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  1. (Anti)corruption and conditionality in the geopolitical enlargement: Ukraine’s EU accession in comparative perspective

    Article • East European Politics, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Popova

  2. How Russia’s “Non-Paper” Shaped Washington’s Controversial Ukraine Peace Plan

    Article • January 2025, Faculti Media Limited

    Maria Popova

  3. Ukraine is Europe: lessons for Europe and for political science

    Article • European Political Science, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Popova

  4. Elgar Encyclopedia of Corruption and Society

    Article • May 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Maria Popova

  5. Politicization of courts in European democracies

    Article • November 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Maria Popova

  6. Civil Society as an Informal Institution in Ukraine’s Judicial Reform Process

    Article • German Law Journal, November 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Maria Popova

  7. Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region. By Scott Radnitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 264p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, June 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Maria Popova

  8. How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes: Strategies of Political Domination Under Ukraine’s Presidents in 1994–2014, by Oksana Huss, ibidem Press, 2020, $45.00 (paperback), ISBN 9783838214306.

    Article • Nationalities Papers, May 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Maria Popova

  9. Will the Real Conspiracy Please Stand Up: Sources of Post-Communist Democratic Failure

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, August 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Maria Popova, Dr Nikolay V Marinov

  10. How do we make judges independent?

    Article • Law & Policy, October 2020, Wiley

    Maria Popova

  11. Prosecuting high-level corruption in Eastern Europe

    Article • Communist and Post-Communist Studies, July 2018, University of California Press

    Maria Popova

  12. Putin-Style “Rule of Law” & the Prospects for Change

    Article • Daedalus, April 2017, The MIT Press

    Maria Popova

  13. The 2014 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria

    Article • Electoral Studies, June 2015, Elsevier

    Maria Popova

  14. The 2013 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria

    Article • Electoral Studies, June 2014, Elsevier

    Maria Popova

  15. Post-Communist Courts

    Article • Problems of Post-Communism, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Popova

  16. Why Doesn't the Bulgarian Judiciary Prosecute Corruption?

    Article • Problems of Post-Communism, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Popova

  17. Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies

    Article • January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Maria Popova

  18. Political Competition as an Obstacle to Judicial Independence: Evidence From Russia and Ukraine

    Article • Comparative Political Studies, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Maria Popova

  19. Be Careful What You Wish For

    Article • Demokratizatsiya The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Popova

  20. Watchdogs or attack dogs? The role of the Russian courts and the central election commission in the resolution of electoral disputes

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Popova