Democratization

Article	Citations
Dictatorship and information: authoritarian regime resilience in communist Europe and China	108
The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space	60
Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity	57
Shade-grown authoritarianism? Revisiting coffee as a curse in Latin America and the Caribbean	53
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America: the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela	43
Political voice: protest, democracy, and marginalised groups	41
Election observation at a crossroads: perspectives from Africa Zed Books	34
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note	33
Sorry, we’re closed to your views: partisan media use, moral polarization, and declines in support for the open marketplace of ideas	33
Disassembling accountability and democracy: varied effects of elements of accountability and democracy on public trust	30
Are the upper chambers a source of democratic resilience? Evidence from elite perceptions in the Czech Republic	28
The two genotypes of secession. Explaining non-nationalist independence claims in federal-authoritarian regimes	27
Elections without re-election: authoritarian values and electoral accountability in a single-term Philippine presidential system	26
The internal-external nexus in moderation processes: how international constraints drove HTS from radicalism to statecraft in Syria.	25
Delegative democratic attitude and public opinion on human rights: empirical evidence from the Philippines	24
The king’s speeches: environmental sustainability as a discursive legitimation project in autocracies. Evidence from Morocco.	22
Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media	22
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	22
Polarization, fragmentation, and democratic deconsolidation in interwar Europe	20
Inching toward democratization? Comparing Cuba’s National Assembly elections, 2018 and 2023	19
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab Spring	18
Ideology and judicial independence: who undermines high courts in democracies?	17
Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon	17
Legislating Islam: Islamists’ and Salafis’ Distinct paths of moderation in the Kuwaiti parliament	17
A tale of two cities: spillover effects of electoral shocks in non-democratic regimes	16

Executive interference, partisanship and delayed justice: the judiciary and press freedom violations in Ghana	16
Ramping up control: how judicial harassment and online smear campaigns work in tandem to limit dissent in Thailand	16
Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization	15
Formal power in informal networks. Distribution of power resources in personalized bureaucracies: the case of Russia’s subnational elites	15
Inclusive representation and perceived democratic performance under democratic backsliding. Evidence from a full-factorial experiment in Hungary	14
Brilliant tragedy? Electoral effects of environmental protest cycle in autocracy	14
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies	13
Local power play: the post-election repression and local governance	13
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900	12
Routledge handbook of EU-Middle East relations	12
When elites concede: state capacity and the management of protest in Mexico	12
Looking beyond democratic backsliding: analysing the political economy context of Turkey’s regime trajectory through a mode of participation approach	12
The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions	12
Dark politics	12
Transnational repression in the age of globalization	12
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters: a social media measurement approach	11
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia. From secessionist mobilization to conflict resolution	11
How movement parties contest democratic backsliding: evidence from Hungary and Romania	11
Wealth, power, and authoritarian institutions: comparing dominant parties and parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda	11
Women’s participation and democratic resilience	11
“Politics unusual”? Bobi Wine, People Power, and the ideology of popular opposition in Uganda	11
Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture	11
A people power philosophy: republican ideology in opposition in Tanzania	11
Not Islamists, Muslim democrats: Tunisian Ennahda ’s path of ideological moderation (2011–2018)	10
On motives and means: how approach and justification for court-curbing impact public trust	10
Academic freedom and the onset of autocratization	10
Ethnic minorities, political competition, and democracy. Circumstantial liberals; Democratic commitment. Why citizens tolerate democratic backsliding	10
Social polarization and electoral incentives for Islamist de-moderation: evidence from Turkish parliamentary debates	10
Public broadcasting and democracy’s defense: responses to far-right parties in Germany and Sweden	10
Death by a thousand cuts: neuropolitics, thymos, and the slow demise of democracy (2nd Edition)	10
Gaming democracy: how Silicon Valley leveled up the far right	10
How security shaped Libya’s transition	10
The government of chance. sortition and democracy from Athens to the present	10
Tanzania under Magufuli: the personalization of a party-based regime	10
Revolution and dictatorship. The violent origins of durable authoritarianism	9
Political plasticity: the future of democracy and dictatorship	9
Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade	9
Populism and civil–military relations	9
Job insecurity, economic resources, and democratic backsliding: evidence from South Korea	9
Fading freedoms: democratic decline in Albania	9
Elites and democracy	9
Where do social media and education meet? A closer look at understanding of democracy	9
Democratic commitment: Why citizens tolerate democratic backsliding	8
Alternative patterns to electoral autocracy: recognizing diversity in contemporary autocratization processes	8
From resistance to resilience: identifying short and long-term successes in the struggle against autocratization	8
China's democratic experiments during its economic takeoff	8
Reexamining confucianism and democratic support: a guardianship perspective	8
Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary	8
The effect of electoral politics on the distribution of public spending in the context of democratic transition: evidence from Tunisia	8
Christian nationalism and democracy in Ghana	8

Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?	8
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	7
Authoritarian collaboration and repression in the digital age: balancing foreign direct investment and control in internet infrastructure	7
Explaining the failure of legislative agency in patronal divided executives: deputy meaning making and its impact on legislative quality in Kyrgyzstan 2010–2020	7
The COVID-19 pandemic and popular confidence in democracy: evidence from China, Japan, and South Korea	7
Trust under threat: challenges in a digital society	7
The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries	7
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	7
Civil society’s democratic potential	7
Democracy rules	7
Democratic backsliding as a driver of foreign policy volatility: insights from the 2015 and 2023 South Korea–Japan agreements	7
Information, doubt, and democracy: how digitization spurs democratic decay	7
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections	7
Democratic resilience in Europe – and its limits	7
Public attitudes toward external democracy promotion in Africa	7
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia	7
Evaluating Europe's push to enact AI regulations: how will this influence global norms?	7
The Druze vote in Israel: between ideology, socioeconomic status, kinship, and the Nation-State Basic Law	7
What do you call the political upheaval? The conceptual linkage between revolutions and coups	6
Electoral integrity resilience: protecting elections during global risks, crises, and emergencies	6
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective	6
Stalker states: Are democracies more likely to snoop on citizens’ data on Facebook?	6
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization	6
On the effectiveness of democracy aid in post-civil war recipient countries	6
Activism in the era of democratic backsliding: explaining the efficacy of the clean-air campaigns in Poland	6
Changing the rules to win the game again: does presidential term-limit evasion affect measures of electoral integrity?	6
Police preparedness at the polls: Kenya’s 2022 general election	6
The political economy of digital authoritarianism: evidence from the Iranian regime’s implementation of technology	6
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	6
Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia	6
Transnational securitization and violence: the discursive mechanism behind the pro-AKP diaspora’s repression of the dissident diaspora groups in the West	6
Individual or collective rights? Consequences for the satisfaction with democracy among Indigenous peoples in Latin America	6
The mechanisms of personalization	6
The conflict within: the politics of parliamentary election management in Iran	6
Legalizing control: the rise of restrictive internet regulation in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Challenging the rules of the game: clientelism and dissent in the Middle East	5
Sociology of corruption: patterns of illegal association in Hungary	5
Protesting for autocracy: economic vulnerability and anti-democratic protest attendance in Tunisia	5
From Bonn to third-wave democracies: transnational diffusion of the constructive vote of no-confidence	5
Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion	5
Gender ideology and political participation: evidence from Mongolia as a third-wave democracy	5
Is assembly-independent government good for democracy? Bhutan, Suriname and Switzerland in comparative perspective	5
Weak party system institutionalization and autocratization: evidence from Tunisia	5
Lobbying the autocrat: the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocracies	5
The Authoritarian Divide: populism, propaganda, and polarization	5
Competing demand-side explanations and populism: cross-national variation in a recursive ideational system	5
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland	5
Quietist Salafism and survival: pious politics in Morocco and Algeria	5
Power and politics in Africa: a boundary generator	5
Do mutually reinforcing cleavages harm democracy? Inequalities between ethnic groups and autocratization	5
Gender-based transnational repression and the Iranian diaspora	5
Is community service an act of political resistance? the “community pantry” phenomenon in the Philippines and voter behaviour	5
The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance	5
Political polarization in Korea	5
Blood gambit: how autocratizing populists fuel ethnic conflict to reverse election setbacks – evidence from Turkey and Israel	5
Militarized elections and citizens’ support for democratic rights: evidence from India	5
What does the population in Niger think about a military government?	5
Malaysia’s democratic deficit: why youth may not be the answer	5
Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria Pastoral power, clerical state. Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria , by Eb	5
Proportional representation and party fragmentation in electoral autocracies	5
German political foundations’ democracy promotion in autocratizing Tanzania: opening spaces for civil society support and transnational learning	4
What is democratic resilience?	4
International democracy promotion across two waves: from support to protection	4
Updated data and new insight: a new version of WTH’s authoritarian regime type dataset	4
Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010	4
Social dictatorships: the political economy of the welfare state in the Middle East and North Africa	4
Repressing in the name of? Externalization dynamics in Turkey’s use of digital repression against refugees	4
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan	4
Elite strategy in resilient authoritarianism: Equatorial Guinea, 1979–2023	4
Online repression and tactical evasion: evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger protests in Egypt	4
Measuring and assessing subnational electoral democracy: a new dataset for the Americas and India	4
The culture of democracy – a sociological approach to civil society	4
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),	4
Protests by journalists in competitive authoritarian regimes: repertoire and impact in the case of Ukraine (2010-14)	4
From predicting dissent to programming power; analyzing AI-driven authoritarian governance in the Middle East through TRIAD framework	4
Ideological beasts or effective organizations? Do voters’ views of democracy affect their expectations of political parties?	4
Techno-authoritarian imaginaries and the politics of resistance against facial recognition technology in the US and European Union*	4
Facing protests in Serbia: patterns of new competitive authoritarianism	4
The personalization of government: concept and comparative analysis	4
Governance resilience in China: informal control, repressive welfare, and cultural experimentation The art of political control in China , by Daniel C. Mattingly, Cambri	4

When elites defend democracy, do citizens listen? How elites alert citizens to democratic recession	4
Demographic structure and voting behaviour during democratization: evidence from Malaysia’s 2022 election	4
Micro and mass personalism: how size changes the nature of personalistic politics	3
Moving beyond us-versus-them polarization towards constructive conversations	3
Political trust and democracy: the critical citizens thesis re-examined	3
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary	3
Lockdown of expression: civic space restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to mass protests	3
The decoupling practice of “Democraticwashing”: the case of Israel	3
Death by a thousand cuts: measuring autocratic legalism in the European Union’s rule of law conundrum	3
Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control	3
Controlling territory, controlling voters: the electoral geography of African campaign violence	3
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization	3
Deliberative democracy in an algorithmic society: harms, contestations and deliberative capacity in the digital public sphere	3
Individual militant democracy in EU institutions	3
Economic performance and the type and method of presidential term limit evasion	3
Democracy or authoritarianism: Islamist governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia	3
The personalization of political power revisited	3
Digital authoritarianism and the devolution of authoritarian rule: examining Syria’s patriotic hackers	3
Democracy and its enemies in Europe: successes and failures in combating autocratic threats	3
Correction	3
Democratic resilience in Africa: elections, opposition, and social movements	3
Civil society collective action under authoritarianism: divergent collaborative equilibriums for political reform in Malaysia and Singapore	3
How political regimes affect national cybersecurity: the polity flux effect	3
Consequences of democratic backsliding in popular culture: evidence from blacklist in South Korea	3
Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana	3
A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem	3
Rallying around the “regime’s” flag? Exploring attitudinal backlashes in post-mobilizations Algeria and Iraq	3
Authoritarian citizens and democratic models: an individual-level perspective	3
Return of tyranny: Why counterrevolutions emerge and succeed	3
Bureaucratic militarization as a mode of democratic backsliding: lessons from Brazil	3
The state as a determinant of democracy: durable poor-quality democracies in contemporary Latin America	3
Bringing War Back In: victory, defeat, and the state in nineteenth-century Latin America	3
International actors and democracy protection: preventing the spread of illiberal legislation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia	3
Common enemies? Coups, insurgent strength and intra-elite competition: evidence from Latin America	3
Protecting the center until it doesn’t: when blame shifting strategies are nullified in authoritarian regimes	3
Democratic progress and women’s issue representation: evidence from the South Korean National Assembly, 1948–2022	3
Hidden contestation: valence issues, methodological blindness and the politics of development in Nigeria	3
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict: the Serb List in Kosovo	3
Democracy or discord? how citizens judge contested party leadership races	3
Jerry John Rawlings. Leadership and Legacy: A Pan-African Perspective	3
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation	2
Countering autocratization: a roadmap for democratic defence	2
From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong	2
Faith in numbers: religion, sectarianism, and democracy	2
Explaining the mass protests in Belarus in 2020: What role did civil society play?	2
African traditional institutions and support for democracy	2
Born with a silver spoon? Modes of transitions and democratic survival	2
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	2
Subverting democracy in the name of democracy	2
Autocracies win the minds of the democratic public: how Japanese citizens are persuaded by illiberal narratives propagated by authoritarian regimes	2
Autonomous activism and accountability in a democratic transition: evidence from Tunisia	2
Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies	2
Civil society organizations in intelligence accountability: democratic ideals and practical limitations	2
The network origin of Thailand’s youth movement	2
Neo-militant Democracies in Post-communist Member States of the European Union	2
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion , by Mark	2
Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?	2
Trade and democracy in sub-Saharan African countries: a sector-based analysis	2
The divided self: how ideological compartmentalization drives rebel-to-party success in Sri Lanka	2
Voting out autocrats: evidence from Zambia	2
Did the Arab Spring generate affective polarization? Experimental evidence from five Arab countries	2
Entrepreneurial attitudes as a counterweight to democratic backsliding: self-employment and support for liberal democracy in the Visegrad Four	2
Opponents, not enemies: disentangling the relationship between polarization and democracy in Europe	2
Institutionalization of electoral authoritarianism in North Africa: the 2024 presidential elections in Mauritania	2
Democratic norm erosion and partisanship in the United States	2
The d-word: surveying democracy in America	2
Echoes of silence: how social influence fosters self-censorship under democratic backsliding	2
Not just rubber-stamping: understanding the amending role of the Chinese legislature with bill text reuse	2
Media capture, captured: a new computational methodology to measure deteriorating media freedom	2
What makes voters willing to tolerate undemocratic behaviours? Survey experiment from South Korea	2
The contestation of international ties and regime transitions: evidence from the former Soviet republics	2
Democracy and corruption: reassessing measurement and causality	2
Learning from Asia: functional democratic divergence 50 years after the third wave	2
The mahram effect: gender politics and Saudi Arabia	2
Who supports the coup? Deprivation, decolonization and junta support in post-coup Mali	1
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization , by Whitney K. T	1
What drives dictators? Investigating the prevalence of policy-seeking autocrats	1
Policing repertoire of knowledge practices in neo-authoritarian governance: authority of sovereignty cluster of global norms, and the constitution of legitimizing narrative for suppression in Iran’s “	1
Revolution and democracy in Ghana: the politics of Jerry John Rawlings Revolution and democracy in Ghana: the politics of Jerry John Rawlings , by Jeffrey Haynes, London	1
Towards praetorian-led electoral authoritarianism? Examining the post-coup transitions in francophone Africa	1
The sciences of the democracies	1
From Stormont to Strasbourg – militant democracy in consociations	1
From symbolic inclusion to procedural democratization: public participation and civil society in the Kurdistan region	1
A fear dictator who is spinning? Conceptualizing authoritarian responses to digital uptake through the case study of information control in Belarus	1
For things to remain the same, how many things have to change? Elite continuity and change after leadership changes	1
Navigating uncertainty in regime transition: reference-point framing as a tool for clarifying the trajectory of political change	1
Diffusion of digital authoritarian practices in China’s neighbourhood: the cases of Iran and Pakistan	1
China’s active defence against democracy promotion: a conceptual analysis	1
Governing and ruling: the political logic of taxation in China	1
Recall rules as a legalistic autocrat’s toolkit. The case of Zimbabwe	1
Judicial backsliding: a guide to collapsing the separation of powers	1
Troublemakers and game changers: how political parties stopped democratic backsliding in Bulgaria	1
Does entrepreneurship create engaged citizens? Evidence from Jordanian youth	1
Party system closure: party alliances, government alternatives, and democracy in Europe	1
Democratic self-defence as a dirty hands problem	1