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Mark R. Thompson 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 Mark R. Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 124 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark R. Thompson 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 Mark R. Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 27 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mark R. Thompson is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong in China and specializes in social sciences with an emphasis on economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research spans a variety of interdisciplinary areas including sociology, political science, anthropology, and accounting.

The researcher's work is grounded primarily in the subfields of sociology and political science, political science and international relations, economics and econometrics, anthropology, and accounting. The main thematic focuses include Asian studies and history, Philippine history and culture, Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies, Hong Kong and Taiwan politics, corporate finance and governance, populism and right-wing movements, as well as law, economics, and judicial systems.

Mark R. Thompson has a substantial publication record with frequent contributions to several scholarly venues. These include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Democratization
  • Philippine Political Science Journal
  • Asian Studies Review
  • Journal of East Asian Studies

Among recent notable papers are:

  • Duterte's Violent Populism: Mass Murder, Political Legitimacy and the "Death of Development" in the Philippines (2021), published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia
  • Pushback after backsliding? Unconstrained executive aggrandizement in the Philippines versus contested military-monarchical rule in Thailand (2020), published in Democratization
  • Explaining Duterte's Rise and Rule: "Penal Populist" Leadership or a Structural Crisis of Oligarchic Democracy in the Philippines? (2020), published in Philippine Political Science Journal
  • Brute Force Governance: Public Approval Despite Policy Failure During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines (2022), published in the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
  • Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand (2022), published in Social Movement Studies

The scholar's book publication includes The Philippines (2023), published by Cambridge University Press.

Mark R. Thompson collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Tomasz Orpiszewski
  • Tsuyoshi Iwata
  • Kevin Nielsen M. Agojo
  • Peter Schwendner
  • Joyce Li Liang

In summary, the research output of Mark R. Thompson engages with political and social transformations in Southeast Asia, with a significant focus on the Philippines, and explores governance, populism, political legitimacy, and sociopolitical dynamics across Asian contexts.

Best Publications

  • The Anti-Marcos Struggle: Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines

    Mark Richard Thompson

  • Whatever happened to "Asian values"?

    Mark R. Thompson

  • Pacific Asia after ‘Asian values’: authoritarianism, democracy, and ‘good governance’

    Mark R Thompson

  • More than Just the Final Straw: Stolen Elections as Revolutionary Triggers

    Philipp Kuntz;Mark R. Thompson

  • Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe

    Mark Richard Thompson

  • Female Leadership of Democratic Transitions in Asia

    Mark R. Thompson

  • Bloodied Democracy: Duterte and the Death of Liberal Reformism in the Philippines

    Mark R. Thompson

  • STOLEN ELECTIONS: THE CASE OF THE SERBIAN OCTOBER

    Mark R. Thompson;Philipp Kuntz

  • Reformism vs. Populism in the Philippines

    Mark Richard Thompson

  • Late industrialisers, late democratisers: Developmental states in the Asia-Pacific

    Mark R Thompson

  • China and the "Singapore Model"

    Stephan Ortmann;Mark Richard Thompson

  • Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space

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  • China's obsession with Singapore: learning authoritarian modernity

    Stephan Ortmann;Mark R. Thompson

  • Off the Endangered List: Philippine Democratization in Comparative Perspective

    Mark R. Thompson

  • The survival of ''Asian values'' as ''Zivilisationskritik''

    Mark R. Thompson;Mark R. Thompson

  • Electing A Strongman

    Julio C. Teehankee;Mark R. Thompson

  • To Shoot or Not to Shoot: Posttotalitarianism in China and Eastern Europe

    Mark R. Thompson

  • Populism and the Revival of Reform: Competing Political Narratives in the Philippines

    Mark R. Thompson

  • Pushback after backsliding? Unconstrained executive aggrandizement in the Philippines versus contested military-monarchical rule in Thailand

    Mark R. Thompson

  • Duterte’s Violent Populism: Mass Murder, Political Legitimacy and the “Death of Development” in the Philippines

    Mark R. Thompson

  • Wende oder friedliche Revolution? Ungleiche Deutungen einer historischen Zäsur

    Matthias Damm;Mark R. Thompson

  • Conclusion : The decline of the Singapore model 1

    Mark R. Thompson;Stephan Ortmann;Yang Kai

  • Die spontane Macht der Gewaltlosen. eine übersehene Erklä rung für den Untergang der DDR

    Matthias Damm;Mark R. Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Aspinall
Edward Aspinall Australian National University
Lucan A. Way
Lucan A. Way University of Toronto

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