Maria Popova

Assistant Professor
PhD, Harvard

Research interests

Comparative Judicial Politics: judicial independence, global expansion of judicial power, post-communist judicial reforms, prosecution of political corruption

Post-communist politics: freedom of speech and elections in the FSU, anti-establishment parties, EU accession, corruption and vote buying.

Publications 

Book

Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: Courts in Russia and Ukraine. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012.