Comparative Politics

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Gabriella Levy
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James D. Long
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Associate Chair
Sebastian Mayer
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Victor Menaldo
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Susan H. Whiting
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Latest News

Why Study Turkish Politics? A Unique Investment (September 8, 2025)
Prof. Christopher Adolph receives Levine Prize (August 1, 2014)
Political Science: An Inauspicious Beginning (May 14, 2014)
Prof. Jim Caporaso receives Lifetime Achievement Award in EU Studies (March 1, 2014)
2013 Political Science News Summary (December 31, 2013)

Related Research

Fetzer, Joel, and Thomas Bidewell. "An analysis of Timor-Leste’s voting in the United Nations’ General Assembly from 2002 to 2022: economics, politics, or region?." Diálogos 10 (2025): 211-237.
Guo, Z., Li, Z. & Lin, T. Informed Inattention: How Political Connections Undermine Judicial Responsiveness in China. Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-024-00260-4
Erickson, Megan & Lucas Owen. 2024. “Blood Avocados? Trade Liberalization and Cartel Violence in Mexico.” Comparative Political Studies, 58(9), 2049–2089. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241290198.
COVID-19 National Preparedness Collaborators [including Christopher Adolph, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, Rachel Castellano, Megan Erickson, Carolyn Dapper, and Rebecca Walcott]. 2022. "Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of Infection and Fatality Rates, and Contextual Factors Associated with Preparedness in 177 Countries, from Jan 1, 2020, to Sept 30, 2021." The Lancet.
Whiting, Susan H., “Validating Vignette Designs with Real-World Data: A Study of Legal Mobilization in Response to Land Grievances in Rural China,” (with Xiao Ma), China Quarterly, Vol. 246 (June 2021).
Beatrice Magistro, Lucas Owen and Nicolas Wittstock (2021), "Populist Support, Institutional Trust, and Gender: The Impact of Foreign-Imposed Austerity During the European Debt Crisis", Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy: Vol. 2: No. 3, pp 329-346. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/113.00000040
Bozcaga, Tugba and Asli Cansunar (2021), "The Unintended Consequences of Nation-Making Institutions for Civil Society Development", Journal of Historical Political Economy: Vol. 1: No. 4, pp 591-613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/115.00000021
Beck, Jonathan. “Inequality and the Human Right to Tuition-Free Higher Education: Mobilizing Human Rights Law in the German Movement Against Tuition Fees.“ Law & Social Inquiry, 2021.
Joshi, Devin and Ryan Goehrung. (2021). "Mothers and Fathers in Parliament: MP Parental Status and Family Gaps from a Global Perspective." Parliamentary Affairs 74(2): 296-313.
Christopher Adolph. 2018. “The Missing Politics of Central Banks.” PS: Political Science and Politics. 51(4). October. 737-742.