Journal of Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Politics is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation145
The Color of Disparity: Racialized Income Inequality and Support for Liberal Economic Policies97
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India86
Dynamic Screening in International Crises77
Must the Subaltern Speak Publicly? Public Reason Liberalism and the Ethics of Fighting Severe Injustice71
Judicial Decisions on Electronic Control Devices and Police Escalation of Force71
Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective54
Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements51
Intergroup Interaction and Attitudes to Migrants51
Measuring and Understanding Parties’ Anti-elite Strategies45
Politicians’ Labor Market Experiences Across Party Families43
Symbols of the Struggle: Descriptive Representation and Issue-Based Symbolism in US House Speeches39
Learning from Democratic Practices: New Perspectives in Institutional Design39
Permissibility of Electoral Systems: A New Look at an Old Question37
Defending Elections Against the Oligarchic Charge36
National Penalties Reversed: The Local Politics of Citizenship and Politician Responsiveness to Immigrants36
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar33
Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China31
Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War31
The Filibuster and Legislative Discussion31
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments30
Gendered Justice in Comparative Perspective False Equality and False Difference in Criminal Appeals30
Reconsidering the Relationship between Authoritarianism and Republican Support in 2016 and Beyond29
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Electoral Responses to the Proximity of Health Care28
The Surprising Stability of Asian Americans’ and Latinos’ Partisan Identities in the Early Trump Era28
Does International Terrorism Affect Public Attitudes toward Refugees? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment27
Front Matter26
Tracing Causal Paths from Experimental and Observational Data26
The Stability and Durability of the US Supreme Court’s Legitimacy26
Comparative Vote Switching: A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multiparty Competition25
Persistent Inequalities: The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Voter Turnout24
Front Matter24
Age of Marriage and Women’s Political Engagement: Evidence from India24
An International Game of Risk: Troop Placement and Major Power Competition24
How Do We Know What We Know? Learning from Monte Carlo Simulations24
Electoral Dis-Connection: The Limits of Reelection in Contexts of Weak Accountability23
Front Matter23
Peaceful Neighborhoods and Democratic Differences23
Intersectional Opportunities: Majority Minority Districts and the Descriptive Representation of Latinas and Latinos22
Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties22
Reading Ellison through Herder: Language, Integration, and Democracy22
Fighting for Peace? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Women’s Participation in Rebel Groups on Peace Negotiations21
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits21
The Electoral Effects of Large-Scale Infrastructure Policies: Evidence from a Rural Electrification Scheme in Brazil21
Choice and Choice Set in African Elections21
Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Coproduction of Public Safety20
Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Postelection Responses to Defeats20
Just a Number? Voter Evaluations of Age in Candidate-Choice Experiments20
From Low-Cost Flights to the Ballot Box: How Eastern European Migration Shaped Far-Right Voting in London20
Front Matter19
What Have We Learned about Gender from Candidate Choice Experiments? A Meta-Analysis of Sixty-Seven Factorial Survey Experiments19
The Missionary Roots of Nationalism: Evidence from China19
Political Geography and Firm Strategies: How Electoral Competition Influences Local Job Creation19
Democratic Integration of Former Insurgents: Evidence from a Civic Inclusion Campaign in Colombia19
Presidents on the Fast Track: Fighting Floor Amendments with Restrictive Rules19
Evade and Deceive? Citizen Responses to Surveillance19
The Non-Consequences of COVID-19 on Left-Right Ideological Beliefs18
Fiscal Rules, Corruption and Electoral Accountability18
Where Self-Interest Trumps Ideology: Liberal Homeowners and Local Opposition to Housing Development18
'Kick Them Out' as a Voting Strategy: Theory and Evidence from Multi-member District Elections17
How to place non-majoritarian institutions and political actors in a common policy space: Spatial modeling of court–executive interactions17
Explaining Variation in Political Leadership by Marginalized Groups: Black Office-Holding and Contraband Camps16
An Ideal of Nonfactionalism for Party Politics16
Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even after the Contentious 2020 Election16
Bounded Rule and Regional Stability in Fragile States16
Front Matter16
Arms Technology and the Coercive Imbalance Outside Western Europe16
Disappointed Hope: Reimagining Resistance in the Wake of the Egyptian Revolution15
Reassessing the Effects of Emotions on Turnout15
Race to the Top: How Competition for Political Power Affects Participation15
Constructive and Destructive Legislative Review: The Government-Opposition Divide in Parliamentary Oversight15
Leader Hawkishness, Political Survival, and Interstate Crises15
Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment14
Between Withdrawal and Engagement: Disentangling the Effects of Covid-19 on Turnout14
The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions14
You and Whose Army? How Civilian Leaders Leverage the Military’s Prestige to Shape Public Opinion14
Can the Party in Power Systematically Win a Majority in Close Legislative Elections? Evidence from US State Assemblies13
Proportional Immigration Enforcement13
Women and the Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Engagement in Unified Germany13
The Emergence of Party-Based Political Careers in the United Kingdom, 1801–191813
Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence from Canada13
The Populist Appeal: Personality and Antiestablishment Communication13
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns13
Aristocracy in America: Tocqueville on White Supremacy13
Elections, Right-wing Populism, and Political-Economic Polarization:  The Role of Institutions and Political Outsiders13
Justified Coercion, Political Cooperation, and Exemption from General Laws12
The Wages of Repression12
Populist Psychology: Economics, Culture, and Emotions12
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation12
Ethnic Inequality, Democratic Transitions, and Democratic Breakdowns: Investigating an Asymmetrical Relationship12
Do Voting Advice Applications Change Political Behavior?12
Redistributive Politics under Spatial Inequality12
Belief in COVID-19 Misinformation in Nigeria12
Leadership Styles and Political Survival of Chinese Communist Party Elites12
Bill Text and Agenda Control in the US Congress11
The Politics of Stashing Wealth: The Decline of Labor Power and the Global Rise in Corporate Savings11
Descriptive Representation in an Era of Polarization11
Bayesian Rule Set: A Quantitative Alternative to Qualitative Comparative Analysis11
Strategies of Contestation: International Law, Domestic Audiences, and Image Management11
Anticipating Unilateralism11
Ethnic Marginalization and (Non)Compliance in Public Health Emergencies11
Corruption, Accountability, and Women’s Access to Power11
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes10
National Conflict in a Federal System10
Selective Exposure and Electoral Competition10
Inequality in the Classroom: Electoral Incentives and the Distribution of Local Education Spending10
Terrorism, perpetrators and polarization: evidence from natural experiments10
Rethinking Propaganda: How State Media Build Trust through Belief Affirmation10
The Political Price of Authoritarian Control: Evidence from Francoist Land Settlements in Spain10
News and Public Opinion: Which Comes First?10
Against Kantian Statism10
ANES Scales Often Do Not Measure What You Think They Measure10
How to Detect Heterogeneity in Conjoint Experiments9
We Are One: The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty9
Social Media Narratives Across Platforms in Conflict: Evidence from Syria9
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers9
What Happens When Women Win Elections? The Electoral Returns to Increased Representation of Women9
Latino-Targeted Misinformation and the Power of Factual Corrections9
The Social Divisions of Politics: How Parties’ Group-Based Appeals Influence Social Group Differences in Vote Choice9
Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered9
Family History and Attitudes toward Out-Groups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis9
Cross-National Measures of the Intensity of COVID-19 Public Health Policies9
Contact and Context: How Municipal Traffic Stops Shape Citizen Character9
Local Suffrage increases non-EU Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union9
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion9
Trust in Public Policy Algorithms9
Trade as Villain: Belief in the American Dream and Declining Support for Globalization8
Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reforms8
Sources of Elected Representatives’ (Mis)Perceptions of Public Opinion: The Role of Self-Projection and Interest Groups8
Voters and Donors: The Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking8
Political Awareness and the Identity-to-Politics Link in Public Opinion8
Rock the Registration: Same Day Registration Increases Turnout of Young Voters8
Changing Tides: Public Attitudes on Climate Migration8
The Temporal Focus of Campaign Communication8
From Conquest to Centralization: Domestic Conflict and the Transition to Direct Rule8
The Democrat Disaster: Hurricane Exposure, Risk Aversion and Insurance Demand8
Ticket Splitting in a Nationalized Era8
The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership8
The Social Consequences of Political Anger8
Antinormative Messaging, Group Cues, and the Nuclear Ban Treaty8
The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanian Public Opinion: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment8
Strategic Delay and the Use of Incompatibility Rulings at the German Constitutional Court8
Decree Power in Parliamentary Systems: Theory and Evidence from India8
Racial Diversity and Exclusionary Zoning: Evidence from the Great Migration8
No Evidence of Backlash: LGBT Rights in Latin America8
Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians8
Democratic Hypocrisy and Out-Group Threat: Explaining Citizen Support for Democratic Erosion8
Lobbyists as Gatekeepers: Theory and Evidence8
Making Nonvoters Pay: Prices as an Alternative to Compulsory Voting7
The Stakes and Informativeness Trade-Off: Electoral Incentives to Implement Programmatic Transfers7
The Review Process and the Citation Gap: The Role of the Editor’s Nudge7
Extremists Not on Board: Labor Market Costs to Radical Behavior in Elected Office7
Strengthening the Party, Weakening the Women: Unforeseen Consequences of Strengthening Institutions7
Complementary Partners? Attitudes toward Multiactor Development Projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo7
Attitudinal Consistency in Citizens’ Social Policy Preferences7
Representative Democracy versus Government by Opinion7
Do Local Economic Benefits of Asylum Seekers Lead to More Support for Local Refugee Intake?7
How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes7
Twice the Trouble: Twinning and the Cost of Voting7
Social Mobilization in Partisan Spaces7
Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control7
Social Group Appeals in Party Rhetoric: Effects on Policy Support and Polarization7
Front Matter7
Snap Judgments: Predicting Politician Competence from Photos7
Closeness and Strategic Participation: Does the Relative Closeness of the US Presidential Elections Shape Where College Students Register to Vote?7
Subsidies for Sale: Postgovernment Career Concerns, Revolving-Door Channels, and Public Resource Misallocation in China7
Facing Voters: Gender Expression, Gender Stereotypes, and Vote Choice7
Do Neighborhoods Empower or Disenfranchise? Coethnic Concentration, Spatial Disadvantage, and Voter Registration in France7
Does Job Insecurity Shape Policy Preferences? An Experimental Manipulation of Labor Market Risk7
Policies Make Politicians: Intermediaries, State Benefits, and Political Entrepreneurship in Brazil6
Is Political Liberalism Antidemocratic?6
Democratic Reputations in Crises and War6
Owning It: Accountability and Citizens’ Ownership over Oil, Aid, and Taxes6
When Do Campaign Donors Reject Extremists? Evidence from the US Foreclosure Crisis6
The Corporate Power Trilemma6
How Coalitions Shape Legislative Institutions in Parliamentary Democracies6
Why Do Voters Support Corrupt Politicians? Experimental Evidence from South Africa6
Social Lobbying6
(Non)renewable Terms and Judicial Independence in the European Court of Human Rights6
Susceptibility to Strategic Voting: A Comparison of Plurality and Instant-Runoff Elections6
One-Dimensional Scaling without Apologies6
Free Trade and Forms of Democratization6
Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal6
The Costs of Court Curbing: Evidence from the United States6
Black Workers in White Places: Daytime Racial Diversity and White Public Opinion6
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits6
Political Costs of Trade War Tariffs6
Preaching to the Choir: A Problem of Participatory Interventions6
Going It Alone? A Structural Analysis of Coalition Formation in Elections6
The Real Consequences of Symbolic Politics: Breaking the Soviet Past in Ukraine6
How Voters Use Contextual Information to Reward and Punish: Credit Claiming, Legislative Performance, and Democratic Accountability6
Opponent Campaign Visits in Dominant Party Regimes6
Fighting for Majorities? Explaining the Development of Caucus Fund-Raising in American Legislatures6
Partisan Influence in Suspicious Times6
Playing to the Audience: Responses to Violations of International Order6
A Political-Economic Model of Police Administration6
Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies6
Spatial Dynamics of Election Violence: How Repression Spreads Dissent around Elections6
Do Partisanship and Policy Agreement Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?6
Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Attitudes on College Campuses6
The Color of Disparity: Racialized Income Inequality and Support for Liberal Economic Policies6
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