Prof. Neil Robinson

Publications

Neil Robinson is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Limerick. His research focusses on Russian and post-communist politics, particularly the political economy of post-communism and post-communist state building. He is the author and editor of books on Russia and comparative politics, including most recently Contemporary Russian Politics (Polity, 2018) and (with Rory Costello, editors) Comparative European politics. Distinctive democracies, common challenges (Oxford University Press, 2020), and has published articles on Russian politics in many journals including Europe-Asia Studies, Review of International Political Economy, International Political Science Review, Russian Politics.

Research Profile

Selected Publications

1. Ideology and the collapse of the Soviet system. A critical history of Soviet ideological discourse, Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995, pp. x + 227
2. (with Karen Henderson) Post-communist politics. An introduction, London: Prentice Hall, 1997, pp. xxiii + 424
3. (editor) Institutions and political change in Russia, Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 2000, pp. xii + 235
4. Russia: a state of uncertainty, London and New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. xxvii + 187 (editor) Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. ix + 166
5. (co-editor with Aidan Hehir) State-building. Theory and practice, London and New York: Routledge, 2007, pp. xvi +197
6. (paperback edition 2009) (co-editor with Todd Landman), The Sage handbook of comparative politics, London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009, pp.xvi + 563
7. (Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, 2010) (editor) The political economy of Russia, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012, pp. xi +217
8. Contemporary Russian politics, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018, pp. xiv+300
9. (co-editor with Rory Costello) Comparative European Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. xxiv+361
10. ‘Russian neo-patrimonialism and Putin's “cultural turn”’, Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, 69 (2), 348-366
11. (and Sarah Milne) ‘Populism and political development in hybrid regimes: Russia and the development of official populism’, International Political Science Review, 2017, 38 (4), 412-25
12. ‘Putin and the incompleteness of Putinism’, Russian Politics, 2020, 5 (3): 283-300
13. (with Owen Worth) ‘Politics and markets’, in R. Costello and N. Robinson (eds) Comparative European Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp.249-70.