Journal of Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Politics is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar179
The Emergence of Party-Based Political Careers in the United Kingdom, 1801–1918139
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India124
Gendered Justice in Comparative Perspective: False Equality and False Difference in Criminal Appeals107
Dynamic Screening in International Crises96
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers86
The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanian Public Opinion: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment71
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes61
The Filibuster and Legislative Discussion55
Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation54
Disappointed Hope: Reimagining Resistance in the Wake of the Egyptian Revolution52
Elections, Right-wing Populism, and Political-Economic Polarization:  The Role of Institutions and Political Outsiders49
Who Benefits? How Gender Shapes the Perceived Deservingness of Welfare Claimants48
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation46
Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality: Double-Minorities in Asian Cabinets43
Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment39
Constructive and Destructive Legislative Review: The Government-Opposition Divide in Parliamentary Oversight37
Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians37
Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective37
We Are One: The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty35
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns35
The Social Consequences of Political Anger34
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits33
How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes33
Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation33
(Mis)estimating Affective Polarization32
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–194032
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens32
Social Group Appeals in Party Rhetoric: Effects on Policy Support and Polarization32
Extremists Not on Board: Labor Market Costs to Radical Behavior in Elected Office31
Military Attitudes on the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Evidence from the Pacific Theater31
Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries31
Policy Making and Appointments under Electoral and Judicial Constraints31
Black Workers in White Places: Daytime Racial Diversity and White Public Opinion31
Measuring the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Election Outcomes30
Do Authoritarian Elections Help the Poor? Evidence from Russian Cities27
Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control27
Left Out: How Political Ideology Affects Support for Migrants in Colombia27
The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames26
Voters and Donors: The Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking26
Front Matter25
The Cultural Origins of Populism24
The Morning After: Cabinet Instability and the Purging of Ministers after Failed Coup Attempts in Autocracies24
Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal24
Agricultural Comparative Advantage and Legislators’ Support for Trade Agreements24
Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reforms24
Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India23
Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan's Diarchy23
Deadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines22
The Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil22
Polity Size and the Congested Budget: Evidence from Italian Municipalities22
Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds21
The Cost of Voting and the Cost of Votes21
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse20
Turnover: How Lame-Duck Governments Disrupt the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery before Leaving Office20
State Action to Prevent Violence against Women: The Effect of Women’s Police Stations on Men’s Attitudes toward Gender-Based Violence20
Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory20
Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly20
Comparing Responsible Party Government in the United States and the United Kingdom19
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of Their Neighbors19
Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects19
Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption19
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?19
Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment19
The Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement Overstates Minority Turnout19
The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women19
With Friends like These, Who Needs Enemies?19
A Recursive Measure of Voting Power with Partial Decisiveness or Efficacy19
A Theory of Electoral Competition in Developing Democracies18
Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution18
Two Varieties of White Ignorance18
Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies18
Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research18
Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?18
What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections18
Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media18
“I Know Not If I Delude Myself”: Rousseau’s Julie and the Ambiguities of Self-Deception18
Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation17
Gender Cues, Attributions and Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians17
Hierarchical Oversight and the Value of Public Office: Evidence from Colonial Peru17
Crossing the District Line: Border Mismatch and Targeted Redistribution17
A Model of Focusing in Political Choice17
"It’s a Gender Thing” - The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation17
Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine17
Ethnic Coalitions and Media Freedom in African Autocracies17
Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics16
Consuming Cross-Cutting Media Causes Learning and Moderates Attitudes: A Field Experiment with Fox News Viewers16
Local Politics, Global Consequences: How Structural Imbalance in Domestic Political Networks Affects International Relations16
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations16
When Redistribution Backfires Politically: Theory and Evidence from Land Reform in Portugal16
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes16
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids16
Local Backlash Against INGOs? How Heterogeneous Interests Condition the Effects of Conservation Advocacy Campaigns15
Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments15
Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads, and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa15
BERT, RoBERTa, or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformers Models in Political Science Text15
Who Supports QAnon? A Case Study in Political Extremism15
Improving Compliance in Experimental Studies of Discrimination14
Countering Capture in Local Politics: Evidence from Eight Field Experiments14
Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments14
Resilient Democracies14
Systemic and Sequential Links between Campaign Donations and Lobbying14
Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement14
Comparative Vote Switching: A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multiparty Competition13
Selective Exposure and Electoral Competition13
Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Postelection Responses to Defeats13
A Diffusion Network Event History Estimator13
Learning from Democratic Practices: New Perspectives in Institutional Design13
Bayesian Rule Set: A Quantitative Alternative to Qualitative Comparative Analysis13
The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation13
Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence13
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing13
Fiscal Rules, Corruption, and Electoral Accountability13
Age of Marriage and Women’s Political Engagement: Evidence from India13
Political Speech for Democratic Realists13
Evade and Deceive? Citizen Responses to Surveillance12
Reading Ellison through Herder: Language, Integration, and Democracy12
Inequality in the Classroom: Electoral Incentives and the Distribution of Local Education Spending12
Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China12
Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War12
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits12
Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements11
Democratic Integration of Former Insurgents: Evidence from a Civic Inclusion Campaign in Colombia11
An International Game of Risk: Troop Placement and Major Power Competition11
Front Matter11
Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Coproduction of Public Safety11
Local Suffrage Increases Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union11
Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered11
Populist Psychology: Economics, Culture, and Emotions11
Between Withdrawal and Engagement: Disentangling the Effects of Covid-19 on Turnout11
Anticipating Unilateralism11
Does International Terrorism Affect Public Attitudes toward Refugees? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment11
Front Matter11
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda-Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion11
Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even after the Contentious 2020 Election11
Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties11
Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence from Canada11
Coalition Politics and War Termination10
Making Nonvoters Pay: Prices as an Alternative to Compulsory Voting10
Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships10
Do Local Economic Benefits of Asylum Seekers Lead to More Support for Local Refugee Intake?10
Socialization, Self-Selection, and the Life Experiences of World Leaders: Why Business Experience Influences Defense Spending10
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments10
Decree Power in Parliamentary Systems: Theory and Evidence from India10
Issue Indivisibility as a Cause of Peace10
Do Partisanship and Policy Agreement Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?10
The Contemporary Landscape of Gendered Personality Traits10
Political Awareness and the Identity-to-Politics Link in Public Opinion10
Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections10
When Do Campaign Donors Reject Extremists? Evidence from the US Foreclosure Crisis10
Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Attitudes on College Campuses10
Hidden Redemption and the Duty to Play the Villain: A Political Exploration10
Playing to the Audience: Responses to Violations of International Order9
The Stability of Immigration Attitudes: Evidence and Implications9
Issues versus Affect: How Do Elite and Mass Polarization Compare?9
The answer was there all along: Worry about the dynamics!9
Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts9
Origin of (A)symmetry: The Evolution of Out-Party Distrust in the United States9
State Violence and Wartime Civilian Agency: Evidence from Peru9
Erratum9
Beyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions9
Is Clientelism (Only) for the Poor? Insights on Class and Clientelism from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon9
When Suicide Is Unjust Violence: Power, Structural Harms, and Moral Culpability9
Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies9
The Politics of Interruptions: Gendered Disruptions of Legislative Speeches9
International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest9
Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party's Public Good9
One-Dimensional Scaling without Apologies9
Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak8
Messages matter: How voter education campaigns affect citizens’ willingness to vote for women8
Mobilization and Countermobilization: The Effect of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2016 Presidential Election8
Unraveling a “Cancel Culture” Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive Speech8
When Do Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South8
Confucian Democratic Leadership: A Reconstruction for Contemporary East Asia8
Cooperative Communities in the International System: Networked Cooperation of Similar States8
Shooting the Messenger: The Challenge of National Security Whistleblowing8
A Longevity Mechanism of Chinese Absolutism8
A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women’s Agency in Myanmar8
Do Shifts in Late-Counted Votes Signal Fraud? Evidence from Bolivia8
Signaling Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Names: Challenges and Recommendations8
The Gap Within: The Impact of Separate-Gender Polling Stations on Voter Turnout7
The hidden universe of operationalizing natural experiments: Navigating extreme weather7
When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?7
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal7
Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences: A Hard Test of the Low-Dimensionality Hypothesis7
Motivating the Machine: Which Brokers Do Parties Pay?7
Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?7
Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination7
Erratum7
Executive-Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis7
The Politics of Disaster Prevention7
Characterizing Agencies’ Political Environments: Partisan Agreement and Disagreement in the US Executive Branch7
Constituents Ask Female Legislators to Do More7
The Punisher’s Dilemma7
How Interpersonal Contact Affects Appellate Review7
Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters7
Ambiguous Rhetoric and Legislative Accountability7
The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a Trump Effect7
Front Matter7
The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari7
The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War7
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy7
Managing the Costs of Backing Down: A “Mirror Experiment” on Reputations and Audience Costs in a Real-World Conflict7
Strategically Ambiguous Identities: Evidence from Evangelical Clergy in Brazilian Elections7
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law: Tainted Judges and Accountability for Nazi Crimes in West Germany7
Mass Dissimulation in the Syrian Civil War7
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