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Russia and Soviet political economy

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Alexander Brakel
Wesleyan University
2
Fan Feng
Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
3
Ben McWilliams
Bruegel
4
Maxim Chupilkin
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
5
Jason Brownlee
The University of Texas at Austin
6
Anna Kozielec
University of Agriculture in Krakow
7
Marina Nord
University of Gothenburg
8
Brian Finn
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques
9
Tesary Lin
Boston University
10
Francesco Sassi
University of Pisa

Rising Stars Papers

1
Democracy Winning and Losing at the Ballot: Democracy Report 2024
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
80 cit.
2
25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped? Democracy Report 2025
SSRN Electronic Journal|2025
77 cit.
3
State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped?
Democratization|2025
39 cit.
4
Challenges to Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa in the Context of the Russia–Ukraine Conflict
Agriculture|2024
37 cit.
5
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
Democratization|2025
22 cit.
6
Immunos-81: the misunderstood artificial immune system
Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)|2024
17 cit.
7
The (Un)Intended consequences of power: The global implications of EU LNG strategy to reach independence from Russian gas
Energy Policy|2025
10 cit.
8
When Autocratization is Reversed: Episodes of Democratic Turnarounds since 1900
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
9 cit.
9
Populations of interacting immune systems: evolution and immunization
Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)|2024
7 cit.
10
Satisficing, optimization and adaptive systems
Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Lena Kuhn
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies
2
Steven Tian
Yale University
3
Karina K. Howard
University of Toronto
4
Mateusz Kasprowicz
Yale University
5
Mait Metspalu
Estonian Biocentre
6
S. V. Kozlov
State Public Scientific Technological Library of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
7
Jialin Min
Xiamen University
8
Christoph Bluth
University of Bradford
9
Richard Connolly
Manchester University
10
Shen Qu
Changsha University of Science and Technology

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The War in Ukraine, Agricultural Trade and Risks to Global Food Security
Intereconomics|2022
146 cit.
2
Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy
SSRN Electronic Journal|2022
85 cit.
3
Dynamic trends and regional differences of economic effects of ultra-high-voltage transmission projects
Energy Economics|2024
79 cit.
4
Urban scaling patterns for sustainable development goals related to water, energy, infrastructure, and society in China
Resources Conservation and Recycling|2022
54 cit.
5
Emission effects of China's rural revitalization: The nexus of infrastructure investment, household income, and direct residential CO2 emissions
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews|2022
44 cit.
6
Evaluating carbon emissions reduction compliance based on 'dual control' policies of energy consumption and carbon emissions in China
Journal of Environmental Management|2024
42 cit.
7
Exploring sludge yield patterns through interpretable machine learning models in China's municipal wastewater treatment plants
Resources Conservation and Recycling|2024
33 cit.
8
Identifying the drivers of chlorophyll-a dynamics in a landscape lake recharged by reclaimed water using interpretable machine learning
The Science of The Total Environment|2023
30 cit.
9
Carbon Footprint Drivers in China’s Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants and Mitigation Opportunities through Electricity and Chemical Efficiency
Engineering|2024
30 cit.
10
A systematic scoping review of environmental and socio-economic effects of COVID-19 on the global ocean-human system
The Science of The Total Environment|2022
27 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Adam Przeworski
New York University
2
Jan Švejnar
Center for Economic and Policy Research
3
Daniel McCarthy
United States Military Academy
4
Daniel Treisman
University of California, Los Angeles
5
Stephen Whitefield
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
6
Mike Wright
Imperial College London
7
Anastassia Obydenkova
Harvard University Press
8
Álmos Telegdy
Corvinus University of Budapest
9
Mark Harrison
Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
10
Gil Eyal
Columbia University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The causes of corruption: a cross-national study
Journal of Public Economics|2000
3.9k cit.
2
Strategy in Emerging Economies
Academy of Management Journal|2000
2.7k cit.
3
Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America
Bulletin of Latin American Research|1992
2.2k cit.
4
Modernization: Theories and Facts
World Politics|1997
2k cit.
5
Digital affordances, spatial affordances, and the genesis of entrepreneurial ecosystems
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal|2017
1.6k cit.
6
Authoritarian Institutions and the Survival of Autocrats
Comparative Political Studies|2007
1.5k cit.
7
What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research?
Annual Review of Political Science|2007
1.5k cit.
8
Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context
Research Policy|2014
1.4k cit.
9
COOPERATION, COOPTATION, AND REBELLION UNDER DICTATORSHIPS
Economics and Politics|2006
987 cit.
10
Classifying political regimes
Studies in Comparative International Development|1996
975 cit.

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