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  1. Anticipating illiberalism: drivers of bureaucratic turnover intention

    Article • Public Money & Management, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Katarina Staronova

  2. Beyond Visibility: Unrecognized Advisers in Policy Advisory Systems

    Article • Policy Studies Journal, September 2025, Wiley

    Katarina Staronova

  3. Conducting research in authoritarian and other difficult contexts

    Article • June 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Katarina Staronova

  4. Dimensions of politicization

    Article • June 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Katarina Staronova

  5. The dynamics of political patronage in Central and East European countries: post-accession divergence

    Article • June 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Katarina Staronova

  6. Policy advisory systems and crisis governance: the advisory committee architecture within different politicization settings

    Article • International Journal of Public Sector Management, May 2025, Emerald

    Katarina Staronova

  7. Politicisation of the Civil Service: Contestation and Context

    Article • NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, December 2024, De Gruyter

    Katarina Staronova

  8. Arms-length influence: Public sector wage setting and export-led economic growth in Czechia and Slovakia

    Article • European Journal of Industrial Relations, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Katarina Staronova

  9. Post-crisis Emergency Legislation Consolidation: Regulatory Quality Principles for Good Times Only?

    Article • European Journal of Risk Regulation, October 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Katarina Staronova

  10. Ministerial advisers in central and eastern Europe: transition belts or something else?

    Article • May 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Katarina Staronova

  11. Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?

    Article • Governance, January 2023, Wiley

    Katarina Staronova

  12. Putting experts in their place: Achieving policy impact as an outsider‐academic in civil service reforms in Slovakia

    Article • International Journal of Social Welfare, May 2022, Wiley

    Katarina Staronova

  13. Politicization beyond the Merit-system Façade. The Intricate Relationship between Formal and Informal Institutions of the Senior Civil Service Systems in Central and Eastern Europe

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Katarina Staronova

  14. Changing patterns of individual performance appraisal systems for civil service in European Union countries: toward a developmental or an incentivizing model

    Article • International Journal of Public Sector Management, July 2021, Emerald

    Katarina Staronova

  15. Ministerial Advisers in Slovakia: Profiles and Career Paths, 2010 – 2020

    Article • NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, December 2020, De Gruyter

    Katarina Staronova

  16. Top officials in Turbulent Times: Converging Research Agendas in Europe East and West

    Article • NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, December 2020, De Gruyter

    Katarina Staronova

  17. Personal or Party Roots of Civil Service Patronage? Ministerial Change Effects on the Appointments of Top Civil Servants

    Article • Administration & Society, September 2020, SAGE Publications

    Katarina Staronova

  18. Internal ministerial advisory bodies: An attempt to transform governing in the Slovak Republic

    Article • Central European Journal of Public Policy, June 2018, De Gruyter

    Katarina Staronova

  19. Comparing the Roles of Regulatory Oversight Bodies in Central and Eastern European Countries

    Article • European Journal of Risk Regulation, November 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Katarina Staronova

  20. Making Regulatory Impact Assessment Gender-Sensitive: The Case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia

    Article • Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, June 2017, Babes-Bolyai University

    Katarina Staronova

  21. Civil-Service Reforms and Communist Legacy: The Case of Slovakia

    Article • NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Katarina Staronova

  22. Public administration education in CEE countries: Institutionalization of a discipline

    Article • Policy and Society, December 2016, Elsevier

    Katarina Staronova

  23. Regulatory impact assessment in Slovakia: performance and procedural reform

    Article • Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Katarina Staronova

  24. An Overview of Discourses on Knowledge in Policy: Thinking Knowledge, Policy and Conflict Together

    Article • Central European Journal of Public Policy, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Katarina Staronova

  25. Analyzing scientific knowledge in documents: The case of regulatory impact assessment

    Article • Human Affairs, June 2014, De Gruyter

    Katarina Staronova

  26. ORGANIZING FOR EU IMPLEMENTATION: THE EUROPEANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES IN ESTONIA, POLAND, AND SLOVENIA

    Article • Public Administration, August 2012, Wiley

    Katarina Staronova

  27. Regulatory Impact Assessment: Formal Institutionalization and Practice

    Article • Journal of Public Policy, February 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Katarina Staronova

  28. Piloting regulatory impact assessment: a comparative analysis of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia

    Article • Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Katarina Staronova