British Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Political Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
More Turnover, Less Turnout? Domestic Migration and Political Participation Across Communities174
International Border Restrictions During COVID-19 as Global Health Security Theatre98
Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization58
Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World53
Quality Not Quantity: How a VAA Affected Voting Behavior in Three Large-Scale Field Experiments48
In the Shadows of Great Men: Retired Leaders and Informal Power Constraints in Autocracies43
Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach43
The Gendered Cost of Politics35
Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote Its Legitimacy35
JPS volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Back matter31
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost?30
Connections as Liabilities: The Cost of the Politics–Business Revolving Door in China27
Shaping Electoral Outcomes: Intra- and Anti-systemic Violence in Indian Assembly Elections26
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination25
Public Demand for Extraterritorial Environmental and Social Public Goods Provision25
Network Competition and Civilian Targeting during Civil Conflict24
The Politics of Intersecting Crises: The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Climate Policy Preferences23
Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020)23
Deliberative Distortions? Homogenization, Polarization, and Domination in Small Group Discussions - ERRATUM22
The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia21
Public Preferences Over Changes to the Composition of Government Tax Revenue21
The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies21
Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes20
Voter Sexism and Electoral Penalties for Women Candidates: Evidence from Four Democracies20
The First Wave of Globalization and Electoral Populism in the United States19
Party Origins, Party Infrastructural Strength, and Governance Outcomes19
The Causal Effect of Affluence on Voter Turnout: New Evidence from Lottery Winnings18
Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue18
Measuring Descriptive Representation at Scale: Methods for Predicting the Race and Ethnicity of Public Officials18
European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union18
Capturing the Fourth Estate: Government Influence on US Newspaper Coverage of Foreign Leaders18
Descriptive or Partisan Representation? Examining Trade-Offs for Asian Americans17
Do Voters Pay Attention to Transnational Politics? Party Positions, Transnational Families, and Voter Perceptions16
Modern Family? The Gendered Effects of Marriage and Childbearing on Voter Turnout16
Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly16
The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization – ERRATUM15
Defending the Status Quo or Seeking Change? Electoral Outcomes, Affective Polarization, and Support for Referendums15
Stable Views in a Time of Tumult: Assessing Trends in US Public Opinion, 2007–2015
Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict14
Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success14
Taxation and Social Intermediaries: Experimental Evidence from Lagos, Nigeria14
How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?14
Granting Immigrants the Right to Vote in National Elections: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data13
Uncovering Mutual Understanding on Immigration with Open-Ended Survey Questions13
The Islamist Advantage: The Religious Infrastructure of Electoral Victory12
Strategies of a Rising Power: Chinese Economic Influence in Regional International Organizations12
Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia11
Anti-homeless Hostile Design as Wrongful Discrimination11
Strategic Interdependence: Using Internet Outage Data to Study How Combatants Manage Collective Institutions During War11
Examining Voting Spillover Effects of Text Message Reminders11
Revisiting the Link between Politicians’ Salaries and Corruption11
When Do Citizens Consider Political Parties Legitimate?11
Intergenerational Social Mobility, Political Socialization and Support for the Left under Post-industrial Realignment11
How Are Social Groups Linked to the Vote? Social Group Perceptions and Party Choice10
The Friday Effect: How Communal Religious Practice Heightens Exclusionary Attitudes10
Do Citizens Stereotype Muslims as an Illiberal Bogeyman? Evidence from a Double-List Experiment10
How Local Context Affects Populist Radical Right Support: A Cross-National Investigation Into Mediated and Moderated Relationships10
Anchoring Vignettes as a Diagnostic Tool for Cross-National (in)Comparability of Survey Measures: The Case of Voters’ Left-Right Self-Placement10
Early Money and Strategic Candidate Exit10
Support for Deliberative mini-Publics among the Losers of Representative Democracy10
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and ICE Reporting Interest: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Web Search Data10
Party Positioning Under Populist State Leaders10
Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals9
Pre-Modern Institutions and Later Support for Autocrats in Democratic Elections9
Does Party-System Fragmentation Affect the Quality of Democracy?9
Not Getting the Message on Climate? Attention as a Key Barrier to Mass-Marketing Experimentally-Validated Messages9
Harmful Side Effects: How Government Restrictions against Transnational Civil Society Affect Global Health9
Identifying Patterns in the Structural Drivers of Intrastate Conflict9
The Populist Backlash Against Globalization: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence9
Austerity and Social Spending: Estimating the Long-Run Effects of Fiscal Adjustment9
Double-Edged Bullets: The Conditional Effect of Terrorism on Vote for the Incumbent9
The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: Reducing Expressed Support for Domestic Far-Right Parties9
National Attachment, Past In-Group Perpetratorhood, and Out-Group Attitudes8
Less Human Than Human: Threat, Language, and Relative Dehumanization8
Compensation and Tax Fairness: Evidence From Four Countries8
The Missing Link: Technological Change, Dual VET, and Social Policy Preferences8
Estimating the Impact of Drone Strikes on Civilians Using Call Detail Records8
JPS volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter8
The Rich Have a Slight Edge: Evidence from Comparative Data on Income-Based Inequality in Policy Congruence8
Are Democratic Innovations Legitimate to the Broader Public? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Ghana8
JPS volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Back matter8
Toeing the Party Line: The Asymmetric Influence of Feminism on Partisans' Participation7
Young People Punish Undemocratic Behaviour Less Than Older People7
Evidence Can Change Partisan Minds but Less So in Hostile Contexts7
What You See and What You Get: Direct and Indirect Political Dividends of Public Policies7
Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition7
Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament7
Digital Interdependence and Power Politics7
House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents7
Clicks and Stones: Women Politicians and Gendered Hostility Online7
Three Is a Crowd: Information and Electoral Coordination in Argentina7
Can Official Messaging on Trust in Elections Break Through Partisan Polarization?7
The Populist Radical Right as Memory Entrepreneur? The Prominence, Sentiment, and Interpretations of History in the German Parliament7
Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process7
External Threats, Capacity, and Repression: How the Threat of War Affects Political Development and Physical Integrity Rights6
Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems6
Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia6
Does Austerity Cause Polarization?6
Trustworthy Media and Gender Gaps in Political Participation after Civil War: Experimental Evidence from Rural Liberia6
Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power6
Parties’ Ideological Cores and Peripheries: Examining How Parties Balance Adaptation and Continuity in Their Manifestos6
Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions6
Should Political Discrimination be Unlawful?6
Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World6
The Role of District Magnitude in When Women Represent Women6
Believing What Politicians Communicate: Ideological Presentation of Self and Voters’ Perceptions of Politician Ideology6
A Meta-Analysis of Attitudes Towards Migrants and Displaced Persons5
Do Political Elites Have Accurate Perceptions of Social Conditions?5
Working Mothers and Political Daughters: Intergenerational Dynamics of Women's Political Officeholding5
Colonial Mapmaking, Ethnic Identity, and Traditional Authority in Africa5
A Rainbow Ceiling? Sexual Orientation and Party Leader Evaluations5
Beyond Retraumatization: Trauma-Informed Political Science Research5
Economic Shocks and the Development of Immigration Attitudes5
Defensible Democratic Meritocracy: A Competition-Based Account5
Conflict Abroad and Political Trust at Home: Evidence from a Natural Experiment5
Why Politicians Won't Apologize: Communication Effects in the Aftermath of Sex Scandals5
Understanding Voter Fatigue: Election Frequency and Electoral Abstention Approval5
Living in Different Worlds: Electoral Authoritarianism and Partisan Gaps in Perceptions of Electoral Integrity5
Partisan (In)Tolerance and Affective Polarization5
When Group Appeals Backfire: Explaining the Asymmetric Effects of Place-Based Appeals5
What Is the Point of Harm Reduction? A Relational Egalitarian Perspective5
Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy5
Legislator Dissent Does Not Affect Electoral Outcomes5
Conceptual Replication of Four Key Findings about Factual Corrections and Misinformation during the 2020 US Election: Evidence from Panel-Survey Experiments5
JPS volume 54 issue 3 Cover and Front matter5
How Government Efficiency Shapes Political Trust: Evidence from the Case of Brexit5
Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation5
How Bad Can It Get? Polarization and the Public Interest When It Matters4
Working For Democracy: Poll Officers and the Turnout Gender Gap4
Quick. But Impactful? United Nations Quick Impact Projects and Violence against Civilians in Civil War4
Decisive or Distracted: The Effects of US Constraint on Security Networks4
Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Predict Divergent Responses to COVID-194
Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data: Introducing Three Integrated Datasets4
Do Political Leaders Understand Public Opinion Better than Backbenchers?4
Legislator or Representative? Politicians’ Tasks According to Voters4
How to Distinguish Human Error From Election Fraud: Evidence From the 2019 Malawi Election4
JPS volume 54 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Risk and Preferences for Government Healthcare Spending: Evidence from the UK COVID-19 Crisis4
Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments4
Domination at Work: Resisting the Radical Diagnosis4
JPS volume 53 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Political Scandals and Vertical Contagion in Multilevel Systems4
Disentangling the Relationship Between Prospective Expectations and Policy Preferences in Violent Conflicts4
The Weight on Her Shoulders: Marginalization of Women Legislators in Parliaments and Substantive Representation of Women4
The Segregation Effect: How Residential Isolation Shapes Ethnic Minority Representation in England3
Evaluating the Minority Candidate Penalty with a Regression Discontinuity Approach3
Rooting Equality: Testing the Effectiveness of Activist Frames Combating Homophobia in Zimbabwe3
Gendered Expectations: Do Voters Reward Women for Supporting Women’s Interests?3
The Consequences of Elite Action Against Elections3
Learning the Brexit Lesson? Shifting Support for Direct Democracy in Germany in the Aftermath of the Brexit Referendum3
Public Support for Pro-environment and Environment-Critical Movements3
Deepening, Bridging, and Moving Minds in Stressful Times3
Founding Narratives and Men's Political Ambition: Experimental Evidence from US Civics Lessons3
Call Me By Your Name: The Impacts of American Human Rights Violations in Authoritarian States3
The Group-Basis of Political Behaviour among Minoritized Communities: The Case of LGBTQ+ Linked Fate and Sexual and Gender Minorities3
Fighting the Future: Short-Term Investors and Business Opposition to Climate Policy3
Absence: Electoral Cycles and Teacher Absenteeism in India3
Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments3
The Geography of Democratic Discontent3
Lexicographic Preferences in Candidate Choice. How Party Affiliation Dominates Gender and Race3
Firm Influence in International Organizations: The Case of OECD Tax Evasion Regulations3
Insecurity and Support for Female Leadership in Conflict States: Evidence from Afghanistan3
Freeing People; Restricting Capital3
Social Pressure in the International Human Rights Regime: Why States Withdraw Treaty Reservations3
Immigrant Narratives Promote Inclusionary Attitudes Towards Immigration in a Middle-Income Country3
Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life3
How Gap Measures Determine Results: The Case of Proportional Systems and the Gender Mobilization Gap2
A Double Standard? Gender Bias in Voters' Perceptions of Political Arguments2
Acting Out and Speaking Up: The Parliamentary Behavior of Ex-Rebel Women2
Does Protest Influence Political Speech? Evidence from UK Climate Protest, 2017–20192
Nationalism, Status, and Conspiracy Theories: Evidence from Pakistan2
Subsistence Emissions and Climate Justice2
The Correlates of Ethnicity: Why the Ethnic Majority Expects That Ethnic Minorities Contribute Less to the Collective2
Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and American Reputation2
“Our Issue Positions are Strong, and Our Opponents’ Valence is Weak”: An Analysis of Parties' Campaign Strategies in Ten Western European Democracies2
Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults2
Making the Public Work: Geography, Externalities, and Preferences for Mass Transit2
Affirmative Action, Paternalism, and Respect2
Against Strong Emissions Sufficientarianism2
The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India2
Which Information Do Politicians Pay Attention To? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Interviews2
Workplace Networks and Political Selection2
A New Dilemma of Social Democracy? The British Labour Party, the White Working Class and Ethnic Minority Representation2
Do Minorities Feel Welcome in Politics? A Cross-Cultural Study of the United States and Sweden – ERRATUM2
Unequal and Unsupportive: Exposure to Poor People Weakens Support for Redistribution among the Rich2
Adolescent Exposure to Economic Inequality and Belief in the ‘American Dream’ on Entering Adulthood2
Tariffs as Environmental Protection: Evidence from the Global South after the China Garbage Shock2
How Do Electoral Outcomes Affect Campaign Contributions? The Role of Personal Loyalty and Investment Motives2
Dynamics of Polarization: Affective Partisanship and Policy Divergence2
Value Conflicts Revisited: Muslims, Gender Equality, and Gestures of Respect2
Fixing the Past: The Effects of Human Rights Trials on Political Attitudes in Argentina2
The Hidden Cost of Tax Regressivity at the Top2
Legislators' Emotional Engagement with Women's Issues: Gendered Patterns of Vocal Pitch in the German Bundestag2
Who Deserves European Solidarity? How Recipient Characteristics Shaped Public Support for International Medical and Financial Aid during COVID-192
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework2
Of ‘Welfare Queens’ and ‘Poor Carinas’: Social Constructions, Deservingness Messaging and the Mental Health of Welfare Clients2
The Dynamics of Public Opinion in Direct Democracy Campaigns2
Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right2
Winning Votes and Changing Minds: Do Populist Arguments Affect Candidate Evaluations and Issue Preferences?2
Deliberation and Human Nature – CORRIGENDUM2
Irredentism and Institutions2
Educating for Democracy? Going to College Increases Political Participation2
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