Grigorii Golosov

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vasilyevich and the family name is Golosov.

Grigorii Vasilyevich Golosov (Russian: Григорий Васильевич Голосов), sometimes spelled as Grigory Golosov, is a Russian political scientist. He is a professor and the head of the political science department at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia.^[1] He is an expert on political institutions and electoral systems, in particular, in application to Russia.^[2][3] His article "Electoral Systems and Party Formation in Russia" (Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 36, No. 8, October 2003, pp. 912–935) received a Lawrence Longley Award from the American Political Science Association for the best journal article on electoral systems and representation published in 2003.

Grigorii Golosov
Григорий Голосов
Golosov in March 2024
Born	Grigorii Vasilyevich Golosov (1963-04-30) April 30, 1963 (age 62) Ust-Kamenogorsk, Soviet Kazakhstan, USSR
Awards	Lawrence Longley Award (2004) Outstanding Academic Title (2004) CEU Alumni Impact Award for Outstanding Career Achievement (2016)
Academic background
Alma mater	Novosibirsk State University (Specialist, Candidate of Sciences) Central European University (Master of Arts) Russian Academy of Sciences (Doctor of Sciences)
Thesis	Formation and Development of the Russian Party System: A Comparative Analysis (1999)
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	Novosibirsk State University (1987—1995) European University at Saint Petersburg (since 1996) University of California, Berkeley (1995—1996) University of Notre Dame (1998) University of Oslo (1998) Central European University (2001) Sciences Po (2001) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2002—2003)
Main interests	Political science, political philosophy, comparative politics
Notable ideas	New formula for effective number of parties, new classification of party systems, methodology of cross-regional political analysis

Biography

Grigorii Golosov was born in 1963. After his doctoral studies, from 1987 to 1995, he worked at Novosibirsk State University.^[4] He has been working at the European University at Saint Petersburg since 1996. From August 2002 to May 2003, he was a residential fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.^[5] He is a member of the editorial boards of Party Politics,^[6] Europe-Asia Studies,^[7] Slavic Review,^[8] Problems of Post-Communism,^[9] and several other national and international journals.

Publications

Books in English

• Authoritarian Party Systems: Party Politics in Autocratic Regimes, 1945–2019 (2022).
• Political Parties in the Regions of Russia: Democracy Unclaimed (2004).

Books in Russian

• Партийные системы России и стран Восточной Европы: генезис, структуры, динамика (1999).
• Российская партийная система и региональная политика (2006).
• Демократия в России: инструкция по сборке (2012).
• Сравнительная политология и российская политика, 2010-2015 (2016).
• Сравнительная политология: Учебник, 4-е изд, перераб. и доп (2018).
• Автократия, или Одиночество власти (2019).
• Политические режимы и трансформации: Россия в сравнительной перспективе (2024).

Most cited articles

• "The Effective Number of Parties: A New Approach", Party Politics, Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2010, pp. 171–192.
• "[Russia's Regional Legislative Elections, 2003-2007: Authoritarianism Incorporated", Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 63, No. 3, May 2011, pp. 397–414

Recent articles

• "Electoral Rules and the Two-party System: A Methodological Inquiry with Reference to Duverger's Law", International Political Science Review, October 2024, doi: 10.1177/01925121241283715.
• "Smart Enough to Make a Difference? An Empirical Test of the Efficacy of Strategic Voting in Russia's Authoritarian Elections", Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2021, pp. 65–79 (co-authored: Mikhail Turchenko and Grigorii V. Golosov).
• "Party Nationalization and the Translation of Votes into Seats under Single-Member Plurality Electoral Rules", Party Politics, Vol. 24, No. 2, March 2018, pp. 118–128.