Comparative Political Studies

{{Short description|Academic journal}}

{{Infobox journal

| title = Comparative Political Studies

| cover = CPS cover.gif

| editor = David J. Samuels, Benjamin W. Ansell,{{cite web | url=https://au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/journal/comparative-political-studies#description | title=Comparative Political Studies description | date=28 October 2015 | publisher=SAGE Publications Australia | access-date=April 11, 2018}} Dawn Teele

| discipline = Political science

| former_names =

| abbreviation = Comp. Political Stud.

| publisher = SAGE Publications

| country =

| frequency = Monthly

| history = 1968{{cite book |editor1=Madeleine Grawitz |editor-link=:fr:Madeleine Grawitz |editor2=Jean Leca |editor-link2=:fr:Jean Leca |author=Elisabeth Gayon |author-link=Elisabeth Gayon |date=1985 |title=Traité de science politique |chapter=Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique |page=305 |language=fr |publisher=Presses Universitaires de France |isbn=2-13-038858-2}}-present

| openaccess =

| license =

| impact = 4.2

| impact-year = 2023

| website = https://journals.sagepub.com/home/cps

| link1 = http://cps.sagepub.com/content/current

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://cps.sagepub.com/content/by/year

| link2-name = Online archive

| JSTOR =

| OCLC = 1564560

| LCCN = 68007517

| CODEN =

| ISSN = 0010-4140

| eISSN = 1552-3829

}}

Comparative Political Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal. It was established in 1968 by SAGE Publications, who continue to publish it today. The editors are David J. Samuels, University of Minnesota, Benjamin W. Ansell, University of Oxford, and Dawn Teele, Johns Hopkins University. The journal publishes methodological, theoretical, and research articles in the field of comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels.