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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	“Effective” Number of Parties	Comparative Political Studies	1979	2,630
2	The Path to European Integration	Comparative Political Studies	1996	1,356
3	Does Left/Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration?	Comparative Political Studies	2002	1,079
4	Authoritarian Institutions and the Survival of Autocrats	Comparative Political Studies	2007	1,033
5	Linkages between Citizens and Politicians in Democratic Polities	Comparative Political Studies	2000	1,007
6	What Are the Origins of Political Trust?	Comparative Political Studies	2001	1,002
7	Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy	Comparative Political Studies	1993	781
8	Credible Power-Sharing and the Longevity of Authoritarian Rule	Comparative Political Studies	2008	762
9	III. “Degrees of Freedom” and the Case Study	Comparative Political Studies	1975	755
10	Conceptualizing And Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices	Comparative Political Studies	2002	750
11	Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy	Comparative Political Studies	2002	719
12	Of Time and Partisan Stability	Comparative Political Studies	1969	704
13	The Invisible Hand of Democracy	Comparative Political Studies	2001	699
14	A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800–2007	Comparative Political Studies	2013	665
15	How Populist Are the People? Measuring Populist Attitudes in Voters	Comparative Political Studies	2014	615
16	II. The Comparable-Cases Strategy in Comparative Research	Comparative Political Studies	1975	595
17	What Unites Right-Wing Populists in Western Europe?	Comparative Political Studies	2008	580
18	Context and Causal Mechanisms in Political Analysis	Comparative Political Studies	2009	563
19	Explaining Variation In The Success Of Extreme Right Parties In Western Europe	Comparative Political Studies	2003	545
20	Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation	Comparative Political Studies	2008	497
21	Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa	Comparative Political Studies	2004	475
22	When in Doubt, Use Proxies	Comparative Political Studies	1998	464
23	Is Chávez Populist?	Comparative Political Studies	2009	460
24	The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems	Comparative Political Studies	2008	453
25	Making and Breaking Social Capital	Comparative Political Studies	2005	450
26	Party Competition and European Integration in the East and West	Comparative Political Studies	2006	437
27	Is There a (Viable) Crucial-Case Method?	Comparative Political Studies	2007	428
28	Diffusion Is No Illusion	Comparative Political Studies	2006	413
29	Studying Populism in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on the Contemporary and Future Research Agenda	Comparative Political Studies	2018	413
30	A Quiet Revolution	Comparative Political Studies	1994	398
31	Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies during the 1980s	Comparative Political Studies	1995	397
32	Why Some Anti-Immigrant Parties Fail and Others Succeed	Comparative Political Studies	2005	387
33	Risks and Redistribution	Comparative Political Studies	2009	380
34	Democratization as Deliberative Capacity Building	Comparative Political Studies	2009	373
35	Patronage and Political Stability in Africa	Comparative Political Studies	2009	369
36	Opening the Window for Reform	Comparative Political Studies	1993	368
37	A Reappraisal of the State Sovereignty Debate	Comparative Political Studies	2000	368
38	Class, Status, and Party: The Changing Face of Political Islam in Turkey and Egypt	Comparative Political Studies	2010	368
39	Political Parties and Political Representation	Comparative Political Studies	1985	362
40	Does Discourse Matter in the Politics of Welfare State Adjustment?	Comparative Political Studies	2002	356
41	Remote Control: How the Media Sustain Authoritarian Rule in China	Comparative Political Studies	2011	349
42	The Global Impact of Quotas	Comparative Political Studies	2008	348
43	Judicialization and the Construction of Governance	Comparative Political Studies	1999	343
44	Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions	Comparative Political Studies	1996	341
45	Ethnic Diversity and Generalized Trust in Europe	Comparative Political Studies	2009	329
46	Time Matters	Comparative Political Studies	2007	327
47	Declining Voter Turnout in Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1950 to 1997	Comparative Political Studies	2000	322
48	The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes	Comparative Political Studies	2008	321
49	Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy	Comparative Political Studies	2000	318
50	Integrating Institutions	Comparative Political Studies	2003	317

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