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Aurel Croissant

Aurel Croissant

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
31
Citations
3879
World Ranking
1104
National Ranking
59

Aurel Croissant publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aurel Croissant sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 235 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Aurel Croissant D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aurel Croissant sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 31 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Aurel Croissant is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and is active in the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, as well as Political Science and International Relations. Their research includes contributions in development, economics and econometrics, and anthropology.

The scientist's work predominantly covers topics related to Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies and Asian Studies and History, with additional attention to Political Conflict and Governance, Cambodian History and Society, Peacebuilding and International Security, Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography, and Vietnamese History and Culture Studies.

Frequent publication venues for Aurel Croissant include Democratization, Perspectives on Politics, Swiss Political Science Review, European Policy Analysis, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Aurel Croissant are:

  1. Democratic regression in Asia: introduction (2020) - Democratization
  2. Measuring Policy Performance, Democracy, and Governance Capacities: A conceptual and methodological assessment of the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) (2022) - European Policy Analysis
  3. Citizen support for democratic and autocratic regimes (2020) - Democratization

Frequent co-authors of the scientist include Lars Lott, Lars Pelke, David Kuehn, Olli Hellmann, and Jeffrey Haynes.

Aurel Croissant has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Springer International Publishing titled Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia (2022).

Best Publications

  • Formale und informale Institutionen in defekten Demokratien

    Wolfgang Merkel;Aurel Croissant

  • Changing Welfare Regimes in East and Southeast Asia: Crisis, Change and Challenge

    Aurel Croissant

  • From transition to defective democracy: mapping Asian democratization

    Aurel Croissant

  • Beyond the fallacy of coup-ism: conceptualizing civilian control of the military in emerging democracies

    Aurel Croissant;David Kuehn;Paul Chambers;Siegfried O. Wolf

  • Party system types and party system institutionalization Comparing new democracies in East and Southeast Asia

    Aurel Croissant;Philip Völkel

  • Unrest in South Thailand: Contours, Causes, and Consequences Since 2001

    Aurel Croissant

  • Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia

    Aurel Croissant;David Kuehn;Philip Lorenz;Paul W. Chambers

  • Civil Society and Competitive Authoritarianism in Malaysia

    Stephan Giersdorf;Aurel Croissant

  • Introduction: democratization in the early twenty-first century

    Aurel Croissant;Wolfgang Merkel

  • Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring

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  • Defekte Demokratie Konzept, Operationalisierung und Messung

    Aurel Croissant;Peter Thiery

  • Performance and persistence of autocracies in comparison: introducing issues and perspectives

    Aurel Croissant;Stefan Wurster

  • Demokratie als universalistisches Analysekonzept

    Wolfgang Merkel;Hans-Jürgen Puhle;Aurel Croissant;Claudia Eicher

  • Militär und zivile Politik

    Aurel Croissant;David Kühn

  • Patterns of Civilian Control of the Military in East Asia's New Democracies

    Aurel Croissant;David Kuehn

  • Democratic regression in Asia: introduction

    Aurel Croissant;Jeffrey Haynes

  • The “dictator’s endgame”: Explaining military behavior in nonviolent anti-incumbent mass protests

    Aurel Croissant;David Kuehn;Tanja Eschenauer

  • Riding the Tiger: Civilian Control and the Military in Democratizing Korea:

    Aurel Croissant

  • Legislative powers, veto players, and the emergence of delegative democracy: A comparison of presidentialism in the Philippines and South Korea

    Aurel Croissant

  • Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia

    Aurel Croissant;Philip Lorenz

  • The Perils and Promises of Democratization through United Nations Transitional Authority – Lessons from Cambodia and East Timor

    Aurel Croissant

  • Why Do Military Regimes Institutionalize? Constitution-making and Elections as Political Survival Strategy in Myanmar

    Aurel Croissant;Jil Kamerling

  • Theorizing civilian control of the military in emerging democracies: agency, structure and institutional change

    Aurel Croissant;David Kühn;Paul W. Chambers;Philip Völkel

  • The Crisis of Democratic Governance in Southeast Asia

    Aurel Croissant;Marco Bünte

  • Muslim Insurgency, Political Violence, and Democracy in Thailand 1

    Aurel Croissant

  • Conclusion: good and defective democracies

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  • Following the Money Trail: Terrorist Financing and Government Responses in Southeast Asia 1

    Aurel Croissant;Daniel Barlow

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Haynes
Jeffrey Haynes London Metropolitan University
Jale Tosun
Jale Tosun Heidelberg University

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