Comparative Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Comparative Politics is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dynamic Research Design: Iteration in Field-Based Inquiry20
Authoritarian Repression and Electoral Opposition: Mobilization under Germany's Antisocialist Law18
Privatization and Judicialization in Resource Extraction: Comparing Labor Militancy in the Oil Fields of Russia and Kazakhstan15
Entrenchment or Retrenchment: The Political Economy of Mortgage Debt Subsidies in the United States and Germany14
Great Expectations, Great Grievances: The Politics of Citizens' Complaints in India13
Managing Ethnic Minorities with State Non-Repression in Interwar Poland12
Left Behind: Labor Unions and Redistributive Policy under the Brazilian Workers' Party11
Special Symposium, Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective Building a New Digital Archive: Documenting Anti-Black Violence in the "Jim Crow" U. S. South, 1930–195411
Electoral Violence, Partisan Identity, and Perceptions of Election Quality: A Survey Experiment in West Bengal, India10
Tracing the Pathways for Labor Migrants in Thirty States: The Nexus between Immigration Regulations and Immigrant Rights9
Regulatory State Building under Authoritarianism: Bureaucratic Competition, Global Embeddedness, and Regulatory Authority in China9
Activists, Parties, and the Expansion of Trans Rights in Bolivia8
Ethnonationalism or a Financial-Criminal Incentive Structure? Explaining Elite Support in Crimea for Russia’s Annexation8
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
Unorganized Politics: The Political Aftermath of Social Unrest in Chile6
The Socio-Structural Basis of the Long-Term Decline in Traditional Left-Right Class Voting in Affluent Democracies, 1964‐20196
Power on the Margins: Lumpenproletarian Resistance in China and Egypt6
Rethinking the Role of Issue-Voting in Referenda: Conjoint and Vote Choice Analyses of Preferences for Constitutional Change in Chile6
Parliamentarians' Support for Direct and Deliberative Democracy in Europe: An Account of Individual-Level Determinants6
Political, Not Partisan: The Tunisian General Labor Union under Democracy5
Beyond Secession: Substate Nationalism and Support for Redistribution in Spain5
Money and Time in Access to Public Services: How Do Citizens Evaluate Different Forms of Bureaucratic Corruption?5
Party Systems and Redistribution in Democratic Latin America5
Representation and Displacement: Labor Disembedding and Contested Neoliberalism in France5
A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?5
Recasting the Meaning of Elections: Three Strikes for the Mandate Interpretation in Europe5
What Makes Bureaucracies Politically Resilient? Evidence from Brazil’s Covid‐19 Vaccination Campaign5
Research Note Civil Resistance in the Streetlight: Replicating and Assessing Evidence on Nonviolent Effectiveness4
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment4
Notes on the Contributors4
Voting for a Killer: Efraín Ríos Montt's Return to Politics in Democratic Guatemala4
Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics4
Purifying the Religion: An Analysis of Haram Targeting among Salafi Jihadi Groups4
Over a Barrel? Oil Busts and Petrostate Stability4
When Do Courts Constrain the Authoritarian State? Judicial Decision-Making in Jordan and Palestine4
The Nature of Ideology in Urban China4
How Does Primary Election Manipulation Affect the Selection of Women Candidates? Evidence from Malawi3
Elite Threats and Punitive Violence in Autocratic Regimes: Evidence from Communist Eastern Europe3
The "Weight" of Territorial Issues: Evidence from Catalonia, Scotland, and Northern Ireland3
Why Democracy Survives Presidential Encroachments: Argentina Since 19833
Varieties of Electoral Dominance3
Is Chinese Investment Driving Authoritarianism? Evidence from the First Decade of the Belt and Road in Southeast Asia3
Informal Institutions and Community Development Protests: Evidence from Sub-municipal Localities in Mexico2
Inducing Coproduction: Policy Implementation and Teachers’ Unions in Mexico2
Mechanisms of Resistance: Informal Institutional Impediments to Japanese Postal Privatization2
Sources of Authoritarian Resilience: New Perspectives on Power-Sharing and Popular Support2
Repression Reconsidered: Bystander Effects and Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes2
Revolution, Elite Fear, and Electoral Institutions2
Prompting Peasant Protest: Cashews, Coalitions, and Collective Action in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire2
Determinants of Income Composition Inequality2
Containing Ethnic Conflict: Repression, Cooptation, and Identity Politics2
Loyalty Signaling, Bureaucratic Compliance, and Variation in State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes2
Resource Mobilization, Social Capital, Religion, and Protest across Latin America2
Sweetening the Deal: The Political Economy of Land Redistribution in South Africa’s Sugar Sector2
Taxation and Left-Wing Redistribution: The Politics of Consumption Tax in Britain and Sweden2
Special Symposium, Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective Gender Gaps in Support for Vigilante Violence2
Shaping Ethnoracial Identities: State-Society Relations and Programmatic Differentiation in the Andes2
What State? Political Parties and Non-State Security Provision in Lebanon2
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