Journal of Democracy

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Democracy is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Liberalism as Fortress and Prison83
China's AI-Powered Surveillance State75
The Return of Dictatorship57
The Danger is Real52
The Truth About Africa's Coups47
Documents on Democracy47
Latin America's Abortion Rights Breakthrough41
How Zelensky Has Changed Ukraine41
Rising to the Sharp Power Challenge36
Documents on Democracy36
Democracy's Surprising Resilience36
The Mandarin in the Machine36
A Strange Defense of Climate Democracy35
A Reply To My Critics30
Why Populists Hollow Out Their States28
Why Gen-Z Is Rising27
How to Stop India's Authoritatarian Slide27
Documents on Democracy26
Leonardo Morlino (1947–2025)26
Why the World Is Down on Democracy25
Combating Beijing’s Sharp Power: Taiwan's Democracy Under Fire25
The Global Resistance to LGBTIQ Rights24
What Indonesian Democracy Can Teach the World24
Why Bolivia's MAS Collapsed23
Shell Game23
In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right23
America's Crisis of Civic Virtue22
Confronting Our Common Enemy19
How Organized Crime Threatens Latin America18
The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy17
David vs. Goliath: Defeating Russian Autocracy16
The Long Decline of South Africa's ANC15
Why India's Political Elites Are to Blame15
How Global Illiberalism Damages Democracy15
The Constitutionalization of Democracy14
The Threat to Latin American Term Limits14
Is Mexico at the Gates of Authoritarianism?14
Is India Still a Democracy?14
Symposium: Is India Still a Democracy?14
China’s Age of Counterreform14
A Refuge from Liberalism?13
Secularism, Islamism, and the Future of Turkey12
Neoliberalism and the Third Wave11
Why India’s Democracy Is Dying11
The Future of Multiracial Democracy: The Rise of Multicultural Nationalism11
The Empty Quest for Muslim Democracy10
Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow10
The Rise of Theocratic Democracy10
How Ukraine Divides Postcommunist Europe9
The Liberalism of Refuge9
Why Bitcoin Is Freedom Money9
When Should the Majority Rule?8
Documents on Democracy8
What Went Wrong In Hungary8
The Perils of Propaganda8
Local Politics and Democratic State-Building8
Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers8
The Myth of the Coup Contagion8
What Political Scientists Owe Democracy8
Rebuilding the State in Post-Assad Syria7
How Viktor Orbán Wins7
How Covid Changed Latin America7
How to Prevent Political Violence7
Armies and Autocrats: Why Putin's Military Failed7
The Power of Liberal Nationalism7
Religious Exclusion and the Origins of Democracy7
Why Israeli Democracy Is in Crisis7
The Authoritarian Argument7
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