Department of Comparative Politics
Recent Submissions
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Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In their 2021 article published in the British Journal of Political Science, Calla Hummel, John Gerring, and Thomas Burt (henceforth Hummel et al.) examine the relationship between political finance reforms and corruption, ... -
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)In this study we show that on different dimensions of social security (compensation level, maximum duration and eligibility criteria), respondents in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom prefer their governments to ... -
The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–2023
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Objective: The purpose of this article is to explain howPeronism, an allegedly personalist party, has managed to insti-tutionalize its internal power struggles and its successionprocedures since democratization in 1983.Methods: ... -
Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Political Participation in Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)This article investigates the relationship between anti-immigration attitudes and political participation in European democracies. Using data from the European Social Survey (2002–2018), we first show that a participation ... -
Mapping the policy space of public consultations: evidence from the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Public consultations strengthen the informational advantage and policy legitimacy of bureaucracies by allowing them to collect and aggregate information on stakeholder preferences. How well consultations perform this ... -
Generation Z: Pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Generation Z is the most educated and yet pessimistic about the future. At the same time, populist parties have much support among young voters. Do they find an answer to their discouraging socio-economic situation in ... -
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)The second-order election (SOE) model expects voters to punish parties innational government and reward opposition, small and new parties becausethere is ‘less at stake’ in an SOE. One key assumption that is rarely studied ... -
Culture and Public Support for Violence Against Children in Six Nations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study explores the link between culture and support for violence against children in six South Asian (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and European (Germany, Netherlands, and Sweden) countries. Utilizing data from the ... -
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Young people continue to be underrepresented in formal politics. Previous research indicates that being a nonmiddle-aged candidate negatively affects electoral success. What are the origins of this performance gap? This ... -
Performance and trust in child protection systems: A comparative analysis of England and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Research on the relationship between performance and trust is commonplace in social sciences, yet trust in child protection systems (CPS) remains an emerging area of study. This research delves into how three dimensions ... -
Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Political scientists increasingly use crowdworkers to produce data, predominantly in the context of coding researcher-curated text or to retrieve simple data from the internet. In this article, we provide a theoretical and ... -
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)When individuals are confronted with information about why and where gender quotas should apply, does it affect their attitudes? A growing literature argues that information affects opinions on gender equality, but so far ... -
Data-Driven Campaigning in Data-Dense Small Multiparty Systems: A Party-Level Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study examines data-driven campaign (DDC) practices in Sweden. We explore the extent of data-driven practices adopted in Swedish political campaigns, and parties’ motivations to adopt them. Since this is a comparison ... -
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article compares the relationship between candidate age and political selection on the local and national level of politics. On which level are young candidates more likely to be selected by parties and elected by ... -
Responding to whom? An experimental study of the dynamics of responsiveness to interest groups and the public
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)While politicians are commonly depicted as having strong incentives to beresponsive to both interest groups and citizens to govern and maintainoffice, the literature lacks designs that allow for assessing the causal effect ... -
The politics of the minimum wage: Explaining introduction and levels
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)There is much economics research on the effects ofminimum wages, but little research on their poli-tics. Yet, ever more advanced capitalist democracieshave introduced minimum wages, and the setting ofminimum wage levels ... -
Do minimum wages crowd out union density?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Minimum wage legislation has spread across richdemocracies in recent decades in response to risinginequality and in-work poverty. However, there are con-cerns that state regulation of wages could reduce incen-tives to join ... -
Conceptualizing the Legitimacy of Non-Transitional Truth Commissions: Norway and Canada Compared
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a new trend in the transitional justice field, as Western democracies establish truth commissions (TCs) to address harms against Indigenous and national-minority populations. The first, most ... -
Mapping domestic climate authority: insights from the UK’s multi-scale institutional architecture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Climate governance research has underlined that diferent territorial scales play a role in the green transition. Across these scales, a plurality of actors mobilises in systems described as multilevel or polycentric. Such ... -
State-led Environmentalism and China’s E-waste Industry: A Case Study of Shanghai
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)In this master’s thesis, I examine China's environmental policy in practice, with a focus on Shanghai as a case study. I base my analysis on theories of authoritarian environmentalism and explore whether such a system of ...
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