(Post) Communist Countries / (Post) Communist Countries

Kathleen Regina Barrett, University of West Georgia

Social Media, Partisanship, and Support for Personalist Leaders: Evidence from Russia’s 2012 Presidential Elections - Matthew Placek, University of South Carolina-Upstate

Openness, Strategy or Both? Why Political Parties Use Participatory Democracy - Bettina Mitru, Babes-Bolyai University; Sergiu Gherghina, University of Glasgow; Silvia Erzeel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Populist movements into parties: ITN in Bulgaria - Maria Spirova, Leiden University

Hubert Tworzecki, Emory University

Sean Norton, Princeton University