Comparative Politics

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This journal publishes research on political institutions, processes, and behavior across various national and subnational contexts. Articles examine topics such as social movements and policy durability, the dynamics of support for redistributive policies, the independence of anti-corruption commissions, judicial monitoring and compliance, the electoral strategies of opposition politicians regarding minority rights, constitution-making processes, the critique of development paradigms, the long-term effects of state-led violence, the determinants of labor unrest in non-democracies, the institutionalization of state-business relations in authoritarian regimes, the evolution of hybrid institutions in autocracies, qualitative research methodologies, the consolidation of authoritarian power through repression, the impact of transitional justice on collective exoneration, the historical roots of right-wing populism, the nature of authoritarian capitalism, the interpretation of electoral mandates in European democracies, the effects of crises on information gathering in authoritarian regimes, the regeneration of revolutionary theory, the role of political parties in security provision, post-victory governance by rebels, the link between transitional justice and political participation, the dynamics of recentralization and power distribution, and the skill-based discrimination of migrants.

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