OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Democratization is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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
Sorry, we’re closed to your views: partisan media use, moral polarization, and declines in support for the open marketplace of ideas	33
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note	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
Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary	22
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
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
Legislating Islam: Islamists’ and Salafis’ Distinct paths of moderation in the Kuwaiti parliament	17
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
Ramping up control: how judicial harassment and online smear campaigns work in tandem to limit dissent in Thailand	16

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
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
Brilliant tragedy? Electoral effects of environmental protest cycle in autocracy	14
Inclusive representation and perceived democratic performance under democratic backsliding. Evidence from a full-factorial experiment in Hungary	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
The spirit of populism: sacred, charismatic, redemptive, and apocalyptic dimensions	12
Dark politics	12
Transnational repression in the age of globalization	12
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
Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture	11
A people power philosophy: republican ideology in opposition in Tanzania	11
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections	7
Democratic resilience in Europe – and its limits	7
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia	7
Public attitudes toward external democracy promotion in Africa	7
The Druze vote in Israel: between ideology, socioeconomic status, kinship, and the Nation-State Basic Law	7
Evaluating Europe's push to enact AI regulations: how will this influence global norms?	7
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
The COVID-19 pandemic and popular confidence in democracy: evidence from China, Japan, and South Korea	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 geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries	7
Trust under threat: challenges in a digital society	7
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	7
Civil society’s democratic potential	7
Democracy rules	7
Information, doubt, and democracy: how digitization spurs democratic decay	7
Democratic backsliding as a driver of foreign policy volatility: insights from the 2015 and 2023 South Korea–Japan agreements	7
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
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
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
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