Democratization

Papers
(The TQCC of Democratization is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes86
State of the world 2019: autocratization surges – resistance grows67
Pernicious polarization, autocratization and opposition strategies46
How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process43
The menu of autocratic innovation43
United we stand, divided we rule: how political polarization erodes democracy40
Antidemocratic populism in power: comparing Erdoğan’s Turkey with Modi’s India and Netanyahu’s Israel40
Use of past collective traumas, fear and conspiracy theories for securitization of the opposition and authoritarianisation: the Turkish case38
State of the world 2020: autocratization turns viral35
What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability34
Authoritarian Innovations: Crafting support for a less democratic Southeast Asia34
Sources of resistance to democratic decline: Indonesian civil society and its trials32
Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation32
Democratic regression in Asia: introduction30
Negative partisanship towards the populist radical right and democratic resilience in Western Europe30
The rise of the democracy – authoritarianism cleavage and opposition coordination in Turkey (2014–2019)30
Waves of autocratization and democratization: a critical note on conceptualization and measurement29
Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges29
The dark side of regionalism: how regional organizations help authoritarian regimes to boost survival28
Authoritarian resilience through securitization: an Islamist populist party’s co-optation of a secularist far-right party28
Erosion or decay? Conceptualizing causes and mechanisms of democratic regression28
Democracy and human development: issues of conceptualization and measurement26
Disrupting the autocratization sequence: towards democratic resilience26
Democratic decoupling25
A typology of populism: understanding the different forms of populism and their implications25
Elite capture, civil society and democratic backsliding in Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines24
Scraping the demos. Digitalization, web scraping and the democratic project24
State of the world 2021: autocratization changing its nature?23
Exporting autocracy: how China's extra-jurisdictional autocratic influence caused democratic backsliding in Hong Kong19
Pushback after backsliding? Unconstrained executive aggrandizement in the Philippines versus contested military-monarchical rule in Thailand19
The relationship between affective polarization and democratic backsliding: comparative evidence19
Again, making Tanzania great: Magufuli’s restorationist developmental nationalism19
The pathway of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh18
The autocratic bias: self-censorship of regime support17
Authoritarian innovations and democratic reform in the “New Malaysia”17
Theorizing resilience-building in the EU’s neighbourhood: introduction to the special issue17
Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy16
Authoritarian innovations: theoretical foundations and practical implications15
Authoritarian legal harmonization in the post-Soviet space15
Taking it personal? Investigating regime personalization as an autocratic survival strategy15
Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies15
Democratization beyond the post-democratic turn: towards a research agenda on new conceptions of citizen participation14
Towards a unified approach to research on democratic backsliding14
Democratic backsliding, regional governance and foreign policymaking in Southeast Asia: ASEAN, Indonesia and the Philippines13
Waves of autocratization and democratization: a rejoinder12
Autocratization, permanent emergency rule and local politics: lessons from the Kurds in Turkey12
Authoritarian diffusion or cooperation? Turkey’s emerging engagement with China11
Autocracy login: internet censorship and civil society in the digital age10
Unravelling democratic erosion: who drives the slow death of democracy, and how?10
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization10
“New normal” no more: democratic backsliding in Singapore after 201510
Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective10
A business case for democracy: regime type, growth, and growth volatility10
Hopes and disappointments: regime change and support for democracy after the Arab Uprisings10
Dynamic dictators: improving the research agenda on autocratization and authoritarian resilience10
Don’t think of a wave! A research note about the current autocratization debate9
Contentious activism and political trust in non-democratic regimes: evidence from the MENA9
Amending legislatures in authoritarian regimes: power sharing in post-Soviet Eurasia9
Conceptualizing norm diffusion and norm contestation in the European neighbourhood: introduction to the special issue9
The ground for the illiberal turn in the Philippines9
Populism and the military: symbiosis and tension in Bolsonaro’s Brazil9
The role of digital media in the 2011 Egyptian revolution9
Digital learning and extending electoral authoritarianism in Singapore8
Contested, violated but persistent: presidential term limits in Latin America and sub-saharan Africa8
Insecurity and political values in the Arab world8
Anatomy of a rigged election in a hybrid regime: the lessons from Bangladesh8
Russia and the diffusion of political norms: the perfect rival?8
Volunteerism and democratic learning in an authoritarian state: the case of China8
Biometrics and the disciplining of democracy: technology, electoral politics, and liberal interventionism in Chad8
Voting and winning: perceptions of electoral integrity in consolidating democracies7
The politics of fear and the securitization of African elections7
Populism and localism: a new research agenda7
Chinese linkage, leverage, and Cambodia’s transition to hegemonic authoritarianism7
Democratic deconsolidation in East Asia: exploring system realignments in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan7
Can the EU’s new global strategy make a difference? Strengthening resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries7
The supply and demand model of civic education: evidence from a field experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo7
What motivates a legislator to sponsor a bill that will never become law? The case of members of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1990–20146
The dictator’s screenplay: collective memory narratives and the legitimacy of communist rule in East Asia6
Elections, legitimacy, and compliance in authoritarian regimes: evidence from the Arab world6
Enfranchisement regimes beyond de-territorialization and post-nationalism: definitions, implications, and public support for different electorates6
Cross-ideological coalitions under authoritarian regimes: Islamist-left collaboration among Morocco’s excluded opposition6
Coups and framing: how do militaries justify the illegal seizure of power?6
“The party of power”: authoritarian diaspora and pluralism by default in Ukraine6
Dissatisfied, uninformed or both? Democratic satisfaction, political knowledge and the acceptance of clientelism in a new democracy6
De-biasing democracy. Behavioural public policy and the post-democratic turn6
From democratization to fostering resilience: EU intervention and the challenges of building institutions, social trust, and legitimacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina6
Agents of resistance and revival? Local election monitors and democratic fortunes in Asia6
Why the confusion? Reasons and remedies for shortcomings and progress in modernization theory6
Opposition party organizational features, ideological orientations, and elite co-optation in electoral autocracies5
The geography of regime support and political violence5
Between elites and opposition: legislatures’ strength in authoritarian regimes5
Activating responsible citizens: depoliticized environmentalism in hegemonic neoliberalism5
Pandemic democracy: the nexus of covid-19, shrinking civic space for civil society organizations and the 2020 elections in Ghana5
Youth quotas and “Jurassic Park” politicians: age as a heuristic for vote choice in Tunisia’s new democracy5
Ideology and succession politics in Ethiopia: autocratic leadership turnover and political instability5
Preventing governance breakdown in the EU’s southern neighbourhood: fostering resilience to strengthen security perceptions5
Pressuring MPs to act: parliament, organized interests and policymaking in Uganda and Tanzania5
Men of the people? Democracy and prebendalism in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic National Assembly5
Personalist ruling parties in democracies5
The “Big Five” personality traits of presidents and the relaxation of term limits in Latin America4
Rebuilding, rebranding, and competitive landscapes: a set-theoretic analysis of authoritarian successor parties4
Supporting the Tunisian transition? Analysing (in)consistencies in EU democracy assistance with a tripartite nexus model4
Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia4
Learning democracy digitally? The internet and knowledge of democracy in nondemocracies4
The authoritarian practice of issuing internet shutdowns in India: the Bharatiya Janata Party’s direct and indirect responsibility4
Renegotiating societal-military relations in Pakistan: the case of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement4
Between empowerment and abuse: citizen participation beyond the post-democratic turn4
Coming out of the liberal closet. Think tanks and de-democratization in Poland4
Above politics? Ex-military leaders in Nigerian electoral politics4
Dismantling new democracies: the case of Tunisia4
The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries4
Inclusionary regimes, party institutionalization and redistribution under authoritarianism4
From conflict early warning to fostering resilience? Chasing convergence in EU foreign policy4
Peacemaking referendums: the use of direct democracy in peace processes4
Do electoral systems affect how citizens hold their government accountable? Evidence from Africa4
Authoritarian origins of term limit trajectories in Africa4
Early democratization, corruption scandals and perceptions of corruption: evidence from Mexico4
Citizen endorsement of contested peace settlements: public opinion in post-Dayton Bosnia4
The democraticness of traditional political systems in Africa4
Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: evidence from local elections in South Africa4
Introducing authoritarian diasporas: causes and consequences of authoritarian elite dispersion4
Are would-be authoritarians right? Democratic support and citizens’ left-right self-placement in former left- and right- authoritarian countries4
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 residence4
Coming a long way: Switzerland’s transformation from a majoritarian to a consensus democracy (1848–2018)4
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