| The anti-Marcos struggle: Personalistic rule and democratic transition in the Philippines MR Thompson Yale University Press, 1995 | 496 | 1995 |
| Whatever happened to" Asian values"? MR Thompson J. Democracy 12, 154, 2001 | 290 | 2001 |
| Pacific Asia after ‘Asian values’: authoritarianism, democracy, and ‘good governance’ MR Thompson Third World Quarterly 25 (6), 1079-1095, 2004 | 213 | 2004 |
| Bloodied democracy: Duterte and the death of liberal reformism in the Philippines MR Thompson Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 35 (3), 39-68, 2016 | 172 | 2016 |
| More than just the final straw: Stolen elections as revolutionary triggers P Kuntz, MR Thompson Comparative Politics 41 (3), 253-272, 2009 | 169 | 2009 |
| Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe MR Thompson Routledge, 2003 | 168 | 2003 |
| Stolen elections: the case of the Serbian October MR Thompson, P Kuntz J. Democracy 15, 159, 2004 | 139 | 2004 |
| Female leadership of democratic transitions in Asia MR Thompson Pacific Affairs 75 (4), 535-555, 2002 | 131 | 2002 |
| Late industrialisers, late democratisers: Developmental states in the Asia-Pacific MR Thompson Third World Quarterly 17 (4), 625-648, 1996 | 114 | 1996 |
| Reformism vs. Populism in the Philippines MR Thompson J. Democracy 21, 154, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
| Electing a strongman JC Teehankee, MR Thompson J. Democracy 27, 125, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| China's obsession with Singapore: learning authoritarian modernity S Ortmann, MR Thompson The Pacific Review 27 (3), 433-455, 2014 | 93 | 2014 |
| China and the" Singapore Model" S Ortmann, MR Thompson J. Democracy 27, 39, 2016 | 81 | 2016 |
| Off the endangered list: Philippine democratization in comparative perspective MR Thompson Comparative Politics, 179-205, 1996 | 81 | 1996 |
| Populism and the revival of reform: Competing political narratives in the Philippines MR Thompson Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic …, 2010 | 70 | 2010 |
| The survival of" Asian values" as" Zivilisationskritik" MR Thompson Theory and Society 29 (5), 651-686, 2000 | 63 | 2000 |
| Democracy with Asian characteristics MR Thompson The Journal of Asian Studies 74 (4), 875-887, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
| The making of chancellor Merkel MR Thompson, L Lennartz German Politics 15 (1), 99-110, 2006 | 55 | 2006 |
| The limits of democratisation in ASEAN MR Thompson Third World Quarterly 14 (3), 469-484, 1993 | 53 | 1993 |
| The Marcos regime in the Philippines MR Thompson Sultanistic regimes, 206-229, 1998 | 50 | 1998 |
