New article by @adellag.bsky.social, Milli Lake, & Irene Morlino, “The Information Paradox: Aid, Social Protection, and the Social Contract in Areas of Conflict and State Fragility,” doi.org/10.5129/0010... @lseir.bsky.social

New article by Renhao Ye “Hydraulic State: Hydropower Construction and Extension of State Capacity in Contemporary China,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

New article by @kevinweiluo.bsky.social “The Sirens of Revolution: Revolutionary Legacies and State Building in Early Communist China,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

New article by @erains.bsky.social “Toward a Local View of Between-Group Inequality: Fractured Broker Networks and the Implications for Mobilization in Urban Slums,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

New article by Mari Aburamoto and Masatomo Torikai, “Legitimacy and Control: The Strategic Use of Minor Opposition Parties in Authoritarian Elections,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

In 2025, we accepted 6 percent of submissions for publication. Our average decision time was 23 days. The average decision time for only externally reviewed manuscripts was 67 days.

Our July 2026 issue (Vol.58, No.4) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New Review Article on Fast Track by Marcus Johnson, “Reassessing Colonial Origins: A Decolonial Review of Four Books on Global Inequality,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

New article on Fast Track by @pvkastner.bsky.social & Santiago Basabe-Serrano, “Monitoring High Court Rulings in New Democracies,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

New article on Fast Track by @payoub.bsky.social & Sam Whitt, “Silence or Solidarity? The Political Pitfalls of an LGBTQI Avoidance Strategy in Hungary,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

New article on Fast Track by @mattjmartin.com “From Citizen Input to Elite Legitimation: The Logic of Will-Confirmation in Constitution-Making,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Open Access research article in our April 2026 issue: Adam Almqvist, “GONGOs, Zombies, and Astroturfers: Rethinking Hybrid Institutions in Autocracies through the Case of Jordanian Youth Governance,” www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/c...

Our April 2026 issue (Vol.58, No.3) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

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...

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...

Check 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...

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...

Happy 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.

Comparative Politics@comppol.bsky.social · 2y ago

New article on Fast Track by Camilla Reuterswärd, “Policy Commitment as Voter Mobilization Strategy: Clientelist Parties, Interest Groups, and Abortion Policy in Subnational Mexico,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

I 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. 🧵

Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · last yr.

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...