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: https://t.co/o0fBcRREL1
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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: https://t.co/RJsrlkiddd
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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. 🏆 https://t.co/MqVs1VsEMb
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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! 🏆 https://t.co/zsHhktClA8
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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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New article with @DaniSandu7 out in @cps_journal Using Romanian data, we study whether contact between activists acting as party delegates in precincts on election day reduces affective polarization. https://t.co/SuqhraojWf
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1/5 Mi artículo en @cps_journal ya está en línea. Mi artículo, basado en el caso de Guatemala, explora cómo la capacidad técnica en burocracias capturadas puede promover la corrupción. El texto completo (en inglés) está aquí:
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Happy that our paper ‘Separated by Degrees: Social Closure by Education Levels Strengthens Contemporary Political Divides’ with @JonneKamphorst ) has been accepted for publication at @cps_journal. See ( https://t.co/Bz2211Pwm6), and a thread below! (1/9)
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How do parties strategically engage with strict gender quotas? In a new paper with @AlexDBlackman and @juliamgclark at @cps_journal, we explore this question in Tunisia's historic 2018 local elections. A short thread 👇 https://t.co/sIJqvk7KNu
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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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This dataset on education systems across 157 countries & 230+ yrs required lots of effort (thanks co-authors, great RAs & many others!) and € (thanks @ERC_Research!). But, so happy w. the result! Check out the @cps_journal article, but also the data & documentation (in thread):
Education plays many key roles in the lives of people & states. Yet, we need systematic and extensive data to study the development and effects of education. @carlhknutsen, @philutsc & I introduce our dataset on education systems worldwide @cps_journal #OpenAccess🥳(1/6)🧵
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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 the Tunisian regime–the first one to collapse during the Arab Uprising–was just one of several possible outcomes of the turmoil 👇👇 https://t.co/GiXKka5giM
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New article with @melinaplatas published #openaccess @cps_journal: “National Identity and Democracy Ratings” https://t.co/LSaMsUyRhj - here's a short🧵with some of our findings 1/
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I didn't know that #PoliticalScience articles could be #trending, but I am pleased to learn that my new @cps_journal piece on the collapse of the Ben Ali dictatorship seems to draw interest. It's available open access:
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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...
Trending in #PoliticalScience: https://t.co/jFnqX90ENy 1) How Erroneous Beliefs Trigger Authoritarian Collapse: Tunisia, January 14, 2011 (@cps_journal) 2) Does ranked choice Voting Increase voter turnout and mobilization? (@electoralstdies) 3) Measuring Political Narratives
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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. https://t.co/2UTNgfPmM2
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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. https://t.co/SopAXiSNdQ
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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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Together with @apvjustino, @aruggeri_eu and Stefano Costalli, we analyze the long-term effects of fascist legacies on political violence during the Years of Lead. Out in @cps_journal. @TuringPubPol
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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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