2023

The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda.", mit mit Boussalis, Constantine/Dukalskis, Alexander. In: Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp.241-253.

2021

"Explanations of Institutional Change. Reflecting on a 'Missing Diagonal.'" In: American Political Science Review, Vol. 115, No. 1, pp.218-233.

"Erosion or Decay? Conceptualizing Causes and Mechanisms of Democratic Regression." In: Democratization, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp.43-62.

"Claiming the Right to Rule: Regime Legitimation Strategies from 1900 to 2019", mit Tannenberg, Marcus/Bernhard, Michael/Lührmann, Anna/von Soest, Christian. In: European Political Science Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.77-94.

"Sketching the Liberal Script. A Target of Contestations.", mit Zürn, Michael. SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 10, Berlin: Cluster of Excellence 2055 “Contestations of the Liberal Script – SCRIPTS”

2020

"Persistenz - Kontinuität - Adaptivität: Konzeptionen politischer Stabilität in der Vergleichenden Autokratieforschung." In: Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, Sonderband 36, pp.21-38.

"How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People?", mit Neundorf, Anja/Olar, Roman-Gabriel. In: Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 53, No. 12, pp.1890-1925.

"Crises and Critical Junctures in Authoritarian Regimes: Addressing Uprisings' Temporalities and Discontinuities", mit Volpi, Frédéric. In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp.1030-1045.

"Governing Markets in Autocratic Regimes." In: Abbott, Kenneth W./Zangl, Bernhard/Snidal, Duncan/Genschel, Philipp (Eds.): The Governor's Dilemma. Indirect Governance Beyond Principals and Agents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.239-256.

"Adapting or Freezing? Ideological Reactions of Communist Regimes in a Post-Communist World", mit Dukalskis, Alexander. In: Government & Opposition, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp.511-532.

2019

"Democratic Transformation after the Second World War", mit Merkel, Wolfgang. In: Kollmorgen, Raj/Merkel, Wolfgang/Wagener, Hans-Jürgen (Eds.): Oxford Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.280-292.

2018

"Legitimacy in Autocracies. Oxymoron or Essential Feature?" In: Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.652-665.

"Legitimacy and Protest under Authoritarianism. Explaining Student Mobilization in Egypt and Morocco during the Arab Uprisings", mit Thyen, Kressen. In: Democratization, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp.38-57.

Crisis in Autocratic Regimes, Hrsg. mit Stefes, Christoph H.. Boulder: Lynne Rienner [2019 also as paperback].

2017

"What autocracies say (and what citizens hear). Proposing four mechanisms of autocratic legitimation", mit Dukalskis, Alexander. In: Contemporary Politics, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 251-268. [Guest editors of special issue; most cited article of "Contemporary Politics" in last three years]

2013

"The Three Pillars of Stability: Legitimation, Repression, and Co-optation in Autocratic Regimes". In: Democratization, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp.13-38. [Recipient of the Frank Cass 2013 Award for Best Article by a Young Scholar]

2012

Warum überleben Diktaturen?, mit Merkel, Wolfgang/Schmotz, Alexander/Stefes, Christoph H./Tanneberg, Dagin. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 47, pp.106-131.