Publications - Anton Shirikov

Papers

"Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages."

Sociological Methods & Research, 2025.

With Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan Brown, Kevin Aslett, and Joshua A. Tucker.

Accepted manuscript
"Is There Really a Dictator's Dilemma? Information and Repression in Autocracy."

American Journal of Political Science, 2025.

With Scott Gehlbach, Zhaotian Luo, and Dmitriy Vorobyev.
"Rethinking Propaganda: How State Media Build Trust Through Belief Affirmation."

The Journal of Politics, 2024, Vol. 86, No. 4.

Accepted manuscript
"Is Postcommunism Over? What Is and Is Not Distinctive About Eastern Europe and Eurasia Three Decades After Communism."

Problems of Post-Communism, 2024, Vol. 71, No. 6.

With Dmitrii Kofanov and Yoshiko M. Herrera.
"Why Is Media Trust Low in Post-Communist Countries?"

Problems of Post-Communism, 2024, Vol. 71, No. 6.
"Fake News for All: How Citizens Discern Disinformation in Autocracies."

Political Communication, 2024, Vol. 41, No. 1.

Accepted manuscript
"The Oligarch Vanishes: Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections."

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2022, Vol. 17, No. 4.

With John Earle, Solomiya Shpak, and Scott Gehlbach.

Best Article Prize, American Association for Ukrainian Studies
"Who Gets Ahead in Authoritarian Parliaments? The Case of the Russian State Duma."

The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2021.
"Eurasia and Post-Communism: Weasel Words?"

East European Politics and Societies, 2020, Vol. 34, No. 2.

With Yoshiko M. Herrera and Dmitrii Kofanov.

Book Chapters

"The Russian Media."

In: Wengle, Susanne (ed.). Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

With Scott Gehlbach and Tetyana Lokot.
"Russia: Muddling Through Populism and the Pandemic."

In: Ringe, Nils, and Lucio Renno (eds.). Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to COVID-19. Routledge, 2022.

With Yoshiko M. Herrera and Valeriia Umanets.
"Sovereignty and Regionalism in Eurasia."

In: Paasi, Anssi, John Harrison, and Martin Jones (eds.). Elgar Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.

With Dmitrii Kofanov and Yoshiko M. Herrera.
"Public Administration in Russia."

In: Liebert, Saltanat, Stephen E. Condrey, and Dmitry Goncharov (eds.). Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries: Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia. Routledge, 2013.

With Dmitry Goncharov.

Policy Memos & Reviews

"War on Screens: The Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in Russian State Media."

PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 951, 2025.
Book Review: Seeing Red: Russian Propaganda and American News by Sarah Oates and Gordon Neil Ramsay.

The Russian Review, 2025, Vol. 84, No. 1.
"Can Russians Learn to Recognize Propaganda? Understanding of Media Bias Amid the Ukraine War."

PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 918, 2024. With Georgiy Syunyaev.
"Filtering the News: Why Russians Prefer Propaganda and Shield Themselves from Independent Reporting."

PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 873, 2024.

Media & Commentary

"How Russia is spreading blatantly false information about the war in Ukraine."

PBS NewsHour interview, 2022.
"Russian journalists report the facts about Ukraine. Why do Russians ignore them?"

The Washington Post, 2022.
"How does propaganda work? One Russian scholar is probing the power of Putin's disinformation regime."

Columbia Journalism Review interview, 2023.
"Opium for the masses: How propaganda won Russians' trust."

Russia.Post, 2022.
"Why Russia is losing the narrative over its invasion of Ukraine."

Wisconsin Public Radio interview, 2022.
"Relationship between propaganda and public reexamined through new research."

KU News interview, 2024.
"How Putin Uses 'Victory Day' to Affirm Russia's Power."

PÚBLICO (Portugal) interview, 2022.
"Disinformation and propaganda in a time of conflict."

ABC Radio National (Australia) interview, 2022.