OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian Repression and Electoral Opposition: Mobilization under Germany's Antisocialist Law	21
Privatization and Judicialization in Resource Extraction: Comparing Labor Militancy in the Oil Fields of Russia and Kazakhstan	21
Dynamic Research Design: Iteration in Field-Based Inquiry	17
Entrenchment or Retrenchment: The Political Economy of Mortgage Debt Subsidies in the United States and Germany	16
Special Symposium, Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective Building a New Digital Archive: Documenting Anti-Black Violence in the "Jim Crow" U. S. South, 1930–1954	14
Electoral Violence, Partisan Identity, and Perceptions of Election Quality: A Survey Experiment in West Bengal, India	13
Left Behind: Labor Unions and Redistributive Policy under the Brazilian Workers' Party	11
Tracing the Pathways for Labor Migrants in Thirty States: The Nexus between Immigration Regulations and Immigrant Rights	11
Resisting Equality: Subnational State Capture and the Unequal Distribution of Inequality	10
Activists, Parties, and the Expansion of Trans Rights in Bolivia	10
Portraying Competence, Benevolence, or Party Loyalty? Political Propaganda and the Image-Building of Political Elites in China	10
What State? Political Parties and Non-State Security Provision in Lebanon	9
Recentralization in Mexico: Reconfiguring the Center in Intergovernmental Relations	8
Rethinking the Role of Issue-Voting in Referenda: Conjoint and Vote Choice Analyses of Preferences for Constitutional Change in Chile	8
Ethnonationalism or a Financial-Criminal Incentive Structure? Explaining Elite Support in Crimea for Russia’s Annexation	8
Power on the Margins: Lumpenproletarian Resistance in China and Egypt	8
Parliamentarians' Support for Direct and Deliberative Democracy in Europe: An Account of Individual-Level Determinants	7
Unorganized Politics: The Political Aftermath of Social Unrest in Chile	7
Recasting the Meaning of Elections: Three Strikes for the Mandate Interpretation in Europe	6
Political, Not Partisan: The Tunisian General Labor Union under Democracy	6
Money and Time in Access to Public Services: How Do Citizens Evaluate Different Forms of Bureaucratic Corruption?	6
Party Systems and Redistribution in Democratic Latin America	6
A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?	6
What Makes Bureaucracies Politically Resilient? Evidence from Brazil’s Covid‐19 Vaccination Campaign	6
The Socio-Structural Basis of the Long-Term Decline in Traditional Left-Right Class Voting in Affluent Democracies, 1964‐2019	6

Representation and Displacement: Labor Disembedding and Contested Neoliberalism in France	6
Beyond Secession: Substate Nationalism and Support for Redistribution in Spain	6
Notes on the Contributors	5
The Bureaucracy of Reparations and Political Engagement	5
Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics	5
When Do Courts Constrain the Authoritarian State? Judicial Decision-Making in Jordan and Palestine	5
The Nature of Ideology in Urban China	5
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment	5
Research Note Civil Resistance in the Streetlight: Replicating and Assessing Evidence on Nonviolent Effectiveness	4
Over a Barrel? Oil Busts and Petrostate Stability	4
Purifying the Religion: An Analysis of Haram Targeting among Salafi Jihadi Groups	4
Varieties of Electoral Dominance	3
Elite Threats and Punitive Violence in Autocratic Regimes: Evidence from Communist Eastern Europe	3
How Does Primary Election Manipulation Affect the Selection of Women Candidates? Evidence from Malawi	3
Prompting Peasant Protest: Cashews, Coalitions, and Collective Action in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire	3
Voting for a Killer: Efraín Ríos Montt's Return to Politics in Democratic Guatemala	3
Is Chinese Investment Driving Authoritarianism? Evidence from the First Decade of the Belt and Road in Southeast Asia	3
The "Weight" of Territorial Issues: Evidence from Catalonia, Scotland, and Northern Ireland	3
Sources of Authoritarian Resilience: New Perspectives on Power-Sharing and Popular Support	2
Mechanisms of Resistance: Informal Institutional Impediments to Japanese Postal Privatization	2
Why Democracy Survives Presidential Encroachments: Argentina Since 1983	2
From Insurgent to Incumbent: Ideology, Rebel Governance, and Statebuilding after Rebel Victory in Civil Wars	2
Resource Mobilization, Social Capital, Religion, and Protest across Latin America	2
What State? Political Parties and Non-State Security Provision in Lebanon	2
Containing Ethnic Conflict: Repression, Cooptation, and Identity Politics	2
Inducing Coproduction: Policy Implementation and Teachers’ Unions in Mexico	2
Determinants of Income Composition Inequality	2
Informal Institutions and Community Development Protests: Evidence from Sub-municipal Localities in Mexico	2
Pathways to Authoritarian Capitalism	2
Repression Reconsidered: Bystander Effects and Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes	2
Sweetening the Deal: The Political Economy of Land Redistribution in South Africa’s Sugar Sector	2
Taxation and Left-Wing Redistribution: The Politics of Consumption Tax in Britain and Sweden	2
Shaping Ethnoracial Identities: State-Society Relations and Programmatic Differentiation in the Andes	2
Revolution, Elite Fear, and Electoral Institutions	2