OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Politics is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring	307
Social Equity and Environmental Politics in Brazil: Lessons from the Rubber Tappers of Acre	119
The Rise of Latin America's Two Lefts: Insights from Rentier State Theory	109
When Does Participatory Democracy Deepen the Quality of Democracy? Lessons from Brazil	80
Explaining Transitions from Neopatrimonial Dictatorships	77
Seat Bonuses under the Single Nontransferable Vote System: Evidence from Japan and Taiwan	77
The Impact of Participatory Democracy: Evidence from Brazil's National Public Policy Conferences	59
China's Urban Transients in the Transition from Socialism and the Collapse of the Communist "Urban Public Goods Regime"	52
Authoritarian States and Voting From Abroad: North African Experiences	51
Global Gender Quota Adoption, Implementation, and Reform	47
From International Ideas to Domestic Policies: Educational Multiculturalism in England and France	40
Reconceptualizing Latin American Authoritarianism in the 1970s: From Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism to Neoconservatism	38
Does Money Matter? Credible Commitments and Campaign Finance in New Democracies: Theory and Evidence from Brazil	37
From Semisovereignty to Sovereignty: The Decline of Corporatism and Rise of Parliament in Austria	33
From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Business-State Nexus in Chile's Economic Transformation, 1975-1994	32
Electoral Systems and the Representation of Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from Russia	30
Does Democracy Check Corruption? Insights from China and India	29
The Case for Comparative Ethnography	28
From Decentralization to Reorganization: Explaining the Return to National Bargaining in Italy and Spain	28
Religion and Public Goods Provision: Experimental and Interview Evidence from Catholicism and Islam in Europe	27
Transitions to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands	26
Regime Legacies and Levels of Democracy: Evidence from Latin America	25
The Consequences of Militarizing Anti-Drug Efforts for State Capacity in Latin America: Evidence from Mexico	24
Reworking Strategic Models of Executive-Judicial Relations: Insights from New African Democracies	23
Protesting and Policing in a Multiethnic Authoritarian State: Evidence from Ethiopia	23

From Disaffection to Desertion: How Networks Facilitate Military Insubordination in Civil Conflict	22
From Argument to Negotiation: Constructing Democracy in African Muslim Contexts	22
International Imperatives and Tax Reform: Lessons from Postcommunist Europe	21
Land Institutions and Political Ethnicity in Africa: Evidence from Tanzania	21
Poverty and Democratic Participation Reconsidered: Evidence from the Local Level in India	20
Patronage as Institutional Choice: Evidence from Rwanda and Uganda	19
From Single-Party to Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: The Institutional Origins of Competitiveness in Post-Cold War Africa	19
D'une boutique a l'autre: Changes in the Organization of the Traditional Middle Classes from the Fourth to Fifth Republics	19
Preemptive Strike: Central Bank Reform in Chile's Transition from Authoritarian Rule	18
Dignified Public Expression: A New Logic of Political Accountability	17
Engendering Democratic Transition from Conflict: Women's Inclusion in Northern Ireland's Peace Process	17
Performance Incentives under Autocracy: Evidence from Russia's Regions	17
The Political Origins of Judicial Empowerment through Constitutionalization: Lessons from Israel's Constitutional Revolution	15
Varieties of Clientelism in Hungarian Elections	15
From Pulpit to Party: Party Formation and the Christian Democratic Phenomenon	15
Resisting Protection: Rackets, Resistance, and State Building	15
Risky Business: Decentralization from above in Chile and Uruguay	15
From Participatory Promises to Partisan Capture: Local Democratic Transitions and Mexican Water Politics	14
Striking Concessions from Governments: The Success of General Strikes in Western Europe, 1980–2009	14
From Right to Left in Brazil's Northeast: Transformation, or "Politics as Usual"?	14
Political Foundations of Market-Enhancing Federalism: Theoretical Lessons from India and China	13
The Politics of Crackdowns on Africa's Informal Vendors	12
Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Popular and Electoral Democracy in Nicaragua	11
Keeping Democracy Safe from the Masses: Intellectuals and Elitism in the Chinese Protest Movement	11
Resistance and Repression under the Rule of Rebels: Women, Clergy, and Civilian Agency in LTTE Governed Sri Lanka	10
Clientelism and Political Recruitment in Democratic Transition: Evidence from Romania	10
Security Fears and Bureaucratic Rivalry: Admitting Foreign Labor in Japan and Taiwan	9
Comparing Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America: Insights from Higher Education Policy	9
Legacy Trade Unions as Brokers of Democratization? Lessons from Tunisia	8
Ex-Rebel Authority after Civil War: Theory and Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire	8
International Pressure, Domestic Politics, and the Dynamics of Religious Freedom: Evidence from Turkey	8
Party Proliferation and Trajectories of Opposition: Comparative Analysis from Senegal	7
The Origins of Strong Institutional Design: Policy Reform and Participatory Institutions in Brazil's Health Sector	7
Pluralist and Corporatist Intermediation, Activities of Business Interest Associations, and Corporate Profits: Some Evidence from Canada	7
Soviet Legacies of Economic Development, Oligarchic Rule, and Electoral Quality in Eastern Europe's Partial Democracies: The Case of Ukraine	6
Comparative Democratization and Democratic Backsliding: The Case for a Historical-Institutional Approach	6
Social Cleavages, Party Organization, and the End of Single-Party Dominance: Insights from India	6
Down and Out: Founding Elections and Disillusionment with Democracy in Egypt and Tunisia	6
Dynamics of the Inner Elite in Dictatorships: Evidence from North Korea	6
The Electoral Constraints on Inter-Party Mobility of Candidates: The Case of Pakistan	6
The Labor Movement in Spain: From Authoritarianism to Democracy	6
Factions and Opinion Groups in European Mass Parties: Some Evidence from a Study of Italian Socialist Activists	5
Explaining Democracy's Origins: Lessons from South Asia	5