| Autocratic breakdown and regime transitions: A new data set B Geddes, J Wright, E Frantz Perspectives on politics 12 (2), 313-331, 2014 | 1822* | 2014 |
| How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse B Geddes Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 768 | 2018 |
| Dictators and Dictatorships: Understanding Authoritarian Regimes and Their Leaders N Ezrow Continuum, 2011 | 375 | 2011 |
| Oil and autocratic regime survival J Wright, E Frantz, B Geddes British Journal of Political Science 45 (2), 287-306, 2015 | 348 | 2015 |
| A dictator’s toolkit: Understanding how co-optation affects repression in autocracies E Frantz, A Kendall-Taylor Journal of Peace Research 51 (3), 332-346, 2014 | 306 | 2014 |
| Military rule B Geddes, E Frantz, JG Wright Annual review of political science 17 (1), 147-162, 2014 | 217 | 2014 |
| Authoritarianism: What everyone needs to know® E Frantz Oxford University Press, 2018 | 203 | 2018 |
| The digital dictators: How technology strengthens autocracy A Kendall-Taylor, E Frantz, J Wright Foreign Aff. 99, 103, 2020 | 198 | 2020 |
| The Politics of Dictatorship: Institutions and Outcomes in Authoritarian Regimes. N Ezrow, E Frantz Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011 | 188 | 2011 |
| Are coups good for democracy? G Derpanopoulos, E Frantz, B Geddes, J Wright Research & Politics 3 (1), 2053168016630837, 2016 | 130 | 2016 |
| Countering coups: Leadership succession rules in dictatorships E Frantz, EA Stein Comparative Political Studies 50 (7), 935-962, 2017 | 115 | 2017 |
| How autocracies fall A Kendall--Taylor, E Frantz The Washington Quarterly 37 (1), 35-47, 2014 | 111 | 2014 |
| The global rise of personalized politics: It's not just dictators anymore A Kendall-Taylor, E Frantz, J Wright The Washington Quarterly 40 (1), 7-19, 2017 | 90 | 2017 |
| Personalization of power and repression in dictatorships E Frantz, A Kendall-Taylor, J Wright, X Xu The Journal of Politics 82 (1), 372-377, 2020 | 84 | 2020 |
| Failed states and institutional decay: Understanding instability and poverty in the developing world NM Ezrow, E Frantz A&C Black, 2013 | 83 | 2013 |
| Mimicking democracy to prolong autocracies A Kendall-Taylor, E Frantz The Washington Quarterly 37 (4), 71-84, 2014 | 68 | 2014 |
| Digital repression in autocracies E Frantz, A Kendall-Taylor, J Wright Varieties of Democracy Institute Users Working Paper (27), 1-22, 2020 | 64 | 2020 |
| How personalist politics is changing democracies E Frantz, A Kendall-Taylor, C Nietsche, J Wright Journal of Democracy 32 (3), 94-108, 2021 | 59 | 2021 |
| When dictators die A Kendall-Taylor, E Frantz Journal of Democracy 27 (4), 159-171, 2016 | 57 | 2016 |
| State institutions and the survival of dictatorships NM Ezrow, E Frantz Journal of International Affairs, 1-13, 2011 | 56 | 2011 |