Comparative Political Studies

Article	Citations
The Declining Middle: Occupational Change, Social Status, and the Populist Right	114
Measuring Populism in Political Parties: Appraisal of a New Approach	95
How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice	58
Attitudes Toward Migrants in a Highly Impacted Economy: Evidence From the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan	56
Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right	55
Countering Violence Against Women by Encouraging Disclosure: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda	48
The Politics of Vigilantism	47
State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development	45
Strangers in Hostile Lands: Exposure to Refugees and Right-Wing Support in Germany’s Eastern Regions	43
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom	40
Drinking Alone: Local Socio-Cultural Degradation and Radical Right Support—The Case of British Pub Closures	37
Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support	34
Dictators and Their Subjects: Authoritarian Attitudinal Effects and Legacies	34
Partisanship and Autocratization: Polarization, Power Asymmetry, and Partisan Social Identities in Turkey	33
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	33
Legislatures and Legislative Politics Without Democracy	33
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	29
Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel	29
Brexit Domino? The Political Contagion Effects of Voter-endorsed Withdrawals from International Institutions	28
Bureaucracy and Growth	28
When “Fake News” Becomes Real: The Consequences of False Government Denials in an Authoritarian Country	26
Will Women Executives Reduce Corruption? Marginalization and Network Inclusion	25
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences	24
Economic Distress and Support for Radical Right Parties—Evidence From Sweden	24
International incentives for women’s rights in dictatorships	24

The Globalization Backlash: Exploring New Perspectives	23
Contextual Effects of Immigrant Presence on Populist Radical Right Support: Testing the “Halo Effect” on Front National Voting in France	22
Chaos on Campus: Universities and Mass Political Protest	21
When Technocratic Appointments Signal Credibility	21
Competing for Loyalists? How Party Positioning Affects Populist Radical Right Voting	21
What Drives Unequal Policy Responsiveness? Assessing the Role of Informational Asymmetries in Economic Policy-Making	20
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	20
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)	18
Borders of Compassion: Immigration Preferences and Parochial Altruism	18
Gender and Dynastic Political Selection	17
Policy-Making in Multi-Level Systems: Ideology, Authority, and Education	17
Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy	16
The Power to Resist: Mobilization and the Logic of Terrorist Attacks in Civil War	15
The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro	15
The Role of Corporate Political Connections in Commercial Lawsuits: Evidence From Chinese Courts	15
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy: Taking Stock of Three Decades of Research in a Fragmented Field	15
Civilian Contention in Civil War: How Ideational Factors Shape Community Responses to Armed Groups	14
A Decline in the Social Status of the Working Class? Conflicting Evidence for 8 Western Countries, 1987–2017	14
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	14
Why Monarchy? The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type	14
Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority	13
Political Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: The Spatial-Temporal Dimension of Trouble	13
Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile	13
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa	13
Does Class-Based Campaigning Work? How Working Class Appeals Attract and Polarize Voters	13
Social Transformation and Violence: Evidence from U.S. Reconstruction	13
How Voters Respond to Presidential Assaults on Checks and Balances: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey	12
Personal Proximity and Reactions to Terrorism	12
The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics	12
Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility?	12
Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees	11
The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility	11
How Political Careers affect Prime-Ministerial Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	11
The Gender Gap in Political Clientelism: Problem-Solving Networks and the Division of Political Work in Argentina	11
Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies	11
From Benefits and Beneficiaries: The Historical Origins of Old-Age Pensions From a Political Regime Perspective	10
Collusion, Co-Optation, or Evasion: The Politics of Drug Trafficking Violence in Central America	10
(Un)Natural Disasters: Electoral Cycles in Disaster Relief	10
State Dependency and the Limits of Middle Class Support for Democracy	10
Political Corruption Cycles: High-Frequency Evidence from Argentina’s Notebooks Scandal	10
Political Institutions and Coups in Dictatorships	10
(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research	10
Satisfaction With Democracy: When Government by the People Brings Electoral Losers and Winners Together	10
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	10
Voter and Legislator Responses to Localized Trade Shocks from China in Brazil	10
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why	10
Sovereign Risk and Government Change: Elections, Ideology and Experience	9
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: How Political Alignment Shapes Electoral Backlash from Natural Disasters	9
Status-quo or Grievance Coalitions: The Logic of Cross-ethnic Campaign Appeals in Africa’s Highly Diverse States	9
Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice in Europe: How Do Different Partisan Groups React to Campaign Attacks?	9

Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	9
Electoral Preferences Among Multiethnic Voters in Africa	9
Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico	9
Fear without Prejudice in the Shadow of Jihadist Threat	9
Election Administration, Resource Allocation, and Turnout: Evidence From Kenya	9
Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia	9
Crisis and Convergence: How the Combination of a Weak Economy and Mainstream Party Ideological De-Polarization Fuels Anti-System Support	8
Reshaping the Threat Environment: Personalism, Coups, and Assassinations	8
When Marriage Gets Hard: Intra-Coalition Conflict and Electoral Accountability	8
What Happens When Coups Fail? The Problem of Identifying and Weakening the Enemy Within	8
Immigration Threat, Partisanship, and Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from the US, UK, and Germany	8
Moralizing Immigration: Political Framing, Moral Conviction, and Polarization in the United States and Denmark	8
What Drives the Immigration-Welfare Policy Link? Comparing Germany, France and the United Kingdom	8
Disaggregating “China, Inc.”: The Hierarchical Politics of WTO Entry	8
The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Côte d’Ivoire	8
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate	8
How Great is the Current Danger to Democracy? Assessing the Risk With Historical Data	8
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	8
The Representation Gap and Political Sophistication: A Contrarian Perspective	8
Using Sermons to Study Religions’ Influence on Political Behavior	8
Incentives for Organizational Participation: A Recruitment Experiment in Mexico	8
Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	8
Closing Open Government: Grassroots Policy Conversion of China’s Open Government Information Regulation and Its Aftermath	7
Resisting Displacement: Leveraging Interpersonal Ties to Remain despite Criminal Violence in Medellín, Colombia	7
The Autocrat’s Moral-Legal Dilemma: Popular Morality and Legal Institutions in China	7
Network Ties and the Politics of Renationalization: Embeddedness, Political-Business Relations, and Renationalization in Post-Milosevic Serbia	7
Erosion of Civilian Control in Democracies: A Comprehensive Framework for Comparative Analysis	7
The Effect of Election Proximity on Government Responsiveness and Citizens’ Participation: Evidence From English Local Elections	7
Breaking the Cabinet’s Glass Ceiling: The Gendered Effect of Political Experience in Presidential Democracies	7
Opportunistic, not Optimal Delegation: The Political Origins of Central Bank Independence	7
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	7
Oil “Rents” and Political Development: What Do We Really Know About the Curse of Natural Resources?	7
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evaluating India’s Quota System	7
Globalization Backlash in Developing Countries: Broadening the Research Agenda	7
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	6
Protest Brokers and the Technology of Mobilization: Evidence from South Africa	6
Dealing with Technological Change: Social Policy Preferences and Institutional Context	6
When Does the Public Get It Right? The Information Environment and the Accuracy of Economic Sentiment	6
The Long-Term Impact of Mobilization and Repression on Political Trust	6
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	6
Can Conservatism Make Women More Vulnerable to Violence?	6
Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica	6
The Element of Surprise: Election Timing and Opposition Preparedness	6
The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies	6
Self-Selection into Public Service When Corruption is Widespread: The Anomalous Russian Case	6
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	6
Electoral Rules, Women’s Representation and the Qualification of Politicians	6
Early Statehood and Support for Autocratic Rule in Africa	5
The Representational Effects of Communal Property: Evidence from Peru’s Indigenous Groups	5
Generous to Workers ≠ Generous to All: Implications of European Unemployment Benefit Systems for the Social Protection of Immigrants	5
The Legislative Effects of Campaign Personalization An Analysis on the Legislative Behavior of Successful German Constituency Candidates	5
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	5
The Politics of Ethnic Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
Intelligence Capacity and Mass Violence: Evidence From Indonesia	5
Political Budgetary Cycles in Autocratic Redistribution	5
The Consequences of Militarized Policing for Human Rights: Evidence from Mexico	5
Campaign Effects and the Elusive Swing Voter in Modern Machine Politics	5
Progress outside of paradise: Old and new comparative approaches to contentious politics	5
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	5
External Intervention, Identity, and Civil War	5
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
Equal Treatment and the Inelasticity of Tax Policy to Rising Inequality	4
The Electoral Consequences of International Migration in Sending Countries: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Leftist Insurgency in Democracies	4
Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa	4
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	4
Ethnic Coalitions and the Logic of Political Survival in Authoritarian Regimes	4
Recent Events and the Coding of Cross-National Indicators	4
Foreign Anti-Mainstream Propaganda and Democratic Publics	4
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	4
How Voters Respond to Currency Crises: Evidence From Turkey	4
Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors	4
Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions	4
Voting in Clientelistic Social Networks: Evidence From the Philippines*	4
Collective Decision-Making and the Economic Vote	4
Insurgency and Ivory: The Territorial Origins of Illicit Resource Extraction in Civil Conflicts	4
Value Similarity and Norm Change: Null Effects and Backlash to Messaging on Same-Sex Rights in Uganda	4
How to be Gracious about Political Loss—The Importance of Good Loser Messages in Policy Controversies	4
Privileging One’s Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India	4
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	4

Grammar of Threat: Governance and Order in Public Threats by Criminal Actors	3
Numbers, Selectivity, and Rights: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences	3
Moral Logics of Support for Nonviolent Resistance: Evidence From a Cross-National Survey Experiment	3
Citizen Cooperation with the Police: Evidence from Contemporary Guatemala	3
Work and Demand Making: Productionist and Consumptionist Politics in Latin America	3
Fragmentation of Political Authority and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Explaining Instances of Minority Accommodation in Israel and Estonia	3
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	3
The Politics of Legislative Expansion in Africa	3
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	3
When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe	3
The Price of Collaboration: How Authoritarian States Retain Control	3
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	3
Inequality, Exclusion, and Tolerance for Political Dissent in Latin America	3
Do Truth Commissions Really Improve Democracy?	3
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	3
Strategic Uncertainty and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies: A Cross-National Analysis	3
The Politics of Trade Adjustment Versus Trade Protection	3
Promoting Democracy Under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence From Cambodia	3
Political Parties and Violence in Karachi, Pakistan	3
Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe	3
Minding (Your Own and) Others’ Business: Assigning Co-Responsibility in Cabinet Decisions	3
Covert Confiscation: How Governments Differ in Their Strategies of Expropriation	3
Interpersonal Resources and Insider/Outsider Dynamics in Party Office	3
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	3