Paul Chaisty is Professor of Russian and East European Politics and Head of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). He joined the Department of Politics and International Relations and OSGA in 2005, following a three-year appointment in Politics at Pembroke College, Oxford. His research interests cover legislative, party and interest group politics in post-communist Russia; political attitudes in Russia; nationalism in Russia and Ukraine; and comparative presidentialism. His current book project with Stephen Whitefield is entitled How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation.
Media
Contemporary Russian Politics
Teaching
The Politics of Russia and the Former Soviet Union;
Comparative Government;
Comparative Presidentialism;
The Political Sociology of Post-Communist Societies
Publications
Journal Articles
2023
Chaisty, P. and Whitefield, S. (2023) “Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia”, Post-Soviet Affairs, 39(4), pp. 273–290.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586x.2023.2172945
2021
CHAISTY, P. and Timothy J, P. (2021) “Does Power Always Flow to the Executive?
Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976-2014”, Government and Opposition: an international journal of comparative politics [Preprint].
2018
CHAISTY, P. and WHITEFIELD, S. (2018) “Critical Election of frozen cleavages? How voters chose parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election”, Electoral Studies [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2018.08.009
chaisty, P. and power, T. (2018) “Flying Solo: Explaining Single-Party Cabinets under Minority Presidentialism”, European Journal of Political Research [Preprint].
2017
Chaisty, P. and Whitefield, S. (2017) “Understandings of the Nation in Russian Public Opinion: Survey Evidence from Putin’s Russia (2001-2014)”, Russian Politics [Preprint].
Chaisty, P. and Chernykh, S. (2017) “How do minority presidents manage multi-party coalitions? Identifying and analysing the payoffs to coalition parties in presidential systems”, Political Research Quarterly [Preprint].
Chaisty, P. and Whitefield, S. (2017) “Citizens’ Attitudes towards Institutional Change in Contexts of Political Turbulence: Support for Regional Decentralisation in Ukraine”, Political Studies [Preprint].
2015
Chaisty, P. and Whitefield, S. (2015) “Attitudes towards the environment: are post-Communist societies (still) different?”, Environmental Politics, 24(4), pp. 598–616.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2015.1023575
Chaisty, P. and Chernykh, S. (2015) “Coalitional presidentialism and legislative control in post-Soviet Ukraine”, Post-Soviet Affairs, 31(3), pp. 177–200.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586x.2014.994941
2014
Chaisty, P. (2014) “Presidential dynamics and legislative velocity in Russia, 1994–2007”, East European Politics, 30(4), pp. 588–601.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2014.964393
Chaisty, P., Cheeseman, N. and Power, T. (2014) “Rethinking the ‘presidentialism debate’: conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective”, Democratization, 21(1), pp. 72–94.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2012.710604
2002
Chaisty, P. and Schleiter, P. (2002) “Productive but Not Valued: The Russian State Duma, 1994-2001”, Europe Asia Studies, 54(5), pp. 701–724.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130220147010
CHAISTY, P., GERRY, C. and WHITEFIELD, S. (no date) “The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia”, Post-Soviet Affairs [Preprint].
WHITEFIELD, S. and CHAISTY, P. (no date) “How Challenger Parties Can Win Big with Frozen Cleavages: Explaining the Landslide Victory of the Servant of the People Party in the 2019 Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections”, Party Politics: international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations [Preprint].
CHAISTY, P. and POWER, T. (no date) “Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976-2014”, Government and Opposition: an international journal of comparative politics [Preprint].
POWER, T. and CHAISTY, P. (no date) “Gamson Going Global? Cabinet Proportionality in Comparative Perspective”, European Political Science Review [Preprint].
Chapters
2020
Chaisty, P., Cheeseman, N. and Power, T. (2020) “Inside the Coordination Paradigm”, in The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives. Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 420–437.
2019
CHAISTY, P. (2019) “The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Term Limits in Russian Politics”, in A. Baturo and R. Elgie (eds.) Politics of Presidential Term Limits. Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 381–398.
2016
CHAISTY, P. and WHITEFIELD, S. (2016) “Putin’s Nationalism Problem”, in Ukraine and Russia People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives.
POWER, T., CHAISTY, P. and Cheeseman, N. (no date) “Inside the Coordination Paradigm: New Perspectives on Minority Presidents and Coalition Management”, in R. Andeweg et al. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Political Executives. Oxford University Press.
Datasets
2017
Power, T., Chaisty, P. and Cheeseman, N. (2017) “Coalitional presidentialism in comparative perspective: minority executives in multiparty systems”. University of Oxford.
Available at https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-852003
