Comparative Politics

Why do some hard-fought social movement policy wins endure while others fade? Evidence from 17 mining conflicts in Ecuador and Peru shows that durability hinges on mobilization after policy adoption, especially by pushing inside the state and securing decisions at the highest levels.

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...

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 @raschwartz.bksy.social “International Anti-Corruption Commissions: Explaining Institutional Design and Autonomy,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Why would cash-transfer beneficiaries reduce support for these programs when poverty grows? Drawing on evidence from Argentina, this article shows that when recipients perceive transfers as ineffective, they shift toward supporting longer-term social investment policies.

New article on Fast Track by Ayelén Vanegas, “Dynamic Preferences for Redistribution: Understanding Welfare Support in Argentina,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

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This article examines long-term effects of authoritarian violence on outgroup intolerance in Indonesia. Findings highlight historical legacies of state-led ethnic violence under dictatorship as a source of political intolerance in present-day democratic societies.

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...

When do industrial workers protest in an autocracy? This article argues that emotional contagion explains a short-term spike in labor mobilization against the regime.

New article on Fast Track by Olena Nikolayenko, “Emotional Contagion and Labor Mobilization in an Autocracy,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

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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...

Why do autocracies create hybrid institutions such as Govt-Organized NGOs (GONGOs), zombie election observers, and astroturfing social movements? Examining Jordan’s youth GONGOs, Almqvist shows how clashes bw entrenched bureaucracies and changing regime objectives produce these hybrid workarounds.

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...

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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.

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...

Professors Erickson and Markovitz helped launch the publishing careers of many scholars in the discipline and we hope to carry on that legacy. This will be our tribute to our exemplars, Ken and Lenny.

We are also dedicated to being a journal that fosters emerging scholars by providing a quick initial decision, high-quality feedback on papers sent out for review, and fair consideration of work submitted by all scholars regardless of their academic rank or institution.

But we are especially committed to sustaining CP’s long-standing role as an outlet for excellent qualitative research that explores ambitious theoretical questions, whether that research be rooted in comparative historical analysis, process tracing, in-depth interviews, or ethnographic field work.

Both Bellin and Smith are committed to making the journal the strongest it can be – a platform for path- breaking research in comparative politics, open to all methods.

With the approval of the editorial committee, Professors Erickson and Markovitz have passed the baton to Professors Eva Bellin and Nicholas Rush Smith who will now assume the role of Editors-in-Chief.

Thanks to their leadership, Comparative Politics is ranked as Q1 among all Political Science journals, while remaining among a handful of independent publications in the industry. We are so grateful to them.

Both Ken and Lenny, as we know them, have shown extraordinary dedication to the journal and, more generally, to the field of comparative politics. They have modeled integrity, collegiality, hard work, and a commitment to excellence. They have kept the journal strong.

After more than 45 years of service as members of the editorial committee at Comparative Politics and after 30 years of service as the journal’s Editors-in-Chief, Professors Kenneth Paul Erickson and Irving Leonard Markovitz are stepping down.

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.

Does punishing perpetrators of mass violence reduce support for remembrance? Drawing on survey experiments and historical variation in denazification within Germany, Alexander De Juan and Julian Voß find that perceived justice does not undermine support for commemoration.

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...

Why did some Chinese diaspora voices embrace Trump and even support overturning the 2020 election? Using ~1M tweets from 200 opinion leaders, Liu, Xia, and Zhang show that those with stronger authoritarian imprints were more likely to support Trump & reject the 2020 election outcome.

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...