Citations

Updated: March 2026

• Web of Science: 1,153 (h-index = 10)
• Google Scholar: 3,845 (h-index = 18, i10-index = 20)
• Sage Policy Profiles: 64 citations across 52 policy documents.

Monographs

• Bill, Stanley and Ben Stanley. 2025. Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland’s Illiberal Revolution. Stanford University Press.
• Szulecki, Kacper, Marta Bivand Erdal, and Ben Stanley. 2022. External Voting: The Patterns and Drivers of Central European Migrants’ Homeland Electoral Participation. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19246-3.

Journal articles

• Stanley, Ben. 2026. ‘Democratic Hypocrisy in Practice: A Panel Study of Revealed Preferences for Liberal Democracy in Poland’. East European Politics. doi:10.1080/21599165.2026.2656881.
• Bill, Stanley, and Ben Stanley. 2025. ‘Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland’. Journal of Democracy 36(3): 16–32.
• Enyedi, Zsolt, and Ben Stanley. 2025. ‘Farewell to the Liberal Consensus: The Intellectualisation of Political Projects in Poland and Hungary’. European Political Science. doi:10.1057/s41304-025-00542-8.
• Claassen, Christopher, Kathrin Ackermann, Eri Bertsou, Lucas Borba, Ryan E. Carlin, Amnon Cavari, Sirianne Dahlum, et al. 2025. ‘Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach’. Comparative Political Studies 58(6): 1171–98. doi:10.1177/00104140241259458.
• Markowski, Radosław, Marta Żerkowska-Balas, and Ben Stanley. 2024. ‘Participation in Polish Local Elections: Sheer Rational Choice or Social Embeddedness Fate?’ East European Politics and Societies 38(1): 123–47. doi:10.1177/08883254231177416.
• Szulecki, Kacper, Michał Kotnarowski, and Ben Stanley. 2023. ‘Emigrant External Voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU Enlargement’. Electoral Studies 81: 102552. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102552.
• Stanley, Ben, Radosław Markowski, and Mikołaj Cześnik. 2021. ‘Marginalization, Not Mainstreaming: Explaining the Failure of Fringe Parties in Poland’. Party Politics 21(1): 46–57. doi:10.1177/1354068819863616.
• Stanley, Ben, and Mikołaj Cześnik. 2021. ‘Uninformed or Informed Populists? The Relationship between Political Knowledge, Socio-Economic Status and Populist Attitudes in Poland’. East European Politics 38(1): 43–60. doi:10.1080/21599165.2021.1876676.
• Pirro, P. L. Andrea, and Ben Stanley. 2021. ‘Forging, Bending, and Breaking: Enacting the ‘Illiberal Playbook’ in Hungary and Poland’. Perspectives on Politics 20(1): 86–101. doi:10.1017/s1537592721001924.
• Bill, Stanley, and Ben Stanley. 2020. ‘Whose Poland Is It to Be? PiS and the Struggle between Monism and Pluralism’. East European Politics 36(3): 378–94. doi:10.1080/21599165.2020.1787161.
• Markowski, Radosław, and Ben Stanley. 2020. ‘Poczucie politycznego sprawstwa: O determinantach i korelatach zjawiska’. Studia Polityczne 47(3): 11–34. doi:10.35757/STP.2019.47.3.01.
• Stanley, Ben. 2019a. ‘A New Populist Divide? Correspondences of Supply and Demand in the 2015 Polish Parliamentary Elections’. East European Politics and Societies 33: 17–43. doi:10.1177/0888325418783056.
• Stanley, Ben. 2019b. ‘Backsliding Away? The Quality of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe’. Journal of Contemporary European Research 15(4): 343–53. doi:10.30950/jcer.v15i4.1122.
• Cichocki, Marek A., and Ben Stanley. 2019. ‘Brexit i rewolucja populizmu w Europie’. Sprawy Międzynarodowe 72(2): 9–16. doi:https://doi.org/10.35757/sm.2019.72.2.01.
• Markowski, Radosław, and Ben Stanley. 2016. ‘Rozłamy socjopolityczne w Polsce: Iluzja czy rzeczywistość?’ Studia Socjologiczne 4(223): 17–40.
• Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka, Mikołaj Cześnik, Marta Żerkowska-Balas, and Ben Stanley. 2016. ‘Ideologiczna treść wymiaru lewica-prawica w Polsce w latach 1997-2015’. Studia Socjologiczne 4(223): 97–129.
• Stanley, Ben. 2016a. ‘Confrontation by Default and Confrontation by Design: Strategic and Institutional Responses to Poland’s Populist Coalition Government’. Democratization 23(2): 263–82. doi:10.1080/13510347.2015.1058782.
• Stanley, Ben. 2016b. ‘Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield, The Strain of Representation: How Parties Represent Diverse Voters in Western and Eastern Europe, Reviewed by Ben Stanley’. Party Politics 22(1): 137–38. doi:10.1177/1354068815615270.
• Stanley, Ben, and Mikolaj Czesnik. 2016. ‘Poland’s Palikot Movement’. Party Politics 22(6): 705–18. doi:10.1177/1354068814560911.
• Stanley, Ben. 2014. ‘The Dynamics of Party-System Supply and Demand in Poland, 1997–2007. Cleavage Change or Shapeless Shifting?’ Europe-Asia Studies 66(8): 1295–1322. doi:10.1080/09668136.2014.939522.
• Stanley, Ben. 2011. ‘Populism, Nationalism, or National Populism? An Analysis of Slovak Voting Behaviour at the 2010 Parliamentary Election’. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 44(4): 257–70. doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2011.10.005.
• Stanley, Ben. 2008. ‘The Thin Ideology of Populism’. Journal of Political Ideologies 13(1): 95–110. doi:10.1080/13569310701822289.

Book chapters

• Stanley, Ben, 2025. ‘Political Parties and Ideological Representation’. In The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, eds. Katarzyna Walecka, Simona Guerra, and Fernando Casal Bértoa. Oxford University Press.
• Stanley, Ben. 2022. ‘Poland: When Populists Must Manage Crisis Instead of Performing It’. In Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to COVID-19, eds. Nils Ringe and Lucio Rennó. Routledge, 105–16.
• Stanley, Ben. 2020. ‘A Comparison of Two Polish Party Leaders: Jarosław Kaczyński and Donald Tusk’. In Party Leaders in Eastern Europe, ed. Sergiu Gherghina. 171–95.
• Stanley, Ben. 2019. ‘Working in the Gaps Left behind: Radical Right Movements in a Consolidating Party System’. In Radical Right ‘Movement Parties’ in Europe, eds. Manuela Caiani and Ondrej Cisar. London and New York: Routledge, 168–83.
• Stanley, Ben, and Mikołaj Cześnik. 2019. ‘Populism in Poland’. In Populism Around the World, ed. Daniel Stockemer. Springer, 67–87.
• Stanley, Ben. 2017. ‘Populism in Central and Eastern Europe’. In The Oxford Handbook of Populism, eds. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 140–60.
• Stanley, Ben. 2016a. ‘Defenders of the Cross’. In Saving the People: How Populists Hijack Religion, eds. Nadia Marzouki, Duncan McDonnell, and Olivier Roy. London: Hurst Publishers, 109–28.
• Stanley, Ben. 2016b. ‘The Politics of the Past in the Present: Poland’s Electoral Geography’. In More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box, eds. Philip Cowley and Robert Ford. London: Biteback Publishing, 233–36.
• Stanley, Ben. 2015a. ‘The Polish Self-Defence Party: From Agrarian Protest to the Politics of Populism, 1991-2007’. In Rural Protest Groups and Populist Political Parties, eds. Dirk Strijker, Gerrit Voerman, and Ida Terluin. Wageningen Academic Publishers, 191–216.
• Stanley, Ben. 2015b. ‘The Post-Populist Non-Crisis in Poland’. In Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession, eds. Hanspeter Kriesi and Takis S. Pappas. Colchester: ECPR Press, 251–69.
• Stanley, Ben. 2014. ‘Poland 20 Years Later: The Long Arm of Transition’. In Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, eds. Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Ltd., 257–91.
• Stanley, Ben. 2013a. ‘Poland’. In The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, eds. Sten Berglund, Joakim Ekman, Kevin Deegan-Krause, and Terje Knutsen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 167–215.
• Stanley, Ben. 2013b. ‘Populism’. In Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 642.
• Stanley, Ben. 2011. ‘Poland 20 Years Later: The Long Arm of Transition’. In Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, eds. Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Ltd., 243–73.

Datasets

• Stanley, Ben. 2024a. ‘Partisan Bias or Indifference? Panel Survey, Wave 1’. doi:10.7910/DVN/2WSILI.
• Stanley, Ben. 2024b. ‘Partisan Bias or Indifference? Panel Survey, Wave 2’. doi:10.7910/DVN/D3927J.
• Stanley, Ben. 2024c. ‘Partisan Bias or Indifference? Panel Survey, Wave 3’. doi:10.7910/DVN/TUUHGV.
• Stanley, Ben. 2024d. ‘Partisan Bias or Indifference? Pilot Survey’. doi:10.7910/DVN/4L5WI7.