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Emily H @emilyghickey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I keep forgetting that APSA is next week! I will be there and am happy to chat with anyone about teaching political science. I have also updated the coffee map from the last time that APSA was in Boston, which I hope folks find useful! www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...

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Lindsay Mayka @lindsaymayka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Decisions in 67 days for externally reviewed manuscripts!!

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New article by Yixuan Zhang, “Covering the Big Tigers in China: Patronage Ties and Political Signaling within Elite Circles,” doi.org/10.5129/0010...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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.

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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.

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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.

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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.

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Our January 2026 issue (Vol.58, No.2) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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.

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Very nice and really thoughtful review of new work on qualitative methods (with some fair criticisms of our *Integrated Inferences* book!). Looking forward now to spending more time reading *Doing Good Qualitative Research* and *Qualitative Literacy* Thanks for sharing and engaging!

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Quite an honor to be reviewed by @ajayverghese.bsky.social -- and in such great company! It was a privilege to work with Jen to bring Doing Good Qualitative Research into the world, and I’m thrilled that Ajay saw the book as the public good we hoped it would be.

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Ajay Verghese @ajayverghese.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Check out my review of some exciting new books in qualitative methods!

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/11/2025

Zohran Mamdani wins! He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win. Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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...

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Lindsay Mayka @lindsaymayka.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

DM me or email me if you want to learn more about publishing with CP! This is a really exciting moment for the journal.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

12) Review Articles: We accept review articles that make original arguments about an important body of research by engaging recent books on the topic. Review articles are peer reviewed and allow scholars to make broad theoretical claims while informing readers about the state of a given field.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

11) Special Issues: We accept special issue proposals on a topic of importance within comparative politics. Special issues allow guest editors to shape how the discipline should see a topic of interest, while bringing excellent peer reviewed research to broad attention.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

10) Epistemically and Methodologically Open: Although we are the home for high-quality case-based research, we are methodologically and epistemically neutral. We accept research of all types, so long as it is theoretically driven, of high quality, and speaks to questions in the field at large.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

9) Theory-Driven Articles: Although our articles are rooted in deep case knowledge, they speak to broad issues in comparative politics. We seek work that is theory-driven, that asks big questions about politics around the globe, and that will contribute to conversations outside of a specific region.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

8) Dedicated to Emerging Scholars: We are dedicated to fair consideration of work submitted by all scholars regardless of their academic rank or institution. We are deeply proud when we publish first-time authors and love to foster future leaders in the field.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

7) Leading Scholars as Editors and Reviewers: Our editors and reviewers are leading regional and substantive experts. So, even if we cannot publish an article, respected scholars are reading the work seriously. See our incredible editorial committee here: jcp.gc.cuny.edu/about/editors/

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Editors-in-Chief Eva Bellin, Brandeis University Nicholas Rush Smith, SOAS University of London Editorial Committee Vincent Boudreau, Graduate Center and City College of New York, CUNY Yitzhak Brudny,...

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

6) Our Amazing Managing Editor, Yekaterina Oziashvili: Kat knows the field like no one else. She finds the perfect reviewers for the topic and knows which reviewers give great feedback. She makes sure the journal’s review process is efficient, fair, and helps authors improve their work.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

5) The Leading Venue for Qualitative Comparative Research: Comparative Politics is the discipline’s home of qualitative case-based research whether rooted in comparative historical analysis, process tracing, in-depth interviews, or ethnographic field work. Our authors and reviewers know our cases.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

4) Fast Reviews: Our average time to a first decision is 29 days (including articles that are desk rejected) and 63 days for articles sent out for review. Our editors and reviewers know that scholars prize high-quality feedback and that they prize it quickly.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

3) Independent: Comparative Politics is run by an independent non-profit foundation, not a for-profit corporation. Our editors and reviewers work for the public good, not private profit.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

2) High Quality Articles: Comparative Politics typically accepts between six and nine percent of the articles submitted each year. So, articles are thoroughly vetted by reviewers and editors and of superlative quality. Publishing in CP is a big deal.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

1) Top Tier Journal: Comparative Politics is a Q1 journal, ranked in the top quarter of all political science journals by impact factor. Our work gets cited.

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The lifeblood of a journal is the academic community of which it is a part, including reviewers, readers, and aspiring authors. So, here are a dozen reasons why scholars should submit their work for consideration at Comparative Politics:

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Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I'm honored to have become co-Editor-in-Chief of Comparative Politics, alongside Eva Bellin of Brandeis. After thirty years of amazing service, Lenny Markowitz and Ken Erickson, have passed the torch. Along with our extraordinary editorial committee, I'm excited to see the journal into its next era.

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Lindsay Mayka @lindsaymayka.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

We have new editors in chief at Comparative Politics! I'm excited to work more closely with @nickrushsmith.bsky.social and Eva Bellin. It's bittersweet to say goodbye to our old editors in chief, Ken Erickson and Lenny Markovitz, but I'm really excited about the future of the journal. Submit to CP!

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Camilla Reuterswärd @camreu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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.

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Our October 2025 issue (Vol.58, No.1) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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...

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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...

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