Comparative Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Comparative Politics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Authoritarian Repression and Electoral Opposition: Mobilization under Germany's Antisocialist Law45
Privatization and Judicialization in Resource Extraction: Comparing Labor Militancy in the Oil Fields of Russia and Kazakhstan19
Scaling-Up and Zooming-Out: Understanding How and When Participatory Institutions Matter13
Dynamic Research Design: Iteration in Field-Based Inquiry13
Equifinality in the Smallholder Slot: Cash Crop Development in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesian Borneo11
Entrenchment or Retrenchment: The Political Economy of Mortgage Debt Subsidies in the United States and Germany11
Great Expectations, Great Grievances: The Politics of Citizens' Complaints in India11
Special Symposium, Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective Building a New Digital Archive: Documenting Anti-Black Violence in the "Jim Crow" U. S. South, 1930–195410
Managing Ethnic Minorities with State Non-Repression in Interwar Poland10
Electoral Violence, Partisan Identity, and Perceptions of Election Quality: A Survey Experiment in West Bengal, India9
Left Behind: Labor Unions and Redistributive Policy under the Brazilian Workers' Party9
Regulatory State Building under Authoritarianism: Bureaucratic Competition, Global Embeddedness, and Regulatory Authority in China8
Recentralization in Mexico: Reconfiguring the Center in Intergovernmental Relations8
Resisting Equality: Subnational State Capture and the Unequal Distribution of Inequality8
Portraying Competence, Benevolence, or Party Loyalty? Political Propaganda and the Image-Building of Political Elites in China8
Aspirational Identity Politics and Support for Radical Reform: The Case of Post-Maidan Ukraine8
Power on the Margins: Lumpenproletarian Resistance in China and Egypt6
Unorganized Politics: The Political Aftermath of Social Unrest in Chile6
Activists, Parties, and the Expansion of Trans Rights in Bolivia6
Ethnonationalism or a Financial-Criminal Incentive Structure? Explaining Elite Support in Crimea for Russia’s Annexation6
Tracing the Pathways for Labor Migrants in Thirty States: The Nexus between Immigration Regulations and Immigrant Rights6
The Socio-Structural Basis of the Long-Term Decline in Traditional Left-Right Class Voting in Affluent Democracies, 1964–20195
Parliamentarians' Support for Direct and Deliberative Democracy in Europe: An Account of Individual-Level Determinants5
Subnational Turnover, Accountability Politics, and Electoral Authoritarian Survival: Evidence from Museveni's Uganda5
Political, Not Partisan: The Tunisian General Labor Union under Democracy5
Rethinking the Role of Issue-Voting in Referenda: Conjoint and Vote Choice Analyses of Preferences for Constitutional Change in Chile5
What Makes Bureaucracies Politically Resilient? Evidence from Brazil’s Covid‐19 Vaccination Campaign4
Representation and Displacement: Labor Disembedding and Contested Neoliberalism in France4
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment4
Beyond Secession: Substate Nationalism and Support for Redistribution in Spain4
Notes on the Contributors4
The Nature of Ideology in Urban China4
Party Systems and Redistribution in Democratic Latin America4
Money and Time in Access to Public Services: How Do Citizens Evaluate Different Forms of Bureaucratic Corruption?4
Autocratization by Decree: States of Emergency and Democratic Decline4
Varieties of Electoral Dominance3
Is Chinese Investment Driving Authoritarianism? Evidence from the First Decade of the Belt and Road in Southeast Asia3
Voting for a Killer: Efraín Ríos Montt's Return to Politics in Democratic Guatemala3
Research Note Civil Resistance in the Streetlight: Replicating and Assessing Evidence on Nonviolent Effectiveness3
When Do Courts Constrain the Authoritarian State? Judicial Decision-Making in Jordan and Palestine3
Purifying the Religion: An Analysis of Haram Targeting among Salafi Jihadi Groups3
Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics3
Over a Barrel? Oil Busts and Petrostate Stability3
How Does Primary Election Manipulation Affect the Selection of Women Candidates? Evidence from Malawi2
Prompting Peasant Protest: Cashews, Coalitions, and Collective Action in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire2
Determinants of Income Composition Inequality2
Mechanisms of Resistance: Informal Institutional Impediments to Japanese Postal Privatization2
Resource Mobilization, Social Capital, Religion, and Protest across Latin America2
The "Weight" of Territorial Issues: Evidence from Catalonia, Scotland, and Northern Ireland2
Why Democracy Survives Presidential Encroachments: Argentina Since 19832
Elite Threats and Punitive Violence in Autocratic Regimes: Evidence from Communist Eastern Europe2
Informal Institutions and Community Development Protests: Evidence from Sub-municipal Localities in Mexico2
Explaining Subnational Regime Variation: Country-Level Factors2
Sweetening the Deal: The Political Economy of Land Redistribution in South Africa’s Sugar Sector2
Inducing Coproduction: Policy Implementation and Teachers’ Unions in Mexico2
Taxation and Left-Wing Redistribution: The Politics of Consumption Tax in Britain and Sweden2
Containing Ethnic Conflict: Repression, Cooptation, and Identity Politics2
Special Symposium, Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective Gender Gaps in Support for Vigilante Violence1
Repression Reconsidered: Bystander Effects and Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes1
Shaping Ethnoracial Identities: State-Society Relations and Programmatic Differentiation in the Andes1
The Bureaucracy of Reparations and Political Engagement1
Sources of Authoritarian Resilience: New Perspectives on Power-Sharing and Popular Support1
Loyalty Signaling, Bureaucratic Compliance, and Variation in State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes1
State-in-Society 2.0: Toward Fourth-Generation Theories of the State1
A Two-Headed Creature: Bicameralism in African Autocracies1
Revolution, Elite Fear, and Electoral Institutions1
Civil Resistance in the Shadow of the Revolution: Historical Framing in Nicaragua's Sudden Uprising1
Explaining Military Responses to Protests in Latin American Democracies1
Who Gains from Nonviolent Action? Unpacking the Logics of Civil Resistance1
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