Comparative Politics
An international journal, founded in 1968, presenting scholarly articles devoted to the comparative analysis of political institutions and processes.
- New article on Fast Track by Eduardo Silva and Zaraí Toledo Orozco, “Beyond Implementation: Policy Durability and Social Movements in Extractive Conflicts,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by @raschwartz.bksy.social “International Anti-Corruption Commissions: Explaining Institutional Design and Autonomy,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- When do corrupt incumbents agree to independent international anti-corruption commissions? This article finds that government insiders and civil society orgs can work together and leverage their agenda-setting power & expertise to ensure the autonomy of hybrid anti-corruption initiatives.
- New article on Fast Track by Ayelén Vanegas, “Dynamic Preferences for Redistribution: Understanding Welfare Support in Argentina,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- Our January 2026 issue (Vol.58, No.2) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell and Yujeong Yang, “The Political Legacy of Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by Olena Nikolayenko, “Emotional Contagion and Labor Mobilization in an Autocracy,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny... @fordhamposc.bsky.social
- New article on Fast Track by Benedikt Bender, Katharina Bluhm, Stanislav Klimovich, Sabine Kropp, Ulla Pape, and Claudius Wagemann, “Why Are State-Business Relations Formalized in Russia’s Authoritarian Regime? A Set-Theoretic Analysis,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by Adam Almqvist, “GONGOs, Zombies, and Astroturfers: Rethinking Hybrid Institutions in Autocracies through the Case of Jordanian Youth Governance,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- Reposted by Comparative PoliticsCheck out The Qualitative Metamorphosis in @comppol.bsky.social! Great review by @ajayverghese.bsky.social of books by @saragoodman.bsky.social, Jen Cyr, @marioluissmall.bsky.social, Jessica Calarco, @alanjacobs.bsky.social, and @macartan.bsky.social. 👇 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by Huseyin Emre Ceyhun, “Restive Regions: Sequential Complementarity of Repression and Cooptation in Authoritarian Survival,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- Can repression help an autocrat consolidate power non-violently? Ceyhun shows that in Turkey, cracking down on Kurdish mayors strengthened the state's control over Kurdish communities by increasing its capacity to extract taxes and information, enabling more successful cooptation of the youth.
- A New Era of Editorial Leadership at Comparative Politics With the first issue of the 58th volume of Comparative Politics, we mark a change in the guard of the leadership of the journal.
- New article on Fast Track by Alexander De Juan and @juvoss.bsky.social , “Transitional Justice and Support for Policies of Remembrance after Mass Violence,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by Sibo Liu, Shouzhi Xia, and Dong Zhang, “From Maoism to MAGA: Embracing Democracy with Authoritarian Imprints,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- Our October 2025 issue (Vol.58, No.1) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New Research Note on Fast Track by @lingchenscholar.bsky.social, Xiuyu li, and Kellee Tsai, “Pathways to Authoritarian Capitalism,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- Reposted by Comparative PoliticsHappy to see this paper out in the July issue of CP! Using the case of abortion policy, I argue that clientelistic parties engage in strategic, mutually beneficial interactions with influential interest groups when material exchanges no longer guarantee office.
- Reposted by Comparative PoliticsI learned so much from @rdassonneville.bsky.social's Voters Under Pressure, Tillman's Authoritarianism and the Evolution and Bartels's Democracy Erodes from the Top. In @comppol.bsky.social, I review each book on its own terms and draw out implications for the view that elections confer mandates. 🧵
- So great to see Voters Under Pressure featured in this @comppol.bsky.social review article by @klingelt.bsky.social! Reviewing the book alongside work of Bartels and Tillman, Tristan's reading is the mandate function of elections is being challenged👇 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New Review Article on Fast Track by @klingelt.bsky.social “Recasting the Meaning of Elections: Three Strikes for the Mandate Interpretation in Europe,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by Sasha de Vogel, Hannah S. Chapman, and Lauren A. McCarthy, “Authoritarian Information Gathering amid Crisis,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New Review Article on Fast Track by Benjamin Abrams, “A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- Are we entering a new age of revolutionary theory? In his review article, Abrams tells the story of revolutionary theory from Karl Marx's death to the present and evaluates where current scholarship is heading.
- Our July 2025 issue (Vol.57, No.4) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by @kstedem.bsky.social “What State? Political Parties and Non-State Security Provision in Lebanon,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by @kaimthaler.bsky.social “From Insurgent to Incumbent: Ideology, Rebel Governance, and Statebuilding after Rebel Victory in Civil Wars,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- In 2024, we received 267 manuscripts, of which 54% were rejected in-house. The average decision time was 29 days. The average decision time for only externally peer-reviewed manuscripts was 63 days. We accepted for publication 9% of submissions and gave an R&R to another 10%.
- New article on Fast Track by @miweintraub83.bsky.social, @abbeyst.bsky.social, and Sebastián Pantoja-Barrios, “The Bureaucracy of Reparations and Political Engagement,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- How do victims’ interactions with transitional justice institutions affect political engagement? This study finds that victims who interact with transitional justice institutions are more likely to: contact local leaders; join grassroots organizations; and participate in elections.
- Our April 2025 issue (Vol.57, No.3) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
- New article on Fast Track by Omar Báez and Kent Eaton, “Recentralization in Mexico: Reconfiguring the Center in Intergovernmental Relations,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
