Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Žuffová, Mária. 2022. ‘Gender Stereotypes in Print and Online Media Coverage of Slovak Presidential Candidates in 2009 and 2019’. European Political Science Review. doi: 10.1017/S1755773922000522. (Open Access) [link]. Recipient of the ECPR Political Communication Best Paper Award 2021
  2. Žuffová, Mária. 2021. ‘Fit for purpose? Exploring the role of freedom of information laws and their application for watchdog journalism’. The International Journal of Press/Politics 28(1): 300-32. doi: 10.1177/19401612211006702 (Open Access) [link]
  3. Žuffová, Mária. 2020. ‘Do FOI laws and open government data deliver as anti-corruption policies? Evidence from a cross-country study’. Government Information Quarterly 37(3). doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2020.101480 [link]

Work in progress

  1. Žuffová, Mária. ‘What the Public Wants to Know and What it Gets: Evidence from Quantitative Text Analysis of Freedom of Information Requests to the UK Government’. Presented at the EPSA 2020 and ECPR 2020 annual conferences

Selected policy reports

  1. Bleyer-Simon, Konrad, Elda Brogi, Roberta Carlini, Iva Nenadic, Marie Palmer, Pier Luigi Parcu, Sofia Verza, Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha, and Mária Žuffová. 2021. ‘Monitoring Media Pluralism in the Digital Era: Application of the Media Pluralism Monitor in the European Union, Albania, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia & Turkey in the year 2020’ Centre for Media Pluralism and Freedom, EUI.

  2. Žuffová, Mária and Carlini, Roberta. 2021. ‘Safety of journalists in Europe: Threats and best practices to tackle them’. Centre for Media Pluralism and Freedom, EUI.

  3. Žuffová, Mária. 2020. ‘Slovakia Implementation Report 2017-2019’. Open Government Partnership.

  4. Žuffová, Mária. 2019. ‘Slovakia Design Report 2017-2019’. Open Government Partnership.

  5. Žuffová, Mária. 2017. ‘Governing by Rankings: How the Global Open Data Index Helps Advance the Open Data Agenda’. Open Knowledge Foundation.

  6. Bouda, Petr, Martin Fadrný, Michala Chatrná, Bartosz Kwiatkowski and Mária Žuffová. 2016. ‘Shedding light on public contracts: The Register of Contracts in Public Spending Oversight’. Frank Bold.

Conference proceedings

  1. Žuffová, Mária. 2017. ‘Political and economic factors explaining open data availability’. Proceedings of the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government. 17-19 May, Danube University Krems, Austria.