Publications

Total citations as of January 2025:

Journal articles

Claassen, C., Ackermann, K., Bertsou, E., Borba, L., Carlin, R. E., Cavari, A., Dahlum, S., Gherghina, S., Hawkins, D., Lelkes, Y., Magalhães, P. C., Mattes, R., Meijers, M. J., Neundorf, A., Oross, D., Öztürk, A., Sarsfield, R., Self, D., Stanley, B., … Zechmeister, E. J. (2024). Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach. Comparative Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241259458

Markowski, R., Żerkowska-Balas, M., & Stanley, B. (2024). Participation in Polish Local Elections: Sheer Rational Choice or Social Embeddedness Fate? East European Politics and Societies, 38(1), 123–147. https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254231177416

Szulecki, K., Kotnarowski, M., & Ben Stanley. (2023). Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement. Electoral Studies, 81, 102552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102552

Pirro, P. L. A., & Stanley, B. (2021). Forging, Bending, and Breaking: Enacting the “Illiberal Playbook” in Hungary and Poland. Perspectives on Politics, 20(1), 86–101. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592721001924

Stanley, B., & Cześnik, M. (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. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2021.1876676

Stanley, B., Markowski, R., & Cześnik, M. (2021). Marginalization, not mainstreaming: Explaining the failure of fringe parties in Poland. Party Politics, 21(1), 46–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819863616

Bill, S., & Stanley, B. (2020). Whose Poland is it to be? PiS and the struggle between monism and pluralism. East European Politics, 36(3), 378–394. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2020.1787161

Markowski, R., & Stanley, B. (2020). Poczucie politycznego sprawstwa: O determinantach i korelatach zjawiska. Studia Polityczne, 47(3), 11–34. https://doi.org/10.35757/STP.2019.47.3.01

Stanley, B. (2019). A New Populist Divide? Correspondences of Supply and Demand in the 2015 Polish Parliamentary Elections. East European Politics and Societies, 33, 17–43. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325418783056

Stanley, B. (2019). Backsliding Away? The Quality of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 15(4), 343–353. https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v15i4.1122

Markowski, R., & Stanley, B. (2016). Rozłamy socjopolityczne w Polsce: Iluzja czy rzeczywistość? Studia Socjologiczne, 4(223), 17–40.

Stanley, B. (2016). Confrontation by default and confrontation by design: Strategic and institutional responses to Poland’s populist coalition government. Democratization, 23(2), 263–282. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2015.1058782

Kwiatkowska, A., Cześnik, M., Żerkowska-Balas, M., & Stanley, B. (2016). Ideologiczna treść wymiaru lewica-prawica w Polsce w latach 1997-2015. Studia Socjologiczne, 4(223), 97–129.

Stanley, B., & Czesnik, M. (2016). Poland’s Palikot Movement. Party Politics, 22(6), 705–718. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068814560911

Stanley, B. (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. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2014.939522

Stanley, B. (2011). Populism, nationalism, or national populism? An analysis of Slovak voting behaviour at the 2010 parliamentary election. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 44(4), 257–270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2011.10.005

Stanley, B. (2008). The thin ideology of populism. Journal of Political Ideologies, 13(1), 95–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569310701822289

Monographs

Bill, S. & Stanley, B. (2025, forthcoming). Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland’s Illiberal Revolution. Stanford University Press.

Szulecki, K., Bivand Erdal, M., & Stanley, B. (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

Book chapters

Stanley, B. (2022). Poland: When Populists Must Manage Crisis Instead of Performing It. In Nils Ringe & Lucio Rennó (Eds.), Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to COVID-19 (pp. 105–116). Routledge.

Stanley, B. (2020). A Comparison of Two Polish Party Leaders: Jarosław Kaczyński and Donald Tusk. In S. Gherghina (Ed.), Party Leaders in Eastern Europe (pp. 171–195).

Stanley, B. (2019). Working in the gaps left behind: Radical right movements in a consolidating party system. In M. Caiani & O. Cisar (Eds.), Radical Right ‘Movement Parties’ in Europe (pp. 168–183). Routledge.

Stanley, B., & Cześnik, M. (2019). Populism in Poland. In D. Stockemer (Ed.), Populism Around the World (pp. 67–87). Springer.

Stanley, B. (2017). Populism in Central and Eastern Europe. In C. R. Kaltwasser, P. Taggart, P. O. Espejo, & P. Ostiguy (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Populism (pp. 140–160). Oxford University Press.

Stanley, B. (2016). Defenders of the Cross. In N. Marzouki, D. McDonnell, & O. Roy (Eds.), Saving the People: How Populists Hijack Religion (pp. 109–128). Hurst Publishers.

Stanley, B. (2016). The Politics of the Past in the Present: Poland’s electoral geography. In P. Cowley & R. Ford (Eds.), More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box (pp. 233–236). Biteback Publishing.

Stanley, B. (2015). The Polish Self-Defence party: From agrarian protest to the politics of populism, 1991-2007. In D. Strijker, G. Voerman, & I. Terluin (Eds.), Rural protest groups and populist political parties (pp. 191–216). Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Stanley, B. (2015). The Post-Populist Non-Crisis in Poland. In H. Kriesi & T. S. Pappas (Eds.), Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (pp. 251–269). ECPR Press.

Stanley, B. (2014). Poland 20 Years Later: The Long Arm of Transition. In R. Tiersky & E. Jones (Eds.), Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction (5th ed., pp. 257–291). Rowman & Littlefield Ltd.

Stanley, B. (2013). Poland. In S. Berglund, J. Ekman, K. Deegan-Krause, & T. Knutsen (Eds.), The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe (pp. 167–215). Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Stanley, B. (2013). Populism. In G. Claeys (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (p. 642). SAGE Publications, Ltd.

Stanley, B. (2011). Poland 20 Years Later: The Long Arm of Transition. In R. Tiersky & E. Jones (Eds.), Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction (4th ed., pp. 243–273). Rowman & Littlefield Ltd.

Essays, interviews and reviews

Cichocki, M. A., & Stanley, B. (2019). Brexit i rewolucja populizmu w Europie. Sprawy Międzynarodowe, 72(2), 9–16. https://doi.org/10.35757/sm.2019.72.2.01

Stanley, B. (2018). Religion, Politics and Values in Poland: Continuity and Change Since 1989. Edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Irena Borowik. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 341 pp. $129.00 Cloth. Politics and Religion, 11(2), 444–448. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755048317000712

Stanley, B. (2016). 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), 137–138. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068815615270

Datasets

Stanley, B. (2024). Partisan Bias or Indifference? Panel Survey, Wave 3. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TUUHGV