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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar171
The Emergence of Party-Based Political Careers in the United Kingdom, 1801–1918131
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India122
Dynamic Screening in International Crises102
Gendered Justice in Comparative Perspective: False Equality and False Difference in Criminal Appeals94
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers83
Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation67
The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanian Public Opinion: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment61
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes54
The Filibuster and Legislative Discussion51
Constructive and Destructive Legislative Review: The Government-Opposition Divide in Parliamentary Oversight49
Disappointed Hope: Reimagining Resistance in the Wake of the Egyptian Revolution47
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns46
Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians46
Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective39
We Are One: The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty37
Elections, Right-wing Populism, and Political-Economic Polarization:  The Role of Institutions and Political Outsiders37
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation34
Who Benefits? How Gender Shapes the Perceived Deservingness of Welfare Claimants34
Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment34
Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality: Double-Minorities in Asian Cabinets33
The Social Consequences of Political Anger32
How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes32
Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation31
Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control30
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits30
Social Group Appeals in Party Rhetoric: Effects on Policy Support and Polarization30
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–194030
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens30
Black Workers in White Places: Daytime Racial Diversity and White Public Opinion30
Military Attitudes on the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Evidence from the Pacific Theater29
Extremists Not on Board: Labor Market Costs to Radical Behavior in Elected Office29
Policy Making and Appointments under Electoral and Judicial Constraints29
The Cultural Origins of Populism28
Do Authoritarian Elections Help the Poor? Evidence from Russian Cities27
Measuring the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Election Outcomes27
Voters and Donors: The Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking26
The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames25
Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal25
(Mis)estimating Affective Polarization25
Left Out: How Political Ideology Affects Support for Migrants in Colombia24
Front Matter24
Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries24
Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reforms24
Agricultural Comparative Advantage and Legislators’ Support for Trade Agreements23
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse22
State Action to Prevent Violence against Women: The Effect of Women’s Police Stations on Men’s Attitudes toward Gender-Based Violence22
Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds22
The Morning After: Cabinet Instability and the Purging of Ministers after Failed Coup Attempts in Autocracies22
Turnover: How Lame-Duck Governments Disrupt the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery before Leaving Office21
Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory21
Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly20
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?20
Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan's Diarchy19
The Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement Overstates Minority Turnout19
The Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil19
Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India19
Deadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines19
Polity Size and the Congested Budget: Evidence from Italian Municipalities19
The Cost of Voting and the Cost of Votes19
The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women18
A Recursive Measure of Voting Power with Partial Decisiveness or Efficacy18
Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?18
Comparing Responsible Party Government in the United States and the United Kingdom18
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of Their Neighbors18
What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections18
Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution18
Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption18
With Friends like These, Who Needs Enemies?18
Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies18
Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media18
Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment17
Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects17
Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation17
A Theory of Electoral Competition in Developing Democracies17
“I Know Not If I Delude Myself”: Rousseau’s Julie and the Ambiguities of Self-Deception17
Crossing the District Line: Border Mismatch and Targeted Redistribution17
Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research17
Two Varieties of White Ignorance17
Consuming Cross-Cutting Media Causes Learning and Moderates Attitudes: A Field Experiment with Fox News Viewers17
"It’s a Gender Thing” - The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation16
Gender Cues, Attributions and Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians16
Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine16
A Model of Focusing in Political Choice15
Local Politics, Global Consequences: How Structural Imbalance in Domestic Political Networks Affects International Relations15
Who Supports QAnon? A Case Study in Political Extremism15
Hierarchical Oversight and the Value of Public Office: Evidence from Colonial Peru15
Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics15
Ethnic Coalitions and Media Freedom in African Autocracies15
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes15
Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads, and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa14
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations14
Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement14
Local Backlash Against INGOs? How Heterogeneous Interests Condition the Effects of Conservation Advocacy Campaigns14
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids14
A Diffusion Network Event History Estimator14
When Redistribution Backfires Politically: Theory and Evidence from Land Reform in Portugal14
BERT, RoBERTa, or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformers Models in Political Science Text14
Resilient Democracies13
Systemic and Sequential Links between Campaign Donations and Lobbying13
Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments13
Countering Capture in Local Politics: Evidence from Eight Field Experiments13
Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence13
Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments13
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing13
Democratic Integration of Former Insurgents: Evidence from a Civic Inclusion Campaign in Colombia13
The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation13
Improving Compliance in Experimental Studies of Discrimination13
Political Speech for Democratic Realists13
Political Awareness and the Identity-to-Politics Link in Public Opinion12
Selective Exposure and Electoral Competition12
Comparative Vote Switching: A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multiparty Competition12
An International Game of Risk: Troop Placement and Major Power Competition12
Age of Marriage and Women’s Political Engagement: Evidence from India12
Fiscal Rules, Corruption, and Electoral Accountability12
Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even after the Contentious 2020 Election12
Bayesian Rule Set: A Quantitative Alternative to Qualitative Comparative Analysis12
Learning from Democratic Practices: New Perspectives in Institutional Design12
Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Postelection Responses to Defeats11
Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Coproduction of Public Safety11
Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War11
Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China11
Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties11
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda-Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion11
Inequality in the Classroom: Electoral Incentives and the Distribution of Local Education Spending11
Does International Terrorism Affect Public Attitudes toward Refugees? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment11
Reading Ellison through Herder: Language, Integration, and Democracy11
Anticipating Unilateralism11
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments11
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits11
Making Nonvoters Pay: Prices as an Alternative to Compulsory Voting10
Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements10
Front Matter10
Populist Psychology: Economics, Culture, and Emotions10
Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections10
Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships10
Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered10
Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence from Canada10
Between Withdrawal and Engagement: Disentangling the Effects of Covid-19 on Turnout10
Hidden Redemption and the Duty to Play the Villain: A Political Exploration10
Coalition Politics and War Termination10
When Do Campaign Donors Reject Extremists? Evidence from the US Foreclosure Crisis10
Evade and Deceive? Citizen Responses to Surveillance10
Local Suffrage Increases Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union10
Front Matter10
Decree Power in Parliamentary Systems: Theory and Evidence from India10
Issue Indivisibility as a Cause of Peace10
Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts9
Do Partisanship and Policy Agreement Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?9
Is Clientelism (Only) for the Poor? Insights on Class and Clientelism from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon9
The Stability of Immigration Attitudes: Evidence and Implications9
Playing to the Audience: Responses to Violations of International Order9
When Suicide Is Unjust Violence: Power, Structural Harms, and Moral Culpability9
Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies9
Issues versus Affect: How Do Elite and Mass Polarization Compare?9
International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest9
Do Local Economic Benefits of Asylum Seekers Lead to More Support for Local Refugee Intake?9
Origin of (A)symmetry: The Evolution of Out-Party Distrust in the United States9
One-Dimensional Scaling without Apologies9
The Politics of Interruptions: Gendered Disruptions of Legislative Speeches9
Signaling Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Names: Challenges and Recommendations8
State Violence and Wartime Civilian Agency: Evidence from Peru8
Erratum8
A Longevity Mechanism of Chinese Absolutism8
Unraveling a “Cancel Culture” Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive Speech8
Mobilization and Countermobilization: The Effect of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2016 Presidential Election8
The answer was there all along: Worry about the dynamics!8
Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Attitudes on College Campuses8
Beyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions8
When Do Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South8
Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak8
Shooting the Messenger: The Challenge of National Security Whistleblowing8
Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party's Public Good8
Socialization, Self-Selection, and the Life Experiences of World Leaders: Why Business Experience Influences Defense Spending8
The Contemporary Landscape of Gendered Personality Traits8
Confucian Democratic Leadership: A Reconstruction for Contemporary East Asia8
Do Shifts in Late-Counted Votes Signal Fraud? Evidence from Bolivia8
A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women's Agency in Myanmar7
The Punisher’s Dilemma7
The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War7
The Gap Within: The Impact of Separate-Gender Polling Stations on Voter Turnout7
The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a Trump Effect7
Motivating the Machine: Which Brokers Do Parties Pay?7
Messages matter: How voter education campaigns affect citizens’ willingness to vote for women7
Mass Dissimulation in the Syrian Civil War7
Cooperative Communities in the International System: Networked Cooperation of Similar States7
Ambiguous Rhetoric and Legislative Accountability7
Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters7
Erratum7
Characterizing Agencies’ Political Environments: Partisan Agreement and Disagreement in the US Executive Branch7
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal7
When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?7
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy7
Constituents Ask Female Legislators to Do More7
Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences: A Hard Test of the Low-Dimensionality Hypothesis7
Freedom of Movement Restrictions Inhibit the Psychological Integration of Refugees6
Strategically Ambiguous Identities: Evidence from Evangelical Clergy in Brazilian Elections6
The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari6
Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination6
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law: Tainted Judges and Accountability for Nazi Crimes in West Germany6
Pietas: A Case for Ethical Patriotism in Aquinas6
Personalizing Moral Reframing in Interpersonal Conversation: A Field Experiment6
Information, Candidate Selection, and the Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal6
Gender Stereotypes in Autocracies: Experimental Evidence from Morocco6
The Politics of Disaster Prevention6
Executive-Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis6
Managing the Costs of Backing Down: A “Mirror Experiment” on Reputations and Audience Costs in a Real-World Conflict6
How Interpersonal Contact Affects Appellate Review6
Do Major-Power Interventions Encourage the Onset of Civil Conflict? A Structural Analysis6
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid6
Do Politicians Discriminate against Constituents with an Immigration Background? Field Experimental Evidence from Germany6
The hidden universe of operationalizing natural experiments: Navigating extreme weather6
Front Matter6
Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?6
Democracy and Intensity of Preferences: A Test of Storable Votes and Quadratic Voting on Four California Propositions6
Audits for Accountability: Evidence from Municipal By-Elections in South Africa6
Rally ’Round the Mask: Congressional Social Media Images and Masking during COVID-196
Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during COVID-195
Family Ties as Corporate Power5
Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement5
Peacekeeping and the Enforcement of Intergroup Cooperation: Evidence from Mali5
Meet the Press: Gendered Conversational Norms in Televised Political Discussion5
The Effect of Anger Appeals on the Support for Secessionist Parties5
Blood Is Thicker than Water: Family Size and Leader Deposition in Medieval and Early Modern Europe5
Complacent and Conservative? Redeeming the Liberalism of Fear5
Once Racialized, Now “Immigrationized”? Explaining the Immigration-Welfare Link in American Public Opinion5
Foreignness as an Asset: European Carbon Regulation and the Relocation Threat among Multinational Firms5
Front Matter5
Cross-National Measures of the Intensity of COVID-19 Public Health Policies5
Strategic Communication in Dictatorships: Performance, Patriotism, and Intimidation5
Large-Scale Agricultural Investments, Employment Opportunities, and Communal Conflict5
Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power5
The Peaceful Transfer of Power and the Social Contract5
Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot?5
Understanding Journalist Killings5
Persistent Inequalities: The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Voter Turnout5
Loss Framing in Territorial Disputes5
Front Matter5
Does informing partisans about partisan bias reduce partisan bias?5
Adam Smith on Political Judgment: Revisiting the Political Theory of the Wealth of Nations5
From Investiture to Worms: European Development and the Rise of Political Authority5
The Impossibility of a Bayesian Liberal?5
Occupation-Specific Skills, Labor Market Context, and Preferences for Redistribution5
Are Politicians Biased against Ethnic Minority Candidates? Experimental Evidence from Norway5
Effects of Settlement into Ethnic Enclaves on Immigrant Voter Turnout4
Voting for Disabled Candidates4
Third Party Presence and the Political Salience of Ethnicity in Survey Data4
Compulsory Voting Diminishes the Relationship between Winning and Satisfaction with Democracy4
Leadership Targeting and Militant Alliance Breakdown4
The Revealed Demand for Hard Versus Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership4
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