Democratization

Article	Citations
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China	78
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space	75
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela	57
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity	56
Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines	51
Election meltdown: dirty tricks, distrust, and the threat to American democracy	47
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes	34
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	34
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media	31
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab Spring	30
Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon	28
Casting a new light on the democratic spectator	24
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies	23
Local power play: the post-election repression and local governance	20
New perspectives on international party assistance	20
Weak agency and preferences for participatory democracy: discourses of Spanish people in positions of socioeconomic disadvantage	20
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 2023	19
Personalist ruling parties in democracies	18
Formal power in informal networks. Distribution of power resources in personalized bureaucracies: the case of Russia’s subnational elites	16
Brilliant tragedy? Electoral effects of environmental protest cycle in autocracy	16
Ramping up control: how judicial harassment and online smear campaigns work in tandem to limit dissent in Thailand	15
The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions	15
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance	15
After the Arab Uprisings. Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East	13
Dark politics	13

Transnational repression in the age of globalization	13
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization	12
Looking beyond democratic backsliding: analysing the political economy context of Turkey’s regime trajectory through a mode of participation approach	11
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters: a social media measurement approach	11
Resistance to populism	11
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers	11
When elites concede: state capacity and the management of protest in Mexico	10
“Politics unusual”? Bobi Wine, People Power, and the ideology of popular opposition in Uganda	10
Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture	10
Routledge handbook of EU-Middle East relations	10
A people power philosophy: republican ideology in opposition in Tanzania	9
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900	9
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. From secessionist mobilization to conflict resolution	9
Gaming democracy: how Silicon Valley leveled up the far right	8
Tanzania under Magufuli: the personalization of a party-based regime	8
How electoral competition shapes local public goods provision in South Africa	8
Academic freedom and the onset of autocratization	8
Public broadcasting and democracy’s defense: responses to far-right parties in Germany and Sweden	8
Property without rights. Origins and consequences of the property rights gap	8
Authoritarian gravity centers a cross-regional study of authoritarian promotion and diffusion	8
Militant democracy and the pre-emptive constitution: from party bans to hardened term limits	8
Fading freedoms: democratic decline in Albania	8
Why do some coups lead to democratization?	7
Revolution and dictatorship. The violent origins of durable authoritarianism	7
On motives and means: how approach and justification for court-curbing impact public trust	7
Job insecurity, economic resources, and democratic backsliding: evidence from South Korea	7
Why is party-based autocracy more durable? Examining the role of elite institutions and mass organization	7
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence	7
The Druze vote in Israel: between ideology, socioeconomic status, kinship, and the Nation-State Basic Law	7
Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade	7
How security shaped Libya’s transition	7
Political plasticity: the future of democracy and dictatorship	6
The COVID-19 pandemic and popular confidence in democracy: evidence from China, Japan, and South Korea	6
Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?	6
Political trust and attitudes toward civil disobedience: evidence from Taiwan	6
Alternative patterns to electoral autocracy: recognizing diversity in contemporary autocratization processes	6
Populism and civil–military relations	6
Conditionality & coercion: electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe	6
Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary	6
China’s influence and the center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific China’s influence and the center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific	6
Where do social media and education meet? A closer look at understanding of democracy	6
Information, doubt, and democracy: how digitization spurs democratic decay	5
Explaining the failure of legislative agency in patronal divided executives: deputy meaning making and its impact on legislative quality in Kyrgyzstan 2010–2020	5
The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries	5
Gateway to dissent: the role of pro-Palestine activism in opposition to authoritarianism	5
Coups, rivals, and the modern state: why rural coalitions matter in sub-Saharan Africa Coups, rivals, and the modern state: why rural coalitions matter in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Democracy rules	5
Authoritarian collaboration and repression in the digital age: balancing foreign direct investment and control in internet infrastructure	5
Opening up the notion of “closing space”: accounting for normative, actor, and political system diversity	5
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia	5

Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections	5
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	5
Public attitudes toward external democracy promotion in Africa	5
The crisis of democracy? Chances, risks, and challenges in Japan (Asia) and Germany (Europe) The crisis of democracy? Chances, risks, and challenges in Japan (Asia) and Germany (Europe)	5
The mechanisms of personalization	5
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland	4
Unravelling democratic erosion: who drives the slow death of democracy, and how?	4
Individual or collective rights? Consequences for the satisfaction with democracy among Indigenous peoples in Latin America	4
Evaluating Europe's push to enact AI regulations: how will this influence global norms?	4
When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria	4
Is community service an act of political resistance? the “community pantry” phenomenon in the Philippines and voter behaviour	4
Sociology of corruption: patterns of illegal association in Hungary	4
Political polarization in Korea	4
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective	4
What do you call the political upheaval? The conceptual linkage between revolutions and coups	4
Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe: The Divide in the EU and Emerging Hard Populism; Awakening Europe in the Triple Global Crisis: The Birth Pangs of the Emerging Europe	4
The conflict within: the politics of parliamentary election management in Iran	4
The machinery of #techno-colonialism crafting “democracy.” A glimpse into digital sub-netizenship in Mexico	4
Activism in the era of democratic backsliding: explaining the efficacy of the clean-air campaigns in Poland	4
Autocracy & Resistance in the Internet Age	4
Transnational securitization and violence: the discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West	4
Stalker states: Are democracies more likely to snoop on citizens’ data on Facebook?	4
Changing the rules to win the game again: does presidential term-limit evasion affect measures of electoral integrity?	4
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization	4
Competing demand-side explanations and populism: cross-national variation in a recursive ideational system	4
On the effectiveness of democracy aid in post-civil war recipient countries	4
The Authoritarian Divide: populism, propaganda, and polarization	4
A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem	3
Party proliferation and political contestation in Africa: Senegal in comparative perspective	3
Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010	3
German political foundations’ democracy promotion in autocratizing Tanzania: opening spaces for civil society support and transnational learning	3
Proportional representation and party fragmentation in electoral autocracies	3
Online repression and tactical evasion: evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger protests in Egypt	3
Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion	3
Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel	3
Lobbying the autocrat: the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocracies	3
Legalizing control: the rise of restrictive internet regulation in sub-Saharan Africa	3
Do mutually reinforcing cleavages harm democracy? Inequalities between ethnic groups and autocratization	3
Authoritarian legislature, legitimacy strategy, and shadow economy	3
Correction	3
The personalization of government: concept and comparative analysis	3
Measuring and assessing subnational electoral democracy: a new dataset for the Americas and India	3
Ideological beasts or effective organizations? Do voters’ views of democracy affect their expectations of political parties?	3
Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria , by Eb	3
Facing protests in Serbia: patterns of new competitive authoritarianism	3
The modern manual of authoritarian leadership	3
Challenging the rules of the game: clientelism and dissent in the Middle East	3
Techno-authoritarian imaginaries and the politics of resistance against facial recognition technology in the US and European Union*	3
Elections, legitimacy, and compliance in authoritarian regimes: evidence from the Arab world	3
Elite strategy in resilient authoritarianism: Equatorial Guinea, 1979–2023	3
Demographic structure and voting behaviour during democratization: evidence from Malaysia’s 2022 election	3
The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists	3
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan	3
The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance	3
Power and politics in Africa: a boundary generator	3
What does the population in Niger think about a military government?	3
Protesting for autocracy: economic vulnerability and anti-democratic protest attendance in Tunisia	3
Weak party system institutionalization and autocratization: evidence from Tunisia	3
Resilience, conflict and areas of limited statehood in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria	3
Quietist Salafism and survival: pious politics in Morocco and Algeria	3
Militarized elections and citizens’ support for democratic rights: evidence from India	3
Bureaucratic militarization as a mode of democratic backsliding: lessons from Brazil	2
Economic performance and the type and method of presidential term limit evasion 1	2
The decoupling practice of “Democraticwashing”: the case of Israel	2
Security as a campaign issue: programmatic mobilization in Burkina Faso’s 2020 elections	2
Civil society collective action under authoritarianism: divergent collaborative equilibriums for political reform in Malaysia and Singapore	2
The state as a determinant of democracy: durable poor-quality democracies in contemporary Latin America	2
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization	2
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict: the Serb List in Kosovo	2
Repressing in the name of? Externalization dynamics in Turkey’s use of digital repression against refugees	2
Regime types and winner-loser Gaps in support for democracy in East Asia	2
Correction	2
Political violence in Kenya: land, elections, and claim-making Political violence in Kenya: land, elections, and claim-making , by Kathleen Klaus, Cambridge, Cambridge U	2
Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges	2
Digital authoritarianism and the devolution of authoritarian rule: examining Syria’s patriotic hackers	2
After the Arab revolution: decentring democratic transition theory	2
Consequences of democratic backsliding in popular culture: evidence from blacklist in South Korea	2
How political regimes affect national cybersecurity: the polity flux effect	2
International actors and democracy protection: preventing the spread of illiberal legislation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia	2
Moving beyond us-versus-them polarization towards constructive conversations	2

Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control	2
Protests by journalists in competitive authoritarian regimes: repertoire and impact in the case of Ukraine (2010-14)	2
Governance resilience in China: informal control, repressive welfare, and cultural experimentation The art of political control in China , by Daniel C. Mattingly, Cambri	2
Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia	2
Power consolidation with welfare designs? The emergence of old-age pensions in nondemocratic regimes around the world	2
Re-examining norms-diffusion: the EU, democracy and rival powers	2
Preventing governance breakdown in the EU’s southern neighbourhood: fostering resilience to strengthen security perceptions	2
Political trust and democracy: the critical citizens thesis re-examined	2
Costs and benefits of accepting presidential term limits: “should I stay or should I go?”	2
Gender balance in national parliament: voters’ perceptions towards the gender corrective mechanism in Malta	2
Common enemies? Coups, insurgent strength and intra-elite competition: evidence from Latin America	2
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary	2
Democratic progress and women’s issue representation: evidence from the South Korean National Assembly, 1948–2022	2
Social dictatorships: the political economy of the welfare state in the Middle East and North Africa	2
The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule , by Johannes Gerschewski, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 297 pp., £85.00 (hardcover),	2
The culture of democracy – a sociological approach to civil society	2
Jerry John Rawlings. Leadership and Legacy: A Pan-African Perspective	2
Lockdown of expression: civic space restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to mass protests	2
Mending democracy: democratic repair in disconnected times	2
When handpicked successors of charismatic leaders prosper: the surprising success of Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia	1
The psychology of democracy	1
Countering autocratization: a roadmap for democratic defence	1
The d-word: surveying democracy in America	1
The politics of presidential impeachment	1
Institutional constraints and regional incentives for the attempt to scrap presidential term limits	1
Controlling territory, controlling voters: the electoral geography of African campaign violence	1
You’ve got a friend in me: how international governmental organizations influence organizations’ participation in elections as ethnic parties in Eastern Europe	1
Entrepreneurial attitudes as a counterweight to democratic backsliding: self-employment and support for liberal democracy in the Visegrad Four	1
Obituary for Ian Campbell, 1938-2022	1
Mayoral elections and partisan dynamics in Africa’s local governments	1
Stability through constraints: the impact of fiscal rules on autocratic survival	1
Autonomous activism and accountability in a democratic transition: evidence from Tunisia	1
Legislative decline in the 21st century: a comparative perspective Legislative decline in the 21st century: a comparative perspective , edited by Irina Khmelko, Rick Sta	1
Defining democratic inclusion from the perspective of democracy and citizenship theory	1
The contestation of international ties and regime transitions: evidence from the former Soviet republics	1
Democratic norm erosion and partisanship in the United States	1
Explaining the mass protests in Belarus in 2020: What role did civil society play?	1
Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana	1
Regulate against the machine: how the EU mitigates AI harm to democracy	1
Hidden contestation: valence issues, methodological blindness and the politics of development in Nigeria	1
Illiberal resistance to democratic backsliding: the case of radical political Islam in Indonesia	1
Death by a thousand cuts: measuring autocratic legalism in the European Union’s rule of law conundrum	1
Constraining dictatorship: from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes	1
Did the Arab Spring generate affective polarization? Experimental evidence from five Arab countries	1
Do contravention attempts affect public support for presidential term limits?: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	1
One road to riches? How state building and democratization affect economic development	1
Remnants of the ancien régime: renomination and re-election of former members of a demised ruling party in Ukraine	1
Autocracies win the minds of the democratic public: how Japanese citizens are persuaded by illiberal narratives propagated by authoritarian regimes	1
Exporting autocrat’s playbook? Diverging impacts of China and Russia on contemporary democratic backsliding	1
Birds of a feather flock together: influence of ideology in the implementation of participation	1
Echoes of silence: how social influence fosters self-censorship under democratic backsliding	1
Neo-militant Democracies in Post-communist Member States of the European Union	1
Voting out autocrats: evidence from Zambia	1
Why do democratic societies tolerate undemocratic laws? Sorting public support for the National Security Act in South Korea	1
Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?	1
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation	1
Media capture, captured: a new computational methodology to measure deteriorating media freedom	1
Democracy and security in Latin America: state capacity and governance under stress	1
The biopolitical president?: Sovereign power and democratic erosion in El Salvador	1
Faith in numbers: religion, sectarianism, and democracy	1
Not just rubber-stamping: understanding the amending role of the Chinese legislature with bill text reuse	1
Rethinking shrinking civic space in the Global Souths – how development donors contribute to the restriction of civil society in Jordan	1
What makes voters willing to tolerate undemocratic behaviours? Survey experiment from South Korea	1
Does schooling promote democracy? A meta-analysis	1
Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies	1
The coalitions presidents make: presidential power and its limits in democratic Indonesia	1
Group organization, elections and urban political mobilization in the developing world	1
The network origin of Thailand’s youth movement	1
Descriptive over-representation, cliental accountability, and minority politics: the case of the Druze in Israel	1
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion , by Mark	1
Rural democracy: elections and development in Africa	1
African traditional institutions and support for democracy	1
The democraticness of traditional political systems in Africa	1
Born with a silver spoon? Modes of transitions and democratic survival	1
Modelling temporal dynamics: does internet use fuel anti-government protests?	1
Local-to-local electoral connections for migrants: the association between voting rights in the place of origin and the propensity to vote in the place of residence	1
Authoritarian leaders, economic hardship, and inequality	0
Correction	0
All that is left is all that matters: the politics of social spending in authoritarian regimes	0
How to struggle with exclusionary right-wing populism: evidence from Turkey	0
Elite polarization and democratic backsliding in Tunisia: tracing agency-driven mechanisms	0
Contested, violated but persistent: presidential term limits in Latin America and sub-saharan Africa	0
Meritocracy, populism and the future of democracy?	0
Making the world safe for dictatorship	0
Ballots beyond borders: attitudes towards external voting in Colombia	0
Polarized and demobilized: legacies of authoritarianism in Palestine	0
Pandemic democracy: the nexus of covid-19, shrinking civic space for civil society organizations and the 2020 elections in Ghana	0
Supporting democracy when other democracies prosper?	0
Rioting for representation: local ethnic mobilization in democratizing countries	0
Repression in the digital age: surveillance, censorship, and the dynamics of state violence	0
Resisting backsliding: opposition strategies against the erosion of democracy	0
Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?	0
Democracies and international law	0
The ground for the illiberal turn in the Philippines	0
Dismantling new democracies: the case of Tunisia	0