OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Democratization is 25. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes	91
State of the world 2019: autocratization surges – resistance grows	68
Pernicious polarization, autocratization and opposition strategies	50
How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process	47
United we stand, divided we rule: how political polarization erodes democracy	43
Antidemocratic populism in power: comparing Erdoğan’s Turkey with Modi’s India and Netanyahu’s Israel	41
What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability	40
Use of past collective traumas, fear and conspiracy theories for securitization of the opposition and authoritarianisation: the Turkish case	39
Authoritarian Innovations: Crafting support for a less democratic Southeast Asia	38
State of the world 2020: autocratization turns viral	37
The rise of the democracy – authoritarianism cleavage and opposition coordination in Turkey (2014–2019)	35
Democratic regression in Asia: introduction	35
Sources of resistance to democratic decline: Indonesian civil society and its trials	34
Negative partisanship towards the populist radical right and democratic resilience in Western Europe	34
Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation	33
Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges	30
Waves of autocratization and democratization: a critical note on conceptualization and measurement	29
Erosion or decay? Conceptualizing causes and mechanisms of democratic regression	29
Authoritarian resilience through securitization: an Islamist populist party’s co-optation of a secularist far-right party	28
The dark side of regionalism: how regional organizations help authoritarian regimes to boost survival	28
Disrupting the autocratization sequence: towards democratic resilience	28
Elite capture, civil society and democratic backsliding in Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines	27
Democratic decoupling	27
Democracy and human development: issues of conceptualization and measurement	26
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence	26

A typology of populism: understanding the different forms of populism and their implications