Ben Stanley

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Ben Stanley is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Stanley has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Ben Stanley's work include Populism, Right-Wing Movements (9 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 papers) and Eastern European Communism and Reforms (5 papers). Ben Stanley is often cited by papers focused on Populism, Right-Wing Movements (9 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 papers) and Eastern European Communism and Reforms (5 papers). Ben Stanley collaborates with scholars based in Poland, United Kingdom and Norway. Ben Stanley's co-authors include Andrea L. P. Pirro, Kacper Szulecki, Radosław Markowski, Marta Bivand Erdal, John Kenneth White, Selim Erdem Aytaç, Ezgi Elçi, Nicole Curato, Wolfgang Muño and Gilles Ivaldi and has published in prestigious journals such as Perspectives on Politics, Journal of democracy and Electoral Studies.

In The Last Decade

Ben Stanley

19 papers receiving 938 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The thin ideology of populism

2008 605 citations Ben Stanley Journal of Political Ideologies profile →
Forging, Bending, and Breaking: Enacting the “Illiberal Playbook” in Hungary and Poland

2021 89 citations Andrea L. P. Pirro, Ben Stanley Perspectives on Politics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Stanley Poland	10	874	527	153	68	33	19	1.0k
Daniele Albertazzi United Kingdom	16	1.1k 1.3×	653 1.2×	188 1.2×	83 1.2×	40 1.2×	34	1.3k
Takis S. Pappas Greece	16	749 0.9×	446 0.8×	93 0.6×	38 0.6×	12 0.4×	30	895
Matthew Graham United States	10	425 0.5×	369 0.7×	138 0.9×	52 0.8×	32 1.0×	24	665
Tjitske Akkerman Netherlands	12	993 1.1×	589 1.1×	158 1.0×	59 0.9×	143 4.3×	38	1.2k
David Art United States	11	642 0.7×	397 0.8×	77 0.5×	19 0.3×	49 1.5×	18	793
Luke March United Kingdom	15	1.0k 1.2×	569 1.1×	136 0.9×	39 0.6×	41 1.2×	42	1.2k
Lenka Buštíková United States	14	607 0.7×	398 0.8×	81 0.5×	16 0.2×	59 1.8×	26	800
Giorgos Katsambekis Greece	12	852 1.0×	497 0.9×	128 0.8×	62 0.9×	22 0.7×	18	995
Buddy Peyton United States	5	260 0.3×	312 0.6×	138 0.9×	27 0.4×	25 0.8×	9	461
Berk Esen Türkiye	12	779 0.9×	598 1.1×	49 0.3×	25 0.4×	63 1.9×	25	891

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Stanley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Stanley

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All Works

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19 of 19 papers shown

Stanley, Ben, et al.. (2025). Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland. Journal of democracy. 36(3). 16–32. 2 indexed citations

Markowski, Radosław, et al.. (2023). Participation in Polish Local Elections: Sheer Rational Choice or Social Embeddedness Fate?. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures. 38(1). 123–147. 1 indexed citations

Szulecki, Kacper, Marta Bivand Erdal, & Ben Stanley. (2022). External Voting. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 5 indexed citations

Szulecki, Kacper, et al.. (2022). Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement. Electoral Studies. 81. 102552–102552. 9 indexed citations

Stanley, Ben, et al.. (2021). Uninformed or informed populists? The relationship between political knowledge, socio-economic status and populist attitudes in Poland. East European Politics. 38(1). 43–60. 10 indexed citations

Pirro, Andrea L. P. & Ben Stanley. (2021). Forging, Bending, and Breaking: Enacting the “Illiberal Playbook” in Hungary and Poland. Perspectives on Politics. 20(1). 86–101. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

Stanley, Ben, et al.. (2020). Whose Poland is it to be? PiS and the struggle between monism and pluralism. East European Politics. 36(3). 378–394. 58 indexed citations

Stanley, Ben. (2019). Backsliding Away? The Quality of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Contemporary European Research. 15(4). 343–353. 28 indexed citations

Stanley, Ben, et al.. (2019). Marginalization, not mainstreaming: Explaining the failure of fringe parties in Poland. Party Politics. 27(1). 46–57. 3 indexed citations

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Muño, Wolfgang, Gilles Ivaldi, Nicole Curato, et al.. (2018). Populism around the world. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Stanley, Ben. (2018). A New Populist Divide? Correspondences of Supply and Demand in the 2015 Polish Parliamentary Elections. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures. 33(1). 17–43. 36 indexed citations

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Stanley, Ben. (2017). Populism in Central and Eastern Europe. Oxford University Press eBooks. 140–160. 56 indexed citations

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Markowski, Radosław & Ben Stanley. (2016). Rozłamy socjopolityczne w Polsce:iluzja czy rzeczywistość?. Studia Socjologiczne. 223(4). 14–40. 3 indexed citations

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Stanley, Ben, et al.. (2016). Ideologiczna treść wymiaru lewica–prawica w Polsce w latach 1997–2015. Studia Socjologiczne. 223(4). 97–129. 2 indexed citations

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Stanley, Ben. (2015). Confrontation by default and confrontation by design: strategic and institutional responses to Poland's populist coalition government. Democratization. 23(2). 263–282. 29 indexed citations

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Stanley, Ben, et al.. (2014). Poland’s Palikot Movement. Party Politics. 22(6). 705–718. 7 indexed citations

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Stanley, Ben. (2014). The Dynamics of Party-System Supply and Demand in Poland, 1997–2007. Cleavage Change or Shapeless Shifting?. Europe Asia Studies. 66(8). 1295–1322. 2 indexed citations

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Stanley, Ben. (2011). Populism, nationalism, or national populism? An analysis of Slovak voting behaviour at the 2010 parliamentary election. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 44(4). 257–270. 78 indexed citations

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Stanley, Ben. (2008). The thin ideology of populism. Journal of Political Ideologies. 13(1). 95–110. 605 indexed citations breakdown →

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