Journal of Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Politics is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar156
The Emergence of Party-Based Political Careers in the United Kingdom, 1801–1918125
Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment118
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India91
Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective82
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers75
Elections, Right-wing Populism, and Political-Economic Polarization:  The Role of Institutions and Political Outsiders58
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation57
The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanian Public Opinion: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment51
Gendered Justice in Comparative Perspective: False Equality and False Difference in Criminal Appeals46
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes46
The Filibuster and Legislative Discussion44
We Are One: The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty41
Dynamic Screening in International Crises38
Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality: Double-Minorities in Asian Cabinets37
Constructive and Destructive Legislative Review: The Government-Opposition Divide in Parliamentary Oversight33
Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation33
Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians33
Disappointed Hope: Reimagining Resistance in the Wake of the Egyptian Revolution32
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns32
Who Benefits? How Gender Shapes the Perceived Deservingness of Welfare Claimants32
The Social Consequences of Political Anger31
Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reforms31
Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation30
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits30
How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes30
Beyond Persuasion: Rhetoric as a Tool of Political Motivation29
Black Workers in White Places: Daytime Racial Diversity and White Public Opinion29
From Conquest to Centralization: Domestic Conflict and the Transition to Direct Rule28
Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal28
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–194027
Social Group Appeals in Party Rhetoric: Effects on Policy Support and Polarization27
Measuring the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Election Outcomes27
Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control26
Policy Making and Appointments under Electoral and Judicial Constraints26
Military Attitudes on the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Evidence from the Pacific Theater26
Extremists Not on Board: Labor Market Costs to Radical Behavior in Elected Office26
Front Matter26
Do Authoritarian Elections Help the Poor? Evidence from Russian Cities26
The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames25
The Cultural Origins of Populism25
(Mis)estimating Affective Polarization24
Voters and Donors: The Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking24
Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries24
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens24
Strategic Delay and the Use of Incompatibility Rulings at the German Constitutional Court23
Left Out: How Political Ideology Affects Support for Migrants in Colombia23
Agricultural Comparative Advantage and Legislators’ Support for Trade Agreements22
Polity Size and the Congested Budget: Evidence from Italian Municipalities22
State Action to Prevent Violence against Women: The Effect of Women’s Police Stations on Men’s Attitudes toward Gender-Based Violence21
Turnover: How Lame-Duck Governments Disrupt the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery before Leaving Office21
Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India21
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse20
The Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil20
Republican-Majority Appellate Panels Increase Execution Rates for Capital Defendants20
Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly19
The Cost of Voting and the Cost of Votes19
Deadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines19
Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds19
Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory18
Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution18
The Morning After: Cabinet Instability and the Purging of Ministers after Failed Coup Attempts in Autocracies18
The Budgetary Origins of Fiscal-Military Prowess18
The Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement Overstates Minority Turnout18
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?18
A Theory of Electoral Competition in Developing Democracies17
Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment17
Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects17
The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women17
Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media17
Comparing Responsible Party Government in the United States and the United Kingdom17
Is Ideal Theory Anarchic?17
Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies17
A Recursive Measure of Voting Power with Partial Decisiveness or Efficacy17
Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption17
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of their Neighbors17
Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?16
Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research16
With Friends like These, Who Needs Enemies?16
What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections16
“I Know Not If I Delude Myself”: Rousseau’s Julie and the Ambiguities of Self-Deception16
Hierarchical Oversight and the Value of Public Office: Evidence from Colonial Peru15
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids15
BERT, RoBERTa, or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformers Models in Political Science Text15
Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads, and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa15
"It’s a Gender Thing” - The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation15
A Model of Focusing in Political Choice15
Ethnic Coalitions and Media Freedom in African Autocracies15
Two Varieties of White Ignorance15
Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation14
Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine14
Who Supports QAnon? A Case Study in Political Extremism14
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations14
Gender Cues, Attributions and Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians14
Local Politics, Global Consequences: How Structural Imbalance in Domestic Political Networks Affects International Relations14
Local Backlash Against INGOs? How Heterogeneous Interests Condition the Effects of Conservation Advocacy Campaigns14
When Redistribution Backfires Politically: Theory and Evidence from Land Reform in Portugal14
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes14
Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics14
Improving Compliance in Experimental Studies of Discrimination13
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing13
Political Speech for Democratic Realists13
Consuming Cross-Cutting Media Causes Learning and Moderates Attitudes: A Field Experiment with Fox News Viewers13
Countering Capture in Local Politics: Evidence from Eight Field Experiments13
A Diffusion Network Event History Estimator12
Resilient Democracies12
Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments12
Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments12
Systemic and Sequential Links between Campaign Donations and Lobbying12
Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence12
Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement12
The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation12
Front Matter11
Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Postelection Responses to Defeats11
Local Suffrage increases non-EU Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union11
Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements11
Anticipating Unilateralism11
Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties11
Democratic Integration of Former Insurgents: Evidence from a Civic Inclusion Campaign in Colombia11
Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence from Canada11
Evade and Deceive? Citizen Responses to Surveillance11
Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China11
Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Coproduction of Public Safety11
Political Awareness and the Identity-to-Politics Link in Public Opinion10
Bayesian Rule Set: A Quantitative Alternative to Qualitative Comparative Analysis10
Learning from Democratic Practices: New Perspectives in Institutional Design10
Reading Ellison through Herder: Language, Integration, and Democracy10
Does International Terrorism Affect Public Attitudes toward Refugees? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment10
Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even after the Contentious 2020 Election10
Inequality in the Classroom: Electoral Incentives and the Distribution of Local Education Spending10
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits10
Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered10
Populist Psychology: Economics, Culture, and Emotions10
An International Game of Risk: Troop Placement and Major Power Competition10
Between Withdrawal and Engagement: Disentangling the Effects of Covid-19 on Turnout10
Selective Exposure and Electoral Competition10
Fiscal Rules, Corruption, and Electoral Accountability10
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments10
Age of Marriage and Women’s Political Engagement: Evidence from India10
Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War10
Front Matter10
Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party's Public Good9
Decree Power in Parliamentary Systems: Theory and Evidence from India9
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda-Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion9
Issue Indivisibility as a Cause of Peace9
When Suicide Is Unjust Violence: Power, Structural Harms, and Moral Culpability9
Comparative Vote Switching: A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multiparty Competition9
Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections9
Coalition Politics and War Termination9
Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Attitudes on College Campuses9
Hidden Redemption and the Duty to Play the Villain: A Political Exploration9
Making Nonvoters Pay: Prices as an Alternative to Compulsory Voting9
Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies9
Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships9
When Do Campaign Donors Reject Extremists? Evidence from the US Foreclosure Crisis9
The answer was there all along: Worry about the dynamics!8
Is Clientelism (Only) for the Poor? Insights on Class and Clientelism from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon8
Socialization, Self-Selection, and the Life Experiences of World Leaders: Why Business Experience Influences Defense Spending8
The Stability of Immigration Attitudes: Evidence and Implications8
One-Dimensional Scaling without Apologies8
Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts8
Issues versus Affect: How Do Elite and Mass Polarization Compare?8
International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest8
The Politics of Interruptions: Gendered Disruptions of Legislative Speeches8
Do Local Economic Benefits of Asylum Seekers Lead to More Support for Local Refugee Intake?8
Do Partisanship and Policy Agreement Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?8
Origin of (A)symmetry: The Evolution of Out-Party Distrust in the United States8
Beyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions8
Playing to the Audience: Responses to Violations of International Order8
The Contemporary Landscape of Gendered Personality Traits8
State Violence and Wartime Civilian Agency: Evidence from Peru8
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal7
A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women's Agency in Myanmar7
Managing the Costs of Backing Down: A “Mirror Experiment” on Reputations and Audience Costs in a Real-World Conflict7
Do Shifts in Late-Counted Votes Signal Fraud? Evidence from Bolivia7
When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?7
Shooting the Messenger: The Challenge of National Security Whistleblowing7
Unraveling a “Cancel Culture” Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive Speech7
Erratum7
Confucian Democratic Leadership: A Reconstruction for Contemporary East Asia7
Mass Dissimulation in the Syrian Civil War7
Electoral Administration in Fledgling Democracies: Experimental Evidence from Kenya7
Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak7
Mobilization and Countermobilization: The Effect of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2016 Presidential Election7
Messages matter: How voter education campaigns affect citizens’ willingness to vote for women7
The Punisher’s Dilemma7
A Longevity Mechanism of Chinese Absolutism7
Signaling Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Names: Challenges and Recommendations7
When Do Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South7
Cooperative Communities in the International System: Networked Cooperation of Similar States7
The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War6
The Gap Within: The Impact of Separate-Gender Polling Stations on Voter Turnout6
Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?6
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid6
Complacent and Conservative? Redeeming the Liberalism of Fear6
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law: Tainted Judges and Accountability for Nazi Crimes in West Germany6
Strategically Ambiguous Identities: Evidence from Evangelical Clergy in Brazilian Elections6
Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination6
Constituents Ask Female Legislators to Do More6
Characterizing Agencies’ Political Environments: Partisan Agreement and Disagreement in the US Executive Branch6
Ambiguous Rhetoric and Legislative Accountability6
Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters6
Gender Stereotypes in Autocracies: Experimental Evidence from Morocco6
Unveiling: An Unexpected Mid-campaign Court Ruling’s Consequences and the Limits of Following the Leader6
Motivating the Machine: Which Brokers Do Parties Pay?6
Information, Candidate Selection, and the Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal6
Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences: A Hard Test of the Low-Dimensionality Hypothesis6
The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari6
Front Matter6
The Politics of Disaster Prevention6
The hidden universe of operationalizing natural experiments: Navigating extreme weather6
Freedom of Movement Restrictions Inhibit the Psychological Integration of Refugees6
Pietas: A Case for Ethical Patriotism in Aquinas6
How Interpersonal Contact Affects Appellate Review6
Rally ’Round the Mask: Congressional Social Media Images and Masking during COVID-196
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy6
The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a Trump Effect6
Executive-Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis6
Large-scale agricultural investments, employment opportunities and communal conflict5
Occupation-Specific Skills, Labor Market Context, and Preferences for Redistribution5
The Impossibility of a Bayesian Liberal?5
Front Matter5
Foreignness as an Asset: European Carbon Regulation and the Relocation Threat among Multinational Firms5
Meet the Press: Gendered Conversational Norms in Televised Political Discussion5
Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot?5
Blood Is Thicker than Water: Family Size and Leader Deposition in Medieval and Early Modern Europe5
Does informing partisans about partisan bias reduce partisan bias?5
The Connections of Party Brokers: Which Brokers Do Parties Select?5
Audits for Accountability: Evidence from Municipal By-Elections in South Africa5
Do Major-Power Interventions Encourage the Onset of Civil Conflict? A Structural Analysis5
Adam Smith on Political Judgment: Revisiting the Political Theory of the Wealth of Nations5
Once Racialized, Now “Immigrationized”? Explaining the Immigration-Welfare Link in American Public Opinion5
Dyadic Representation in the American North and South: The Case of Prohibition5
Are Politicians Biased against Ethnic Minority Candidates? Experimental Evidence from Norway5
Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power5
Loss Framing in Territorial Disputes5
The Peaceful Transfer of Power and the Social Contract5
Personalizing Moral Reframing in Interpersonal Conversation: A Field Experiment5
Democracy and Intensity of Preferences: A Test of Storable Votes and Quadratic Voting on Four California Propositions5
Do Politicians Discriminate against Constituents with an Immigration Background? Field Experimental Evidence from Germany5
Front Matter5
Family Ties as Corporate Power5
Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement5
From Investiture to Worms: European Development and the Rise of Political Authority5
The Effect of Anger Appeals on the Support for Secessionist Parties5
Observable Bounds of Rationality and Credibility in International Relations4
The Corporate Power Trilemma4
Pork versus Policy: Experimental Evidence on Majoritarian Bargaining with Real-World Consequences4
The Democrat Disaster: Hurricane Exposure, Risk Aversion and Insurance Demand4
Twice the Trouble: Twinning and the Cost of Voting4
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