| Autocratic breakdown and regime transitions: A new data set B Geddes, J Wright, E Frantz Perspectives on politics 12 (2), 313-331, 2014 | 1661* | 2014 |
| How dictatorships work: Power, personalization, and collapse B Geddes, JG Wright, E Frantz Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 612 | 2018 |
| Dictators and dictatorships: Understanding authoritarian regimes and their leaders NM Ezrow, E Frantz Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011 | 341 | 2011 |
| Oil and autocratic regime survival J Wright, E Frantz, B Geddes British Journal of Political Science 45 (2), 287-306, 2015 | 321 | 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 | 267 | 2014 |
| Military rule B Geddes, E Frantz, JG Wright Annual review of political science 17, 147-162, 2014 | 198 | 2014 |
| The Politics of Dictatorship: Institutions and Outcomes in Authoritarian Regimes. N Ezrow, E Frantz Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011 | 172 | 2011 |
| The digital dictators: How technology strengthens autocracy A Kendall-Taylor, E Frantz, J Wright Foreign Aff. 99, 103, 2020 | 161 | 2020 |
| Authoritarianism: What everyone needs to know® E Frantz Oxford University Press, 2018 | 151 | 2018 |
| Are coups good for democracy? G Derpanopoulos, E Frantz, B Geddes, J Wright Research & Politics 3 (1), 2053168016630837, 2016 | 116 | 2016 |
| How autocracies fall A Kendall--Taylor, E Frantz The Washington Quarterly 37 (1), 35-47, 2014 | 103 | 2014 |
| Countering coups: Leadership succession rules in dictatorships E Frantz, EA Stein Comparative Political Studies 50 (7), 935-962, 2017 | 102 | 2017 |
| Failed states and institutional decay: Understanding instability and poverty in the developing world NM Ezrow, E Frantz Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013 | 80 | 2013 |
| 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 | 78 | 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 | 69 | 2020 |
| Mimicking democracy to prolong autocracies A Kendall-Taylor, E Frantz The Washington Quarterly 37 (4), 71-84, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| State institutions and the survival of dictatorships NM Ezrow, E Frantz Journal of International Affairs, 1-13, 2011 | 53 | 2011 |
| When dictators die A Kendall-Taylor, E Frantz J. Democracy 27, 159, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| Digital repression in autocracies E Frantz, A Kendall-Taylor, J Wright Varieties of Democracy Institute Users Working Paper (27), 1-22, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Democracies and authoritarian regimes N Lindstaedt, E Frantz Oxford University Press, USA, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
