Journal of Democracy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Democracy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Anatomy of Democratic Backsliding33
The End of the Backsliding Paradigm28
How Autocrats Weaponize Women's Rights26
The Rise of Political Violence in the United States24
How Viktor Orbán Wins24
Tanzania: The Authoritarian Landslide23
Overcoming Polarization21
Latin America Erupts: Millennial Authoritarianism in El Salvador18
Indonesia: Jokowi Sidelines Democracy17
What Putin Fears Most15
Why The Future Is Democratic15
Why Strongmen Win in Weak States14
The Collapse of Afghanistan14
How Personalist Politics Is Changing Democracies13
How Zambia's Opposition Won13
The Americas: When Do Voters Support Power Grabs?13
The Antiestablishment Challenge13
The Miracle and Tragedy of the 2020 U.S. Election13
Democracy's Arc: From Resurgent to Imperiled12
The Three Faces of the Indian State12
The War in Ukraine: How Putin's War in Ukraine Has Ruined Russia11
Latin America Erupts: Re-founding Chile10
The Cost of Convergence10
Tanzania: The Roots of Repression10
Russia’s Road to Autocracy9
How Authoritarians Win When They Lose9
Is Mexico Falling into the Authoritarian Trap?8
How Populism Corrodes Latin American Parties8
Hong Kong: How Beijing Perfected Repression7
The War in Ukraine: Putin's Inevitable Invasion7
How Zelensky Has Changed Ukraine7
Why Sudan Succeeded Where Algeria Failed7
Uganda's Fraudulent Election7
Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers7
China's Tech-Enhanced Authoritarianism7
China: Totalitarianism's Long Shadow7
Why Freedom Defeats Terrorism7
Sri Lanka: The Return to Ethnocracy7
Latin America Erupts: When Does Competitive Authoritarianism Take Root?6
Why Latin America's Democracies Are Stuck6
How India's Ruling Party Erodes Democracy6
Trading Democracy for Governance6
The Rebirth of the Liberal World Order?6
Making the Internet Safe for Democracy6
The Future of Platform Power: Making Middleware Work6
Democratic Support, Populism, and the Incumbency Effect6
Nicaragua: Doubling Down on Dictatorship5
Why Democracies Survive5
Why the Military Abandoned Democracy5
Bread and Autocracy in Putin's Russia5
Kyrgyzstan's Poison Parliament4
Is Iran on the Verge of Another Revolution?4
Authoritarian Vestiges in Democracies4
Why the Future Is (Still) Democratic4
What Indonesian Democracy Can Teach the World4
In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right4
Democracy in a Year of Crisis4
Latin America Erupts: Ecuador's Return to the Past4
Armies and Autocrats: Why Putin's Military Failed4
Questioning Backsliding4
Why Ukrainians Are Rallying Around Democracy4
Is Democracy Lost?4
Why Democracy Fuels Conspiracy Theories4
Why the Future Cannot Be Predicted4
Why Europe's Right Embraces Gay Rights4
How Erdoğan’s Populism Won Again4
The Return of the Marcos Dynasty3
Peru: The Danger of Powerless Democracy3
Democracy's Surprising Resilience3
The War in Ukraine: Do Russians Support Putin?3
Chile’s Failed Constitution: Democracy Wins3
The Myth of the Coup Contagion3
Africans' Durable Demand for Democracy3
Burma: The Generals Strike Back3
Chile's Constitutional Chaos3
Why Israeli Democracy Is in Crisis3
The Long Game: The Opposition Wins in Honduras3
Latin America Erupts: Peru Goes Populist3
The Future of Platform Power: Reining In Big Tech2
How AI Threatens Democracy2
How Resilient Is the CCP?2
The Age of Political Fragmentation2
The Puzzle of Panamanian Exceptionalism2
South Africa's Resilient Democracy2
Authoritarians on Offense2
The Arab Spring at 10: Kings or People?2
Countering Beijing's Media Manipulation2
Combating Beijing’s Sharp Power: Transparency Wins in Europe2
Rebooting Democracy2
Democracy’s Development Dividend2
India’s Endangered Democracy2
Latin America Erupts: The Danger of Democratic Delinquency2
AI and Catastrophic Risk2
The Future of Platform Power: Quarantining Misinformation2
Sri Lanka's Agony2
The Iraq Invasion at Twenty: The Iraq War and Democratic Backsliding1
The Shadow of the Swedish Right1
Lula's Second Act1
The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy1
Local Politics and Democratic State-Building1
Cancel Tocqueville?1
The Danger of Runaway AI1
Rising to the Sharp Power Challenge1
Latin America's Abortion Rights Breakthrough1
China's Threat to Global Democracy1
The Putin Myth1
Subversion Inc: The Age of Private Espionage1
The Rise of Sportswashing1
The Global Resistance to LGBTIQ Rights1
How Guatemala Defied the Odds1
Documents on Democracy: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine1
The Danger is Real1
The CCP after the Zero-Covid Fail1
Japanese Democracy After Shinzo Abe1
Why Russia’s Democracy Never Began1
How to Sharpen a Nonviolent Movement1
Reimagining Democracy for AI1
Combating Beijing’s Sharp Power: Taiwan's Democracy Under Fire1
The Politics of Enemies1
China at the UN: Choking Civil Society1
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