| Rising competitive authoritarianism in Turkey B Esen, S Gumuscu Third world quarterly 37 (9), 1581-1606, 2016 | 919 | 2016 |
| Turkey: How the coup failed B Esen, S Gumuscu Journal of Democracy 28 (1), 59-73, 2017 | 207 | 2017 |
| Building a competitive authoritarian regime: State–business relations in the AKP’s Turkey B Esen, S Gumuscu Journal of Balkan and near eastern studies 20 (4), 349-372, 2018 | 172 | 2018 |
| Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of AKP’s authoritarianism B Esen, S Gumuscu Party Politics 27 (6), 1075-1091, 2021 | 148 | 2021 |
| A small yes for presidentialism: The Turkish constitutional referendum of April 2017 B Esen, Ş Gümüşçü The AKP Since Gezi Park, 195-218, 2020 | 138 | 2020 |
| Killing competitive authoritarianism softly: The 2019 local elections in Turkey B Esen, S Gumuscu South European Society and Politics 24 (3), 317-342, 2019 | 118 | 2019 |
| The Perils of “Turkish Presidentialism” B Esen, S Gumuscu Review of Middle East Studies 52 (1), 2018 | 78 | 2018 |
| Turkey's Republican people's party: Politics of opposition under a dominant party system S Ciddi, B Esen Turkish Studies 15 (3), 419-441, 2014 | 63 | 2014 |
| Nation-Building, Party-Strength, and Regime Consolidation: Kemalism in Comparative Perspective B Esen Turkish Studies 15 (4), 600-620, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
| TURKEY’S 2011 ELECTIONS: AN EMERGING DOMINANT PARTY SYSTEM? B Esen, S Ciddi MERIA - Middle Eastern Review of International Affairs 15 (3), 2011 | 38 | 2011 |
| How Erdoğan's populism won again B Esen, S Gumuscu Journal of Democracy 34 (3), 21-32, 2023 | 29 | 2023 |
| The Turkish presidential elections of 24 June 2018 B Esen, Ş Yardimci-Geyikçi Mediterranean Politics 25 (5), 682-689, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Praetorian Army in Action: A Critical Assessment of Civil–Military Relations in Turkey B Esen Armed Forces & Society, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| An alternative account of the populist backlash in the United States: A Perspective from Turkey B Esen, Ş Yardımcı-Geyikçi PS: Political Science & Politics 52 (3), 445-450, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Post-Post-Kemalizm: Türkiye Çalışmalarında Yeni Arayışlar İ Aytürk, B Esen | 15 | 2022 |
| Competitive authoritarianism in Turkey under the AKP rule B Esen The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey, 153-167, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Türkiye’deki rekabetçi otoriter rejim B Esen Birikim, Haziran, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| Democratic erosion event dataset v5 J Gottlieb, R Blair, H Baron, A Arugay, C Ballard-Rosa, G Beatty, B Esen, ... Democratic Erosion: A Cross-University Collaboration, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| The opposition alliance in Turkey: a viable alternative to Erdoğan? B Esen DEU 52, 7, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| Post-2023 election scenarios in Turkey B Esen SWP Comment, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
Sebnem GumuscuAssociate Professor of Political Science, Middlebury CollegeVahvistettu sähköpostiosoite verkkotunnuksessa middlebury.edu