OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Democratization is 19. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China	108
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space	60
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity	57
Shade-grown authoritarianism? Revisiting coffee as a curse in Latin America and the Caribbean	53
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela	43
Political voice: protest, democracy, and marginalised groups	41
Election observation at a crossroads: perspectives from Africa Zed Books	34
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note	33
Sorry, we’re closed to your views: partisan media use, moral polarization, and declines in support for the open marketplace of ideas	33
Disassembling accountability and democracy: varied effects of elements of accountability and democracy on public trust	30
Are the upper chambers a source of democratic resilience? Evidence from elite perceptions in the Czech Republic	28
The two genotypes of secession. Explaining non-nationalist independence claims in federal-authoritarian regimes	27
Elections without re-election: authoritarian values and electoral accountability in a single-term Philippine presidential system	26
The internal-external nexus in moderation processes: how international constraints drove HTS from radicalism to statecraft in Syria.	25
Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines	24
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media	22
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	22
The king’s speeches: environmental sustainability as a discursive legitimation project in autocracies. Evidence from Morocco.	22
Polarization, fragmentation, and democratic deconsolidation in interwar Europe	20
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 2023	19