Comparative Political Studies
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CPS offers scholarly work on comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels. Edited by Ben Ansell, David Samuels, and Dawn Teele.
Joined July 2020
What affects support for digital governance policies? Karpa & Rochlitz present experimental evidence and find that awareness of potential misuse of digital governance tools by the government reduces support across regimes. New Online:
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This study investigates factors influencing support for digital governance solutions and compares this support between autocracies and democracies. We conduct s...
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Can populist discourse explain support for executive aggrandizement? B. Bessen presents experimental and observational evidence from Latin America. New Online:
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Does proportionality increase voter turnout? Leveraging the asymmetrical implementation of the 1912 Argentine electoral reform, Valentin Figueroa shows an immediate four percentage point increase in turnout. New Online:
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How can support for democracy coexist with lack of punishment for backsliding initiatives? @ValentimVicente shows that social norms incentivize citizens to pretend opposition to illiberal actors. New Online:
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Which mechanisms underpin the relation between market expansion and criminal activity? Erickson and Owen address this question with a multi-method approach to Mexico's avocado industry. New online:
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Several prominent studies predict that expanding markets in areas of low state capacity may decrease organized crime due to the opportunity cost mechanism, hold...
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Does the public support the use of lotteries to allocate public resources? Bueno, Funes, and Zucco provide novel quasi-experimental and observational evidence. New Online:
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Lotteries could be a just and cost-effective procedure to distribute government benefits in contexts of oversubscription, with the added benefit of allowing ass...
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How economic institutions affect voter's responses to rising housing prices? Reisenbichler & Koenig present experimental evidence from Germany. New Online:
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Thrilled to announce that."Does Right-Wing Violence Affect Public Support for Radical Right Parties? Evidence from Germany" by @krause_we and Miku Matsunaga has been awarded the James Caporaso Prize for best paper published in CPS in 2023. 🏆.
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This article examines whether citizens’ political preferences toward radical right parties (RRPs) change after right-wing extremist violent attacks. It investig...
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Thrilled to announce that @armenon_memorie's paper "The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany" has been awarded the Frances Rosenbluth Best Paper Prize for 2023 in CPS! 🏆 .
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Do refugees reshape long-term political behavior in receiving areas? I argue that forced migration can foster a strong group identity among refugees, which can ...
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RT @CostinMCiobanu: New article with @DaniSandu7 out in @cps_journal . Using Romanian data, we study whether contact between activists acti….
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RT @D_JRomero: 1/5 Mi artículo en @cps_journal ya está en línea. Mi artículo, basado en el caso de Guatemala, explora cómo la capacidad téc….
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Government contracts are a huge business and, in many countries, are associated with considerable corruption. Much research emphasizes bureaucratic improvements...
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RT @Jona_deJong: Happy that our paper ‘Separated by Degrees: Social Closure by Education Levels Strengthens Contemporary Political Divides’….
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RT @aytugs: How do parties strategically engage with strict gender quotas? . In a new paper with @AlexDBlackman and @juliamgclark at @cps_j….
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Women’s under-representation, particularly in political leadership, remains an important issue globally. Tunisia’s 2018 municipal elections included the adoptio...
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RT @carlhknutsen: This dataset on education systems across 157 countries & 230+ yrs required lots of effort (thanks co-authors, great RAs &….
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RT @AnneMWolf: Why did the Ben Ali regime collapse so swiftly on January 14, 2011? In my new @cps_journal piece, I argue that the fall of t….
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RT @sarahsunnbush: New article with @melinaplatas published #openaccess @cps_journal: “National Identity and Democracy Ratings” https://t.c….
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RT @AnneMWolf: I didn't know that #PoliticalScience articles could be #trending, but I am pleased to learn that my new @cps_journal piece o….
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Why was the longtime Tunisian ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali ousted on January 14, 2011? Prevailing theories focus on popular mobilization, grievances, and the r...
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New online: Jakob Frizell introduces a a new dataset on contemporary war-related taxes and analyses the roles of legitimacy perceptions.
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Constituting a central historical link between war and long-term fiscal capacity, war taxes are generally perceived to be a thing of the past. This article corr...
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New Online: C. Chang and @YuhuaWang5 present a novel approach to measuring infraestructural state capacity using data from location-based service companies.
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We conceptualize the reach of the state by examining how the physical presence of the state helps the state project its power by signaling state interests and s...
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RT @DaniGuariso: Together with @apvjustino, @aruggeri_eu and Stefano Costalli, we analyze the long-term effects of fascist legacies on poli….
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Can legacies of fascism threaten democracies with political violence? Democracies aim to peacefully manage incompatible interests in a society. Yet, few democra...
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