Publications

Total citations as of February 2025:

• Web of Science: 1,039 (h-index = 9)

• Google Scholar: 3,405 (h-index = 17, i10-index = 19)

• Sage Policy Profiles: 42 citations across 34 policy documents.

Journal articles

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.

Bill, Stanley, and Ben Stanley. 2025. ‘Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland’. Journal of Democracy 36(3): 16–32.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Markowski, Radosław, and Ben Stanley. 2016. ‘Rozłamy socjopolityczne w Polsce: Iluzja czy rzeczywistość?’ Studia Socjologiczne 4(223): 17–40.

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.

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.

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.

Stanley, Ben. 2008. ‘The Thin Ideology of Populism’. Journal of Political Ideologies 13(1): 95–110. doi:10.1080/13569310701822289.

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. 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. 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. 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): 444–48. doi:10.1017/s1755048317000712.

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.

Stanley, Ben, and Mikolaj Czesnik. 2016. ‘Poland’s Palikot Movement’. Party Politics 22(6): 705–18. doi:10.1177/1354068814560911.

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.

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.

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.

Monographs

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.

Book chapters

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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, and Mikołaj Cześnik. 2019. ‘Populism in Poland’. In Populism Around the World, ed. Daniel Stockemer. Springer, 67–87.

Essays, interviews and reviews

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.

Stanley, Ben. 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): 137–38. doi:10.1177/1354068815615270.

Stanley, Ben. 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): 444–48. doi:10.1017/s1755048317000712.

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.