OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Democratization is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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
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
The curious case of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh: an analysis of people’s financial satisfaction	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
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
Political trust and democracy: the critical citizens thesis re-examined	6
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
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes	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
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
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