Journal of Democracy

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Democracy is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Liberalism as Fortress and Prison83
China's AI-Powered Surveillance State82
The Return of Dictatorship58
The Danger is Real56
The Truth About Africa's Coups48
Documents on Democracy48
How Zelensky Has Changed Ukraine42
Latin America's Abortion Rights Breakthrough42
Democracy's Surprising Resilience39
The Mandarin in the Machine37
A Strange Defense of Climate Democracy37
Documents on Democracy37
A Reply To My Critics36
Why Populists Hollow Out Their States30
Why Gen-Z Is Rising30
Rising to the Sharp Power Challenge29
Combating Beijing’s Sharp Power: Taiwan's Democracy Under Fire27
Documents on Democracy27
How to Stop India's Authoritatarian Slide27
What Indonesian Democracy Can Teach the World25
Leonardo Morlino (1947–2025)25
Why the World Is Down on Democracy25
Shell Game24
America's Crisis of Civic Virtue24
In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right24
Why Bolivia's MAS Collapsed24
The Global Resistance to LGBTIQ Rights24
Confronting Our Common Enemy22
How Organized Crime Threatens Latin America22
The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy20
David vs. Goliath: Defeating Russian Autocracy17
The Long Decline of South Africa's ANC16
How Global Illiberalism Damages Democracy16
Why India's Political Elites Are to Blame16
Symposium: Is India Still a Democracy?15
The Constitutionalization of Democracy14
Neoliberalism and the Third Wave14
China’s Age of Counterreform14
The Threat to Latin American Term Limits14
A Refuge from Liberalism?14
Is India Still a Democracy?14
Is Mexico at the Gates of Authoritarianism?14
Secularism, Islamism, and the Future of Turkey14
Why India’s Democracy Is Dying12
The Rise of Theocratic Democracy12
The Future of Multiracial Democracy: The Rise of Multicultural Nationalism12
The Liberalism of Refuge11
Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers10
Why Bitcoin Is Freedom Money10
The Empty Quest for Muslim Democracy10
The Perils of Propaganda9
How Ukraine Divides Postcommunist Europe9
What Went Wrong In Hungary9
Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow9
Documents on Democracy9
When Should the Majority Rule?9
Local Politics and Democratic State-Building8
The Myth of the Coup Contagion8
What Political Scientists Owe Democracy8
How Covid Changed Latin America8
The Power of Liberal Nationalism8
The End of Village Democracy in China7
Why Israeli Democracy Is in Crisis7
The Authoritarian Argument7
Rebuilding the State in Post-Assad Syria7
Armies and Autocrats: Why Putin's Military Failed7
Tanzania Will Never Be the Same7
How to Prevent Political Violence7
How Viktor Orbán Wins7
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