Courts w/t enforcement power don’t monitor every decision; they intervene when public pressure threatens their reputation. Using 6,000+ cases from the Constit'l Court of Ecuador, authors show civil society signals drive judicial oversight, revealing compliance is shaped more by pressure than power.
New article on Fast Track by @pvkastner.bsky.social & Santiago Basabe-Serrano, “Monitoring High Court Rulings in New Democracies,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...
This article examines whether opposition silence on anti-LGBTQI legislation helps liberal challengers avoid electoral penalties. The results show that avoidance strategies don’t boost electoral support & erode perceptions of moral leadership while weakening support for LGBTQI rights.
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...
Public consultation should make constitutions more democratic—but what if elites interpret input to confirm their preferences? Based on interviews in Chile and Cuba, this article introduces “will-confirmation”—how participation becomes elite legitimation rather than a check on interpretation.
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...
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...
Our January 2026 issue (Vol.58, No.2) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
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...
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. 👇
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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.