Democratization

Article	Citations
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China	95
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space	66
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela	57
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity	40
The two genotypes of secession. Explaining non-nationalist independence claims in federal-authoritarian regimes	37
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	37
Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines	35
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes	30
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media	29
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab Spring	24
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies	23
New perspectives on international party assistance	20
Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization	19
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 2023	18
Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon	18
Personalist ruling parties in democracies	17
Polarization, fragmentation, and democratic deconsolidation in interwar Europe	17
Local power play: the post-election repression and local governance	17
Casting a new light on the democratic spectator	16
Weak agency and preferences for participatory democracy: discourses of Spanish people in positions of socioeconomic disadvantage	16
Formal power in informal networks. Distribution of power resources in personalized bureaucracies: the case of Russia’s subnational elites	14
Brilliant tragedy? Electoral effects of environmental protest cycle in autocracy	14
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance	13
Ramping up control: how judicial harassment and online smear campaigns work in tandem to limit dissent in Thailand	13
The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions	13

The king’s speeches: environmental sustainability as a discursive legitimation project in autocracies. Evidence from Morocco.	13
After the Arab Uprisings. Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East	12
Dark politics	11
Transnational repression in the age of globalization	11
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization	11
Routledge handbook of EU-Middle East relations	10
When elites concede: state capacity and the management of protest in Mexico	10
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers	10
Looking beyond democratic backsliding: analysing the political economy context of Turkey’s regime trajectory through a mode of participation approach	10
Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture	10
Wealth, power, and authoritarian institutions: comparing dominant parties and parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda	9
A people power philosophy: republican ideology in opposition in Tanzania	9
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. From secessionist mobilization to conflict resolution	9
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters: a social media measurement approach	9
Authoritarian gravity centers a cross-regional study of authoritarian promotion and diffusion	8
Tanzania under Magufuli: the personalization of a party-based regime	8
“Politics unusual”? Bobi Wine, People Power, and the ideology of popular opposition in Uganda	8
Resistance to populism	8
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900	8
Gaming democracy: how Silicon Valley leveled up the far right	8
Property without rights. Origins and consequences of the property rights gap	7
Not Islamists, Muslim democrats: Tunisian Ennahda ’s path of ideological moderation (2011–2018)	7
Public broadcasting and democracy’s defense: responses to far-right parties in Germany and Sweden	7
Militant democracy and the pre-emptive constitution: from party bans to hardened term limits	7
Academic freedom and the onset of autocratization	7
How electoral competition shapes local public goods provision in South Africa	7
On motives and means: how approach and justification for court-curbing impact public trust	7
Fading freedoms: democratic decline in Albania	7
How security shaped Libya’s transition	7
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence	7
Political plasticity: the future of democracy and dictatorship	6
Where do social media and education meet? A closer look at understanding of democracy	6
Why do some coups lead to democratization?	6
Revolution and dictatorship. The violent origins of durable authoritarianism	6
Information, doubt, and democracy: how digitization spurs democratic decay	6
Alternative patterns to electoral autocracy: recognizing diversity in contemporary autocratization processes	6
Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary	6
Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade	6
Political trust and attitudes toward civil disobedience: evidence from Taiwan	6
The COVID-19 pandemic and popular confidence in democracy: evidence from China, Japan, and South Korea	6
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
Job insecurity, economic resources, and democratic backsliding: evidence from South Korea	6
The Druze vote in Israel: between ideology, socioeconomic status, kinship, and the Nation-State Basic Law	6
Why is party-based autocracy more durable? Examining the role of elite institutions and mass organization	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	5
Democracy rules	5
Authoritarian collaboration and repression in the digital age: balancing foreign direct investment and control in internet infrastructure	5
The mechanisms of personalization	5
The political economy of digital authoritarianism: evidence from the Iranian regime’s implementation of technology	5
Civil society’s democratic potential	5

Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?	5
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	5
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections	5
Trust under threat: challenges in a digital society	5
Opening up the notion of “closing space”: accounting for normative, actor, and political system diversity	5
Evaluating Europe's push to enact AI regulations: how will this influence global norms?	5
Populism and civil–military relations	5
The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries	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 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
Public attitudes toward external democracy promotion in Africa	5
Gateway to dissent: the role of pro-Palestine activism in opposition to authoritarianism	5
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia	5
Changing the rules to win the game again: does presidential term-limit evasion affect measures of electoral integrity?	4
Stalker states: Are democracies more likely to snoop on citizens’ data on Facebook?	4
What do you call the political upheaval? The conceptual linkage between revolutions and coups	4
Political polarization in Korea	4
When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria	4
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization	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
Competing demand-side explanations and populism: cross-national variation in a recursive ideational system	4
Transnational securitization and violence: the discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West	4
Sociology of corruption: patterns of illegal association in Hungary	4
Activism in the era of democratic backsliding: explaining the efficacy of the clean-air campaigns in Poland	4
The conflict within: the politics of parliamentary election management in Iran	4
Individual or collective rights? Consequences for the satisfaction with democracy among Indigenous peoples in Latin America	4
On the effectiveness of democracy aid in post-civil war recipient countries	4
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective	4
The Authoritarian Divide: populism, propaganda, and polarization	4
Correction	3
Online repression and tactical evasion: evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger protests in Egypt	3
What does the population in Niger think about a military government?	3
Ideological beasts or effective organizations? Do voters’ views of democracy affect their expectations of political parties?	3
Malaysia’s democratic deficit: why youth may not be the answer	3
Measuring and assessing subnational electoral democracy: a new dataset for the Americas and India	3
Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion	3
Challenging the rules of the game: clientelism and dissent in the Middle East	3
Militarized elections and citizens’ support for democratic rights: evidence from India	3
The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance	3
Power and politics in Africa: a boundary generator	3
Do mutually reinforcing cleavages harm democracy? Inequalities between ethnic groups and autocratization	3
The personalization of government: concept and comparative analysis	3
Demographic structure and voting behaviour during democratization: evidence from Malaysia’s 2022 election	3
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan	3
Proportional representation and party fragmentation in electoral autocracies	3
Techno-authoritarian imaginaries and the politics of resistance against facial recognition technology in the US and European Union*	3
Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel	3
The modern manual of authoritarian leadership	3
Lobbying the autocrat: the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocracies	3
Is community service an act of political resistance? the “community pantry” phenomenon in the Philippines and voter behaviour	3
Protesting for autocracy: economic vulnerability and anti-democratic protest attendance in Tunisia	3
A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem	3
Party proliferation and political contestation in Africa: Senegal in comparative perspective	3
Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010	3
German political foundations’ democracy promotion in autocratizing Tanzania: opening spaces for civil society support and transnational learning	3
Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria , by Eb	3
Facing protests in Serbia: patterns of new competitive authoritarianism	3
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland	3
Weak party system institutionalization and autocratization: evidence from Tunisia	3
Legalizing control: the rise of restrictive internet regulation in sub-Saharan Africa	3
Quietist Salafism and survival: pious politics in Morocco and Algeria	3
Elite strategy in resilient authoritarianism: Equatorial Guinea, 1979–2023	3
Mending democracy: democratic repair in disconnected times	2
Lockdown of expression: civic space restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to mass protests	2
Common enemies? Coups, insurgent strength and intra-elite competition: evidence from Latin America	2
How political regimes affect national cybersecurity: the polity flux effect	2
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization	2
After the Arab revolution: decentring democratic transition theory	2
Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia	2
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict: the Serb List in Kosovo	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
The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists	2
Democracy or discord? how citizens judge contested party leadership races	2
Death by a thousand cuts: measuring autocratic legalism in the European Union’s rule of law conundrum	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
Bureaucratic militarization as a mode of democratic backsliding: lessons from Brazil	2
Political trust and democracy: the critical citizens thesis re-examined	2
Democratic progress and women’s issue representation: evidence from the South Korean National Assembly, 1948–2022	2
The state as a determinant of democracy: durable poor-quality democracies in contemporary Latin America	2
Correction	2

Gender balance in national parliament: voters’ perceptions towards the gender corrective mechanism in Malta	2
Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control	2
Social dictatorships: the political economy of the welfare state in the Middle East and North Africa	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
The culture of democracy – a sociological approach to civil society	2
Authoritarian legislature, legitimacy strategy, and shadow economy	2
Civil society collective action under authoritarianism: divergent collaborative equilibriums for political reform in Malaysia and Singapore	2
Hidden contestation: valence issues, methodological blindness and the politics of development in Nigeria	2
Re-examining norms-diffusion: the EU, democracy and rival powers	2
Digital authoritarianism and the devolution of authoritarian rule: examining Syria’s patriotic hackers	2
Consequences of democratic backsliding in popular culture: evidence from blacklist in South Korea	2
Moving beyond us-versus-them polarization towards constructive conversations	2
International actors and democracy protection: preventing the spread of illiberal legislation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia	2
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary	2
The decoupling practice of “Democraticwashing”: the case of Israel	2
Security as a campaign issue: programmatic mobilization in Burkina Faso’s 2020 elections	2
Protests by journalists in competitive authoritarian regimes: repertoire and impact in the case of Ukraine (2010-14)	2
Repressing in the name of? Externalization dynamics in Turkey’s use of digital repression against refugees	2
Regime types and winner-loser Gaps in support for democracy in East Asia	2
Jerry John Rawlings. Leadership and Legacy: A Pan-African Perspective	2
When handpicked successors of charismatic leaders prosper: the surprising success of Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia	2
Economic performance and the type and method of presidential term limit evasion 1	2
Autocracies win the minds of the democratic public: how Japanese citizens are persuaded by illiberal narratives propagated by authoritarian regimes	1
What makes voters willing to tolerate undemocratic behaviours? Survey experiment from South Korea	1
Why do democratic societies tolerate undemocratic laws? Sorting public support for the National Security Act in South Korea	1
African traditional institutions and support for democracy	1
The contestation of international ties and regime transitions: evidence from the former Soviet republics	1
The psychology of democracy	1
Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana	1
Defining democratic inclusion from the perspective of democracy and citizenship theory	1
Democracy and its enemies in Europe: successes and failures in combating autocratic threats	1
You’ve got a friend in me: how international governmental organizations influence organizations’ participation in elections as ethnic parties in Eastern Europe	1
Do contravention attempts affect public support for presidential term limits?: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	1
Not just rubber-stamping: understanding the amending role of the Chinese legislature with bill text reuse	1
The road to durable democracy: dominant party regimes, party politics and democratic survival	1
The politics of presidential impeachment	1
Obituary for Ian Campbell, 1938-2022	1
The frenemy within: populism’s dual role in democratization	1
The d-word: surveying democracy in America	1
Mayoral elections and partisan dynamics in Africa’s local governments	1
Rural democracy: elections and development in Africa	1
Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies	1
Media capture, captured: a new computational methodology to measure deteriorating media freedom	1
The network origin of Thailand’s youth movement	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
Born with a silver spoon? Modes of transitions and democratic survival	1
Descriptive over-representation, cliental accountability, and minority politics: the case of the Druze in Israel	1
Democracy and security in Latin America: state capacity and governance under stress	1
Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?	1
The mahram effect: gender politics and Saudi Arabia	1
Entrepreneurial attitudes as a counterweight to democratic backsliding: self-employment and support for liberal democracy in the Visegrad Four	1
Did the Arab Spring generate affective polarization? Experimental evidence from five Arab countries	1
Institutional constraints and regional incentives for the attempt to scrap presidential term limits	1
Exporting autocrat’s playbook? Diverging impacts of China and Russia on contemporary democratic backsliding	1
One road to riches? How state building and democratization affect economic development	1
Modelling temporal dynamics: does internet use fuel anti-government protests?	1
Faith in numbers: religion, sectarianism, and democracy	1
Regulate against the machine: how the EU mitigates AI harm to democracy	1
Civil society organizations in intelligence accountability: democratic ideals and practical limitations	1
Countering autocratization: a roadmap for democratic defence	1
Explaining the mass protests in Belarus in 2020: What role did civil society play?	1
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation	1
Democratic norm erosion and partisanship in the United States	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
Autonomous activism and accountability in a democratic transition: evidence from Tunisia	1
Deliberative democracy in an algorithmic society: harms, contestations and deliberative capacity in the digital public sphere	1
Echoes of silence: how social influence fosters self-censorship under democratic backsliding	1
Ordinary people’s regime preferences in the MENA: the case of Tunisia during the democratic transition	1
Voting out autocrats: evidence from Zambia	1
Voting behaviour under doubts of ballot secrecy: reinforcing dominant party rule	1
Controlling territory, controlling voters: the electoral geography of African campaign violence	1
The coalitions presidents make: presidential power and its limits in democratic Indonesia	1
Illiberal resistance to democratic backsliding: the case of radical political Islam in Indonesia	1
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion , by Mark	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
Neo-militant Democracies in Post-communist Member States of the European Union	1
Pandemic democracy: the nexus of covid-19, shrinking civic space for civil society organizations and the 2020 elections in Ghana	0
Compromise in multilateral negotiations and the global regulation of artificial intelligence	0
Correction	0
Under pressure: the politics of clientelism and coercion in Serbia	0
Polarized and demobilized: legacies of authoritarianism in Palestine	0
Democracy at a crossroads: polarization, authoritarian echoes, and the struggle for legitimacy in South Korea	0
Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?	0
Protectors of liberal democracy or defenders of past authoritarianism?: authoritarian legacies, collective identity, and the far-right protest in South Korea	0
Chasing shadows: cyber espionage, subversion, and the global fight for democracy	0
Ballots beyond borders: attitudes towards external voting in Colombia	0
Dismantling new democracies: the case of Tunisia	0
Democracies and international law	0
Supporting democracy when other democracies prosper?	0
All that is left is all that matters: the politics of social spending in authoritarian regimes	0
Opposition electoral strategies against democratic backsliding: the United for Hungary coalition and its 2022 primaries	0
Democratic resilience: citizens’ evaluation of democratic performance during the great recession in the European Union	0
Voting with dissatisfaction: an analysis of the 2019 parliamentary election in Tunisia	0
The ground for the illiberal turn in the Philippines	0
How to struggle with exclusionary right-wing populism: evidence from Turkey	0