Comparative Political Studies

Article	Citations
Electoral Rules, Women’s Representation and the Qualification of Politicians	94
State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development	89
Globalization Backlash in Developing Countries: Broadening the Research Agenda	67
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	66
The Pigmentocracy of Executive Approval	62
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	61
Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions	60
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	55
A Loyal Base: Support for Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crisis	44
Democratic Ceilings: The Long Shadow of Nationalist Polarization in East Asia	40
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	39
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	38
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	36
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	34
Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution: Causes and Electoral Implications Across Europe	32
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	32
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	31
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	31
When Technocratic Appointments Signal Credibility	29
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	26
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom	26
Privileging One’s Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India	26
Fairness and Support for Populist Parties	26
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	25
The Mobilizing Effect of Party System Polarization. Evidence From Europe	22

Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	22
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	20
Violence Against Politicians, Negative Campaigning, and Public Opinion: Evidence From Poland	19
Candidate Debates and Partisan Divisions Evidence From Malawi’s 2019 Presidential Elections	18
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	18
Persecuted Minorities and Defensive Cooperation: Contributions to Public Goods by Hindus and Muslims in Delhi	18
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	18
The Consequences of Militarized Policing for Human Rights: Evidence from Mexico	18
Benefits by Luck: A Study of Lotteries as a Selection Method for Government Programs	18
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	17
Sovereign Risk and Government Change: Elections, Ideology and Experience	16
Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development	16
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why	16
How Moral Beliefs Influence Collective Violence. Evidence From Lynching in Mexico	16
Do Women Prefer In-Group Police Officers? Survey and Experimental Evidence From India	16
Domestic Legitimacy, Coethnics Abroad, and the Shape of the Homeland	15
Message or Messenger? Source and Labeling Effects in Authoritarian Response to Protest	14
When Marriage Gets Hard: Intra-Coalition Conflict and Electoral Accountability	14
When Does the Public Get It Right? The Information Environment and the Accuracy of Economic Sentiment	14
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	14
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	13
At the Intersection of Gender and Class: How Were Newly Enfranchised Women Mobilized in Sweden?	13
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	13
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences	13
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	13
Voters and the IMF: Experimental Evidence From European Crisis Countries	13
(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research	13
Repression, Interests and Outgroup Attitudes: A Survey Experiment in Post-Coup Myanmar	12
When Running for Office Runs in the Family: Horizontal Dynasties, Policy, and Development in the Philippines	12
Populist Discourse and Public Support for Executive Aggrandizement in Latin America	12
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	12
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	12
Beyond the Myth of Legality? Framing Effects and Public Reactions to High Court Decisions in Europe	11
Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice in Europe: How Do Different Partisan Groups React to Campaign Attacks?	11
Centralization, Elite Capture, and Service Provision: Evidence From Taiwan	11
The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro	11
How to be Gracious about Political Loss—The Importance of Good Loser Messages in Policy Controversies	11
Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel	11
China’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive: Evidence From Patents	11
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	11
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	11
International incentives for women’s rights in dictatorships	10
Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors	10
Progressive Ideology and Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil	10
Constituency Service and Electoral Accountability in Autocratic Legislatures	9
Criminal Victimization and Agency Attitudes in Mexico	9
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	9
Social Transformation and Violence: Evidence from U.S. Reconstruction	9
State Absence, Vengeance, and the Logic of Vigilantism in Guatemala	9
Mobilization Capacity and Violence Against Local Leaders: Anticlerical Violence During the Spanish Civil War	9

The Energy Transition and Support for the Radical Right: Evidence from the Netherlands	9
The Diffusion of Exclusion: Medieval Expulsions of Jews	9
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	9
The Political Resource Blessing or Curse? Patronage Networks, Infrastructure Investment, and Economic Development in China	9
Personal Proximity and Reactions to Terrorism	9
Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority	8
The Holocaust, the Socialization of Victimhood and Outgroup Political Attitudes in Israel	8
Education Policies and Systems Across Modern History: A Global Dataset	8
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	8
Enumerator Experiences in Violent Research Environments	8
“This is what the Bolsheviks do”: How Democratic Politicians Use Foreign Revolutions to Attract Voters	8
Inequality, Exclusion, and Tolerance for Political Dissent in Latin America	8
What Kind of Democracy Do We All Support? How Partisan Interest Impacts a Citizen’s Conceptualization of Democracy	8
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa	8
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	7
Historical Inequality at the Grassroots: Local Public Goods in an Indian District, 1905–2011	7
Reshaping the Threat Environment: Personalism, Coups, and Assassinations	7
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	7
Political Regimes and Informal Social Insurance	7
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	7
Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies	7
Collective Action Infrastructure: The Downstream Effects of Urban Neighborhood Organizing	7
Political Budgetary Cycles in Autocratic Redistribution	7
Clientelism, Party Organization and Intra-party Democracy	7
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	7
Do Truth Commissions Really Improve Democracy?	7
Covert Confiscation: How Governments Differ in Their Strategies of Expropriation	6
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	6
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	6
Social, Formal, and Political Determinants of Trade Under Weak Rule of Law: Experimental Evidence from Senegalese Firms	6
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	6
(Un)Natural Disasters: Electoral Cycles in Disaster Relief	6
The Persistence of Rural Underdevelopment: Evidence from Land Reform in Italy	6
The Violent Legacy of Fascism: Evidence From Italy	6
Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility?	6
Democratic Backsliding and Ethnic Politics: The Republican Party in the United States	5
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evaluating India’s Quota System	5
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	5
Fragmentation of Political Authority and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Explaining Instances of Minority Accommodation in Israel and Estonia	5
Minding (Your Own and) Others’ Business: Assigning Co-Responsibility in Cabinet Decisions	5
The Reach of the State	5
Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa	5
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	5
How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice	5
Generous to Workers ≠ Generous to All: Implications of European Unemployment Benefit Systems for the Social Protection of Immigrants	5
Cause for Celebration or Concern? Voter Reactions to Rising House Prices	5
Citizen Cooperation with the Police: Evidence from Contemporary Guatemala	5
The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time? Territorial Autonomy and Conflict During Regime Transitions	5
The Two-Way Effects of Populism on Affective Polarization	5
Patrimony at Risk: Market Uncertainty and Right-Wing Voting	5
The Globalization Backlash: Exploring New Perspectives	5
How Voters Respond to Currency Crises: Evidence From Turkey	5
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	5
Political Institutions and Coups in Dictatorships	4
When is it Fair to Tax the Rich? The Importance of Pro-Social Behavior	4
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	4
The Myth of the Middle Class Squeeze: Employment and Income by Class in Six Western Countries, 1980–2020	4
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	4
How Political Careers affect Prime-Ministerial Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	4
Repression Works (Just Not in Moderation)	4
What Men Want: Parties’ Strategic Engagement With Gender Quotas	4
How Education Policies Shape Political Inequality: Analyzing Policy Feedback Effects in Germany	4
Partners in Crime: Comparative Advantage and Kidnapping Cooperation	4
Insiders, Outsiders, Skills, and Preferences for Social Protection: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Argentina	4
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	4
Political Parties and Violence in Karachi, Pakistan	4
How Great is the Current Danger to Democracy? Assessing the Risk With Historical Data	4
Contagion From Abroad. How Party Entry in Western Europe is Influenced by Party Family Members Abroad, 1961–2016	4
Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico	3
Moralizing Immigration: Political Framing, Moral Conviction, and Polarization in the United States and Denmark	3
Who Supports Gender Quotas in Transitioning and Authoritarian States in the Middle East and North Africa?	3
Value Similarity and Norm Change: Null Effects and Backlash to Messaging on Same-Sex Rights in Uganda	3
The Loser’s Long Curse: How Exposure to Class Conflict Shapes Election Outcomes	3
The Role of Preference Formation and Perception in Unequal Representation. Combined Evidence From Elite Interviews and Focus Groups in Germany	3
Post-Communist Junctures, the Left, and Illiberalism: Theory with Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	3
Imperial Rule and Long-Run Development: Evidence on the Role of Human Capital in Ottoman Europe	3
Collusion, Co-Optation, or Evasion: The Politics of Drug Trafficking Violence in Central America	3
Tempering the Taste for Vengeance: Information About Prisoners and Policy Choices in Chile	3
The Activist Personality: Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Opposition Activism in Authoritarian Regimes	3

Why People Turn to Institutions They Detest: Institutional Mistrust and Justice System Engagement in Uneven Democratic States	3
Separated by Degrees: Social Closure by Education Levels Strengthens Contemporary Political Divides	3
Breaking the Cabinet’s Glass Ceiling: The Gendered Effect of Political Experience in Presidential Democracies	3
The Lessons Private Schools Teach: Using a Field Experiment to Understand the Effects of Private Services on Political Behavior	3
Revenue, Redistribution, and the Rise and Fall of Inheritance Taxation	3
Globalization, Political Institutions, and Redistribution in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Information and Financialization: Credit Markets as a New Source of Inequality	3
A Decline in the Social Status of the Working Class? Conflicting Evidence for 8 Western Countries, 1987–2017	3
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	3
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach	3
Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right	3
Refugee Labor Market Access Increases Support for Immigration	3
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy: Taking Stock of Three Decades of Research in a Fragmented Field	3
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi-Experiment	3
An Informational Theory of Genocide and Politicide During Civil War	3
Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	2
Fascist Legacies of Mobilization and Co-Optation: Evidence from Democratic Portugal	2
Dealing with Technological Change: Social Policy Preferences and Institutional Context	2
Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe	2
The Law or the Career? Autocratic Judiciaries, Strategic Sentencing, and Political Repression	2
Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	2
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	2
The Representational Effects of Communal Property: Evidence from Peru’s Indigenous Groups	2
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	2
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	2
Claiming a “Right” to State Space: Building Social Movements Under Authoritarian Rule	2
Revolutionaries for Railways	2
Social Change and Women’s Left Vote. The Role of Employment, Education, and Marriage in the Gender Vote Gap	2
The Political Origins of Colonial Land Policy: Evidence From British India and French Algeria	2
Work and Demand Making: Productionist and Consumptionist Politics in Latin America	2
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)	2
The Activists Who Divide Us: A Cross-Country Analysis of Party Activists’ Influence on Polarization and Representation	2
Technocracy for the People? The Impact of Government-Imposed Democratic Innovations on Governance and Citizen Well-Being	2
The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics	2
How Mechanization Shapes Coups	2
Promoting Democracy Under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence From Cambodia	2
Stronger Challengers can Cause More (or Less) Conflict and Institutional Reform	2
Democracy-Reinforcing Hardball: Can Breaking Democratic Norms Preserve Democratic Values?	2
The Political Effects of Witnessing State Atrocities: Evidence from the Nazi Death Marches	2
How Erroneous Beliefs Trigger Authoritarian Collapse: The Case of Tunisia, January 14, 2011	2
Democracy and State Development: Patterns of Public Spending in the First Two Waves of Democratization	2
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	2
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	2
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	2
Governing the Shadows: Territorial Control and State Making in Civil War	2
Oil “Rents” and Political Development: What Do We Really Know About the Curse of Natural Resources?	2
Media Manipulation in Young Democracies: Evidence From the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election	2
The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany	2
Can Encounters With the State Improve Minority-State Relations? Evidence From Myanmar	2
Can Conservatism Make Women More Vulnerable to Violence?	2
Going Against the Grain: Climate Change as a Wedge Issue for the Radical Right	2