Journal of Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Politics 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar153
The Emergence of Party-Based Political Careers in the United Kingdom, 1801–1918129
Gendered Justice in Comparative Perspective: False Equality and False Difference in Criminal Appeals114
Dynamic Screening in International Crises106
Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality: Double-Minorities in Asian Cabinets80
The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanian Public Opinion: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment67
Constructive and Destructive Legislative Review: The Government-Opposition Divide in Parliamentary Oversight65
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes64
Disappointed Hope: Reimagining Resistance in the Wake of the Egyptian Revolution60
Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective48
Civic Education and Voting under Authoritarianism: A Field Experiment during the 2021 Vietnamese National Assembly Election47
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India45
Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment42
Why Do Citizens Support Ineffective Military Policing Policies? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments in Colombia41
The Filibuster and Legislative Discussion41
We Are One: The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty39
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation38
Elections, Right-Wing Populism, and Political-Economic Polarization: The Role of Institutions and Political Outsiders38
Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians37
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers37
The Social Consequences of Political Anger37
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns36
Who Benefits? How Gender Shapes the Perceived Deservingness of Welfare Claimants36
How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes35
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits35
Military Attitudes on the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Evidence from the Pacific Theater34
Policy Making and Appointments under Electoral and Judicial Constraints34
The Cultural Origins of Populism33
Measuring the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Election Outcomes32
Do Authoritarian Elections Help the Poor? Evidence from Russian Cities31
Intersectional Threat: How Race, Gender, and Sexuality Shape Black Americans’ Perspectives on Policing29
Voters and Donors: The Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking27
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–194027
Nonpartisan Ballots and the Partisanship of Who Serves in Office27
The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames27
Left Out: How Political Ideology Affects Support for Migrants in Colombia26
Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation26
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens26
Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reform26
Social Group Appeals in Party Rhetoric: Effects on Policy Support and Polarization25
Black Workers in White Places: Daytime Racial Diversity and White Public Opinion25
Extremists Not on Board: Labor Market Costs to Radical Behavior in Elected Office25
Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal24
Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control23
Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries23
Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan's Diarchy23
(Mis)estimating Affective Polarization23
Agricultural Comparative Advantage and Legislators’ Support for Trade Agreements23
State Action to Prevent Violence against Women: The Effect of Women’s Police Stations on Men’s Attitudes toward Gender-Based Violence22
The Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement Overstates Minority Turnout22
Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds22
The Morning After: Cabinet Instability and the Purging of Ministers after Failed Coup Attempts in Autocracies21
Deadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines21
The Cost of Voting and the Cost of Votes21
Turnover: How Lame-Duck Governments Disrupt the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery before Leaving Office21
The Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil20
Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory20
Bilingual Education Reduces Ethnic Outgroup Discrimination20
How (not) to Keep a Promise in Two Stages: The Context-Dependent Gaps Between Parties' Representational Goals and Outcomes Through Nomination and Election19
Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India19
What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections19
Registering Returning Citizens to Vote: A Field Experiment in North Carolina19
Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption19
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?19
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse19
Polity Size and the Congested Budget: Evidence from Italian Municipalities19
Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?19
Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment18
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of Their Neighbors18
With Friends like These, Who Needs Enemies?18
A Theory of Electoral Competition in Developing Democracies18
The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women18
Ruling Party Personalism and Central Bank Independence18
Comparing Responsible Party Government in the United States and the United Kingdom18
Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media18
Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects18
A Recursive Measure of Voting Power with Partial Decisiveness or Efficacy18
Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies18
Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research17
Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution17
Crossing the District Line: Border Mismatch and Targeted Redistribution16
Two Varieties of White Ignorance16
Ethnic Coalitions and Media Freedom in African Autocracies16
Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation16
When Redistribution Backfires Politically: Theory and Evidence from Land Reform in Portugal16
Gender Cues, Attributions and Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians16
Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics15
A Model of Focusing in Political Choice15
Who Supports QAnon? A Case Study in Political Extremism15
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes15
Local Backlash Against INGOs? How Heterogeneous Interests Condition the Effects of Conservation Advocacy Campaigns15
“I Know Not If I Delude Myself”: Rousseau’s Julie and the Ambiguities of Self-Deception15
Front Matter15
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids14
Local Politics, Global Consequences: How Structural Imbalance in Domestic Political Networks Affects International Relations14
Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine14
Hierarchical Oversight and the Value of Public Office: Evidence from Colonial Peru14
Acting Otherwise in the Face of Ecological Collapse: Günther Anders and the Politics of Infinite Delay14
BERT, RoBERTa, or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformers Models in Political Science Text13
Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads, and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa13
Expanding the Spatial Toolkit with Spatial Eigenfunction Modeling13
A Diffusion Network Event History Estimator13
Resilient Democracies13
Consuming Cross-Cutting Media Causes Learning and Moderates Attitudes: A Field Experiment with Fox News Viewers13
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations13
Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments13
Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments13
“It’s a Gender Thing”—The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation13
Countering Capture in Local Politics: Evidence from Eight Field Experiments13
The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation13
Political Speech for Democratic Realists13
Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence12
Reading Ellison through Herder: Language, Integration, and Democracy12
Improving Compliance in Experimental Studies of Discrimination12
Systemic and Sequential Links Between Campaign Donations and Lobbying12
Democratic Integration of Former Insurgents: Evidence from a Civic Inclusion Campaign in Colombia12
Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement12
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits12
Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements12
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing12
Front Matter11
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda-Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion11
Does International Terrorism Affect Public Attitudes toward Refugees? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment11
Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Coproduction of Public Safety11
Between Withdrawal and Engagement: Disentangling the Effects of COVID-19 on Turnout11
Selective Exposure and Electoral Competition11
Political Awareness and the Identity-to-Politics Link in Public Opinion11
Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Postelection Responses to Defeats11
Comparative Vote Switching: A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multiparty Competition11
Local Suffrage Increases Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union11
Bayesian Rule Set: A Quantitative Alternative to Qualitative Comparative Analysis11
Front Matter11
Inequality in the Classroom: Electoral Incentives and the Distribution of Local Education Spending11
Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence from Canada11
Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties11
Quantitative Political Science Research Is Greatly Underpowered10
Anticipating Unilateralism10
Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China10
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments10
Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War10
Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even after the Contentious 2020 Election10
One-Dimensional Scaling without Apologies9
The Politics of Interruptions: Gendered Disruptions of Legislative Speeches9
Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections9
Do Local Economic Benefits of Asylum Seekers Lead to More Support for Local Refugee Intake?9
Issue Indivisibility as a Cause of Peace9
Making Nonvoters Pay: Prices as an Alternative to Compulsory Voting9
Fiscal Rules, Corruption, and Electoral Accountability9
When Do Campaign Donors Reject Extremists? Evidence from the US Foreclosure Crisis9
Beyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions9
The Contemporary Landscape of Gendered Personality Traits9
Playing to the Audience: Responses to Violations of International Order9
The answer was there all along: Worry about the dynamics!9
Coalition Politics and War Termination9
Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Attitudes on College Campuses9
Is Clientelism (Only) for the Poor? Insights on Class and Clientelism from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon9
Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts9
When Suicide Is Unjust Violence: Power, Structural Harms, and Moral Culpability9
Hidden Redemption and the Duty to Play the Villain: A Political Exploration9
Socialization, Self-Selection, and the Life Experiences of World Leaders: Why Business Experience Influences Defense Spending9
Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships8
Shooting the Messenger: The Challenge of National Security Whistleblowing8
Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party’s Public Good8
Full-Power Cabinets and Caretaker Administrations in Parliamentary Democracies, 1945-20248
Messages Matter: How Voter Education Campaigns Affect Citizens’ Willingness to Vote for Women8
Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak8
Erratum8
A Longevity Mechanism of Chinese Absolutism8
International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest8
Signaling Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Names: Challenges and Recommendations8
Cooperative Communities in the International System: Networked Cooperation of Similar States8
Do Shifts in Late-Counted Votes Signal Fraud? Evidence from Bolivia8
Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies8
Confucian Democratic Leadership: A Reconstruction for Contemporary East Asia8
Origin of (A)symmetry: The Evolution of Out-Party Distrust in the United States8
Election Outcomes and The Digestion of Grievance8
Do Partisanship and Policy Agreement Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?8
A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women’s Agency in Myanmar8
When Do Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South8
Unraveling a “Cancel Culture” Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive Speech8
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy7
The Punisher’s Dilemma7
Managing the Costs of Backing Down: A “Mirror Experiment” on Reputations and Audience Costs in a Real-World Conflict7
The hidden universe of operationalizing natural experiments: Navigating extreme weather7
The Gap Within: The Impact of Separate-Gender Polling Stations on Voter Turnout7
Erratum7
Executive–Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis7
The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War7
Motivating the Machine: Which Brokers Do Parties Pay?7
When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?7
Front Matter7
Constituents Ask Female Legislators to Do More7
The Politics of Disaster Prevention7
Mass Dissimulation in the Syrian Civil War7
How Interpersonal Contact Affects Appellate Review6
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal6
Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences: A Hard Test of the Low-Dimensionality Hypothesis6
Characterizing Agencies’ Political Environments: Partisan Agreement and Disagreement in the US Executive Branch6
Legislators talk less about the future as they age6
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid6
The Peaceful Transfer of Power and the Social Contract6
Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?6
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
Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters6
Pietas: A Case for Ethical Patriotism in Aquinas6
Gender Stereotypes in Autocracies: Experimental Evidence from Morocco6
Large-Scale Agricultural Investments, Employment Opportunities, and Communal Conflict6
Freedom of Movement Restrictions Inhibit the Psychological Integration of Refugees6
Audits for Accountability: Evidence from Municipal By-Elections in South Africa6
Democracy and Intensity of Preferences: A Test of Storable Votes and Quadratic Voting on Four California Propositions6
Rally ’Round the Mask: Congressional Social Media Images and Masking during COVID-196
Strategically Ambiguous Identities: Evidence from Evangelical Clergy in Brazilian Elections6
The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari6
The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a Trump Effect6
Occupation-Specific Skills, Labor Market Context, and Preferences for Redistribution6
Do Major-Power Interventions Encourage the Onset of Civil Conflict? A Structural Analysis6
Personalizing Moral Reframing in Interpersonal Conversation: A Field Experiment6
Do Politicians Discriminate against Constituents with an Immigration Background? Field Experimental Evidence from Germany6
Bounded Rule and Regional Stability in Fragile States5
Meet the Press: Gendered Conversational Norms in Televised Political Discussion5
Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power5
Matching Bounds: How Choice of Matching Algorithm Impacts Treatment Effects Estimates and What to Do About It.5
Front Matter5
Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot?5
Strategic Communication in Dictatorships: Performance, Patriotism, and Intimidation5
Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during COVID-195
State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent5
Family Ties as Corporate Power5
From Investiture to Worms: European Development and the Rise of Political Authority5
The Impossibility of a Bayesian Liberal?5
Are Politicians Biased against Ethnic Minority Candidates? Experimental Evidence from Norway5
Adam Smith on Political Judgment: Revisiting the Political Theory of the Wealth of Nations5
Peacekeeping and the Enforcement of Intergroup Cooperation: Evidence from Mali5
Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement5
Cutting in Line: How Powerful Organized Interests Hasten & Delay Executive Branch Nominations5
The Effect of Anger Appeals on the Support for Secessionist Parties5
Loss Framing in Territorial Disputes5
Front Matter5
Does informing partisans about partisan bias reduce partisan bias?5
Do Multi-dimensional Quotas Improve Social Equality? Intersectional Representation & Group Relations5
Foreignness as an Asset: European Carbon Regulation and the Relocation Threat among Multinational Firms5
Leadership Targeting and Militant Alliance Breakdown4
A Political-Economic Model of Police Administration4
Private Participation: How Populists Engage with International Organizations4
Group Identities and Parliamentary Debates4
Rally ’Round the Barrack: Far-Right Support and the Military4
Representative Democracy versus Government by Opinion4
Do Neighborhoods Empower or Disenfranchise? Coethnic Concentration, Spatial Disadvantage, and Voter Registration in France4
Once We Too Were Strangers: Can a Heritage of Displacement Be Leveraged to Build Support for Present-Day Refugees?4
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