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...

New article on Fast Track by Eduardo Alemán, @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social, Juan Pablo Micozzi, and Sebastián Vallejo Vera “Gender, Institutions, and Legislative Speech,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

New Review Article on Fast Track by @consueloamat and Claire Trilling, “Who Gains from Nonviolent Action? Unpacking the Logics of Civil Resistance,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...