Small states are crucial actors in world politics. They attract outsized attention from great
powers, populate international organizations, and shape international norms. Despite that …

Political constraints and incentives are the true driver of tax reforms. This paper reviews the
political economics literature on personal income tax systems and reforms to see how …

A unique application of social science software to generate typology and ranklist of transition
models of twenty-nine countries in Europe and Asia, ranging from Estonia to Vietnam …

Based on a relational understanding of socio-spatial polarisation as a nested,
multidimensional and multi-scalar process, the paper applies a comparative perspective on …

Joseph Rothschild Book Prize Honorable Mention Strategic Frames analyzes minority
policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs …

In this study, the relationship between age and life satisfaction was examined over a period
of 27 years (1982–2009) in four countries—Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Sweden—using …

This chapter analyses the ways in which different urban gardening forms relate to
neoliberalisation processes in the post-socialist city. Based on fieldwork conducted between …

This article develops the concept of ecological imaginary to analyse collectively held beliefs,
conceptions and metaphors around nature, and how they express notions of “good” and …

Gorbachev's liberalisation policy during perestroika and the increasing demands for national
self-determination of the Baltic republics revealed a hitherto suppressed lack of popular …

This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on
“Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe”, which seeks to expand …