OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Democratization is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes	91
State of the world 2019: autocratization surges – resistance grows	68
Pernicious polarization, autocratization and opposition strategies	50
How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process	47
United we stand, divided we rule: how political polarization erodes democracy	43
Antidemocratic populism in power: comparing Erdoğan’s Turkey with Modi’s India and Netanyahu’s Israel	41
What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability	40
Use of past collective traumas, fear and conspiracy theories for securitization of the opposition and authoritarianisation: the Turkish case	39
Authoritarian Innovations: Crafting support for a less democratic Southeast Asia	38
State of the world 2020: autocratization turns viral	37
The rise of the democracy – authoritarianism cleavage and opposition coordination in Turkey (2014–2019)	35
Democratic regression in Asia: introduction	35
Sources of resistance to democratic decline: Indonesian civil society and its trials	34
Negative partisanship towards the populist radical right and democratic resilience in Western Europe	34
Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation	33
Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges	30
Waves of autocratization and democratization: a critical note on conceptualization and measurement	29
Erosion or decay? Conceptualizing causes and mechanisms of democratic regression	29
Authoritarian resilience through securitization: an Islamist populist party’s co-optation of a secularist far-right party	28
The dark side of regionalism: how regional organizations help authoritarian regimes to boost survival	28
Disrupting the autocratization sequence: towards democratic resilience	28
Elite capture, civil society and democratic backsliding in Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines	27
Democratic decoupling	27
Democracy and human development: issues of conceptualization and measurement	26
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence	26

A typology of populism: understanding the different forms of populism and their implications	25
State of the world 2021: autocratization changing its nature?	23
Pushback after backsliding? Unconstrained executive aggrandizement in the Philippines versus contested military-monarchical rule in Thailand	21
Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies	21
Exporting autocracy: how China's extra-jurisdictional autocratic influence caused democratic backsliding in Hong Kong	20
The pathway of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh	20
The autocratic bias: self-censorship of regime support	19
Again, making Tanzania great: Magufuli’s restorationist developmental nationalism	19
Theorizing resilience-building in the EU’s neighbourhood: introduction to the special issue	19
Towards a unified approach to research on democratic backsliding	18
Authoritarian legal harmonization in the post-Soviet space	16
Authoritarian innovations: theoretical foundations and practical implications	16
Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy	16
Democratic backsliding, regional governance and foreign policymaking in Southeast Asia: ASEAN, Indonesia and the Philippines	14
Waves of autocratization and democratization: a rejoinder	13
Autocratization, permanent emergency rule and local politics: lessons from the Kurds in Turkey	13
Dynamic dictators: improving the research agenda on autocratization and authoritarian resilience	13
Unravelling democratic erosion: who drives the slow death of democracy, and how?	12
Anatomy of a rigged election in a hybrid regime: the lessons from Bangladesh	12
Autocracy login: internet censorship and civil society in the digital age	11
Authoritarian diffusion or cooperation? Turkey’s emerging engagement with China	11
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization	11
“New normal” no more: democratic backsliding in Singapore after 2015	11
Populism and the military: symbiosis and tension in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	11
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective	11
A business case for democracy: regime type, growth, and growth volatility	10
Amending legislatures in authoritarian regimes: power sharing in post-Soviet Eurasia	10
The ground for the illiberal turn in the Philippines	10
Conceptualizing norm diffusion and norm contestation in the European neighbourhood: introduction to the special issue	9
Don’t think of a wave! A research note about the current autocratization debate	9
Contentious activism and political trust in non-democratic regimes: evidence from the MENA	9
Volunteerism and democratic learning in an authoritarian state: the case of China	8
The supply and demand model of civic education: evidence from a field experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo	8
Contested, violated but persistent: presidential term limits in Latin America and sub-saharan Africa	8
Chinese linkage, leverage, and Cambodia’s transition to hegemonic authoritarianism	8
Digital learning and extending electoral authoritarianism in Singapore	8
Russia and the diffusion of political norms: the perfect rival?	8
Dismantling new democracies: the case of Tunisia	8
Democratic deconsolidation in East Asia: exploring system realignments in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan	8
Biometrics and the disciplining of democracy: technology, electoral politics, and liberal interventionism in Chad	8
Inclusionary regimes, party institutionalization and redistribution under authoritarianism	7
Can the EU’s new global strategy make a difference? Strengthening resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries	7
Voting and winning: perceptions of electoral integrity in consolidating democracies	7
Elections, legitimacy, and compliance in authoritarian regimes: evidence from the Arab world	7
Populism and localism: a new research agenda	7
Cross-ideological coalitions under authoritarian regimes: Islamist-left collaboration among Morocco’s excluded opposition	7
From democratization to fostering resilience: EU intervention and the challenges of building institutions, social trust, and legitimacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina	7
Agents of resistance and revival? Local election monitors and democratic fortunes in Asia	7
The geography of regime support and political violence	6
Why the confusion? Reasons and remedies for shortcomings and progress in modernization theory	6

Youth quotas and “Jurassic Park” politicians: age as a heuristic for vote choice in Tunisia’s new democracy	6
Renegotiating societal-military relations in Pakistan: the case of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement	6
Ideology and succession politics in Ethiopia: autocratic leadership turnover and political instability	6
Opposition party organizational features, ideological orientations, and elite co-optation in electoral autocracies	6
Dissatisfied, uninformed or both? Democratic satisfaction, political knowledge and the acceptance of clientelism in a new democracy	6
Enfranchisement regimes beyond de-territorialization and post-nationalism: definitions, implications, and public support for different electorates	6
Men of the people? Democracy and prebendalism in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic National Assembly	6
Between elites and opposition: legislatures’ strength in authoritarian regimes	6
Pressuring MPs to act: parliament, organized interests and policymaking in Uganda and Tanzania	6
Descriptive over-representation, cliental accountability, and minority politics: the case of the Druze in Israel	6
What motivates a legislator to sponsor a bill that will never become law? The case of members of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1990–2014	6
The dictator’s screenplay: collective memory narratives and the legitimacy of communist rule in East Asia	6
“The party of power”: authoritarian diaspora and pluralism by default in Ukraine	6
Preventing governance breakdown in the EU’s southern neighbourhood: fostering resilience to strengthen security perceptions	5
The democraticness of traditional political systems in Africa	5
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland	5
Authoritarian origins of term limit trajectories in Africa	5
The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries	5
Early democratization, corruption scandals and perceptions of corruption: evidence from Mexico	5
Personalist ruling parties in democracies	5
Pandemic democracy: the nexus of covid-19, shrinking civic space for civil society organizations and the 2020 elections in Ghana	5
Defining democratic inclusion from the perspective of democracy and citizenship theory	5
The “Big Five” personality traits of presidents and the relaxation of term limits in Latin America	5
Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia	4
Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: evidence from local elections in South Africa	4
Securing the exception through securitization: Turkish modular emergency in the making	4
Resistance to populism	4
Do electoral systems affect how citizens hold their government accountable? Evidence from Africa	4
Coming a long way: Switzerland’s transformation from a majoritarian to a consensus democracy (1848–2018)	4
Rebuilding, rebranding, and competitive landscapes: a set-theoretic analysis of authoritarian successor parties	4
Supporting the Tunisian transition? Analysing (in)consistencies in EU democracy assistance with a tripartite nexus model	4
Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?	4
Introducing authoritarian diasporas: causes and consequences of authoritarian elite dispersion	4
The authoritarian practice of issuing internet shutdowns in India: the Bharatiya Janata Party’s direct and indirect responsibility	4
Are would-be authoritarians right? Democratic support and citizens’ left-right self-placement in former left- and right- authoritarian countries	4
Resilience, conflict and areas of limited statehood in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria	4
Citizen endorsement of contested peace settlements: public opinion in post-Dayton Bosnia	4
A heterogeneous rally effect for a corrupt president: partisanship, regional sentiment, and anxiety against a corruption scandal	4
Learning democracy digitally? The internet and knowledge of democracy in nondemocracies	4
From conflict early warning to fostering resilience? Chasing convergence in EU foreign policy	4
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	4
Institutional design and polarization. Do consensus democracies fare better in fighting polarization than majoritarian democracies?	4
Above politics? Ex-military leaders in Nigerian electoral politics	4