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List of works by Abel Polese

A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan

Between ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ temperatures: introducing a complication to the hot and cold ethnicity theory from Odessa

Between “imagined” and “real” nation-building: identities and nationhood in post-Soviet Central Asia

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Coping strategies of cancer patients in Ukraine

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Exploring the Practice of Making Informal Payments in the Health Sector: Some Lessons from Greece

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Informal Payments in Ukrainian Hospitals: On the Boundary between Informal Payments, Gifts, and Bribes

Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: Living with the risks of Chernobyl

scholarly article by Thom Davies & Abel Polese published January 2015 in The Journal of Eurasian Studies

Introduction: Informal Economies as Varieties of Governance

scholarly article published 2017

Introduction: The Failure and Future of the Welfare State in Post-socialism

Luxury consumption as identity markers in Tallinn: A study of Russian and Estonian everyday identity construction through consumer citizenship

scientific article

Odessa and Lvov or Odesa and Lviv: How Important is a Letter? Reflections on the “Other” in Two Ukrainian Cities

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Russia, the US, “the Others” and the “101 Things to Do to Win a (Colour) Revolution”: Reflections on Georgia and Ukraine

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Strategies of legitimation in Central Asia: regime durability in Turkmenistan

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The formal and the informal: exploring ‘Ukrainian’ education in Ukraine, scenes from Odessa

scholarly article

Ukraine 2004: Informal Networks, Transformation of Social Capital and Coloured Revolutions

article by Abel Polese published September 2009 in Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

Who has the right to forbid and who to trade? Making sense of illegality on the Polish-Ukrainian border

‘Rocking the vote’: new forms of youth organisations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

‘Welfare States’ and Social Policies in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR: Where Informality Fits In?

article by Abel Polese et al published 3 April 2014 in Journal of Contemporary European Studies