrants in Russia

    Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2019•Citada por: 8•Referências: 45

    The paper investigates the effect of Communist legacies on attitudes toward migrants in present-day Russia. Midway through the first decade of the 2000s, Russia established itself as an attractive center of labor migration. This rise of migration triggered an upsurge of xenophobic sentiment and nationalism. This paper examines the variation of anti-migrant sentiments across the regions of the Russian Federation and concludes that it is strongly a…

  • Democracy and Political Trust Before and After the Great Recession 2008

    Open Access•Bruno Arpino, Anastassia Obydenkova•ARTICLE•Social Indicators Research•2019•Citada por: 25•Referências: 36

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