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Ekaterina Paustyan, Ph.D.

Department of Politics
Research Associate
paustyan@ios-regensburg.de
ORCID-iD: 0000-0002-4646-0550
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  • Publications
  • Curriculum vitae

Description

Ekaterina Paustyan is a comparative political scientist. Her research interests include authoritarian regimes, territorial politics, electoral manipulation, and political elites, with a regional focus on Russia, Ukraine, and Central and Eastern Europe. 

At IOS in Regensburg, she conducts research on territorial resilience and studies why multilevel autocracies are able to withstand crises. Since 2023, she is also an Associate Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst. In 2020, Ekaterina Paustyan received her PhD in Political Science from Central European University for the thesis “The Political Economy of the Territorial Regime in Post-Soviet Russia.” Before joining IOS, Ekaterina was a research associate at the Russia Institute at King’s College London and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen. Her research has been published in journals such as Swiss Political Science Review, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Territory, Politics, Governance, Regional & Federal Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Russian Politics.

Publications

Publikationen

Journal Articles

Paustyan, Ekaterina: Control vs. Electoral Performance: Why Personalist Rulers Choose Local Governors. In: Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2025. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
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DOI: 10.1093/publius/pjaf053

Pleines, Heiko/Rochlitz, Michael/Paustyan, Ekaterina: Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present: The Composition of Political Elites in Central and Eastern Europe from 1990 to 2020. In: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 57, 4, 2024, S. 194-207. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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DOI: 10.1525/cpcs.2024.2315829

Paustyan, Ekaterina/Busygina, Irina: The regional dimension of Russia’s resilience during its war against Ukraine: an introduction. In: Post-Soviet Affairs, 40, 4, 2024, S. 243-249. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2024.2350259

Paustyan, Ekaterina: Elite cohesion and resilience of the Russian regions: the case of Belgorod Oblast. In: Post-Soviet Affairs, 40, 4, 2024, S. 296-312. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2024.2354940

Busygina, Irina/Paustyan, Ekaterina: Ready to protest? Explaining protest potential in Russian regional capitals. In: Regional & Federal Studies, 34, 4, 2024, S. 499–520. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
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DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2022.2159389

Paustyan, Ekaterina: Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies: the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. In: Territory, Politics, Governance, 12, 5, 2024, S. 672–689. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2022.2046632

Paustyan, Ekaterina: No Limit on Terms Served? Explaining the Tenure of Incumbent Governors in Russia during Medvedev’s Presidency. In: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 56, 2, 2023, S. 81–104. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
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DOI: 10.1525/cpcs.2023.1815211

Masyutina, Olga/Paustyan, Ekaterina/Yakovlev, Grigory: Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in Russian Regions. In: Russian Politics, 8, 3, 2023, S. 305-330. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
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DOI: 10.30965/24518921-00803002

Thomann, Eva/Ege, Jörn/Paustyan, Ekaterina: Approaches to Qualitative Comparative Analysis and good practices: A systematic review. In: Swiss Political Science Review, 28, 3, 2022, S. 557-580. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12503

Paustyan, Ekaterina: A Treaty for the Rich and Politically Loyal? Explaining the Bilateral Center-Region Treaties in Post-Soviet Russia. In: Russian Politics, 6, 2, 2021, S. 185-209. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.30965/24518921-00602002

Paustyan, Ekaterina: Perspectives: Gubernatorial Turnover in the Russian Regions, 2005—2012. In: Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 26, 3, 2018, S. 427-433. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
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Online Publication/Blog posts

Paustyan, Ekaterina: Korruption und Elitennetzwerke in Russlands Grenzregionen während des Krieges [Corruption and Elite Networks in the Russian Border Regions during the Wartime]. In: Russland-Analysen, 2026. (Open Access)
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Masyutina, Olga/Paustyan, Ekaterina: Die politische Ökonomie der Abfallwirtschaft in Russland. In: Russland Analysen, 2022. (Open Access)
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DOI: 10.31205/RA.421.03

Busygina, Irina/Paustyan, Ekaterina: Ready to Protest? Calculating Protest Potential in Russian Regional Capitals. In: PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo, 2022.
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Paustyan, Ekaterina: Das Verhältnis zwischen dem Zentrum und den Regionen in der Rhetorik des russischen Präsidenten und der Staatsduma. In: Russland-Analysen, 2022. (Open Access)
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Masyutina, Olga/Paustyan, Ekaterina: The Political Economy of Waste Management in Russia. In: Russian Analytical Digest, 2022. (Open Access)
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Curriculum vitae

Professional Career
  • Research Associate in the Politics Department at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, since 08/2025
  • Associate Junior Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, since 07/2023
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Russia Institute, King’s College London, 03/2024–02/2025
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bremen, 11/2020–03/2024
  • Visiting Researcher, University of Bern, 06/2023–07/2023
  • Visiting Researcher, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (Moscow), 05/2019–06/2019
  • Visiting Researcher, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, Helsinki, 02/2019
  • Visiting Researcher, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, 09/2018–11/2018
Education
  • PhD in Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, September 2015–June 2020
  • MA in Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, September 2013–June 2014
Fellowships & Awards
  • Award for Advanced Doctoral Students, Central European University, Budapest, 2018
  • Global Teaching Fellowship, Central European University, Budapest, 2017