Democratization

Papers
(The H4-Index of Democratization is 17. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China104
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space66
The two genotypes of secession. Explaining non-nationalist independence claims in federal-authoritarian regimes58
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity45
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela43
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary41
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note41
Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines34
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media 24
Political voice: protest, democracy, and marginalised groups24
Formal power in informal networks. Distribution of power resources in personalized bureaucracies: the case of Russia’s subnational elites21
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes21
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance20
The king’s speeches: environmental sustainability as a discursive legitimation project in autocracies. Evidence from Morocco.20
Polarization, fragmentation, and democratic deconsolidation in interwar Europe19
Personalist ruling parties in democracies18
Weak agency and preferences for participatory democracy: discourses of Spanish people in positions of socioeconomic disadvantage18
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 202317
New perspectives on international party assistance17
Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon17
Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization17
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