Comparative Political Studies

Article	Citations
Measuring Populism in Political Parties: Appraisal of a New Approach	110
How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice	65
Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right	64
The Politics of Vigilantism	53
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom	51
State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development	48
Strangers in Hostile Lands: Exposure to Refugees and Right-Wing Support in Germany’s Eastern Regions	47
Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support	46
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	44
Drinking Alone: Local Socio-Cultural Degradation and Radical Right Support—The Case of British Pub Closures	41
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	37
Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel	36
Brexit Domino? The Political Contagion Effects of Voter-endorsed Withdrawals from International Institutions	30
Will Women Executives Reduce Corruption? Marginalization and Network Inclusion	29
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences	28
Economic Distress and Support for Radical Right Parties—Evidence From Sweden	28
The Globalization Backlash: Exploring New Perspectives	28
When “Fake News” Becomes Real: The Consequences of False Government Denials in an Authoritarian Country	27
International incentives for women’s rights in dictatorships	27
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	25
Contextual Effects of Immigrant Presence on Populist Radical Right Support: Testing the “Halo Effect” on Front National Voting in France	24
Competing for Loyalists? How Party Positioning Affects Populist Radical Right Voting	24
Borders of Compassion: Immigration Preferences and Parochial Altruism	23
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)	23
Gender and Dynastic Political Selection	22

When Technocratic Appointments Signal Credibility	21
Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy	20
Policy-Making in Multi-Level Systems: Ideology, Authority, and Education	18
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy: Taking Stock of Three Decades of Research in a Fragmented Field	18
The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro	17
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa	17
A Decline in the Social Status of the Working Class? Conflicting Evidence for 8 Western Countries, 1987–2017	17
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	17
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	16
Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees	16
Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile	15
Why Monarchy? The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type	15
The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility	15
Does Class-Based Campaigning Work? How Working Class Appeals Attract and Polarize Voters	15
Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority	14
From Benefits and Beneficiaries: The Historical Origins of Old-Age Pensions From a Political Regime Perspective	14
Political Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: The Spatial-Temporal Dimension of Trouble	14
The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics	14
How Voters Respond to Presidential Assaults on Checks and Balances: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey	13
Social Transformation and Violence: Evidence from U.S. Reconstruction	13
How Great is the Current Danger to Democracy? Assessing the Risk With Historical Data	13
Voter and Legislator Responses to Localized Trade Shocks from China in Brazil	13
Status-quo or Grievance Coalitions: The Logic of Cross-ethnic Campaign Appeals in Africa’s Highly Diverse States	12
Personal Proximity and Reactions to Terrorism	12
Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico	12
Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility?	12
Satisfaction With Democracy: When Government by the People Brings Electoral Losers and Winners Together	12
(Un)Natural Disasters: Electoral Cycles in Disaster Relief	12
(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research	12
Collusion, Co-Optation, or Evasion: The Politics of Drug Trafficking Violence in Central America	11
Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia	11
Using Sermons to Study Religions’ Influence on Political Behavior	11
Political Institutions and Coups in Dictatorships	11
Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies	11
Political Corruption Cycles: High-Frequency Evidence from Argentina’s Notebooks Scandal	11
How Political Careers affect Prime-Ministerial Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	11
State Dependency and the Limits of Middle Class Support for Democracy	11
Election Administration, Resource Allocation, and Turnout: Evidence From Kenya	10
Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice in Europe: How Do Different Partisan Groups React to Campaign Attacks?	10
The Representation Gap and Political Sophistication: A Contrarian Perspective	10
Moralizing Immigration: Political Framing, Moral Conviction, and Polarization in the United States and Denmark	10
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	10
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why	10
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: How Political Alignment Shapes Electoral Backlash from Natural Disasters	10
Reshaping the Threat Environment: Personalism, Coups, and Assassinations	10
Sovereign Risk and Government Change: Elections, Ideology and Experience	10
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate	9
Crisis and Convergence: How the Combination of a Weak Economy and Mainstream Party Ideological De-Polarization Fuels Anti-System Support	9
Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	9
Closing Open Government: Grassroots Policy Conversion of China’s Open Government Information Regulation and Its Aftermath	9

Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	9
Fear without Prejudice in the Shadow of Jihadist Threat	9
When Marriage Gets Hard: Intra-Coalition Conflict and Electoral Accountability	9
Immigration Threat, Partisanship, and Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from the US, UK, and Germany	9
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	9
Globalization Backlash in Developing Countries: Broadening the Research Agenda	9
Oil “Rents” and Political Development: What Do We Really Know About the Curse of Natural Resources?	8
Opportunistic, not Optimal Delegation: The Political Origins of Central Bank Independence	8
What Happens When Coups Fail? The Problem of Identifying and Weakening the Enemy Within	8
The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies	8
What Drives the Immigration-Welfare Policy Link? Comparing Germany, France and the United Kingdom	8
The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Côte d’Ivoire	8
Dealing with Technological Change: Social Policy Preferences and Institutional Context	8
When Does the Public Get It Right? The Information Environment and the Accuracy of Economic Sentiment	8
The Long-Term Impact of Mobilization and Repression on Political Trust	8
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
Recent Events and the Coding of Cross-National Indicators	7
Can Conservatism Make Women More Vulnerable to Violence?	7
The Autocrat’s Moral-Legal Dilemma: Popular Morality and Legal Institutions in China	7
How to be Gracious about Political Loss—The Importance of Good Loser Messages in Policy Controversies	7
Erosion of Civilian Control in Democracies: A Comprehensive Framework for Comparative Analysis	7
Intelligence Capacity and Mass Violence: Evidence From Indonesia	7
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	7
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	7
Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions	7
Early Statehood and Support for Autocratic Rule in Africa	7
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	7
Progress outside of paradise: Old and new comparative approaches to contentious politics	7
Breaking the Cabinet’s Glass Ceiling: The Gendered Effect of Political Experience in Presidential Democracies	7
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evaluating India’s Quota System	7
The Consequences of Militarized Policing for Human Rights: Evidence from Mexico	7
The Element of Surprise: Election Timing and Opposition Preparedness	6
Insurgency and Ivory: The Territorial Origins of Illicit Resource Extraction in Civil Conflicts	6
Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors	6
Electoral Rules, Women’s Representation and the Qualification of Politicians	6
The Politics of Legislative Expansion in Africa	6
The Politics of Ethnic Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Foreign Anti-Mainstream Propaganda and Democratic Publics	6
Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa	6
Election Frequency and Voter Turnout	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
Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica	6
Voting in Clientelistic Social Networks: Evidence From the Philippines*	5
Moral Logics of Support for Nonviolent Resistance: Evidence From a Cross-National Survey Experiment	5
Generous to Workers ≠ Generous to All: Implications of European Unemployment Benefit Systems for the Social Protection of Immigrants	5
Do Truth Commissions Really Improve Democracy?	5
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	5
Collective Decision-Making and the Economic Vote	5
The Representational Effects of Communal Property: Evidence from Peru’s Indigenous Groups	5
The Legislative Effects of Campaign Personalization An Analysis on the Legislative Behavior of Successful German Constituency Candidates	5
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	5
The Electoral Consequences of International Migration in Sending Countries: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	5
Political Parties and Violence in Karachi, Pakistan	5
Political Budgetary Cycles in Autocratic Redistribution	5
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	5
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	4
Violence Against Politicians, Negative Campaigning, and Public Opinion: Evidence From Poland	4
Equal Treatment and the Inelasticity of Tax Policy to Rising Inequality	4
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	4
Citizen Cooperation with the Police: Evidence from Contemporary Guatemala	4
Inequality, Exclusion, and Tolerance for Political Dissent in Latin America	4
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	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
The Politics of Trade Adjustment Versus Trade Protection	4
How Voters Respond to Currency Crises: Evidence From Turkey	4
Leftist Insurgency in Democracies	4
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	4
Privileging One’s Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India	4
Interpersonal Resources and Insider/Outsider Dynamics in Party Office	4
Numbers, Selectivity, and Rights: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences	4
Value Similarity and Norm Change: Null Effects and Backlash to Messaging on Same-Sex Rights in Uganda	4
Strategic Uncertainty and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies: A Cross-National Analysis	3
Promoting Democracy Under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence From Cambodia	3
Post-Communist Junctures, the Left, and Illiberalism: Theory with Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	3
How Mechanization Shapes Coups	3
State Absence, Vengeance, and the Logic of Vigilantism in Guatemala	3
Fragmentation of Political Authority and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Explaining Instances of Minority Accommodation in Israel and Estonia	3
Fairness and Support for Populist Parties	3
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	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
Work and Demand Making: Productionist and Consumptionist Politics in Latin America	3
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	3
The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time? Territorial Autonomy and Conflict During Regime Transitions	3
Minding (Your Own and) Others’ Business: Assigning Co-Responsibility in Cabinet Decisions	3
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	3
Online Disinformation Predicts Inaccurate Beliefs About Election Fairness Among Both Winners and Losers	3
When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe	3
Overestimation of the Level of Democracy Among Citizens in Nondemocracies	3
Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe	3
Repression Works (Just Not in Moderation)	3
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	3
Covert Confiscation: How Governments Differ in Their Strategies of Expropriation	3
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	3