Published Research

Books

Moraski, Bryon J. 2022. Party Politics in Russia and Ukraine: Electoral System Change in Diverging Regimes. New York, NY: New York University Press.

Reisinger, William M. and Bryon J. Moraski. 2017. The Regional Roots of Russia’s Political Regime. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2006. Elections by Design: Parties and Patronage in Russia’s Regions. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.

Book Chapters & Journal Articles

*denotes graduate student author; ** denotes undergraduate student author

Klein, Aidan** and Bryon J. Moraski. 2020. “Incentive to Deliver: Authoritarian Rule, Proportional Representation, and Support for Russia’s Ruling Party.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 30(4): 524-41. 

Moraski, Bryon J. 2017. “Reverse Coattail Effects in Undemocratic Elections: An Analysis of Russian Locomotives.” Democratization 24(4): 575-93.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2017. “Adapting to Closed-list Proportional Representation: Lessons from Ukraine.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 27(2): 113-32.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2016. “Social Media, Kyiv’s Euromaidan, and Demands for Sovereignty in Eastern Ukraine.” In Informational Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age, Mahmood Monshipouri, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-50.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2015. “Closed-list Proportional Representation in Russia: The Fates of Former District Deputies.” Party Politics 21(3): 381-92.

Reisinger, William M. and Bryon J. Moraski. 2013. “Governance or Deference? A Survival Analysis of Russia’s Governors under Presidential Control.” In Russia Beyond the Kremlin: Comparative Subnational Politics, William Reisinger, ed. New York: Routledge, pp. 40-62.

Moraski, Bryon J. and Magda Giurcanu*. 2013. “European Reactions to the 2008 Georgian-Russian War: Assessing the Impact of Gas Dependence.” Studies in Comparative International Development 48(4): 432-56.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2013. “Constructing Courts after Communism: Reevaluating the Effect of Electoral Uncertainty.” Communist & Post-Communist Studies 46: 433-43.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2012. “The Duma’s Electoral System: Lessons in Endogeneity.” In Handbook of Russian Politics and Society, Graeme Gill and James Young, eds. New York: Routledge, pp. 102-14.

Reisinger, William M. and Bryon J. Moraski. 2010. “Regional Changes and Changing Regional Relations with the Center.” In The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia, Vladimir Gel’man and Cameron Ross, eds. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 67-84.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2009. “Judicial Complexity Empowering Opposition? Critical Elections in Armenia and Georgia.” In Democratization by Elections: A New Mode of Transition, Staffan I. Lindberg, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 269-88.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2007. “Electoral System Reform in Democracy’s Grey Zone: Lessons from Putin’s Russia.” Government & Opposition 42(4): 536-63.

Moraski, Bryon J. and William M. Reisinger. 2007. “Eroding Democracy: Federal Intervention in Russia’s Gubernatorial Elections.”  Democratization 14(4): 603-21.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2006. “Mandating Party Development in the Russian Federation: Effects of the 2001 Party Law.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 16(3): 199-219.

Moraski, Bryon J. 2006. “Prospects for Professional Parliaments in Russia’s Regions.” Journal of Communist Studies & Transition Politics 22(2): 135-61

Moraski, Bryon J. 2003. “Electoral System Design in Russian Oblasti and Republics: A Four Case Comparison.” Europe-Asia Studies 55(3): 437-68.

Moraski, Bryon J. and William M. Reisinger. 2003. “Explaining Electoral Competition across Russia’s Regions.” Slavic Review 62(2): 278-301.

Moraski, Bryon J. and Charles R. Shipan. 1999. “The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations: A  Theory of Institutional Constraints and Choices.”  American Journal of Political Science 43(4): 1069-95 [Reprinted in Lee Epstein (ed.) 2005. Courts and Judges. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 3-40].

Moraski, Bryon J. 1999. “Electoral Systems, Changing Voter Preferences and the Success of Former Communist Parties in Baltic Elections.” In Communist Successor Parties in Post-Communist Politics, John Ishiyama, ed. Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., pp. 155-77.

Moraski, Bryon J. and Gerhard Loewenberg. 1999. “The Effect of Legal Thresholds on the Revival of Former Communist Parties in East-Central Europe.” Journal of Politics 61(1): 151-70.