Democratization

Article	Citations
Election meltdown: dirty tricks, distrust, and the threat to American democracy	72
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China	70
Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines	60
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space	54
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela	53
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity	51
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	45
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes	32
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media	32
Formal power in informal networks. Distribution of power resources in personalized bureaucracies: the case of Russia’s subnational elites	29
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab Spring	28
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance	27
Ramping up control: how judicial harassment and online smear campaigns work in tandem to limit dissent in Thailand	21
Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon	21
Casting a new light on the democratic spectator	20
The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions	18
Local power play: the post-election repression and local governance	18
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies	18
New perspectives on international party assistance	18
Weak agency and preferences for participatory democracy: discourses of Spanish people in positions of socioeconomic disadvantage	17
Brilliant tragedy? Electoral effects of environmental protest cycle in autocracy	17
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 2023	16
After the Arab Uprisings. Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East	15
Personalist ruling parties in democracies	15
Transnational repression in the age of globalization	14

Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers	13
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters: a social media measurement approach	12
Dark politics	12
Routledge handbook of EU-Middle East relations	11
Looking beyond democratic backsliding: analysing the political economy context of Turkey’s regime trajectory through a mode of participation approach	11
From democratization to fostering resilience: EU intervention and the challenges of building institutions, social trust, and legitimacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina	11
A people power philosophy: republican ideology in opposition in Tanzania	11
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization	10
Resistance to populism	10
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. From secessionist mobilization to conflict resolution	10
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900	10
When elites concede: state capacity and the management of protest in Mexico	10
Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture	9
Militant democracy and the pre-emptive constitution: from party bans to hardened term limits	8
How electoral competition shapes local public goods provision in South Africa	8
Public broadcasting and democracy’s defense: responses to far-right parties in Germany and Sweden	8
Authoritarian gravity centers a cross-regional study of authoritarian promotion and diffusion	8
Property without rights. Origins and consequences of the property rights gap	8
How security shaped Libya’s transition	8
Gaming democracy: how Silicon Valley leveled up the far right	8
Tanzania under Magufuli: the personalization of a party-based regime	8
Academic freedom and the onset of autocratization	8
On motives and means: how approach and justification for court-curbing impact public trust	8
Alternative patterns to electoral autocracy: recognizing diversity in contemporary autocratization processes	7
Why do some coups lead to democratization?	7
Fading freedoms: democratic decline in Albania	7
Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade	7
Conditionality & coercion: electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe	7
The Druze vote in Israel: between ideology, socioeconomic status, kinship, and the Nation-State Basic Law	7
Job insecurity, economic resources, and democratic backsliding: evidence from South Korea	7
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence	7
China’s influence and the center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific China’s influence and the center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific	6
Revolution and dictatorship. The violent origins of durable authoritarianism	6
The COVID-19 pandemic and popular confidence in democracy: evidence from China, Japan, and South Korea	6
Why is party-based autocracy more durable? Examining the role of elite institutions and mass organization	6
Populism and civil–military relations	6
Political plasticity: the future of democracy and dictatorship	6
Where do social media and education meet? A closer look at understanding of democracy	6
Political trust and attitudes toward civil disobedience: evidence from Taiwan	6
Information, doubt, and democracy: how digitization spurs democratic decay	5
Democracy rules	5
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia	5
Authoritarian collaboration and repression in the digital age: balancing foreign direct investment and control in internet infrastructure	5
Gateway to dissent: the role of pro-Palestine activism in opposition to authoritarianism	5
The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries	5
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	5
Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary	5
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections	5
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	5
Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?	5

The crisis of democracy? Chances, risks, and challenges in Japan (Asia) and Germany (Europe) The crisis of democracy? Chances, risks, and challenges in Japan (Asia) and Germany (Europe)	5
Explaining the failure of legislative agency in patronal divided executives: deputy meaning making and its impact on legislative quality in Kyrgyzstan 2010–2020	5
The mechanisms of personalization	5
What do you call the political upheaval? The conceptual linkage between revolutions and coups	4
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective	4
Political polarization in Korea	4
Unravelling democratic erosion: who drives the slow death of democracy, and how?	4
Public attitudes toward external democracy promotion in Africa	4
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization	4
The machinery of #techno-colonialism crafting “democracy.” A glimpse into digital sub-netizenship in Mexico	4
Individual or collective rights? Consequences for the satisfaction with democracy among Indigenous peoples in Latin America	4
Transnational securitization and violence: the discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West	4
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	4
The conflict within: the politics of parliamentary election management in Iran	4
Evaluating Europe's push to enact AI regulations: how will this influence global norms?	4
When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria	4
Changing the rules to win the game again: does presidential term-limit evasion affect measures of electoral integrity?	4
Competing demand-side explanations and populism: cross-national variation in a recursive ideational system	4
On the effectiveness of democracy aid in post-civil war recipient countries	4
Stalker states: Are democracies more likely to snoop on citizens’ data on Facebook?	4
Opening up the notion of “closing space”: accounting for normative, actor, and political system diversity	4
Activism in the era of democratic backsliding: explaining the efficacy of the clean-air campaigns in Poland	4
Militarized elections and citizens’ support for democratic rights: evidence from India	3
What does the population in Niger think about a military government?	3
Lobbying the autocrat: the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocracies	3
The Authoritarian Divide: populism, propaganda, and polarization	3
Autocracy & Resistance in the Internet Age	3
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland	3
Elite strategy in resilient authoritarianism: Equatorial Guinea, 1979–2023	3
Proportional representation and party fragmentation in electoral autocracies	3
Power and politics in Africa: a boundary generator	3
Elections, legitimacy, and compliance in authoritarian regimes: evidence from the Arab world	3
Weak party system institutionalization and autocratization: evidence from Tunisia	3
The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance	3
Quietist Salafism and survival: pious politics in Morocco and Algeria	3
The modern manual of authoritarian leadership	3
Resilience, conflict and areas of limited statehood in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria	3
Facing protests in Serbia: patterns of new competitive authoritarianism	3
Do mutually reinforcing cleavages harm democracy? Inequalities between ethnic groups and autocratization	3
Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion	3
Protesting for autocracy: economic vulnerability and anti-democratic protest attendance in Tunisia	3
Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel	3
Is community service an act of political resistance? the “community pantry” phenomenon in the Philippines and voter behaviour	3
Sociology of corruption: patterns of illegal association in Hungary	3
Challenging the rules of the game: clientelism and dissent in the Middle East	3
Techno-authoritarian imaginaries and the politics of resistance against facial recognition technology in the US and European Union*	3
Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria , by Eb	3
Democratic progress and women’s issue representation: evidence from the South Korean National Assembly, 1948–2022	2
Jerry John Rawlings. Leadership and Legacy: A Pan-African Perspective	2
Common enemies? Coups, insurgent strength and intra-elite competition: evidence from Latin America	2
Measuring and assessing subnational electoral democracy: a new dataset for the Americas and India	2
Consequences of democratic backsliding in popular culture: evidence from blacklist in South Korea	2
The culture of democracy – a sociological approach to civil society	2
The decoupling practice of “Democraticwashing”: the case of Israel	2
Demographic structure and voting behaviour during democratization: evidence from Malaysia’s 2022 election	2
Online repression and tactical evasion: evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger protests in Egypt	2
Party proliferation and political contestation in Africa: Senegal in comparative perspective	2
Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010	2
Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia	2
Civil society collective action under authoritarianism: divergent collaborative equilibriums for political reform in Malaysia and Singapore	2
Regime types and winner-loser Gaps in support for democracy in East Asia	2
Correction	2
Lockdown of expression: civic space restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to mass protests	2
Governance resilience in China: informal control, repressive welfare, and cultural experimentation The art of political control in China , by Daniel C. Mattingly, Cambri	2
Protests by journalists in competitive authoritarian regimes: repertoire and impact in the case of Ukraine (2010-14)	2
Authoritarian legislature, legitimacy strategy, and shadow economy	2
German political foundations’ democracy promotion in autocratizing Tanzania: opening spaces for civil society support and transnational learning	2
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan	2
The roots of revolts: a political economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak	2
Correction	2
Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control	2
International actors and democracy protection: preventing the spread of illiberal legislation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia	2
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization	2
Costs and benefits of accepting presidential term limits: “should I stay or should I go?”	2
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),	2
China’s new Red Guards: the return of radicalism and the rebirth of Mao Zedong	2
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict: the Serb List in Kosovo	2
A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem	2
The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists	2
The personalization of government: concept and comparative analysis	2

Ideological beasts or effective organizations? Do voters’ views of democracy affect their expectations of political parties?	2
Repressing in the name of? Externalization dynamics in Turkey’s use of digital repression against refugees	2
Social dictatorships: the political economy of the welfare state in the Middle East and North Africa	2
Power consolidation with welfare designs? The emergence of old-age pensions in nondemocratic regimes around the world	2
Political trust and democracy: the critical citizens thesis re-examined	1
Media capture, captured: a new computational methodology to measure deteriorating media freedom	1
Gender balance in national parliament: voters’ perceptions towards the gender corrective mechanism in Malta	1
Not just rubber-stamping: understanding the amending role of the Chinese legislature with bill text reuse	1
The state as a determinant of democracy: durable poor-quality democracies in contemporary Latin America	1
The politics of presidential impeachment	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
Digital authoritarianism and the devolution of authoritarian rule: examining Syria’s patriotic hackers	1
The psychology of democracy	1
The d-word: surveying democracy in America	1
Born with a silver spoon? Modes of transitions and democratic survival	1
When handpicked successors of charismatic leaders prosper: the surprising success of Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia	1
Democratic norm erosion and partisanship in the United States	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
Did the Arab Spring generate affective polarization? Experimental evidence from five Arab countries	1
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion , by Mark	1
Bureaucratic militarization as a mode of democratic backsliding: lessons from Brazil	1
One road to riches? How state building and democratization affect economic development	1
Security as a campaign issue: programmatic mobilization in Burkina Faso’s 2020 elections	1
Controlling territory, controlling voters: the electoral geography of African campaign violence	1
How political regimes affect national cybersecurity: the polity flux effect	1
The biopolitical president?: Sovereign power and democratic erosion in El Salvador	1
After the Arab revolution: decentring democratic transition theory	1
Voting out autocrats: evidence from Zambia	1
Russia and the diffusion of political norms: the perfect rival?	1
The contestation of international ties and regime transitions: evidence from the former Soviet republics	1
Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies	1
The network origin of Thailand’s youth movement	1
Political violence in Kenya: land, elections, and claim-making Political violence in Kenya: land, elections, and claim-making , by Kathleen Klaus, Cambridge, Cambridge U	1
Economic performance and the type and method of presidential term limit evasion 1	1
Neo-militant Democracies in Post-communist Member States of the European Union	1
Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana	1
Democracy and security in Latin America: state capacity and governance under stress	1
Countering autocratization: a roadmap for democratic defence	1
Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges	1
African traditional institutions and support for democracy	1
Moving beyond us-versus-them polarization towards constructive conversations	1
Explaining the mass protests in Belarus in 2020: What role did civil society play?	1
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary	1
Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?	1
Preventing governance breakdown in the EU’s southern neighbourhood: fostering resilience to strengthen security perceptions	1
What makes voters willing to tolerate undemocratic behaviours? Survey experiment from South Korea	1
Stability through constraints: the impact of fiscal rules on autocratic survival	1
Echoes of silence: how social influence fosters self-censorship under democratic backsliding	1
Autocracies win the minds of the democratic public: how Japanese citizens are persuaded by illiberal narratives propagated by authoritarian regimes	1
Death by a thousand cuts: measuring autocratic legalism in the European Union’s rule of law conundrum	1
Entrepreneurial attitudes as a counterweight to democratic backsliding: self-employment and support for liberal democracy in the Visegrad Four	1
Hidden contestation: valence issues, methodological blindness and the politics of development in Nigeria	1
Re-examining norms-diffusion: the EU, democracy and rival powers	1
Faith in numbers: religion, sectarianism, and democracy	1
Mending democracy: democratic repair in disconnected times	1
Rural democracy: elections and development in Africa	1
Supporting democracy when other democracies prosper?	0
Correction	0
Democracy and lived poverty in Africa	0
Reclaiming participatory democracy. Social movements and the reinvention of democratic innovation	0
Cooptation without opposition: government response in the authoritarian legislature in China	0
Authoritarian leaders, economic hardship, and inequality	0
“I’m all right Jack” vs. “the ideals of democracy” – three studies	0
Democracies and international law	0
Democracy on the line? Political legitimacy and support for military rule in Africa	0
Meritocracy, populism and the future of democracy?	0
From Boomers to Zoomers: generational shifts in drivers of satisfaction with democracy in Western Europe	0
Waves of autocratization and democratization: a rejoinder	0
Dismantling new democracies: the case of Tunisia	0
How to struggle with exclusionary right-wing populism: evidence from Turkey	0
Protectors of liberal democracy or defenders of past authoritarianism?: authoritarian legacies, collective identity, and the far-right protest in South Korea	0
Polarized and demobilized: legacies of authoritarianism in Palestine	0
Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion , by Efrén Pérez and Margit Tavits, Princeton, Princeton Univer	0
The new Kremlinology: understanding regime personalization in Russia	0
Articulating political spaces: overcoming the civic dimension of citizenship performances in local Morocco	0
Offer money, they will accept: linkages between authoritarian tendencies and clientelist targeting in Africa	0
Resisting backsliding: opposition strategies against the erosion of democracy	0
Rioting for representation: local ethnic mobilization in democratizing countries	0
The impact of security issues on government evaluation: evidence from the Arab World	0
Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?	0
All that is left is all that matters: the politics of social spending in authoritarian regimes	0
Democratic resilience: citizens’ evaluation of democratic performance during the great recession in the European Union	0
Ballots beyond borders: attitudes towards external voting in Colombia	0
Making the world safe for dictatorship	0
Relevance and electoralism in the study of political oppositions: the case of Morocco’s radical left	0
The authoritarian practice of issuing internet shutdowns in India: the Bharatiya Janata Party’s direct and indirect responsibility	0
Autocracy's long reach: explaining host country influences on transnational repression	0
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,	0
Indulging kleptocracy: British service providers, postcommunist elites, and the enabling of corruption	0
Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism: de-centring the executive in South Asia and beyond	0
Repression in the digital age: surveillance, censorship, and the dynamics of state violence	0
Leaders’ experience and the transition from populism to dictatorship	0
The ground for the illiberal turn in the Philippines	0
Pandemic democracy: the nexus of covid-19, shrinking civic space for civil society organizations and the 2020 elections in Ghana	0
Elite polarization and democratic backsliding in Tunisia: tracing agency-driven mechanisms	0