Democratization

Article	Citations
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China	110
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space	74
The two genotypes of secession. Explaining non-nationalist independence claims in federal-authoritarian regimes	65
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity	46
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela	44
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note	38
Shade-grown authoritarianism? Revisiting coffee as a curse in Latin America and the Caribbean	25
Political voice: protest, democracy, and marginalised groups	25
Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines	22
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	22
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes	21
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media	21
Formal power in informal networks. Distribution of power resources in personalized bureaucracies: the case of Russia’s subnational elites	20
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance	19
The king’s speeches: environmental sustainability as a discursive legitimation project in autocracies. Evidence from Morocco.	18
Polarization, fragmentation, and democratic deconsolidation in interwar Europe	17
Weak agency and preferences for participatory democracy: discourses of Spanish people in positions of socioeconomic disadvantage	16
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 2023	15
New perspectives on international party assistance	15
Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization	15
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab Spring	14
Legislating Islam: Islamists’ and Salafis’ Distinct paths of moderation in the Kuwaiti parliament	14
Brilliant tragedy? Electoral effects of environmental protest cycle in autocracy	14
Casting a new light on the democratic spectator	12
Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon	12

The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions	12
Local power play: the post-election repression and local governance	12
Ramping up control: how judicial harassment and online smear campaigns work in tandem to limit dissent in Thailand	12
Transnational repression in the age of globalization	11
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies	11
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers	10
Dark politics	10
Looking beyond democratic backsliding: analysing the political economy context of Turkey’s regime trajectory through a mode of participation approach	10
Routledge handbook of EU-Middle East relations	10
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization	10
Wealth, power, and authoritarian institutions: comparing dominant parties and parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda	9
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters: a social media measurement approach	9
A people power philosophy: republican ideology in opposition in Tanzania	9
Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture	9
“Politics unusual”? Bobi Wine, People Power, and the ideology of popular opposition in Uganda	9
When elites concede: state capacity and the management of protest in Mexico	9
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. From secessionist mobilization to conflict resolution	9
Resistance to populism	9
Political trust and attitudes toward civil disobedience: evidence from Taiwan	8
Gaming democracy: how Silicon Valley leveled up the far right	8
Public broadcasting and democracy’s defense: responses to far-right parties in Germany and Sweden	8
On motives and means: how approach and justification for court-curbing impact public trust	8
Academic freedom and the onset of autocratization	8
Not Islamists, Muslim democrats: Tunisian Ennahda ’s path of ideological moderation (2011–2018)	8
Fading freedoms: democratic decline in Albania	8
The Druze vote in Israel: between ideology, socioeconomic status, kinship, and the Nation-State Basic Law	8
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence	8
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900	8
How security shaped Libya’s transition	8
Tanzania under Magufuli: the personalization of a party-based regime	8
Christian nationalism and democracy in Ghana	7
The COVID-19 pandemic and popular confidence in democracy: evidence from China, Japan, and South Korea	7
Information, doubt, and democracy: how digitization spurs democratic decay	7
Revolution and dictatorship. The violent origins of durable authoritarianism	7
The effect of electoral politics on the distribution of public spending in the context of democratic transition: evidence from Tunisia	7
Where do social media and education meet? A closer look at understanding of democracy	7
Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade	7
Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary	7
Political plasticity: the future of democracy and dictatorship	7
The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries	6
Democracy rules	6
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	6
Civil society’s democratic potential	6
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections	6
Job insecurity, economic resources, and democratic backsliding: evidence from South Korea	6
Populism and civil–military relations	6
Explaining the failure of legislative agency in patronal divided executives: deputy meaning making and its impact on legislative quality in Kyrgyzstan 2010–2020	6
The mechanisms of personalization	6
Trust under threat: challenges in a digital society	6
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	6

Why is party-based autocracy more durable? Examining the role of elite institutions and mass organization	6
Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?	6
Gateway to dissent: the role of pro-Palestine activism in opposition to authoritarianism	6
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia	6
Democratic resilience in Europe – and its limits	6
Alternative patterns to electoral autocracy: recognizing diversity in contemporary autocratization processes	6
The political economy of digital authoritarianism: evidence from the Iranian regime’s implementation of technology	5
The conflict within: the politics of parliamentary election management in Iran	5
Competing demand-side explanations and populism: cross-national variation in a recursive ideational system	5
Activism in the era of democratic backsliding: explaining the efficacy of the clean-air campaigns in Poland	5
On the effectiveness of democracy aid in post-civil war recipient countries	5
Authoritarian collaboration and repression in the digital age: balancing foreign direct investment and control in internet infrastructure	5
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization	5
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	5
Electoral integrity resilience: protecting elections during global risks, crises, and emergencies	5
Stalker states: Are democracies more likely to snoop on citizens’ data on Facebook?	5
Public attitudes toward external democracy promotion in Africa	5
Evaluating Europe's push to enact AI regulations: how will this influence global norms?	5
When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria	5
Individual or collective rights? Consequences for the satisfaction with democracy among Indigenous peoples in Latin America	5
Changing the rules to win the game again: does presidential term-limit evasion affect measures of electoral integrity?	5
What do you call the political upheaval? The conceptual linkage between revolutions and coups	4
Is community service an act of political resistance? the “community pantry” phenomenon in the Philippines and voter behaviour	4
Political polarization in Korea	4
Transnational securitization and violence: the discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West	4
Weak party system institutionalization and autocratization: evidence from Tunisia	4
Elite strategy in resilient authoritarianism: Equatorial Guinea, 1979–2023	4
What does the population in Niger think about a military government?	4
Do mutually reinforcing cleavages harm democracy? Inequalities between ethnic groups and autocratization	4
Legalizing control: the rise of restrictive internet regulation in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Challenging the rules of the game: clientelism and dissent in the Middle East	4
Quietist Salafism and survival: pious politics in Morocco and Algeria	4
Protesting for autocracy: economic vulnerability and anti-democratic protest attendance in Tunisia	4
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective	4
Sociology of corruption: patterns of illegal association in Hungary	4
Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel	4
Militarized elections and citizens’ support for democratic rights: evidence from India	4
Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion	4
Proportional representation and party fragmentation in electoral autocracies	4
What is democratic resilience?	4
The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance	4
Lobbying the autocrat: the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocracies	4
The Authoritarian Divide: populism, propaganda, and polarization	4
Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia	4
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland	4
The modern manual of authoritarian leadership	4
Malaysia’s democratic deficit: why youth may not be the answer	4
Power and politics in Africa: a boundary generator	4
Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria , by Eb	4
Correction	3
The culture of democracy – a sociological approach to civil society	3
Measuring and assessing subnational electoral democracy: a new dataset for the Americas and India	3
German political foundations’ democracy promotion in autocratizing Tanzania: opening spaces for civil society support and transnational learning	3
Facing protests in Serbia: patterns of new competitive authoritarianism	3
Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010	3
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict: the Serb List in Kosovo	3
Lockdown of expression: civic space restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to mass protests	3
Jerry John Rawlings. Leadership and Legacy: A Pan-African Perspective	3
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization	3
Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia	3
Social dictatorships: the political economy of the welfare state in the Middle East and North Africa	3
The personalization of government: concept and comparative analysis	3
From predicting dissent to programming power; analyzing AI-driven authoritarian governance in the Middle East through TRIAD framework	3
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan	3
Repressing in the name of? Externalization dynamics in Turkey’s use of digital repression against refugees	3
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),	3
Protests by journalists in competitive authoritarian regimes: repertoire and impact in the case of Ukraine (2010-14)	3
International actors and democracy protection: preventing the spread of illiberal legislation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia	3
Civil society collective action under authoritarianism: divergent collaborative equilibriums for political reform in Malaysia and Singapore	3
The decoupling practice of “Democraticwashing”: the case of Israel	3
A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem	3
Governance resilience in China: informal control, repressive welfare, and cultural experimentation The art of political control in China , by Daniel C. Mattingly, Cambri	3
Online repression and tactical evasion: evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger protests in Egypt	3
Demographic structure and voting behaviour during democratization: evidence from Malaysia’s 2022 election	3
Ideological beasts or effective organizations? Do voters’ views of democracy affect their expectations of political parties?	3
Techno-authoritarian imaginaries and the politics of resistance against facial recognition technology in the US and European Union*	3
Authoritarian legislature, legitimacy strategy, and shadow economy	3
Consequences of democratic backsliding in popular culture: evidence from blacklist in South Korea	3
Common enemies? Coups, insurgent strength and intra-elite competition: evidence from Latin America	3
Regime types and winner-loser Gaps in support for democracy in East Asia	3

Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control	3
Digital authoritarianism and the devolution of authoritarian rule: examining Syria’s patriotic hackers	2
Explaining the mass protests in Belarus in 2020: What role did civil society play?	2
Security as a campaign issue: programmatic mobilization in Burkina Faso’s 2020 elections	2
Democracy or authoritarianism: Islamist governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia	2
Neo-militant Democracies in Post-communist Member States of the European Union	2
From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong	2
Media capture, captured: a new computational methodology to measure deteriorating media freedom	2
Death by a thousand cuts: measuring autocratic legalism in the European Union’s rule of law conundrum	2
Hidden contestation: valence issues, methodological blindness and the politics of development in Nigeria	2
The d-word: surveying democracy in America	2
Mending democracy: democratic repair in disconnected times	2
African traditional institutions and support for democracy	2
Moving beyond us-versus-them polarization towards constructive conversations	2
Controlling territory, controlling voters: the electoral geography of African campaign violence	2
After the Arab revolution: decentring democratic transition theory	2
Democratic progress and women’s issue representation: evidence from the South Korean National Assembly, 1948–2022	2
Democracy and security in Latin America: state capacity and governance under stress	2
Born with a silver spoon? Modes of transitions and democratic survival	2
Faith in numbers: religion, sectarianism, and democracy	2
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion , by Mark	2
Democracy and its enemies in Europe: successes and failures in combating autocratic threats	2
When handpicked successors of charismatic leaders prosper: the surprising success of Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia	2
The contestation of international ties and regime transitions: evidence from the former Soviet republics	2
Democracy or discord? how citizens judge contested party leadership races	2
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	2
Bureaucratic militarization as a mode of democratic backsliding: lessons from Brazil	2
Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?	2
The state as a determinant of democracy: durable poor-quality democracies in contemporary Latin America	2
What makes voters willing to tolerate undemocratic behaviours? Survey experiment from South Korea	2
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary	2
Economic performance and the type and method of presidential term limit evasion	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
Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana	2
Civil society organizations in intelligence accountability: democratic ideals and practical limitations	2
One road to riches? How state building and democratization affect economic development	2
Political trust and democracy: the critical citizens thesis re-examined	2
Micro and mass personalism: how size changes the nature of personalistic politics	2
Voting out autocrats: evidence from Zambia	2
Deliberative democracy in an algorithmic society: harms, contestations and deliberative capacity in the digital public sphere	2
Not just rubber-stamping: understanding the amending role of the Chinese legislature with bill text reuse	2
How political regimes affect national cybersecurity: the polity flux effect	2
Did the Arab Spring generate affective polarization? Experimental evidence from five Arab countries	2
A concise history of Serbia	1
The road to durable democracy: dominant party regimes, party politics and democratic survival	1
How modernization theory has stumbled in China: A political interception perspective	1
The coalitions presidents make: presidential power and its limits in democratic Indonesia	1
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	1
Descriptive over-representation, cliental accountability, and minority politics: the case of the Druze in Israel	1
Does schooling promote democracy? A meta-analysis	1
Why do democratic societies tolerate undemocratic laws? Sorting public support for the National Security Act in South Korea	1
Democratic norm erosion and partisanship in the United States	1
Bias in the eye of beholder? 25 years of election monitoring in Europe	1
Echoes of silence: how social influence fosters self-censorship under democratic backsliding	1
Political corruption in the Arab Mediterranean countries: an innovative typology	1
Remnants of the ancien régime: renomination and re-election of former members of a demised ruling party in Ukraine	1
Birds of a feather flock together: influence of ideology in the implementation of participation	1
Democracy erodes from the top: Leaders, citizens, and the challenge of populism in Europe	1
Troublemakers and game changers: how political parties stopped democratic backsliding in Bulgaria	1
Judicial backsliding: a guide to collapsing the separation of powers	1
From Stormont to Strasbourg – militant democracy in consociations	1
Recall rules as a legalistic autocrat’s toolkit. The case of Zimbabwe	1
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	1
Strict COVID-19 lockdown and popular regime support in China	1
The frenemy within: populism’s dual role in democratization	1
Why do authoritarian regimes provide welfare?	1
The psychology of democracy	1
Politicizing gender and democracy in the context of the Istanbul Convention	1
Entrepreneurial attitudes as a counterweight to democratic backsliding: self-employment and support for liberal democracy in the Visegrad Four	1
The network origin of Thailand’s youth movement	1
Rethinking shrinking civic space in the Global Souths – how development donors contribute to the restriction of civil society in Jordan	1
Autocracies win the minds of the democratic public: how Japanese citizens are persuaded by illiberal narratives propagated by authoritarian regimes	1
Was “The Revo” a coup d'etat? An assessment of the 1979 regime change in Grenada	1
Autonomous activism and accountability in a democratic transition: evidence from Tunisia	1
Social media, disinformation, and democracy: how different types of social media usage affect democracy cross-nationally	1
For things to remain the same, how many things have to change? Elite continuity and change after leadership changes	1
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization , by Whitney K. T	1
What drives dictators? Investigating the prevalence of policy-seeking autocrats	1
Ordinary people’s regime preferences in the MENA: the case of Tunisia during the democratic transition	1
A fear dictator who is spinning? Conceptualizing authoritarian responses to digital uptake through the case study of information control in Belarus	1
Mayoral elections and partisan dynamics in Africa’s local governments	1
China’s active defence against democracy promotion: a conceptual analysis	1
The mahram effect: gender politics and Saudi Arabia	1
Exporting autocrat’s playbook? Diverging impacts of China and Russia on contemporary democratic backsliding	1
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation	1
Authoritarian police in democracy: contested security in Latin America	1
Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies	1
Countering autocratization: a roadmap for democratic defence	1
The curious case of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh: an analysis of people’s financial satisfaction	1
Rural democracy: elections and development in Africa	1
Religion and the authoritarian toolkit: are carrots substitutes for sticks?	1
Non-violent resistance movements and substantive democracy	1
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 “	1
Who supports the coup? Deprivation, decolonization and junta support in post-coup Mali	1
Governing and ruling: the political logic of taxation in China	1