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Alexander Libman publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Libman sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 318 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Alexander Libman D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Libman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander Libman is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and specializes in social sciences, focusing primarily on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, demography, economics and econometrics, and development. Their research covers a variety of topics including Russia and Soviet political economy, culture, economy, and development studies, international relations and foreign policy, political conflict and governance, European Union policy and governance, international development and aid, and corruption and economic development.

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by Libman are:

  • Russian power and the state-owned enterprise, 2021, European Journal of Political Economy
  • Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies, 2022, Post-Soviet Affairs

Other notable papers in the broader research network connected to Libman's fields include:

  • The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class, and Democratic Development, 2021, American Political Science Review
  • Varieties of authoritarianism matter: Elite fragmentation, natural resources and economic growth, 2020, European Journal of Political Economy
  • Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia, 2022, British Journal of Political Science

Libman's frequent coauthors include:

  • Anastassia Obydenkova
  • Tomila V. Lankina
  • Dmitrii Kofanov
  • Владимир Козлов
  • Nikita Zakharov

Publication venues where Libman's work appears repeatedly include:

  • osteuropa
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Post-Communist Economies
  • Politische Vierteljahresschrift
  • Issues of Economic Theory

Libman has also contributed to book publications, including a work titled Historical Legacies of Communism released in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Eurasian Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism

    Evgeny Vinokurov;Alexander Libman

  • Holding-Together Regionalism: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Integration

    Alexander Libman;Evgeny Vinokurov

  • Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions:

    Tomila V. Lankina;Alexander Libman;Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • Regionalisation and regionalism in the post-Soviet space: Current status and implications for institutional development

    Alexander Libman

  • Natural resources and sub-national economic performance: Does sub-national democracy matter?

    Alexander Libman;Alexander Libman

  • Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations

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  • Democracy, size of bureaucracy, and economic growth: evidence from Russian regions

    Alexander Libman

  • Strategic Tax Collection and Fiscal Decentralisation: The Case of Russia

    Alexander Libman;Lars P. Feld

  • Understanding Authoritarian Regionalism

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Appropriation and Subversion: Precommunist Literacy, Communist Party Saturation, and Postcommunist Democratic Outcomes

    Tomila V. Lankina;Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization

    Alexander Libman;Alexander Libman

  • Regional integration and economic convergence in the post-Soviet space : experience of the decade of growth

    Alexander Libman;Evgeny Vinokurov

  • Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia: The influence of historical legacies

    Anastassia Obydenkova;Alexander Libman

  • Regional International Organizations as a Strategy of Autocracy: The Eurasian Economic Union and Russian foreign policy

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Informal governance and participation in non-democratic international organizations

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • The Impact of External Factors on Regime Transition: Lessons from the Russian Regions

    Anastassia Obydenkova;Alexander Libman

  • Is it really different? Patterns of regionalisation in post-Soviet Central Asia

    Alexander Libman;Evgeny Vinokurov

  • Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization

    Alexander Libman;Alexander Libman

  • Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations: Global Perspective and the Eurasian Enigma

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Governance of Commons in a Large Nondemocratic Country: The Case of Forestry in the Russian Federation

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Communism or communists? Soviet legacies and corruption in transition economies

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • International Trade as a Limiting Factor in Democratization: an Analysis of Subnational Regions in Post-Communist Russia

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • Federalism in China and Russia

    Alexander Libman;Michael Rochlitz

  • Inequality and historical legacies: evidence from post-communist regions

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Strategic Tax Collection and Fiscal Decentralization: The Case of Russia

    Alexander Libman;Lars P. Feld

  • Appropriation and subversion: pre-communist literacy, communist party saturation, and post-communist democratic outcomes

    Tomila V. Lankina;Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

Frequent Co-Authors

Anastassia Obydenkova
Anastassia Obydenkova Instituto de Análisis Económico
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut

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