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Number of items: 87.
European Institute
  • Gordon, Claire E, Lankina, Tomila V. (2015). The place of local and regional self-government in eastern partnership policy-making and delivery. (EU Committee of the Regions QG-01-15-507-EN-N). European Union. Publications Office. https://doi.org/10.2863/294899
  • Brown, Chris, Sasse, Gwendolyn, Economides, Spyros, Lankina, Tomila V., Hughes, Jim, Knott, Ellie (2014). Crimea referendum – our experts react.
    • Government
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2017). Managing regional elections in Russia.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2015). Russian citizens owe it to Boris Nemtsov to keep the hope of democracy in Russia alive.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Voznaya, Alisa (2015). New data on protest trends in Russia's regions. Europe-Asia Studies, 67(2), 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2014.1002696
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Niemczyk, Kinga (2015). Russia's foreign policy and soft power. In Cadier, David, Light, Margot (Eds.), Russia's Foreign Policy:Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Gordon, Claire E, Lankina, Tomila V. (2015). The place of local and regional self-government in eastern partnership policy-making and delivery. (EU Committee of the Regions QG-01-15-507-EN-N). European Union. Publications Office. https://doi.org/10.2863/294899
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Lankin, Vladimir (2014). The Russia-India relationship: a shadow of past ties?
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2014). Daring to protest: when, why, and how Russia's citizens engage in street protest. (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 333). George Washington University.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2014). Leicester city report. In Widmer, Céline, Kübler, Daniel (Eds.), Regenerating urban neighbourhoods in Europe: eight case Studies in six European countries (pp. 27-44). Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau. https://doi.org/3
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Niemczyk, Kinga (2014). What Putin gets about soft power.
  • Brown, Chris, Sasse, Gwendolyn, Economides, Spyros, Lankina, Tomila V., Hughes, Jim, Knott, Ellie (2014). Crimea referendum – our experts react.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2014). Why Crimea might be worse off under Russian rule.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2013). Globalisation: Many Indias, many Russias.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Getachew, Lullit (2012). Mission or empire?: The impact of Christian missionaries on India’s democratic development.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Phillips, Michael (2009). The house of lords: the working of the electoral process in the 1999 act of parliament. Political Quarterly, 80(1), 42-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.01956.x
  • Pratchett, Lawrence, Lankina, Tomila V., Wingfield, Melvin, Leduka, Clement, Mapetla, Matseliso, Kebede, Teferi, Letsiel, Moiporie (2008). Local democracy in Lesotho: current strengths and challenges. De Montfort University.
    • International History
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Niemczyk, Kinga (2014). What Putin gets about soft power.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2014). Why Crimea might be worse off under Russian rule.
    • International Relations
  • Lankina, Tomila (30 May 2025) The resilience of the university community in times of war - a view from Kyiv. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2024). Response to comments on Estate origins of democracy in Russia. Nationalities Papers, 52(6), 1446 - 1453. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2024.34 picture_as_pdf
  • Lankina, Tomila (2024). Social structure and autocracy. In Wolf, Anne (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198871996.013.25 picture_as_pdf
  • Hale, Henry E., Johnson, Juliet, Lankina, Tomila V. (Eds.) (2024). Developments in Russian politics 10. Bloomsbury (Firm).
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Libman, Alexander, Tertytchnaya, Katerina (2024). State violence and target group adaptation: maintaining social status in the face of repressions in Soviet Russia. Journal of Peace Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231202822 picture_as_pdf
  • Lankina, Tomila (2023). The Bleeding Wound: The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Collapse of the Soviet System. Perspectives on Politics, 21(4), 1520-1521. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723002098
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2023). Who supports the war? And who protests? The legacies of Tzarist social divide in Russia. LSE Public Policy Review, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.76 picture_as_pdf
  • Lankina, Tomila (2023). Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies. Post-Soviet Affairs, 39(1-2), 70 - 85. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2022.2147382 picture_as_pdf
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (28 February 2022) The banality of complicity: the social origins of Putin’s war and repression. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Lankina, Tomila v. (2021). The estate origins of democracy in Russia: from imperial bourgeoisie to post-communist middle class. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009071017
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Libman, Alexander (2021). The two-pronged middle class: the old bourgeoisie, new state-engineered middle class and democratic development. American Political Science Review, 115(3), 948-966. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542100023X picture_as_pdf
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2021). Citizen versus strongman: revival, social class, and social decay in Russia’s autocracy. Russian Analytical Digest, https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000477859
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (24 January 2021) Putin, Russia, and the moral imperative of the West. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Watanabe, Kohei, Netesova, Yulia (2020). How Russian media control, manipulate, and leverage public discontent:: framing protest in autocracies. In Koesel, Karrie J., Bunce, Valerie J., Chen Weiss, Jessica (Eds.), Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia (pp. 137-164). Oxford University Press.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2020). Protest in space, among social groups and in time: towards an historically informed agenda of studying urban discontent in autocracies. APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter, (XXX), 65-74. picture_as_pdf
  • Tertytchnaya, Katerina, Lankina, Tomila V. (2020). Electoral protests and political attitudes under electoral authoritarianism. Journal of Politics, 82(1), 285 - 299. https://doi.org/10.1086/705815
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Libman, Alexander (2019). Soviet legacies of economic development, oligarchic rule, and electoral quality in Eastern Europe’s partial democracies: the case of Ukraine. Comparative Politics, 52(1), 127 - 176. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041519X15624348215945
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Tertytchnaya, Katerina (2019). Protest in electoral autocracies: a new dataset. Post-Soviet Affairs, 36(1), 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2019.1656039 description
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2018). Boris Nemtsov and the reproduction of regional intelligentsia. In Makarychev, Andrey, Yatsyk, Alexandra (Eds.), Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics: Power and Resistance (pp. 61-86). Ibidem.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Watanabe, Kohei (2017). ‘Russian Spring’ or ‘Spring betrayal’? The media as a mirror of Putin’s evolving strategy in Ukraine. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(10), 1526-1556. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2017.1397603
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2017). Managing regional elections in Russia.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2017). It's not all negative: Russian media's flexible coverage of protest as regime survival strategy. In Russia's New Domestic Scene: Economy, Nationalism, Power, Opposition (pp. 21-27). PONARS Eurasia, The George Washington University.
  • Baev, Pavel, Omelicheva, Mariya, Robertson, Graeme, Lankina, Tomila V., Makarychev, Andrey (2017). New wave of protests in Russia (the old and the new).
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Skovoroda, Rodion (2017). Regional protest and electoral fraud: evidence from analysis of new data on Russian protest. East European Politics, 33(2), 253-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2016.1261018
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2017). Russians are protesting! Part 8: young Russians are joining in, against expectations.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2016). Boris Nemtsov and the reproduction of the regional intelligentsia. Demokratizatsiya, 24(1), 45-68. https://doi.org/10.1353/ dmo.2016.0011
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2016). It’s not all negative: Russian media’s flexible coverage of protest as a regime survival strategy. PONARS Eurasia.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Libman, Alexander, Obydenkova, Anastassia (2016). Authoritarian and democratic diffusion in post-communist regions. Comparative Political Studies, 49(12), 1599-1629. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414016628270
  • Skovoroda, Rodion, Lankina, Tomila V. (2016). Fabricating votes for Putin: new tests of fraud and electoral manipulations from Russia. Post-Soviet Affairs, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2016.1207988
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Libman, Alexander, Obydenkova, Anastassia (2016). Appropriation and subversion: pre-communist literacy, communist party saturation, and post-communist democratic outcomes. World Politics, 68(2), 229-274. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887115000428
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2015). Russian citizens owe it to Boris Nemtsov to keep the hope of democracy in Russia alive.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Voznaya, Alisa (2015). New data on protest trends in Russia's regions. Europe-Asia Studies, 67(2), 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2014.1002696
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Niemczyk, Kinga (2015). Russia's foreign policy and soft power. In Cadier, David, Light, Margot (Eds.), Russia's Foreign Policy:Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2015). The dynamics of regional and national contentious politics in Russia: evidence from a new dataset. Problems of Post-Communism, 62(1), 26-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2015.1002329
  • Gordon, Claire E, Lankina, Tomila V. (2015). The place of local and regional self-government in eastern partnership policy-making and delivery. (EU Committee of the Regions QG-01-15-507-EN-N). European Union. Publications Office. https://doi.org/10.2863/294899
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Lankin, Vladimir (2014). The Russia-India relationship: a shadow of past ties?
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2014). Daring to protest: when, why, and how Russia's citizens engage in street protest. (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 333). George Washington University.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2014). Leicester city report. In Widmer, Céline, Kübler, Daniel (Eds.), Regenerating urban neighbourhoods in Europe: eight case Studies in six European countries (pp. 27-44). Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau. https://doi.org/3
  • Brown, Chris, Sasse, Gwendolyn, Economides, Spyros, Lankina, Tomila V., Hughes, Jim, Knott, Ellie (2014). Crimea referendum – our experts react.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2014). “Trends in Within-Legacy and Cross-Legacy Analysis of Democracy and Development.” In Colonialism and Democratization, eds. Matthew D. Fails and Jonathan Krieckhaus. American Political Science Association Comparative Democratization Newsletter, 12(1), 7-11.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2013). Globalisation: Many Indias, many Russias.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Getachew, Lullit (2013). Competitive religious entrepreneurs: Christian missionaries and female education in colonial and post-colonial India. British Journal of Political Science, 43(1), 103-131. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123412000178
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Getachew, Lullit (2012). Mission or empire?: The impact of Christian missionaries on India’s democratic development.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Getachew, Lullit (2012). Mission or empire, word or sword?: the human capital legacy in postcolonial democratic development. American Journal of Political Science, 56(2), 465-483. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00550.x
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2012). “Sisyphean Endeavor or Worthwhile Undertaking? Transcending Within-Nation, Within Region Sub-national Democracy Analysis.” In Subnational Comparative Research on Democracy: Taking Stock and Looking Forward, eds. Eduardo Moncada and Richard Snyder. American Political Science Association Newsletter, 10(1), 2, 14-18.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2012). Religious influences on human capital variations in imperial Russia. Journal of Eurasian Studies, 3(1), 10-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euras.2011.10.002
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2012). Unbroken links?: from imperial human capital to post-communist modernisation. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(4), 623-643. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2012.675666
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2011). Local government. In Gill, Graeme, Young, James (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society (pp. 164-174). Routledge.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2010). Explaining European Union aid to Russia. In Newton, Julie, Tompson, William (Eds.), Institutions, Ideas and Leadership in Russian Politics (pp. 218-241). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2010). Regional democracy variations and the forgotten legacies of western engagement. In Gel'man, Vladimir, Ross, Cameron (Eds.), The Politics of Subnational Authoritarianism in Russia (pp. 39-66). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Phillips, Michael (2009). The house of lords: the working of the electoral process in the 1999 act of parliament. Political Quarterly, 80(1), 42-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.01956.x
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2009). Book review: Russia and globalization: identity, security, and society in an era of change. Democratization, 16(3), 633-634. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510340902884812
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Savrasov, Alexey (2009). Growing social protest in Russia. Russian Analytical Digest, 60, 6-12.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2009). Regional developments in Russia: territorial fragmentation in a consolidating authoritarian state. Social Research, 76(1), 225-256.
  • Pratchett, Lawrence, Lankina, Tomila V., Wingfield, Melvin, Leduka, Clement, Mapetla, Matseliso, Kebede, Teferi, Letsiel, Moiporie (2008). Local democracy in Lesotho: current strengths and challenges. De Montfort University.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2008). Cross-cutting literature review on the drivers of local council accountability and performance. (Social deveolpment working papers, local governance & accountability series 112). World Bank.
  • Gel'man, Vladimir, Lankina, Tomila V. (2008). Authoritarian versus democratic diffusions: explaining institutional choices in Russia's local government. Post-Soviet Affairs, 24(1), 40-62. https://doi.org/10.2747/1060-586X.24.1.40
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Hudalla, Anneke, Wollmann, Hellmut (2008). Local governance in central and eastern Europe: comparing performance in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2008). 'Fragmented belonging' on Russia's forested western frontier. Conservation and Society, 6(1), 24-34.
  • Ribot, Jesse C., Chhatre, Ashwini, Lankina, Tomila V. (2008). Introduction: institutional choice and recognition in the formation and consolidation of local democracy. Conservation and Society, 6(1), 1-11.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2008). Special issue: conservation and society. Conservation and Society, 6(1), 1-104.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Getachew, Lullit (2008). The virtuous circles of western exposure in Russian regions: a case for micro-polity analysis of democratic change. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 24(3), 338-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523270802267872
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2007). Book review: Margaret Paxon, Solovyovo: the story of memory in a Russian village. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(7), 1231-1232. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130701607250
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2007). ‘Fragmented belonging’ on Russia’s western frontier and local government development in Karelia. (Representation, equity and environment working paper series no. 30). World Resources Institute.
  • Gelman, Vladimir, Lankina, Tomila V. (2007). Politicheskiye diffusii v usloviyakh prostranstvenno-gibridnogo rejhima: institutsional noe stroitel stvo i vybory merov v gorodakh Rossii. Polis (United Kingdom), 6, 86-109.
  • Lankina, Tomila V., Getachew, Lullit (2006). A geographic incremental theory of democratization: territory, aid, and democracy in postcommunist regions. World Politics, 58(4), 536-582. https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.2007.0011
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2005). New system weakens municipalities. Russian Regional Report, 10(17), 1-4.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2005). Bashkortostan seeks renewed power-sharing treaty. Russian Regional Report, 10(16), 1-4.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2005). Book review: Fenomen Vladimira, Putina i rossiiskie regiony: pobeda neozhidannaia ili zakonomernaia?: vol. 1. Slavic Eurasian Studies, 64(1).
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2005). Explaining European Union aid to Russia. Post-Soviet Affairs, 21(4), 309-334. https://doi.org/10.2747/1060-586X.21.4.309
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2005). President Putin's local government reforms. In Reddaway, Peter, Orttung, Robert W. (Eds.), The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional Relations . Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2004). Governing the locals: local self-government and ethnic mobilization in Russia. Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2003). Managing the grassroots: Putin's reform of local government. Russia and Eurasia Review, 2(9).
  • Wollmann, Hellmut, Lankina, Tomila V. (2003). Local government in Poland and Hungary: from post-communist reform towards EU accession. In Baldersheim, Harald, Illner, Michael, Wollmann, Hellmut (Eds.), Local Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (pp. 91-122). Leske & Budrich.
  • Lankina, Tomila (2002). Local self-government and titular regime control in Russia’s republics, 1991-1999. (Carl Beck papers in Russian and East European studies 1602). University of Pittsburgh.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2002). Local administration and ethno-social consensus in Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 54(7), 1037-1053. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966813022000017122
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2001). Local government and ethnic and social activism in Russia. In Brown, Archie (Ed.), Contemporary Russian Politics: a Reader (pp. 398-414). Oxford University Press.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (2001). Local self-government and titular control in Russia’s republics, 1991-1999. Ab Imperio, 3,
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (1999). Local self-government or government gone local?: the case of Adygeya. Russian Regional Report, 4(33), 14-16.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (1999). Local self-government or local political control in Russia?: the case of Bashkortostan. Russian Regional Report, 4(28), 13-16.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (1998). Showcase of manipulated democracy. Transitions Online, 5, 62-64.
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (1997). Local government migration practices in the North Caucasus. Forced Migration Monitor, 20(4-5).
  • Lankina, Tomila V. (1996). The Cossacks: a guarantor of peace or a land‐mine in Russia's federalism? Nationalities Papers, 24(4), 721-726. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905999608408480
    • LSE
  • Lankina, Tomila, Libman, Alexander (2021). Replication Data for: The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/jo8c7a
  • Lankina, Tomila, Getachew, Lullit (2013). Replication data for: Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Post-Colonial Democratic Development. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/epqcir