Democratization

Article	Citations
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China	104
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space	66
The two genotypes of secession. Explaining non-nationalist independence claims in federal-authoritarian regimes	58
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity	45
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela	43
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	41
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note	41
Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines	34
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media	24
Political voice: protest, democracy, and marginalised groups	24
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes	21
Formal power in informal networks. Distribution of power resources in personalized bureaucracies: the case of Russia’s subnational elites	21
The king’s speeches: environmental sustainability as a discursive legitimation project in autocracies. Evidence from Morocco.	20
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance	20
Polarization, fragmentation, and democratic deconsolidation in interwar Europe	19
Weak agency and preferences for participatory democracy: discourses of Spanish people in positions of socioeconomic disadvantage	18
Personalist ruling parties in democracies	18
Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization	17
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 2023	17
New perspectives on international party assistance	17
Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon	17
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab Spring	16
Casting a new light on the democratic spectator	15
Ramping up control: how judicial harassment and online smear campaigns work in tandem to limit dissent in Thailand	14
Brilliant tragedy? Electoral effects of environmental protest cycle in autocracy	14

The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions	12
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies	12
Legislating Islam: Islamists’ and Salafis’ Distinct paths of moderation in the Kuwaiti parliament	12
After the Arab Uprisings. Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East	11
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers	11
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization	11
Routledge handbook of EU-Middle East relations	11
Transnational repression in the age of globalization	11
Local power play: the post-election repression and local governance	11
Looking beyond democratic backsliding: analysing the political economy context of Turkey’s regime trajectory through a mode of participation approach	11
Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture	10
When elites concede: state capacity and the management of protest in Mexico	10
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters: a social media measurement approach	10
Dark politics	10
Wealth, power, and authoritarian institutions: comparing dominant parties and parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda	10
Resistance to populism	9
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. From secessionist mobilization to conflict resolution	9
Authoritarian gravity centers a cross-regional study of authoritarian promotion and diffusion	8
How security shaped Libya’s transition	8
Fading freedoms: democratic decline in Albania	8
A people power philosophy: republican ideology in opposition in Tanzania	8
Gaming democracy: how Silicon Valley leveled up the far right	8
Not Islamists, Muslim democrats: Tunisian Ennahda ’s path of ideological moderation (2011–2018)	8
“Politics unusual”? Bobi Wine, People Power, and the ideology of popular opposition in Uganda	8
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900	8
Militant democracy and the pre-emptive constitution: from party bans to hardened term limits	8
The COVID-19 pandemic and popular confidence in democracy: evidence from China, Japan, and South Korea	7
Political trust and attitudes toward civil disobedience: evidence from Taiwan	7
Public broadcasting and democracy’s defense: responses to far-right parties in Germany and Sweden	7
Academic freedom and the onset of autocratization	7
The Druze vote in Israel: between ideology, socioeconomic status, kinship, and the Nation-State Basic Law	7
Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade	7
Property without rights. Origins and consequences of the property rights gap	7
Why do some coups lead to democratization?	7
Revolution and dictatorship. The violent origins of durable authoritarianism	7
Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary	7
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence	7
On motives and means: how approach and justification for court-curbing impact public trust	7
Tanzania under Magufuli: the personalization of a party-based regime	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
Information, doubt, and democracy: how digitization spurs democratic decay	6
Why is party-based autocracy more durable? Examining the role of elite institutions and mass organization	6
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	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	6
Where do social media and education meet? A closer look at understanding of democracy	6
Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?	6
The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries	6
Explaining the failure of legislative agency in patronal divided executives: deputy meaning making and its impact on legislative quality in Kyrgyzstan 2010–2020	6
Populism and civil–military relations	6
Job insecurity, economic resources, and democratic backsliding: evidence from South Korea	6

Political plasticity: the future of democracy and dictatorship	6
Alternative patterns to electoral autocracy: recognizing diversity in contemporary autocratization processes	6
Democracy rules	6
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections	6
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
Political polarization in Korea	5
Stalker states: Are democracies more likely to snoop on citizens’ data on Facebook?	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
Trust under threat: challenges in a digital society	5
Gateway to dissent: the role of pro-Palestine activism in opposition to authoritarianism	5
The conflict within: the politics of parliamentary election management in Iran	5
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	5
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization	5
The mechanisms of personalization	5
Authoritarian collaboration and repression in the digital age: balancing foreign direct investment and control in internet infrastructure	5
Civil society’s democratic potential	5
Public attitudes toward external democracy promotion in Africa	5
Changing the rules to win the game again: does presidential term-limit evasion affect measures of electoral integrity?	5
Individual or collective rights? Consequences for the satisfaction with democracy among Indigenous peoples in Latin America	5
The political economy of digital authoritarianism: evidence from the Iranian regime’s implementation of technology	5
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia	5
The Authoritarian Divide: populism, propaganda, and polarization	4
What do you call the political upheaval? The conceptual linkage between revolutions and coups	4
Electoral integrity resilience: protecting elections during global risks, crises, and emergencies	4
Is community service an act of political resistance? the “community pantry” phenomenon in the Philippines and voter behaviour	4
Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel	4
Weak party system institutionalization and autocratization: evidence from Tunisia	4
Legalizing control: the rise of restrictive internet regulation in sub-Saharan Africa	4
When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria	4
Sociology of corruption: patterns of illegal association in Hungary	4
On the effectiveness of democracy aid in post-civil war recipient countries	4
Protesting for autocracy: economic vulnerability and anti-democratic protest attendance in Tunisia	4
The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance	4
Challenging the rules of the game: clientelism and dissent in the Middle East	4
The modern manual of authoritarian leadership	4
Activism in the era of democratic backsliding: explaining the efficacy of the clean-air campaigns in Poland	4
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective	4
Transnational securitization and violence: the discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West	4
Competing demand-side explanations and populism: cross-national variation in a recursive ideational system	4
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland	4
Quietist Salafism and survival: pious politics in Morocco and Algeria	4
Lobbying the autocrat: the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocracies	4
Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010	3
Demographic structure and voting behaviour during democratization: evidence from Malaysia’s 2022 election	3
Techno-authoritarian imaginaries and the politics of resistance against facial recognition technology in the US and European Union*	3
Do mutually reinforcing cleavages harm democracy? Inequalities between ethnic groups and autocratization	3
Malaysia’s democratic deficit: why youth may not be the answer	3
Ideological beasts or effective organizations? Do voters’ views of democracy affect their expectations of political parties?	3
The personalization of government: concept and comparative analysis	3
The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists	3
Governance resilience in China: informal control, repressive welfare, and cultural experimentation The art of political control in China , by Daniel C. Mattingly, Cambri	3
Party proliferation and political contestation in Africa: Senegal in comparative perspective	3
The culture of democracy – a sociological approach to civil society	3
Elite strategy in resilient authoritarianism: Equatorial Guinea, 1979–2023	3
Power and politics in Africa: a boundary generator	3
Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion	3
Militarized elections and citizens’ support for democratic rights: evidence from India	3
Online repression and tactical evasion: evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger protests in Egypt	3
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),	3
Repressing in the name of? Externalization dynamics in Turkey’s use of digital repression against refugees	3
German political foundations’ democracy promotion in autocratizing Tanzania: opening spaces for civil society support and transnational learning	3
What does the population in Niger think about a military government?	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
Proportional representation and party fragmentation in electoral autocracies	3
Measuring and assessing subnational electoral democracy: a new dataset for the Americas and India	3
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan	3
Social dictatorships: the political economy of the welfare state in the Middle East and North Africa	3
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 trust and democracy: the critical citizens thesis re-examined	2
Moving beyond us-versus-them polarization towards constructive conversations	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
Security as a campaign issue: programmatic mobilization in Burkina Faso’s 2020 elections	2
Correction	2
Regime types and winner-loser Gaps in support for democracy in East Asia	2
Democracy or authoritarianism: Islamist governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia	2
Jerry John Rawlings. Leadership and Legacy: A Pan-African Perspective	2

What makes voters willing to tolerate undemocratic behaviours? Survey experiment from South Korea	2
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization	2
Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana	2
Economic performance and the type and method of presidential term limit evasion 1	2
Media capture, captured: a new computational methodology to measure deteriorating media freedom	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
Deliberative democracy in an algorithmic society: harms, contestations and deliberative capacity in the digital public sphere	2
Authoritarian legislature, legitimacy strategy, and shadow economy	2
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary	2
Protests by journalists in competitive authoritarian regimes: repertoire and impact in the case of Ukraine (2010-14)	2
Democratic progress and women’s issue representation: evidence from the South Korean National Assembly, 1948–2022	2
After the Arab revolution: decentring democratic transition theory	2
Common enemies? Coups, insurgent strength and intra-elite competition: evidence from Latin America	2
Gender balance in national parliament: voters’ perceptions towards the gender corrective mechanism in Malta	2
Civil society collective action under authoritarianism: divergent collaborative equilibriums for political reform in Malaysia and Singapore	2
Voting out autocrats: evidence from Zambia	2
Democracy and security in Latin America: state capacity and governance under stress	2
The decoupling practice of “Democraticwashing”: the case of Israel	2
Hidden contestation: valence issues, methodological blindness and the politics of development in Nigeria	2
Democracy and its enemies in Europe: successes and failures in combating autocratic threats	2
Mending democracy: democratic repair in disconnected times	2
Digital authoritarianism and the devolution of authoritarian rule: examining Syria’s patriotic hackers	2
Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control	2
A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem	2
International actors and democracy protection: preventing the spread of illiberal legislation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia	2
How political regimes affect national cybersecurity: the polity flux effect	2
Lockdown of expression: civic space restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to mass protests	2
The state as a determinant of democracy: durable poor-quality democracies in contemporary Latin America	2
Consequences of democratic backsliding in popular culture: evidence from blacklist in South Korea	2
Controlling territory, controlling voters: the electoral geography of African campaign violence	2
Correction	2
Did the Arab Spring generate affective polarization? Experimental evidence from five Arab countries	2
When handpicked successors of charismatic leaders prosper: the surprising success of Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia	2
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
Political corruption in the Arab Mediterranean countries: an innovative typology	1
African traditional institutions and support for democracy	1
Regulate against the machine: how the EU mitigates AI harm to democracy	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
Does schooling promote democracy? A meta-analysis	1
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion , by Mark	1
Exporting autocrat’s playbook? Diverging impacts of China and Russia on contemporary democratic backsliding	1
Countering autocratization: a roadmap for democratic defence	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
Ordinary people’s regime preferences in the MENA: the case of Tunisia during the democratic transition	1
Authoritarian police in democracy: contested security in Latin America	1
Conceptualizing norm diffusion and norm contestation in the European neighbourhood: introduction to the special issue	1
Descriptive over-representation, cliental accountability, and minority politics: the case of the Druze in Israel	1
Strict COVID-19 lockdown and popular regime support in China	1
Autonomous activism and accountability in a democratic transition: evidence from Tunisia	1
Democracy erodes from the top: Leaders, citizens, and the challenge of populism in Europe	1
Why do democratic societies tolerate undemocratic laws? Sorting public support for the National Security Act in South Korea	1
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	1
The d-word: surveying democracy in America	1
Politicizing gender and democracy in the context of the Istanbul Convention	1
Born with a silver spoon? Modes of transitions and democratic survival	1
Birds of a feather flock together: influence of ideology in the implementation of participation	1
Not just rubber-stamping: understanding the amending role of the Chinese legislature with bill text reuse	1
Obituary for Ian Campbell, 1938-2022	1
The politics of presidential impeachment	1
The coalitions presidents make: presidential power and its limits in democratic Indonesia	1
From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong	1
The road to durable democracy: dominant party regimes, party politics and democratic survival	1
Explaining the mass protests in Belarus in 2020: What role did civil society play?	1
Theory of irregular war	1
Modelling temporal dynamics: does internet use fuel anti-government protests?	1
The mahram effect: gender politics and Saudi Arabia	1
A concise history of Serbia	1
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation	1
The curious case of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh: an analysis of people’s financial satisfaction	1
The frenemy within: populism’s dual role in democratization	1
Bias in the eye of beholder? 25 years of election monitoring in Europe	1
Neo-militant Democracies in Post-communist Member States of the European Union	1
Illiberal resistance to democratic backsliding: the case of radical political Islam in Indonesia	1
Defining democratic inclusion from the perspective of democracy and citizenship theory	1
Social media, disinformation, and democracy: how different types of social media usage affect democracy cross-nationally	1
The contestation of international ties and regime transitions: evidence from the former Soviet republics	1
Non-violent resistance movements and substantive democracy	1
Faith in numbers: religion, sectarianism, and democracy	1
Rethinking shrinking civic space in the Global Souths – how development donors contribute to the restriction of civil society in Jordan	1
One road to riches? How state building and democratization affect economic development	1
You’ve got a friend in me: how international governmental organizations influence organizations’ participation in elections as ethnic parties in Eastern Europe	1
Civil society organizations in intelligence accountability: democratic ideals and practical limitations	1
Voting behaviour under doubts of ballot secrecy: reinforcing dominant party rule	1
Mayoral elections and partisan dynamics in Africa’s local governments	1
Remnants of the ancien régime: renomination and re-election of former members of a demised ruling party in Ukraine	1
China’s active defence against democracy promotion: a conceptual analysis	1
Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies	1
Recall rules as a legalistic autocrat’s toolkit. The case of Zimbabwe	1
The psychology of democracy	1
Was “The Revo” a coup d'etat? An assessment of the 1979 regime change in Grenada	1
Rural democracy: elections and development in Africa	1
Religion and the authoritarian toolkit: are carrots substitutes for sticks?	1
Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?	1
How modernization theory has stumbled in China: A political interception perspective	1