Her research interests include the changing role and function of the state in the political economy of communist, post-communist and advanced capitalist countries, as well as comparative party political systems. Recent publications include ‘The new crisis of ungovernability’, in Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe, Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger (eds) UCL Press, 2018; Draining the swamp: understanding the crisis in mainstream politics as a crisis of the state Slavic Review, 2017; and Corporate state capture in open societies: the emergence of corporate brokerage party systems East European Politics and Societies, 2015. She currently holds a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to research the supply-side revolution and the crisis of the liberal democratic state.