Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Bunea, A., Lipcean, S. & Rauh, C. (2026). Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach. Governance 39(2): e70122. DOI
Bunea, A. & Lipcean, S. (2026). Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success? Journal of European Public Policy DOI

Bértoa, F.C., Horncastle, W. & Lipcean, S. (2025). Blessing or curse? A critical review of the paradoxical consequences of direct public funding for political parties. European Political Science Review 1–21. DOI

Lipcean, S. & Casal Bértoa, F. (2024). Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study. Research & Politics 11(4). DOI
Lipcean, S. & McMenamin, I. (2024). Rethinking public funding of parties and corruption: Confronting theoretical complexity and challenging measurement. Governance 37(2): 537–559. DOI
Bunea, A., Wüest, R. & Lipcean, S. (2024). Mapping the policy space of public stakeholder consultations: Evidence from the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy DOI

Bunea, A. & Lipcean, S. (2023). Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union. Regulation & Governance DOI

Lipcean, S. (2022). Direct public funding of political parties: Between proxy measures and hard data. Party Politics 28(6): 1041–1057. DOI

Lipcean, S. & Casal Bértoa, F. (2024). Political Financing and Political Corruption. In L. de Sousa & S. Coroado (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Corruption and Society. DOI
Lipcean, S. & Prohnitchi, E. (2024). Against The Mainstream? The Impact of Party Regulation in Political Competition in Moldova. In F. Casal Bértoa & L. Tsutskiridze (eds.), Money Rules: Parties, Oligarchs and Funding Regulation in Post-Soviet Countries. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. DOI

Lipcean, S. & Ștefan, L. (2014). Implementing Right to Information: A Case Study of Moldova. In S. E. Trapnell (ed.), Right to Information: Case Studies on Implementation. Washington, DC: World Bank. Link

Lipcean, S. (2021). Dataset on direct public funding of political parties across post-communist regimes 1990-2020. Harvard Dataverse. Data

Lipcean, S. (2026). Campaign Financing in Moldova’s 2025 Parliamentary Elections. In J. M. Dollbaum & A. Eaglestone (eds), The Parliamentary Elections of 2025 II. University of Fribourg/CH; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO) at the University of Bremen; Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES) at the University of Zurich. DOI

Lipcean, S., Casal Bértoa, F. & Goguadze, N. (2022). Post-legislative scrutiny of election campaign finance legislation. London: Westminster Foundation for Democracy. Link

Lipcean, S. & Turcan, R. (2020). Higher Education in Moldova at Crossroads or Throwing Good Money After Bad? Chisinau: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Link
Berbeca, V. & Lipcean, S. (2020). National Army: Between Group Interests and Strategic Development. Chisinau: Institute of Public Policies. (in Romanian) Link

Lipcean, S. (2018). Drawing Electoral Districts Boundaries: Between Neutrality and Political Partisanship. Chisinau: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, IDIS ‘Viitorul’. Link

Lipcean, S. (2017). Problems and Challenges in the Financing of Parliamentary Elections in the Context of Changing the Electoral System. Chisinau: IDIS ‘Viitorul’, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Link