Democratization

Article	Citations
When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria	81
Civil society, public support, and democratic recession in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines	75
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China	68
Authoritarian police in democracy: contested security in Latin America	67
Democracy erodes from the top: Leaders, citizens, and the challenge of populism in Europe	58
Election meltdown: dirty tricks, distrust, and the threat to American democracy	52
How political regimes affect national cybersecurity: the polity flux effect	51
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela	49
The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America	43
How modernization theory has stumbled in China: A political interception perspective	31
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective	30
Staying in control of technology: predictive policing, democracy, and digital sovereignty	28
Compromise in multilateral negotiations and the global regulation of artificial intelligence	26
On the effectiveness of democracy aid in post-civil war recipient countries	25
Expertise, policy-making and democracy Expertise, policy-making and democracy , by Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst and Anders Molander, Routledge, London, UK, 2022, 13	25
Riding the Populist Wave: Europe’s Mainstream Right in Crisis	23
Politicizing gender and democracy in the context of the Istanbul Convention	21
After the Arab revolution: decentring democratic transition theory	19
Do institutions matter in a crisis? Regime type and decisive responses to Covid-19	18
The impact of security issues on government evaluation: evidence from the Arab World	17
Asian Military Evolutions. Civil–Military Relations in Asia	17
Constitutional law and politics of secession	16
Security as a campaign issue: programmatic mobilization in Burkina Faso’s 2020 elections	15
The machinery of #techno-colonialism crafting “democracy.” A glimpse into digital sub-netizenship in Mexico	15
Activism in the era of democratic backsliding: explaining the efficacy of the clean-air campaigns in Poland	15

Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines	14
The curious case of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh: an analysis of people’s financial satisfaction	13
Changing the rules to win the game again: does presidential term-limit evasion affect measures of electoral integrity?	13
Rethinking the history of democracy in Spain	13
Communicative responsiveness in the Mexican Senate: a field experiment	13
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary	12
When incumbents do not run: presidential succession and democratization	11
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space	11
The Autocratic Parliament: Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-2011 The Autocratic Parliament: Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-2011 , By Irene Weipert-Fenner, Syracu	10
Dynamic dictators: improving the research agenda on autocratization and authoritarian resilience	10
Moving beyond us-versus-them polarization towards constructive conversations	10
Contested, violated but persistent: presidential term limits in Latin America and sub-saharan Africa	9
Can democratic values bring the parties to the table in a protracted, Middle Eastern conflict? The attitudes of youth in the context of the Arab- Israeli conflict	9
Russia and the diffusion of political norms: the perfect rival?	9
Praising the leader: personalist legitimation strategies and the deterioration of executive constraints	9
Political polarization in Korea	8
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	8
What do you call the political upheaval? The conceptual linkage between revolutions and coups	8
Latin American social movements and progressive governments: creative tensions between resistance and convergence	8
Strict COVID-19 lockdown and popular regime support in China	8
Digital authoritarianism and the devolution of authoritarian rule: examining Syria’s patriotic hackers	8
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity	8
Individual or collective rights? Consequences for the satisfaction with democracy among Indigenous peoples in Latin America	7
Winds of change: democratic transitions and long-term democratic support	7
“Agents” of the state or revolution? Resistance, accommodation, violence and the role of local administrators in post-coup Myanmar	7
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	7
Power consolidation with welfare designs? The emergence of old-age pensions in nondemocratic regimes around the world	7
Bias in the eye of beholder? 25 years of election monitoring in Europe	7
Transnational securitization and violence: the discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West	7
Political trust and democracy: the critical citizens thesis re-examined	6
The conflict within: the politics of parliamentary election management in Iran	6
Preventing governance breakdown in the EU’s southern neighbourhood: fostering resilience to strengthen security perceptions	6
Quo vadis, Moldova? The role of social and political elites in the norm internalization process	6
Party strength and party weakness in transitional elections: Myanmar’s National League for Democracy in 2015	6
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes	5
The state as a determinant of democracy: durable poor-quality democracies in contemporary Latin America	5
Competing demand-side explanations and populism: cross-national variation in a recursive ideational system	5
Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges	5
Protecting democracy from abroad: democracy aid against attempts to circumvent presidential term limits	5
Gender balance in national parliament: voters’ perceptions towards the gender corrective mechanism in Malta	5
Political corruption in the Arab Mediterranean countries: an innovative typology	5
Bureaucratic militarization as a mode of democratic backsliding: lessons from Brazil	5
The modern manual of authoritarian leadership	5
Unravelling democratic erosion: who drives the slow death of democracy, and how?	5
Exclusion-politicization: Salafism, democracy, and counterpublic politics in the UK	5
What’s in a name? Experimental evidence of the coup taboo	5
Sociology of corruption: patterns of illegal association in Hungary	4
Autocracy & Resistance in the Internet Age	4
New perspectives on international party assistance	4
Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years	4

Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media	4
Recall rules as a legalistic autocrat’s toolkit. The case of Zimbabwe	4
Challenging the rules of the game: clientelism and dissent in the Middle East	4
Turkey’s state crisis: institutions, reform, and conflict?	4
Mending democracy: democratic repair in disconnected times	4
Power-Sharing in Europe, Past Practices, Present Cases, and Future Directions	4
Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People’s Revolution	4
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance	4
Governing and ruling: the political logic of taxation in China	4
How institutions do (not) contain personalized politics: centralized personalization in a decentralized electoral system	4
The “Big Five” personality traits of presidents and the relaxation of term limits in Latin America	4
When handpicked successors of charismatic leaders prosper: the surprising success of Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia	4
Formal power in informal networks. Distribution of power resources in personalized bureaucracies: the case of Russia’s subnational elites	4
The road to equality? EU diffusion of anti-discrimination norms in Armenia	3
Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives	3
When women ruled the pacific: power and politics in nineteenth -century Tahiti and Hawaii	3
Judicial backsliding: a guide to collapsing the separation of powers	3
When do agents deliver the vote? A vote-popularity function in electoral manipulation	3
Permissive prejudice in localized authoritarian consolidation: evidence from Turkey's municipalities	3
Hidden contestation: valence issues, methodological blindness and the politics of development in Nigeria	3
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization , by Whitney K. T	3
Democratization in the age of artificial intelligence: introduction to the special issue	3
Re-examining norms-diffusion: the EU, democracy and rival powers	3
Agrarian agitations: transcripts of resistance and authoritarian feedback under Vietnam’s repressive-responsive regime	3
Questioning the moderation dichotomy: understanding Hamas’s evolving moderation	3
Weak party system institutionalization and autocratization: evidence from Tunisia	3
Ramping up control: how judicial harassment and online smear campaigns work in tandem to limit dissent in Thailand	3
Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon	3
Authoritarian origins of term limit trajectories in Africa	3
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab Spring	3
Political violence in Kenya: land, elections, and claim-making Political violence in Kenya: land, elections, and claim-making , by Kathleen Klaus, Cambridge, Cambridge U	3
Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-f	3
The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions	3
Corruption and digital authoritarianism: political drivers of e-government adoption in Central Asia	3
Troublemakers and game changers: how political parties stopped democratic backsliding in Bulgaria	3
Politicizing terror: the (ab)use of counterterrorism law for authoritarian ends in Tunisia	3
Electoral cycles of protests and statistical manipulation in autocracies: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Death by a thousand cuts: measuring autocratic legalism in the European Union’s rule of law conundrum	3
Offer money, they will accept: linkages between authoritarian tendencies and clientelist targeting in Africa	3
A concise history of Serbia	3
Lobbying the autocrat: the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocracies	3
Militant democracy and successors to authoritarian ruling parties in post-1945 West Germany and Italy	3
Protesting for autocracy: economic vulnerability and anti-democratic protest attendance in Tunisia	2
Securing the peace or renegotiating the political settlement? Understanding popular support for post-conflict constitutions	2
Autocracy promotion in the Americas? Scrutinizing the effect of China and Russia on democracy protection in Venezuela and Nicaragua	2
Controlling territory, controlling voters: the electoral geography of African campaign violence	2
Media capture, captured: a new computational methodology to measure deteriorating media freedom	2
Democracy and security in Latin America: state capacity and governance under stress	2
From Stormont to Strasbourg – militant democracy in consociations	2
Casting a new light on the democratic spectator	2
Quietist Salafism and survival: pious politics in Morocco and Algeria	2
Ambition without democracy: when the cautious seek office	2
Weak agency and preferences for participatory democracy: discourses of Spanish people in positions of socioeconomic disadvantage	2
Resilience, conflict and areas of limited statehood in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria	2
Foreign direct investment and democratic survival: a sectoral approach	2
An authoritarian security community in mainland Southeast Asia: regional dynamics in an actor-centred theory of transnational authoritarianism	2
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers	2
Structural origins of post-Yugoslav regimes: elites, civil society and the state ,	2
Policing repertoire of knowledge practices in neo-authoritarian governance: authority of sovereignty cluster of global norms, and the constitution of legitimizing narrative for suppression in Iran’s “	2
The interrelationship between sovereignty, state building, and good governance: the case of the Kurdistan region	2
Gender-based digital transnational repression and the authoritarian targeting of women in the diaspora	2
Local power play: the post-election repression and local governance	2
Ideology and succession politics in Ethiopia: autocratic leadership turnover and political instability	2
For things to remain the same, how many things have to change? Elite continuity and change after leadership changes	2
How do voters respond to party switching in Africa?	2
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland	2
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 2023	2
Egypt under El-Sisi: a nation on the edge	2
Conceptualizing norm diffusion and norm contestation in the European neighbourhood: introduction to the special issue	2
Technocratic beliefs and delegative democratic attitudes in states of emergency: evidence from a cross-national analysis	2
Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond	2
The Authoritarian Divide: populism, propaganda, and polarization	2
The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance	2
Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel	2
Brilliant tragedy? Electoral effects of environmental protest cycle in autocracy	2
Is community service an act of political resistance? the “community pantry” phenomenon in the Philippines and voter behaviour	2
Personalist ruling parties in democracies	2
Resistance to populism	1
Democracy and ethnic inequality: a comparative case study	1
Cooptation without opposition: government response in the authoritarian legislature in China	1

Between the ballot and the bullet: rebel-to-party transformations and the structure of the competitive field	1
After the Arab Uprisings. Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East	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
Anticipating global and diffuse risks to prevent conflict and governance breakdown: lessons from the EU’s southern neighbourhood	1
“Post-truth post-communism?” – Information-oriented lobbying in the context of democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Bridling dictators – rules and authoritarian politics	1
Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa , edited by Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock, Ann Arbor, Michigan,	1
Looking beyond democratic backsliding: analysing the political economy context of Turkey’s regime trajectory through a mode of participation approach	1
From democratization to fostering resilience: EU intervention and the challenges of building institutions, social trust, and legitimacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
Stability through constraints: the impact of fiscal rules on autocratic survival	1
Can domestic observers serve as impartial arbiters?: evidence from Zambia’s 2021 elections	1
African traditional institutions and support for democracy	1
Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?	1
The new Kremlinology: understanding regime personalization in Russia	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
Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture	1
Born with a silver spoon? Modes of transitions and democratic survival	1
Whisper sweet nothings to me Erdoğan: developmentalist propaganda, partisan emotions, and economic evaluations in Turkey	1
The contestation of international ties and regime transitions: evidence from the former Soviet republics	1
Militarized elections and citizens’ support for democratic rights: evidence from India	1
Big data and democracy	1
Bread, freedom or social justice? An empirical investigation into the determinants of the Arab Spring	1
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization	1
The use of experts in building political trust: dissenting opinions and critical citizens in times of crisis	1
Party system closure: party alliances, government alternatives, and democracy in Europe	1
Movement-voting nexus in hybrid regimes: voter mobilization in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement	1
Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana	1
The authoritarian practice of issuing internet shutdowns in India: the Bharatiya Janata Party’s direct and indirect responsibility	1
Proportional representation and party fragmentation in electoral autocracies	1
Violence, what is it good for? Waves of riotous-violent protest and democracy	1
After authoritarianism: transitional justice and democratic stability	1
Do mutually reinforcing cleavages harm democracy? Inequalities between ethnic groups and autocratization	1
The dictator’s legionnaires: foreign recruitment, coups, and uprisings	1
Economic inequality, distributive unfairness, and regime support in East Asia	1
When elites concede: state capacity and the management of protest in Mexico	1
“I’m all right Jack” vs. “the ideals of democracy” – three studies	1
Did the Arab Spring generate affective polarization? Experimental evidence from five Arab countries	1
Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria , by Eb	1
Self-determination vs. state sovereignty. What are the determinants of agreed-upon independence referendums in liberal democracies?	1
New democracy and autocratization in Asia	1
Authoritarian neoliberalism and resistance in Turkey: construction, consolidation, and contestation Authoritarian neoliberalism and resistance in Turkey: construction, consolidation, an	1
Routledge handbook of EU-Middle East relations	1
Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion	1
A people power philosophy: republican ideology in opposition in Tanzania	1
Securitization, fear politics, and the formation of an opposition alliance in competitive authoritarian regimes	1
Not just rubber-stamping: understanding the amending role of the Chinese legislature with bill text reuse	1
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. From secessionist mobilization to conflict resolution	1
Elite strategy in resilient authoritarianism: Equatorial Guinea, 1979–2023	1
Polarized and demobilized: legacies of authoritarianism in Palestine	0
Making the world safe for dictatorship	0
Supporting democracy when other democracies prosper?	0
The moral economy of elections in Africa. Democracy, voting and virtue	0
Repression in the digital age: surveillance, censorship, and the dynamics of state violence	0
Redrafting Constitutions in Democratic Regimes. Theoretical and comparative perspectives	0
Political plasticity: the future of democracy and dictatorship	0
Illiberal resistance to democratic backsliding: the case of radical political Islam in Indonesia	0
Political power sharing in post-conflict democracies: investigating effects on vertical and horizontal accountability	0
Protests by journalists in competitive authoritarian regimes: repertoire and impact in the case of Ukraine (2010-14)	0
Populism and the military: symbiosis and tension in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	0
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict: the Serb List in Kosovo	0
Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary	0
Political trust and attitudes toward civil disobedience: evidence from Taiwan	0
Justice by means of democracy Justice by means of democracy , by Danielle Allen. Chicago, IL and London, University of Chicago Press, 2023, viii + 282 pp., index, refere	0
The EU's effectiveness in the Eastern Mediterranean migration quandary: challenges to building societal resilience	0
The Masks of the Political God. Religion and Political Parties in Contemporary Democracies	0
China’s new Red Guards: the return of radicalism and the rebirth of Mao Zedong	0
“Reconstituted authoritarianism: Islam, service provision and the state in al-Sisi’s Egypt”	0
The political economy of power-sharing: patronage politics and ethnic party dominance in post-Dayton Bosnia	0
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation	0
Job insecurity, economic resources, and democratic backsliding: evidence from South Korea	0
Revolution and dictatorship. The violent origins of durable authoritarianism	0
Enfranchisement regimes beyond de-territorialization and post-nationalism: definitions, implications, and public support for different electorates	0
Democracy and lived poverty in Africa	0
The Druze vote in Israel: between ideology, socioeconomic status, kinship, and the Nation-State Basic Law	0
The provocative effects of democratization: assessing the relationship between the regime transition in Armenia and the escalation of the Karabakh conflict in 2018–2020	0
Why is party-based autocracy more durable? Examining the role of elite institutions and mass organization	0
Jerry John Rawlings. Leadership and Legacy: A Pan-African Perspective	0
Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade	0
Voting behaviour under doubts of ballot secrecy: reinforcing dominant party rule	0
How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process	0
Constraining dictatorship: from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes	0
The mechanisms of personalization	0
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	0
Social media, disinformation, and democracy: how different types of social media usage affect democracy cross-nationally	0
Modelling temporal dynamics: does internet use fuel anti-government protests?	0
Relevance and electoralism in the study of political oppositions: the case of Morocco’s radical left	0
Regulate against the machine: how the EU mitigates AI harm to democracy	0
Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia	0
Where do social media and education meet? A closer look at understanding of democracy	0
Things will have to change? Analysing the Spanish transition to democracy from an elite perspective	0
From Boomers to Zoomers: generational shifts in drivers of satisfaction with democracy in Western Europe	0
Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control	0
Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?	0
Defining democratic inclusion from the perspective of democracy and citizenship theory	0
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization	0