Comparative Political Studies

Article	Citations
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	106
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	81
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	47
Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020	47
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	46
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	37
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	35
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield	30
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	29
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	28
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	27
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	27
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	27
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	26
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	25
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	24
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	23
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	22
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	20
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	19
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	19
The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement	19
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	19
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	19
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	19

The Reach of the State	18
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	18
Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	18
Missionary Activity, Education, and Long-Run Political Development: Evidence Across Regime Types in Africa	18
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi-Experiment	17
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	17
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	17
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach	16
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	16
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	16
Politically Connected Owners	15
Do Culturally Embedded Political Leaders Help or Hinder Economic Development?	15
The Legacy of Multi-Dimensional Conflict	15
Ethnic Media and the Mobilization of Identity	15
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	15
Violence and Business Interest in Social Welfare: Evidence from Mexico	15
Collective Victimhood Beliefs and Conflict-Related Attitudes: A Meta-Analysis	14
Decision-Making in the Dark: The Asymmetric Spread of COVID-19 Policies	14
Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting	14
Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia	13
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China	13
Rebel Taxation as Extortion or a Technology of Governance? Telling the Difference in India’s Northeast	13
Reacting to Democratization: How Authoritarian Legacies Shape Democratic Party Development	13
Credit Claiming by Labeling	12
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda	12
More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile	12
The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages	11
The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes	11
Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment	11
Gendered Xenophobia? Gendered Interpretation of Immigration and Labor Market Vulnerability	11
Formal Institutions After Conflict: Rebel Ideology and Post-War Constitutional Design	11
Capitals Under Siege: Why Some Rebel Groups Achieve Victory While Others Fail	10
Firm-Based Origins of Anti-System Politics	10
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	10
Social Capital in North Korea: Shadow Economy, Shared Norms and Social Networks	10
Defending Parliament Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion	10
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	10
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	10
Charity Begins at Home: Domestic Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Aid	10
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	10
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	10
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	10
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	10
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	9
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	9
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	9
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	9
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	9
The Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing Populism	9
All Politics is Local? Evidence of Local Council Incumbency Advantage in National Elections	9

Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	9
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	9
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	9
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	9
How Mechanization Shapes Coups	9
From Pledge to Poll: Investigating the Impact of Campaign Promises on Party Alignment	8
Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018	8
Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	8
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	8
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	8
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	8
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	8
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	8
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	8
Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime Type	8
Radical Weakness—Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries?	7
Regulatory Visions and the State in E. Asia: The Irrational Investor Problem in the Comparative Politics of Finance	7
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	7
When Strength Becomes Weakness: Precolonial State Development, Monopoly on Violence, and Civil War	7
Structuring Intra-Party Politics: A Mixed-Method Study of Ideological and Hierarchical Factions in Parties	7
Pro-Democratic, but Not Anti-Authoritarian? Understanding Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Regimes	7
Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	7
Who Wants to be Legible? Digitalization and Intergroup Inequality in Kenya	7
Women’s Representation and Corruption: Evidence From Local Audits in Mexico	7
Strategic Uncertainty and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies: A Cross-National Analysis	7
Sanctuaries or Battlegrounds? State Penetration in Places of Worship, University Campuses, and State Bureaucracy for Pro-Government Mobilization: Evidence from Iran (2015–2019)	7
Feelings of Trust, Distrust and Risky Decision-Making in Political Office. An Experimental Study With National Politicians in Three Democracies	7
In Search of the Causes of the Globalization Backlash: Methodological Considerations on Post-treatment Bias	6
Beyond Hate Speech: Online Rumors and Out-Group Resentment in Divided Societies	6
Electoral Rules, Women’s Representation and the Qualification of Politicians	6
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	6
Nature Made the State: Exploring the Effect of Disasters on Centralization	6
Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution: Causes and Electoral Implications Across Europe	6
Do Women Prefer In-Group Police Officers? Survey and Experimental Evidence From India	6
Bureaucratic Capacity and Political Favoritism in Public Procurement	6
Crises and Ideological Change in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence From the July 2016 Coup Attempt in Turkey	6
The Mobilizing Effect of Party System Polarization. Evidence From Europe	6
Repression, Interests and Outgroup Attitudes: A Survey Experiment in Post-Coup Myanmar	6
Elections Increase Satisfaction With Democracy	6
Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development	6
The Political Resource Blessing or Curse? Patronage Networks, Infrastructure Investment, and Economic Development in China	6
A Loyal Base: Support for Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crisis	6
Progressive Ideology and Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil	5
Policymakers’ Abortion Preferences: Understanding the Intersection of Gender and Wealth	5
Selective Bribery: When Do Citizens Engage in Corruption?	5
Political Parties and Violence in Karachi, Pakistan	5
Partners in Crime: Comparative Advantage and Kidnapping Cooperation	5
Fragmentation of Political Authority and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Explaining Instances of Minority Accommodation in Israel and Estonia	5
Education Policies and Systems Across Modern History: A Global Dataset	5
The Loser’s Long Curse: How Exposure to Class Conflict Shapes Election Outcomes	5
Resource Wealth: A “Curse” for Labor Rights?	5
Oil “Rents” and Political Development: What Do We Really Know About the Curse of Natural Resources?	5
What Men Want: Parties’ Strategic Engagement With Gender Quotas	5
The Holocaust, the Socialization of Victimhood and Outgroup Political Attitudes in Israel	5
Constituency Service and Electoral Accountability in Autocratic Legislatures	5
The Activists Who Divide Us: A Cross-Country Analysis of Party Activists’ Influence on Polarization and Representation	5
Collusion, Co-Optation, or Evasion: The Politics of Drug Trafficking Violence in Central America	5
Drivers of Political Participation: The Role of Partisanship, Identity, and Incentives in Mobilizing Zambian Citizens	5
Revenue, Redistribution, and the Rise and Fall of Inheritance Taxation	5
Going the Last Mile: How Social Pensions Make Marginalized Elders Legible and Build the State’s Informational Capacity	5
Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests	5
Founding Leaders and National Narratives: Anthropomorphism and the Roots of Founding Leader Personality Cults in Three East Asian Cases	4
Democratic Reforms in Dictatorships: Elite Divisions, Party Origins, and the Prospects of Political Liberalization	4
Territorial Loss and Nationalist Populism	4
Grammar of Threat: Governance and Order in Public Threats by Criminal Actors	4
Gender and Political Compliance Under Authoritarian Rule	4
Strength in Numbers: How Variation in Party Size Impacts the Origins, Evolution, and Durability of Communist Regimes	4
Democratization Boost or Bust? Electoral Turnout After Democratic Transitions	4
Online Disinformation Predicts Inaccurate Beliefs About Election Fairness Among Both Winners and Losers	4
Interpersonal Resources and Insider/Outsider Dynamics in Party Office	4
Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns Over Refugee Reception	4
Opposing Backsliding Through Policy Competition: The Case of Poland’s Civic Platform (2015–2023)	4
Backlash or Progressive Mobilization? Voter Reactions to Perceived Trajectories of Women’s Representation	4
Declared Support and Clientelism	4
Revolutionaries for Railways	4
Chiefs’ Endorsements and Voter Behavior	4
The Succession Effect: Change Over Time in Women’s Political Leadership Styles in New Zealand	4
Voting in Clientelistic Social Networks: Evidence From the Philippines*	4
Brokering Bureaucrats: How Bureaucrats and Civil Society Facilitate Clientelism Where Parties are Weak	4
The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments Alive	4

Inclusive Redistribution and Perceptions of Membership: A Cross-National Comparison	4
The Electoral Consequences of International Migration in Sending Countries: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Democracy and State Development: Patterns of Public Spending in the First Two Waves of Democratization	4
Gender and Clientelism: Do Expectations of Patronage Penalize Women Candidates in Legislative Elections?	4
Consequences of Corruption for Political System Support: Evidence From a Brazilian Scandal	4
Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Global Warming	4
The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility	4
Blood Avocados? Trade Liberalization and Cartel Violence in Mexico	4
Legacies of Repression and Resistance in Early 20 th Century Europe	3
State Absence, Vengeance, and the Logic of Vigilantism in Guatemala	3
How Erroneous Beliefs Trigger Authoritarian Collapse: The Case of Tunisia, January 14, 2011	3
The Energy Transition and Support for the Radical Right: Evidence from the Netherlands	3
Voting with Putin: Gender, LGBT Rights, and Tacit Support for Russia among Europe’s Parliamentarians	3
The Activist Personality: Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Opposition Activism in Authoritarian Regimes	3
Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions	3
Information and Financialization: Credit Markets as a New Source of Inequality	3
Post-Communist Junctures, the Left, and Illiberalism: Theory with Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	3
“This is what the Bolsheviks do”: How Democratic Politicians Use Foreign Revolutions to Attract Voters	3
Democratic Ceilings: The Long Shadow of Nationalist Polarization in East Asia	3
The Political Origins of Colonial Land Policy: Evidence From British India and French Algeria	3
China’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive: Evidence From Patents	3
Domestic Legitimacy, Coethnics Abroad, and the Shape of the Homeland	3
Separated by Degrees: Social Closure by Education Levels Strengthens Contemporary Political Divides	3
Perceived Inequality as an Impediment to Mass Taxation: Evidence From Latin America	3
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)	3
Imperial Rule and Long-Run Development: Evidence on the Role of Human Capital in Ottoman Europe	3
Message or Messenger? Source and Labeling Effects in Authoritarian Response to Protest	3
Collective Action Infrastructure: The Downstream Effects of Urban Neighborhood Organizing	3
Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing	3
Privileging One’s Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India	3
The Legacies of Rebel Rule in Southeast Turkey	3
The Pigmentocracy of Executive Approval	3
Revisiting the Relationship Between Legislative Power-Sharing and Autocratic Survival	3
Indigenous Community Recognition and Identity: Evidence from Peru	3
Tempering the Taste for Vengeance: Information About Prisoners and Policy Choices in Chile	3
Elite Persistence in the Era of England’s Expanding Overseas Trade	3
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy: Taking Stock of Three Decades of Research in a Fragmented Field	3