Comparative Political Studies

Article	Citations
Measuring Populism in Political Parties: Appraisal of a New Approach	99
How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice	59
Attitudes Toward Migrants in a Highly Impacted Economy: Evidence From the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan	58
Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right	56
The Politics of Vigilantism	49
State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development	47
Strangers in Hostile Lands: Exposure to Refugees and Right-Wing Support in Germany’s Eastern Regions	44
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom	41
Drinking Alone: Local Socio-Cultural Degradation and Radical Right Support—The Case of British Pub Closures	39
Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support	37
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	36
Dictators and Their Subjects: Authoritarian Attitudinal Effects and Legacies	36
Partisanship and Autocratization: Polarization, Power Asymmetry, and Partisan Social Identities in Turkey	34
Legislatures and Legislative Politics Without Democracy	33
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	33
Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel	31
Brexit Domino? The Political Contagion Effects of Voter-endorsed Withdrawals from International Institutions	30
Will Women Executives Reduce Corruption? Marginalization and Network Inclusion	26
When “Fake News” Becomes Real: The Consequences of False Government Denials in an Authoritarian Country	26
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences	25
Economic Distress and Support for Radical Right Parties—Evidence From Sweden	25
International incentives for women’s rights in dictatorships	25
The Globalization Backlash: Exploring New Perspectives	24
Contextual Effects of Immigrant Presence on Populist Radical Right Support: Testing the “Halo Effect” on Front National Voting in France	23
Chaos on Campus: Universities and Mass Political Protest	22

What Drives Unequal Policy Responsiveness? Assessing the Role of Informational Asymmetries in Economic Policy-Making	22
Competing for Loyalists? How Party Positioning Affects Populist Radical Right Voting	21
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	21
When Technocratic Appointments Signal Credibility	21
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)	20
Borders of Compassion: Immigration Preferences and Parochial Altruism	20
Gender and Dynastic Political Selection	19
Policy-Making in Multi-Level Systems: Ideology, Authority, and Education	18
Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy	17
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy: Taking Stock of Three Decades of Research in a Fragmented Field	16
The Role of Corporate Political Connections in Commercial Lawsuits: Evidence From Chinese Courts	16
The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro	15
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	15
Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile	15
A Decline in the Social Status of the Working Class? Conflicting Evidence for 8 Western Countries, 1987–2017	14
Why Monarchy? The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type	14
Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees	14
The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics	13
Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority	13
Social Transformation and Violence: Evidence from U.S. Reconstruction	13
Political Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: The Spatial-Temporal Dimension of Trouble	13
Does Class-Based Campaigning Work? How Working Class Appeals Attract and Polarize Voters	13
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa	13
The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility	12
The Gender Gap in Political Clientelism: Problem-Solving Networks and the Division of Political Work in Argentina	12
Personal Proximity and Reactions to Terrorism	12
How Voters Respond to Presidential Assaults on Checks and Balances: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey	12
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	12
Status-quo or Grievance Coalitions: The Logic of Cross-ethnic Campaign Appeals in Africa’s Highly Diverse States	12
Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility?	12
Voter and Legislator Responses to Localized Trade Shocks from China in Brazil	11
Satisfaction With Democracy: When Government by the People Brings Electoral Losers and Winners Together	11
Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies	11
How Political Careers affect Prime-Ministerial Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	11
(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research	11
Political Corruption Cycles: High-Frequency Evidence from Argentina’s Notebooks Scandal	10
(Un)Natural Disasters: Electoral Cycles in Disaster Relief	10
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why	10
From Benefits and Beneficiaries: The Historical Origins of Old-Age Pensions From a Political Regime Perspective	10
Collusion, Co-Optation, or Evasion: The Politics of Drug Trafficking Violence in Central America	10
Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia	10
Election Administration, Resource Allocation, and Turnout: Evidence From Kenya	10
Political Institutions and Coups in Dictatorships	10
State Dependency and the Limits of Middle Class Support for Democracy	10
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: How Political Alignment Shapes Electoral Backlash from Natural Disasters	9
Fear without Prejudice in the Shadow of Jihadist Threat	9
Using Sermons to Study Religions’ Influence on Political Behavior	9
When Marriage Gets Hard: Intra-Coalition Conflict and Electoral Accountability	9
Closing Open Government: Grassroots Policy Conversion of China’s Open Government Information Regulation and Its Aftermath	9
Moralizing Immigration: Political Framing, Moral Conviction, and Polarization in the United States and Denmark	9

Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice in Europe: How Do Different Partisan Groups React to Campaign Attacks?	9
Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	9
Incentives for Organizational Participation: A Recruitment Experiment in Mexico	9
Electoral Preferences Among Multiethnic Voters in Africa	9
Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico	9
Reshaping the Threat Environment: Personalism, Coups, and Assassinations	9
Sovereign Risk and Government Change: Elections, Ideology and Experience	9
Immigration Threat, Partisanship, and Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from the US, UK, and Germany	9
The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Côte d’Ivoire	8
Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	8
Crisis and Convergence: How the Combination of a Weak Economy and Mainstream Party Ideological De-Polarization Fuels Anti-System Support	8
The Representation Gap and Political Sophistication: A Contrarian Perspective	8
What Happens When Coups Fail? The Problem of Identifying and Weakening the Enemy Within	8
How Great is the Current Danger to Democracy? Assessing the Risk With Historical Data	8
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	8
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate	8
Oil “Rents” and Political Development: What Do We Really Know About the Curse of Natural Resources?	8
What Drives the Immigration-Welfare Policy Link? Comparing Germany, France and the United Kingdom	8
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	7
The Autocrat’s Moral-Legal Dilemma: Popular Morality and Legal Institutions in China	7
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evaluating India’s Quota System	7
Globalization Backlash in Developing Countries: Broadening the Research Agenda	7
Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence Through Internationalized Prosecution: How the Collaboration Between the CICIG and Guatemala’s Law Enforcement Contributed to a Sustained Reduction in the Murd	7
Breaking the Cabinet’s Glass Ceiling: The Gendered Effect of Political Experience in Presidential Democracies	7
How to be Gracious about Political Loss—The Importance of Good Loser Messages in Policy Controversies	7
Network Ties and the Politics of Renationalization: Embeddedness, Political-Business Relations, and Renationalization in Post-Milosevic Serbia	7
Erosion of Civilian Control in Democracies: A Comprehensive Framework for Comparative Analysis	7
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	7
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	7
The Consequences of Militarized Policing for Human Rights: Evidence from Mexico	7
Opportunistic, not Optimal Delegation: The Political Origins of Central Bank Independence	7
Ethnic Coalitions and the Logic of Political Survival in Authoritarian Regimes	6
The Long-Term Impact of Mobilization and Repression on Political Trust	6
Dealing with Technological Change: Social Policy Preferences and Institutional Context	6
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	6
Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica	6
The Element of Surprise: Election Timing and Opposition Preparedness	6
Protest Brokers and the Technology of Mobilization: Evidence from South Africa	6
Self-Selection into Public Service When Corruption is Widespread: The Anomalous Russian Case	6
Electoral Rules, Women’s Representation and the Qualification of Politicians	6
The Politics of Ethnic Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies	6
Progress outside of paradise: Old and new comparative approaches to contentious politics	6
Can Conservatism Make Women More Vulnerable to Violence?	6
When Does the Public Get It Right? The Information Environment and the Accuracy of Economic Sentiment	6
Early Statehood and Support for Autocratic Rule in Africa	5
Insurgency and Ivory: The Territorial Origins of Illicit Resource Extraction in Civil Conflicts	5
Generous to Workers ≠ Generous to All: Implications of European Unemployment Benefit Systems for the Social Protection of Immigrants	5
The Legislative Effects of Campaign Personalization An Analysis on the Legislative Behavior of Successful German Constituency Candidates	5
Campaign Effects and the Elusive Swing Voter in Modern Machine Politics	5
Intelligence Capacity and Mass Violence: Evidence From Indonesia	5
Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors	5
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	5
Voting in Clientelistic Social Networks: Evidence From the Philippines*	5
Foreign Anti-Mainstream Propaganda and Democratic Publics	5
The Representational Effects of Communal Property: Evidence from Peru’s Indigenous Groups	5
Political Budgetary Cycles in Autocratic Redistribution	5
Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions	4
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	4
Recent Events and the Coding of Cross-National Indicators	4
The Electoral Consequences of International Migration in Sending Countries: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Citizen Cooperation with the Police: Evidence from Contemporary Guatemala	4
Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa	4
Privileging One’s Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India	4
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	4
The Politics of Legislative Expansion in Africa	4
Collective Decision-Making and the Economic Vote	4
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	4
Leftist Insurgency in Democracies	4
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	4
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	4
Is There a First Mover Advantage in Lobbying? A Comparative Analysis of How the Timing of Mobilization Affects the Influence of Interest Groups in 10 Polities	4
Equal Treatment and the Inelasticity of Tax Policy to Rising Inequality	4
How Voters Respond to Currency Crises: Evidence From Turkey	4
Value Similarity and Norm Change: Null Effects and Backlash to Messaging on Same-Sex Rights in Uganda	4
When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe	3
Promoting Democracy Under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence From Cambodia	3
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	3
Repression Works (Just Not in Moderation)	3
Fragmentation of Political Authority and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Explaining Instances of Minority Accommodation in Israel and Estonia	3

Do Truth Commissions Really Improve Democracy?	3
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	3
Strategic Uncertainty and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies: A Cross-National Analysis	3
Numbers, Selectivity, and Rights: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences	3
The Politics of Trade Adjustment Versus Trade Protection	3
Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe	3
Political Parties and Violence in Karachi, Pakistan	3
The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time? Territorial Autonomy and Conflict During Regime Transitions	3
Covert Confiscation: How Governments Differ in Their Strategies of Expropriation	3
Election Frequency and Voter Turnout	3
Grammar of Threat: Governance and Order in Public Threats by Criminal Actors	3
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	3
Moral Logics of Support for Nonviolent Resistance: Evidence From a Cross-National Survey Experiment	3
Work and Demand Making: Productionist and Consumptionist Politics in Latin America	3
Inequality, Exclusion, and Tolerance for Political Dissent in Latin America	3
Minding (Your Own and) Others’ Business: Assigning Co-Responsibility in Cabinet Decisions	3
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	3
Interpersonal Resources and Insider/Outsider Dynamics in Party Office	3