He is the author of Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements (co-edited with Elizabeth J. Perry and Yan Xiaojun (2020), The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe (1996), Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, with (Jan Kubik 1999) that was awarded the Orbis Book prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, (co-edited with Stephen Hanson 2003).
Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements, (co-editors Elizabeth J. Perry and Yan Xiaojun), Cambridge University Press 2020 Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Twenty-First Century,” in: Post-Pandemic Features: Sociology of Crisis Experience in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Kaja Gadowska and Anna Giza, Brill Publishers 2024, 215-230.
Civil Society as a Threat do Democracy,” in: The Power of Populism and People, edited by Nathan Stoltzfus and Chris Osmar, Bloomsbury Academic, London 2021, pp, 53-71.
Civil Society Approach,” Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformations, edited by Wolfgang Merkel, Raj Kollmorgen and Hans-Jurgen Wagener, Oxford University Press 2019, pp.
331-350 Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, (co-editor Stephen Hanson), Cambridge University Press, 2003 Rebellious Civil Society.
“Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 100 years On,” (co-author Daniel Ziblatt) in: East European Politics and Societies (February 2013) Vol.
88–105 “The End of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Last Middle Class Revolution?” in: Political Power and Social Theory, Vol.
1–28 “Democracy in Postcommunist World: An Unending Quest,” co-authors Jan Kubik and Milada Anna Vachudova), East European Politics and Societies, Vol.
"Introduction: Academic Boundaries and Path Dependencies Facing The EU's Eastward Enlargement," (co-author Jan Zielonka) special issue of East European Politics and Societies, 2003, pp. 2–19.