| Party patronage and party government in European democracies P Kopecký, P Mair, M Spirova Oxford University Press, USA, 2012 | 352 | 2012 |
| Party patronage in contemporary democracies: Results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions P Kopecký, J Meyer sahling, F Panizza, G Scherlis, C Schuster, M Spirova European Journal of Political Research 55 (2), 416-431, 2016 | 171 | 2016 |
| ‘Jobs for the boys’? Patterns of Party Patronage in Post-communist Europe P Kopecký, M Spirova West European Politics 34 (5), 897-921, 2011 | 161 | 2011 |
| Political parties in post-communist societies: Formation, persistence, and change M Spirova Springer, 2007 | 124 | 2007 |
| Conceptualizing and measuring party patronage P Kopecky, G Scherlis, M Spirova Political Concepts, Committee on Concepts and Methods Working Paper Series …, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| The EU accession process and the Roma minorities in new and soon-to-be member states M Spirova, D Budd Comparative European Politics 6, 81-101, 2008 | 61 | 2008 |
| Parliamentary opposition in post-communist democracies: Power of the powerless P Kopecký, M Spirova Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies, 114-140, 2013 | 60 | 2013 |
| Political parties in Bulgaria: Organizational trends in comparative perspective M Spirova Party Politics 11 (5), 601-622, 2005 | 60 | 2005 |
| The Bulgarian socialist party: The long road to Europe M Spirova Communist and Post-Communist Studies 41 (4), 481-495, 2008 | 58 | 2008 |
| Europarties and party development in EU-candidate states: The case of Bulgaria M Spirova Europe-Asia Studies 60 (5), 791-808, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| Parties between thresholds: State subsidies and party behaviour in post-communist democracies F Casal Bértoa, M Spirova Party Politics 25 (2), 233-244, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Beyond the Cartel Party? Party Patronage and the Nature of Parties in New Democracies P Kopecký, M Spirova, G Scherlis Documento presentado a IPSA-ECPR Joint Conference, São Paulo, 2011 | 32 | 2011 |
| The parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, June 2005 M Spirova Electoral Studies 3 (25), 616-621, 2006 | 29 | 2006 |
| A Tradition We Don’t Mess With: Party Patronage in Bulgaria M Spirova Party patronage and party government in European democracies, 54-73, 2012 | 26 | 2012 |
| Corruption and Democracy The" Color Revolutions" in Georgia and Ukraine. M Spirova Taiwan Journal of Democracy 4 (2), 2008 | 25 | 2008 |
| The European dimension of minority political representation: Bulgaria and Romania compared M Spirova, B Stefanova East European Politics and Societies 26 (1), 75-92, 2012 | 23 | 2012 |
| Get a subsidy or perish! Public funding and party survival in Eastern Europe FC Bértoa, M Spirova The legal regulation of political parties. Working paper, 2013 | 22 | 2013 |
| European integration and minority politics: Ethnic parties at the EP elections M Spirova East European Politics 28 (1), 76-92, 2012 | 21 | 2012 |
| Bulgaria since 1989 M Spirova Central and Southeast European politics since, 2008 | 20* | 2008 |
| Measuring party patronage through structured expert interviews P Kopecký, M Spirova Party patronage and party government in European democracies, 17-28, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
Petr KopeckyProfessor of Political Science, Institute of Political Science, Leiden UniversityVerified email at fsw.leidenuniv.nl
