Polarization and the global crisis of democracy: Common patterns, dynamics, and pernicious consequences for democratic polities J McCoy, T Rahman, M Somer American Behavioral Scientist 62 (1), 16-42, 2018 | 821 | 2018 |
Toward a theory of pernicious polarization and how it harms democracies: Comparative evidence and possible remedies J McCoy, M Somer The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 681 (1 …, 2019 | 385 | 2019 |
Understanding Turkey’s democratic breakdown: Old vs. new and indigenous vs. global authoritarianism M Somer Exit from Democracy, 13-36, 2018 | 292 | 2018 |
Moderate Islam and secularist opposition in Turkey: Implications for the world, Muslims and secular democracy M Somer Third World Quarterly 28 (7), 1271-1289, 2007 | 209 | 2007 |
Turkey: The slippery slope from reformist to revolutionary polarization and democratic breakdown M Somer The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 681 (1 …, 2019 | 164 | 2019 |
Turkey's Kurdish conflict: changing context, and domestic and regional implications M Somer The Middle East Journal 58 (2), 235-253, 2004 | 160 | 2004 |
Déjà vu? Polarization and endangered democracies in the 21st century M Somer, J McCoy American Behavioral Scientist 62 (1), 3-15, 2018 | 152 | 2018 |
Conquering versus democratizing the state: political Islamists and fourth wave democratization in Turkey and Tunisia M Somer Democratization 24 (6), 1025-1043, 2017 | 138 | 2017 |
Moderation of religious and secular politics, a country's “centre” and democratization M Somer Democratization 21 (2), 244-267, 2014 | 133 | 2014 |
Pernicious polarization, autocratization and opposition strategies M Somer, JL McCoy, RE Luke Democratization 28 (5), 929-948, 2021 | 125 | 2021 |
Turkey's new Kurdish opening: religious versus secular values M Somer, EG Liaras Middle East Policy 17 (2), 152-165, 2010 | 116 | 2010 |
Transformations through polarizations and global threats to democracy M Somer, J McCoy The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 681 (1), 8-22, 2019 | 111 | 2019 |
Resurgence and remaking of identity: civil beliefs, domestic and external dynamics, and the Turkish mainstream discourse on Kurds M Somer Comparative Political Studies 38 (6), 591-622, 2005 | 95 | 2005 |
Cascades of ethnic polarization: Lessons from Yugoslavia M Somer The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 573 (1 …, 2001 | 90 | 2001 |
Media values and democratization: what unites and what divides religious‐conservative and pro‐secular elites? M Somer Turkish Studies 11 (4), 555-577, 2010 | 67 | 2010 |
Does it take democrats to democratize? Lessons from Islamic and secular elite values in Turkey M Somer Comparative Political Studies 44 (5), 511-545, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
Failures of the discourse of ethnicity: Turkey, Kurds, and the emerging Iraq M Somer Security Dialogue 36 (1), 109-128, 2005 | 57 | 2005 |
Overcoming polarization J McCoy, M Somer J. Democracy 32, 6, 2021 | 54 | 2021 |
Ethnic kurds, endogenous identities, and Turkey's democratization and integration with Europe M Somer The Global Review of Ethnopolitics 1 (4), 74-93, 2002 | 38 | 2002 |
Defensive-vs. liberal-nationalist perspectives on diversity and the Kurdish conflict: Europeanization, the internal debate, and Türkiyelilik M Somer New perspectives on Turkey 32, 73-91, 2005 | 37 | 2005 |