| The anti-Marcos struggle: Personalistic rule and democratic transition in the Philippines MR Thompson Yale University Press, 1995 | 493 | 1995 |
| Whatever happened to" Asian values"? MR Thompson Journal of democracy 12 (4), 154-165, 2001 | 293 | 2001 |
| Pacific Asia after ‘Asian values’: authoritarianism, democracy, and ‘good governance’ MR Thompson Third World Quarterly 25 (6), 1079-1095, 2004 | 215 | 2004 |
| Bloodied democracy: Duterte and the death of liberal reformism in the Philippines MR Thompson Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 35 (3), 39-68, 2016 | 188 | 2016 |
| More than just the final straw: Stolen elections as revolutionary triggers P Kuntz, MR Thompson Comparative Politics 41 (3), 253-272, 2009 | 179 | 2009 |
| Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe MR Thompson Routledge, 2003 | 173 | 2003 |
| Female leadership of democratic transitions in Asia MR Thompson Pacific Affairs 75 (4), 535-555, 2002 | 136 | 2002 |
| Stolen elections: the case of the Serbian October MR Thompson, P Kuntz Journal of Democracy 15 (4), 159-172, 2004 | 129 | 2004 |
| Reformism vs. Populism in the Philippines MR Thompson Journal of Democracy 21 (4), 154-168, 2010 | 119 | 2010 |
| Late industrialisers, late democratisers: developmental states in the Asia-Pacific MR Thompson Third World Quarterly 17 (4), 625-648, 1996 | 113 | 1996 |
| The vote in the Philippines: Electing a strongman JC Teehankee, MR Thompson Journal of Democracy 27 (4), 125-134, 2016 | 104 | 2016 |
| China's obsession with Singapore: learning authoritarian modernity S Ortmann, MR Thompson The Pacific Review 27 (3), 433-455, 2014 | 95 | 2014 |
| China and the" Singapore Model" S Ortmann, MR Thompson Journal of Democracy 27 (1), 39-48, 2016 | 80 | 2016 |
| Off the endangered list: Philippine democratization in comparative perspective MR Thompson Comparative Politics, 179-205, 1996 | 77 | 1996 |
| Populism and the revival of reform: Competing political narratives in the Philippines MR Thompson Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic …, 2010 | 72 | 2010 |
| The survival of" Asian values" as" Zivilisationskritik" MR Thompson Theory and Society 29 (5), 651-686, 2000 | 64 | 2000 |
| Democracy with Asian characteristics MR Thompson The Journal of Asian Studies 74 (4), 875-887, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| The making of chancellor Merkel MR Thompson, L Lennartz German Politics 15 (1), 99-110, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
| Dynasties and female political leaders in Asia: Gender, power and pedigree C Derichs, MR Thompson LIT Verlag Münster, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| Totalitarian and post-totalitarian regimes in transitions and non-transitions from communism MR Thompson Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 3 (1), 79-106, 2002 | 55 | 2002 |
