2025

Imami, Drini and Polese, Abel (2025) Why Elections Prompt More Corruption, Clientelism, and Forbearance? A Study of Attitudes in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia. Comparative Southeast European Studies, 73 (2). pp. 209-229. ISSN 2701-8202

2024

Polese, Abel (2024) Alternative currencies, community support and social cohesion: why the Okinawan moai (模合) is closer to an informal social policy mechanism than to a standard ROSCA. Kulturní studia . pp. 135-156. ISSN 2336-2766

2023

Polese, Abel and Sheranova, Arzuu (2023) When “branding” meets “building:” the consequences of nation branding on identity in Kyrgyzstan and Estonia. Journal of Baltic Studies, 55 (2). pp. 435-457. ISSN 0162-9778

Polese, Abel, Moise, Gian Marco ORCID: 0000-0001-5221-8106, Tokyzhanova, Talshyn, Aguzzi, Tommaso, Kerikmae, Tanel, Sagynbaeva, Ainoura, Sauka, Arnis, Seliverstova, Oleksandra, Lysa, Olha and Kussainkyzy, Aigerim (2023) Why Shadow Economy and informality should be seperated as concepts: Results and implications of the shadow economy survey in the post-Soviet region. Studia Politica, 23 (1). ISSN 1582-4551

2022

Polese, Abel, Moise, Gian Marco ORCID: 0000-0001-5221-8106, Tokyzhanova, Talshyn, Aguzzi, Tommaso, Kerikmae, Tanel, Sagynbaeva, Ainoura, Sauka, Arnis and Seliverstova, Oleksandra (2022) Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey, 42 (1). pp. 149-170. ISSN 0263-4937

Polese, Abel, Fredejas, Ignacio, Simic, Ruzica, Skocic, Vlada, Kerikmae, Tanel, Molina, Jose, Alpeza, Mirela, Lubbers, Miranda and Camerani, Alberica (2022) Labour Mobility and Informality: Romanian Migrants in Spain and Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Croatia. Politics and Governance, 10 (2). ISSN 2183-2463

Polese, Abel, Moise, Gian Marco ORCID: 0000-0001-5221-8106, Lysa, Olha, Kerikmae, Tanel, Sauka, Arnis and Seliverstova, Oleksandra (2022) Presenting the results of the shadow economy survey in Ukraine while reflecting on the future(s) of informality studies. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 30 (1). pp. 101-123. ISSN 1469-3712

2021

Polese, Abel (2021) What is informality? (Mapping) “the art of bypassing the state” in Eurasian spaces - and beyond. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 64 (3). pp. 322-364. ISSN 1938-2863

Fredejas, Ignacio, Polese, Abel and Bhimji, Fazila (2021) Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe. Migration Letters, 18 (2). pp. 121-133. ISSN 1741-8992

2020

Polese, Abel, Ambrosio, Thomas and Kerikmae, Tanel (2020) Estonian Identity Construction between Nation Branding and Building. Czech Journal of International Relations, 55 (2). pp. 24-46. ISSN 2788-2993

2019

Polese, Abel and Seliverstova, Oleksandra (2019) Luxury consumption as identity markers in Tallinn: A study of Russian and Estonian everyday identity construction through consumer citizenship. Journal of Consumer Culture, 20 (2). ISSN 1741-2900

2011

Polese, Abel (2011) Language and identity in post-1991 Ukraine: was it really nation-building? Studies of Transition States and Societies, 3 (3). pp. 36-50. ISSN 1736-8758

2009

Ó Beacháin, Donnacha ORCID: 0000-0003-3039-6934 and Polese, Abel (2009) From roses to bullets: the rise and decline of post-Soviet colour revolutions. In: Backes, Uwe, Jaskulowski, Tytus and Polese, Abel, (eds.) Totalitarianism and Transformation: Central and Eastern Europe between Socialist Legacy and Democratic Transformation (Totalitarismus und Transformation Defizite der Demokratiekonsolidierung in Mittel- und Osteuropa). Schriften des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts für Totalitarismusforschung, Band 37 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, pp. 63-100. ISBN 978-3525369111