| Reversing regimes and concepts: from democratization to autocratization A Cassani, L Tomini European Political Science 19, 272-287, 2020 | 124 | 2020 |
| Varieties of contemporary democratic breakdown and regression: A comparative analysis L Tomini, C Wagemann European Journal of Political Research 57 (3), 687-716, 2018 | 114 | 2018 |
| Autocratization in post-Cold War political regimes A Cassani, L Tomini Springer, 2018 | 94 | 2018 |
| Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: a comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies L Tomini, S Gibril, V Bochev Democratization 30 (1), 119-138, 2023 | 51 | 2023 |
| When democracies collapse: Assessing transitions to non-democratic regimes in the contemporary world L Tomini Routledge, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Reassessing Democratic Consolidation in Central and eastern europe and the Role of the eU R Coman, L Tomini The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, 19-51, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| Don’t think of a wave! A research note about the current autocratization debate L Tomini Democratization 28 (6), 1191-1201, 2021 | 34 | 2021 |
| Europeanization and European integration: From incremental to structural change R Coman, T Kostera, L Tomini Springer, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Democratizing Central and Eastern Europe. Successes and failures of the European Union L Tomini Routledge, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
| Democratizing Central and Eastern Europe L Tomini | 28* | |
| A comparative perspective on the state of democracy in central and Eastern Europe R Coman, L Tomini Europe-Asia Studies 66 (6), 853-858, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Post-Cold War autocratization: Trends and patterns of regime change opposite to democratization A Cassani, L Tomini Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 49 (2 …, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| Still in search of Europeanization: from limited to structural change? R Coman, A Crespy Europeanization and European integration: From incremental to structural …, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| Improving Quality of Government: The EU’s Influence in Central and Eastern European Countries during the Enlargement Process L Tomini | 12 | 2011 |
| Contesting the EU, contesting democracy and rule of law in Europe. Conceptual suggestions for future research L Tomini, S Gürkan Illiberal trends and anti-EU politics in East Central Europe, 285-300, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| What autocratization is A Cassani, L Tomini, A Cassani, L Tomini Autocratization in post-Cold War Political Regimes, 15-35, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Trajectories and modes of autocratization in the early 21st century A Cassani, L Tomini Partecipazione e Conflitto 13 (3), 1539-1558, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Protecting the rule of law and the state of democracy at the supranational level: Political dilemmas and institutional struggles in strengthening EU’s input, output and … R Coman Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century, 142-173, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Political system, civil society and institutions in Italy: The quality of democracy G Sandri, M Telo, L Tomini Comparative European Politics 11, 261-279, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| Challenges of democracy in the 21st century: Concepts, methods, causality and the quality of democracy L Tomini, G Sandri Routledge, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
