Baturo, Alexander and Roman-Gabriel Olar. forthcoming. “Reshuffles or Dismissals? The Logic of Elite Management and Autocratic Survival.” World Politics. April 2026 https://wpj.princeton.edu/issues/forthcoming-articles.
Khokhlov, Nikita and Alexander Baturo. 2025. “Autocratic Audiences and Linguistic Complexity.” British Journal of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425100914.
Baturo, Alexander, Nikita Khokhlov and Jakob Tolstrup. 2025. “Playing the Sycophant Card: The Logic and Consequences of Professing Loyalty to the Autocrat.” American Journal of Political Science 69(3): 1180–1195.
Also see "Putin’s ‘yes men’: why some senior officials resort to flattery and others don’t", The Conversation.
Baturo, Alexander. 2025. “Why Do Leaders Attend the United Nations and Other International Fora? Leader Visits, Rhetoric, and Consequences for Multilateralism.” International Studies Perspectives. ekaf008.
Ali Balci, James D. Kim, Jonathan D. Moyer, Collin J. Meisel, Kylie McKee, Alexander Baturo, Byungwon Woo, Seulah Choi, Minseon Ku, Eric Van Rythoven, Marcus Holmes. 2025. “High-Level Leader Visits: A Promising Area of Study in IR.” International Studies Perspectives https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekaf008.
Baturo, Alexander, Paul D. Kenny and Evren Balta. 2025. “Leaders’ Experience and the Transition from Populism to Dictatorship.” Democratization. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2024.2391482.
Baturo, Alexander and Nikita Khokhlov. 2025. “Personalization and Elite Rhetoric: How the Autocrat’s Popularity and Political Repression Influence Speech of Regime Officials.” Politics & Policy 53(4): e70058.
Slava Jankin, Baturo, Alexander and Niheer Dasandi. 2024. “Words to Unite Nations: The Complete UN General Debate Corpus, 1946-Present.” Journal of Peace Research 62(4): 1339–1351.
Baturo, Alexander and Julia Gray. 2024. “Leaders in the United Nations General Assembly: Revitalization or Politicization?” The Review of International Organizations 19: 721–752.
Baturo, Alexander and Jakob Tolstrup. 2024. “Strategic Communication in Dictatorships: Performance, Patriotism, and Intimidation.” Journal of Politics 86(2): 582–596.
Also see "What Dictators Communicate in their Speeches and Why We Should Pay Attention" on JoP Blogpost.
Baturo, Alexander and Julia Gray. 2023. “The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly.” International Interactions 50(1): 138–167.
Watanabe, Kohei and Baturo, Alexander. 2023. “Seeded Sequential LDA: A Semi-Supervised Algorithm for Topic-Specific Analysis of Sentences.” Social Science Computer Review 42(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393231178605.
Baturo, Alexander and Jakob Tolstrup. 2023. “Executive Takeovers.” Journal of Peace Research 60(2): 373–386.
Baturo, Alexander and Johan Elkink. 2022. “What Countries Select More Experienced Leaders?” British Journal of Political Science 52: 1455–1464.
Baturo, Alexander. 2022. “When Incumbents Do Not Run: Presidential Succession and Democratization” Democratization 29(1): 74–92.
Baturo, Alexander and Julia Gray. 2021. “Delegating Diplomacy: Rhetoric Across Agents in the United Nations General Assembly.” International Review of Administrative Sciences 87(4): 718–736.
Baturo, Alexander and Julia Gray. 2018. “When Do Family Ties Matter? The Duration of Female Suffrage and Women’s Path to High Political Office.” Political Research Quarterly 71(3): 695–709.
Baturo, Alexander and Robert Elgie. 2018. “Why do Authoritarian Regimes Adopt Bicameralism? Cooptation, Control, and Masking Controversial Reforms.” Democratization 25(5): 919–937.
Baturo, Alexander and Jonathan Arlow. 2018. “Is There a ‘Revolving Door’ to the Private Sector in Irish Politics?” Irish Political Studies 33(3): 381–406.
Baturo, Alexander and Robert Elgie. 2018. “Bicameralism and Bicameral Reforms in Democracy and Dictatorship in Comparative Perspective.” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 14(1): 1–29.
Baturo, Alexander and Niheer Dasandi. 2017. “What Drives the International Development Agenda? An NLP Analysis of the United Nations General Debate 1970–2016.” Frontiers and Advances in Data Science (FADS) Proceedings, pp. 171–176. IEEE Xplore, doi: 10.1109/FADS.2017.8253221.
Baturo, Alexander, Niheer Dasandi, and Slava Mikhaylov. 2017. “The United Nations General Debate: A New Approach to Understanding Government Preferences.” Research and Politics 4(2): 1–9.
Baturo, Alexander and Johan Elkink. 2017. “On the Importance of Personal Sources of Power in Politics: Comparative Perspectives and Research Agenda.” French Politics 15(4): 505–525.
Baturo, Alexander. 2017. “Democracy, Development, and Career Trajectories of Former Political Leaders.” Comparative Political Studies 50(8): 1023–1054.
Baturo, Alexander and Slava Mikhaylov. 2016. “Blair Disease? Business Careers of the Former Democratic Heads of State and Government.” Public Choice 166 (3): 335–354.
Baturo, Alexander. 2016. “Cursus Honorum: Personal Background, Careers and Experience of Political Leaders in Democracy and Dictatorship — New Data and Analyses.” Politics And Governance 4 (2): 138–157.
Baturo, Alexander and Johan Elkink. 2016. “Dynamics of Regime Personalisation and Patron-Client Networks in Russia, 1999–2014.” Post-Soviet Affairs 32(1): 75–98.
Baturo, Alexander and Slava Mikhaylov. 2014. “Reading The Tea Leaves: Medvedev’s Presidency Through Political Rhetoric Of Federal And Sub-National Actors.” Europe-Asia Studies 66(6): 969–92.
Baturo, Alexander and Johan Elkink. 2014. “Office or Officeholder? Regime Deinstitutionalisation and Sources of Individual Political Influence.” Journal of Politics 76(3): 859–72.
Baturo, Alexander and Slava Mikhaylov. 2013. “Life of Brian Revisited: Assessing Informational and Non-Informational Leadership Tools.” Political Science Research and Method 1(1): 139–57.
Baturo, Alexander. 2010. “The Stakes of Losing Office, Term Limits and Democracy.” British Journal of Political Science 40(3): 635–62.
Baturo, Alexander and Julia Gray. 2009. “Flatliners: Policy Diffusion and Ideology in the Flat Tax Revolution in Eastern Europe.” European Journal of Political Research 48(1): 130–59.