BRRIDGE academics disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, and working papers.
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We are pleased to announce a new publication stemming from the BRRIDGE partnership between Matej Bel University and the Central European University. The article, titled “Decision tree insights into spatial and temporal patterns of convergence in EU labour markets”, [...]
Three decades after the fall of socialist regimes in Central Europe, the successes of democratic transition face threats from broader trends toward skepticism, disengagement and distrust across Europe, though perhaps more intensively in the East. This backdrop, especially evident [...]
| Authors | Title | Journal | Link |
| Guzi, M., Kahanec, M., & Mýtna Kureková, L. (2023). | The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labour market hierarchies | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2207339 |
| Borsekova, K., Korony, S., & Lawson, C. W. (2024). | In search of key performance indicators of regional competitiveness in the European Union | Journal of Regional Science | https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12692 |
| Mintal, J.M., Borseková, K., Cicchi, L. et al. (2024) | The Volebny Kompas Datasets on Slovak Voter and Party Positions | Scientific Data | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03777-0 |
| Butzlaff, F. (2024). | Creating new participatory linkages? Political parties and democratisation in Germany, Austria, and the UK. | Party Politics | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13540688241306727 |
| Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2024). | The transatlantic relationship and the Russia-Ukraine war. | Political science quarterly | https://academic.oup.com/psq/article/139/4/509/7698167 |
| Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2024). | The enlargement of international organisations | West European Politics | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402382.2024.2311044 |
| Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2024). | The Geopolitics of EU Enlargement: From Club to Commons | Survival | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00396338.2024.2380203 |
| Souček, I., Hofreiter, R., & Beňová, K. K. (2025). | Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation. | Social Science & Medicine | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625001376?via%3Dihub#sec11 |
| Westlund, H., & Borseková, K. (2025). | The post-urban hypothesis. | Global Challenges & Regional Science | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050502X25000026?via%3Dihub |
| Borsekova, K., Korony, S., & Westlund, H. (2025). | Heterogeneous labour market trajectories in the EU: convergence, divergence and stagnation across regions. | The Annals of Regional Science | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00168-025-01367-5 |
| Borsekova, K., Korony, S., & Kahanec, M. (2025). | Decision tree insights into spatial and temporal patterns of convergence in EU labour markets | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X251352697 |
| Butzlaff, F. (2025). | Who is responsible for addressing climate change? How party systems shape movement-party cooperations and understandings of democracy in Germany and Austria. | Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12286-025-00638-x#Fun |
| Stachova, M., & Hunady, J. (2025). | Using a Two-Step Clustering Approach to Examine Judiciary Efficiency in European Countries. | Economic Research Guardian | https://www.ecrg.ro/files/p2025.15(1)50y7.pdf |
| Hunady, J. (2025). | Drivers of AI adoption in SMEs: Missing skills and other firm-level factors. | Journal of Decision Analytics and Intelligent Computing. | https://www.jdaic-journal.org/index.php/about/article/view/89 |
| Hunady, J., Demeova, E., & Chylakova, V. (2025). | The role of digital skills and digitalisation in enhancing labour productivity in the EU. | COLLECTION OF PAPERS NEW ECONOMY | https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1360314 |
| Westlund, H., Borsekova, K. (2025). | Rural Development Challenges and Resilience Building in Northern and Central Europe: A Comparison of Sweden and Slovakia. | In: Li, Y. (eds) Global Perspectives on Building Resilience for Sustainable Rural Development. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Singapore. | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-6149-7_9 |
| Žuffová, M. (2025). | What the public wants to know: a text-as-data study of information requests to the UK government through the WhatDoTheyKnow platform. | Journal of quantitative description, 5. | https://journalqd.org/article/view/8761 |
| Butzlaff, F., & Bitušíková, A. (2025). | Does climate change delegitimize political parties? How movement–party linkages in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Poland are reshaped. | Political Research Exchange, 7(1), 2581698. | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2581698 |
| Anghel, V., & Jones, E. (2025). | From club to commons: Enlargement, reform and sustainability in European integration. | Elements in Economics of European Integration. | https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/from-club-to-commons/68099BF3F33FBD7F29F9C719731B9D3A |
| Papadopoulou, L., & Žuffová, M. (2025) | Getting Away with Journalists’ Murder? Impunity and Its Impact on Investigative Journalism and Press Freedom. | Journalism Practice, 1-19. | https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2596813 |
| Borsekova, K., Korony, S., Rodríguez-Pose, A., Styk, M., & Westlund, H. (2025). | Decoding Regional Dynamics: Institutions, Innovation, and Regional Development in the EU. | Papers in Regional Science, 100133. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100133 |
