Recent Issues of Comparative Politics:

Volume 42, Number 2, January 2010 Volume 42, Number 1, October 2009 Volume 41, Number 4, July 2009 Volume 41, Number 3, April 2009 Volume 41, Number 2, January 2009 Volume 41, Number 1, October 2008

Volume 40, Number 4, July 2008 Volume 40, Number 3, April 2008 Volume 40, Number 2, January 2008 Volume 40, Number 1, October 2007 Volume 39, Number 4, July 2007 Volume 39, Number 3, April 2007

Volume 42, Number 2, January 2010

• Scott Radnitz, "The Color of Money: Privatization, Economic Dispersion, and the Post-Soviet 'Revolutions'"
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• Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, "What Explains Corruption Perceptions? The Dark Side of Political Competition in Russia's Regions"
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• HeeMin Kim, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., and Richard C. Fording, "Electoral Systems, Party Systems, and Ideological Representation: An Analysis of Distortion in Western Democracies"
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• Christine Trampusch, "The Politics of Institutional Change: Transformative and Self-Preserving Change in the Vocational Education and Training System in Switzerland"
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• Jeffrey F. Timmons, "Taxation and Credible Commitment: Left, Right, and Partisan Turnover"
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• Joseph W. Robbins, "Party System Institutionalization and Government Spending"
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Volume 42, Number 1, October 2009

• Yan Sun and Michael Johnston, "Does Democracy Check Corruption? Insights from China and India"
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• Mark I. Vail, "Bending the Rules: Institutional Analysis, Political Change, and Labor Market Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies"
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• Kenneth C. Shadlen, "The Politics of Patents and Drugs in Brazil and Mexico: The Industrial Bases of Health Policies"
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• Michelle Dion, "Globalization, Democracy, and Mexican Welfare, 1988-2006"
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• Lee Demetrius Walker, "Delegative Democratic Attitudes and Institutional Support in Central America"
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• Jie Lu and Tianjian Shi, "Political Experience: A Missing Variable in the Study of Political Transformation"
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Volume 41, Number 4, July 2009

• Jennifer Pribble, Evelyne Huber, and John D. Stephens, "Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America"
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• Enrique Desmond Arias and Mark Ungar, "Community Policing and Latin America’s Citizen Security Crisis"
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• Eduardo Moncada, "Toward Democratic Policing in Colombia? Institutional Accountability through Lateral Reform "
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• Xi Chen, "The Power of 'Troublemaking': Protest Tactics and Their Efficacy in China"
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• Tariq Thachil, "Neoliberalism's Two Faces in Asia: Globalization, Educational Policies, and Religious Schooling in India, Pakistan, and Malaysia"
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• Michael Bernhard, "Methodological Disputes in Comparative Politics"
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Volume 41, Number 3, April 2009

• Philipp Kuntz and Mark R. Thompson, "More than Just the Final Straw: Stolen Elections as Revolutionary Triggers"
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• Oxana Shevel, "The Politics of Citizenship Policy in New States"
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• Guy Ben-Porat and Yariv Feniger, "Live and Let Buy? Consumerism, Secularization, and Liberalism"
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• Seda Demiralp, "The Rise of Islamic Capital and the Decline of Islamic Radicalism in Turkey"
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• Priscilla A. Lambert and Druscilla L. Scribner, "A Politics of Difference versus a Politics of Equality: Do Constitutions Matter?"
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• Robert R. Kaufman, "The Political Effects of Inequality in Latin America: Some Inconvenient Facts"
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Volume 41, Number 2, January 2009

• Susan Alberts, "How Constitutions Constrain"
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• Kurt Weyland, "The Rise of Latin America's Two Lefts? Insights from Rentier State Theory"
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• Joy Langston and Scott Morgenstern, "Campaigning in an Electoral Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Mexico"
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• Catherine Boone, "Electoral Populism Where Property Rights are Weak: Land Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa "
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• Edward Schatz, "The Soft Authoritarian Tool Kit: Agenda-Setting Power in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan"
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• Ian S. Lustick and Dan Miodownik, "Abstractions, Ensembles, and Virtualizations: Simplicity and Complexity in Agent-Based Modeling"
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Volume 41, Number 1, October 2008

• Ahmet T. Kuru, "Secularism, State Policies, and Muslims in Europe: Analyzing French Exceptionalism"
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• Shale Horowitz and Eric C. Browne, "Party Systems and Economic Policy in Postcommunist Democracies: Ideological Consensus and Institutional Competition"
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• Charles R. Hankla, "Parties and Patronage: An Analysis of Trade and Industrial Policy in India"
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• Brian Wampler, "When Does Participatory Democracy Deepen the Quality of Democracy? Lessons from Brazil"
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• Leiv Marsteintredet and Einar Berntzen, "Reducing the Perils of Presidentialism in Latin America through Presidential Interruptions"
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• Review Article: David D. Laitin, "American Immigration through Comparativists' Eyes"
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Volume 40, Number 4, July 2008

• Ben Ross Schneider, "Economic Liberalization and Corporate Governance: The Resilience of Business Groups in Latin America"
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• Merike Blofield, "Women's Choices in Comparative Perspective: Abortion Policies in Late-Developing Catholic Countries"
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• David Art, "The Organizational Origins of the Contemporary Radical Right: The Case of Belgium"
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• Bo Rothstein and Dietlind Stolle, "The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust"
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• Fotini Christia, "Following the Money: Muslim versus Muslim in Bosnia's Civil War"
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• Review Article: Richard Sakwa, "Two Camps? The Struggle to Understand Contemporary Russia"
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Volume 40, Number 3, April 2008

• Ana Maria Evans, "Preemptive Modernization and the Politics of Sectoral Defense: Adjustment to Globalization in the Portuguese Pharmacy Sector"
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• Robert G. Moser, "Electoral Systems and the Representation of Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from Russia"
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• Henry E. Hale, "The Double-Edged Sword of Ethnofederalism: Ukraine and the USSR in Comparative Perspective"
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• Zeynep Somer-Topcu and Laron K. Williams, "Survival of the Fittest? Cabinet Duration in Postcommunist Europe"
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• Amos Zehavi, "The Faith-Based Initiative in Comparative Perspective: Making Use of Religious Providers in Britain and the United States"
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• Review Article: Teresa Wright, "State-Society Relations in Reform-Era China: A Unique Case of Postsocialist State-Led Development?"
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Volume 40, Number 2, January 2008

• John Sidel, "Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Revisited: Colonial State and Chinese Immigrant in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia"
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• Frances Hagopian, "Latin American Catholicism in an Age of Religious and Political Pluralism: A Framework for Analysis"
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• Gary L Goodman and Jonathan T. Hiskey, "Exit without Leaving: Political Disengagement in High Migration Municipalities in Mexico"
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• Ozge Kemahlioglu, "Particularistic Distribution of Investment Subsidies under coalition Governments: The Case of Turkey"
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• Lianjiang Li, "Political Trust and Petitioning in the Chinese Countryside"
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• Review Article: Lisa Hilbink, "Assessing the New Constitutionalism"
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Volume 40, Number 1, October 2007

• J. Samuel Valenzuela, Timothy R. Scully, and Nicolás Somma, "The Enduring Presence of Religion in Chilean Ideological Positionings and Voter Options"
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• Christina Davis and Jennifer Oh, "Repeal of the Rice Laws in Japan: The Role of International Pressure to Overcome Vested Interests"
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• Linda J. Cook, "Negotiating Welfare in Postcommunist States"
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• Wim van Oorschot and Wilfred Uunk, "Welfare Spending and the Public's Concern for Immigrants: Multilevel Evidence for Eighteen European Countries"
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• Christian Albrekt Larsen, "How Welfare Regimes Generate and Erode Social Capital: The Impact of Underclass Phenomena"
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• Review Article: Veljko Vujačić, "Elites, Narratives, and Nationalist Mobilization in the Former Yugoslavia"
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Volume 39, Number 4, July 2007

• Niall Ó Murchú, "Split Labor Markets and Ethnic Violence after World War I: A Comparison of Belfast, Chicago, and Johannesburg"
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• Martin Höpner, "Corporate Governance Reform and the German Party Paradox"
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• Brian D. Taylor, "Force and Federalism: Controlling Coercion in Federal Hybrid Regimes"
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• Dinissa Duvanova, "Bureaucratic Corruption and Collective Action: Business Associations in the Postcommunist Transition"
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• Sandra F. Joireman, "Enforcing New Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Ugandan Constitution and the 1998 Land Act"
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• Review Article: Sabine Saurugger, "Collective Action in the European Union: From Interest Group Influence to Participation in Democracy"
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Volume 39, Number 3, April 2007

• Eduardo Alemán and Sebastián Saiegh, "Legislative Preferences, Political Parties, and Coalition Unity in Chile"
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• Christoffer Green-Pedersen, "The Conflict of Conflicts in Comparative Perspective: Euthanasia as a Political Issue in Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands"
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• Anthony Mughan, "Economic Insecurity and Welfare Preferences: A Micro-Level Analysis"
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• Lucy Mansergh and Robert Thomson, "Election Pledges, Party Competition, and Policymaking"
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• Devashree Gupta, "Selective Engagement and Its Consequences for Social Movement Organizations: Lessons from British Policy in Northern Ireland"
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• Review Article: Antonis A. Ellinas, "Phased Out: Far Right Parties in Western Europe"
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