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.

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. 🧵

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...

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...

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...

New article on Fast Track by Yang Yan and Zhusong Yang, “Portraying Competence, Benevolence, or Party Loyalty? Political Propaganda and the Image-Building of Political Elites in China,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by @luicypedroza.bsky.social and @pau-palop.bsky.social “Tracing the Pathways for Labor Migrants in Thirty States: The Nexus between Immigration Regulations and Immigrant Rights,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by Juan J. Fernández, @amjaime.bsky.social‬ and @bcaihuelas.bsky.social “The Socio-Structural Basis of the Long-Term Decline in Traditional Left-Right Class Voting in Affluent Democracies, 1964–2019,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by Neil Loughlin, “Is Chinese Investment Driving Authoritarianism? Evidence from the First Decade of the Belt and Road in Southeast Asia,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by Laura García-Montoya, Isabel Güiza-Gómez, and María Paula Saffon, “Entering the Political Arena in Exclusionary Settings: A Grassroots-Led Turn to the Left in Colombia,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by @sebdiessner.bsky.social @ndurazzi.bsky.social and David Hope, “Embedding Skill Bias: Technology, Institutions, and Inequality in Wages and Benefits,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

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...

Great research in this issue! Some highlights include how regimes create beliefs in authoritarian law, how rural people overcome collective action problems to foment protest, and a fantastic review of recent books on non-violent resistance.

Our January 2025 issue (Vol.57, No.2) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by Nathalia Sandoval-Rojas, “Conversion from Below: A Comparative Analysis of Colombian Indigenous Peoples’ Transformations of FPIC,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by Miguel Carreras, Sofia Vera, & Giancarlo Visconti, “Money and Time in Access to Public Services: How Do Citizens Evaluate Different Forms of Bureaucratic Corruption?” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New publication out! This one took years of data collection, but it clearly illustrates how Sweden's high-quality state bureaucracy is the result of centuries of gradual power struggles and strategic investments in education—a process I term administrative democratization.

Need a break from the US election? This new Research Note by danielcarelli.bsky.social introduces “administrative democratization” in the context of Swedish state-building. Discover how competence can trump aristocracy! www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by Patricia L. Maclachlan, “Mechanisms of Resistance: Informal Institutional Impediments to Japanese Postal Privatization,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New article on Fast Track by Nagyeong Kang, DaEun Kim, & Chong-Sup Kim, “A Global Assessment of Gender Quota Facilitating Mechanisms: Placement Mandates, Sanctions, and Financial Incentives,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...