Public Opinion Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Opinion Quarterly 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
AAPOR Presidential Address Focusing Our Vision: Drawing on AAPOR’s New Strategic Plan to Shape Our Future189
Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States45
The Long Shadow of the Big Lie: How Beliefs about the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election Spill Over onto Future Elections40
Social Media Effects on Public Trust in the European Union39
Racial Identity, Reparations, and Modern Views of Justice Concerning Slavery35
Where Are the Sore Losers? Competitive Authoritarianism, Incumbent Defeat, and Electoral Trust in Zambia’s 2021 Election33
Polarization in Black and White31
Emily Van Duyn. Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep their Politics a Secret.30
Corrigendum to: Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets29
Experts or Politicians? Citizen Responses to Vaccine Endorsements across Five OECD Countries27
Measuring Misperceptions26
Electoral Proximity and Issue-Specific Responsiveness23
Rural Identity and LGBT Public Opinion in the United States21
Issues, Groups, or Idiots? Comparing Theories of Partisan Stereotypes20
Strategic Discrimination in the 2020 Democratic Primary19
Robert J. Norris, William D. Hicks, and Kevin J. Mullinix. The Politics of Innocence: How Wrongful Convictions Shape Public Opinion18
William H. Westermeyer. Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement.18
Attitudes toward Police and Police Spending17
All the President’s Lies: Repeated False Claims and Public Opinion17
Editorial Treatment of Lynchings14
Privacy Attitudes toward Mouse-Tracking Paradata Collection14
Measuring Support for Women’s Political Leadership14
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement14
Augmenting Household Expenditure Forecasts with Online Employee-generated Company Reviews14
Violence Against Politicians Drives Support for Political Violence Among (Some) Voters: Evidence from a Natural Experiment13
White or Woke Christian Nationalists? How Race Moderates the Link Between Christian Nationalism and Progressive Identities13
The Polls—Trends13
Did Trump’s Indictments Rally His Base? Evidence from the Counterfactual Format13
Public Support for Democracy in the United States Has Declined Generationally13
Using Data from Reddit, Public Deliberation, and Surveys to Measure Public Opinion about Autonomous Vehicles13
Presidential Address13
A Racial Model of Electoral Reform: The Relationship between Restrictive Voting Policies and Voter Confidence for Black and White Voters12
The Polls—Trends12
The Effects of Elite Attacks on Copartisan Media: Evidence from Trump and Fox News12
Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless. News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement11
David Primo and Jeffrey Milyo. Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters11
Experimenting with List Experiments: Interviewer Effects and Immigration Attitudes11
Steven W. Webster. American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics11
Bringing Social Context Back In10
Emotionally Coping with Terrorism10
Measuring the Extent to Which Voter Fraud Beliefs Link Election Reforms to Voter Confidence in the United States10
Does Social Desirability Bias Distort Survey Analyses of Ideology and Self-Interest? Evidence from a List Experiment on Progressive Taxation10
Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Study10
Lying for Trump? Elite Cue-Taking and Expressive Responding on Vote Method9
New Data in Social and Behavioral Research9
Mass Beliefs about the Working Poor and Support for Redistributive Policies9
Panel Conditioning Biases in the Current Population Survey’s Food Security Supplement9
Political Accountability and Selective Perception in the Time of COVID9
Can Religiosity be Sensed with Satellite Data? An Assessment of Luminosity during Ramadan in Turkey9
Lewis A. Friedland, Dhavan V. Shah, Michael W. Wagner, Katherine J. Cramer, Chris Wells, and Jon Pevehouse. Battleground: Asymmetric Communication Ecologies and the Erosion of Civil Society in Wisc9
Measuring the Volatility of the Political agenda in Public Opinion and News Media9
Asking about Complex Policies9
The Structure of American Political Discontent8
Matt Guardino.Framing Inequality: News Media, Public Opinion, and the Neoliberal Turn in U.S. Public Policy8
Slant, Extremity, and Diversity: How the Shape of News Use Explains Electoral Judgments and Confidence7
Partisanship and Older Americans’ Engagement with Dubious Political News7
Autocratization Spillover: When Electing an Authoritarian Erodes Election Trust across Borders6
Nostalgia in Politics6
Conspiracy Beliefs and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity: Cross-National Evidence from 29 Countries6
Political Alienation and the Trump Vote in the 2016 and 2020 US Presidential Elections6
What They Have but Also Who They Are: Avarice, Elitism, and Public Support for Taxing the Rich6
Public Attitudes toward Internal and Foreign Migration6
Kim L. Fridkin and Patrick J. Kenney. Choices in a Chaotic Campaign: Understanding Citizen Decisions in the 2020 Election6
Validating the “Genuine Pipeline” to Limit Social Desirability Bias in Survey Estimates of Voter Turnout6
Strategies for Detecting Insincere Respondents in Online Polling6
The Hostile Mediator Phenomenon6
The Rhetorical “What Goes with What”: Political Pundits and the Discursive Superstructure of Ideology in US Politics5
AAPOR Awards for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement5
Evaluating Pre-election Polling Estimates Using a New Measure of Non-ignorable Selection Bias5
Testing Public Reactions to Mass-Protest Hybrid Media Events5
What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization across Countries?5
Investigating the Origins of Status Threat among White Americans5
Trends in Abortion Attitudes: From Roe to Dobbs5
Does Political Participation Contribute to Polarization in the United States?5
How Different Mixed-Mode Data Collection Approaches Impact Response Rates and Provision of Biomeasure Samples5
The Impact of Racial Descriptive Norms on Vaccination against COVID-195
The Conditional Relationship of Psychological Needs to Ideology5
Think of the Children?4
The Prospect of Antiracism4
News from Home: How Local Media Shapes Climate Change Attitudes4
How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms4
What Girls Do: The Effects of Exposure to Women Candidates on Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Women Leaders4
How to Detect and Influence Looking Up Answers to Political Knowledge Questions in Web Surveys4
The Father’s Love: Collective Narcissism and Defensive Reactions to Allegations about Pope John Paul II in Polish Public Opinion4
Health versus Wealth during the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Improving the Measurement of Hostile Sexism4
How to Catch a Falsifier4
Manuscript Referees, 20214
Why Economic Inequality Undermines Political Trust: An Analysis of Mechanisms4
Social Desirability and Affective Polarization4
Personality and Survey Satisficing4
To Report or Not to Report? A Qualitative Analysis of Journalists’ Perspectives on Harm to Public Opinion4
How the Age-Friendly Domains Apply to Low-Income Cities and Guide Improvements: Perspectives of Long-Term Residents in New Jersey4
Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback4
Research Synthesis4
From the Streets to the Voting Booth: The Electoral Effect of Grassroots Mobilization Against the Far Right4
Political Surveys Bias Self-Reported Economic Perceptions3
The Polls—Trends3
From Confidence to Convenience: Changes in Voting Systems, Donald Trump, and Voter Confidence3
Presidential Address3
The Effects of Ideological and Ethnoracial Identity on Political (Mis)Information3
The Reverse Backlash: How the Success of Populist Radical Right Parties Relates to More Positive Immigration Attitudes3
Bias and Variance in Multiparty Election Polls3
Nationalist Erosion after Protest and Repression3
The COVID-19 Infodemic and the Efficacy of Interventions Intended to Reduce Misinformation3
Ascendant Public Opinion3
Peter Lynn (Editor). Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology3
Concerns About Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among American Indian Community Members: A Qualitative Secondary Analysis3
Transitioning Opinion?3
Social Justice and Native American Political Engagement3
Your Typical Criminal: Why White Americans Hate Voter Fraud3
The Effects of Forecasts on the Accuracy and Precision of Expectations3
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement3
Changing Votes, Changing Identities?3
Autocratic Legalism, Partisanship, and Popular Legitimation in Authoritarian Cameroon3
Ethical Considerations for Augmenting Surveys with Auxiliary Data Sources2
Truth and Bias, Left and Right: Testing Ideological Asymmetries with a Realistic News Supply2
Public Reactions to Communication of Uncertainty: How Long-Term Benefits Can Outweigh Short-Term Costs2
Correction to: What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?2
Humanity’s Attitudes about Democracy and Political Leaders2
Correction to: Are Nonprobability Surveys Fit for Purpose?2
Generational Persistence in the Nature of White Racial Attitudes2
Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky. The Economic Other: Inequality in the American Political Imagination2
The Causal Effect of Candidate Extremity on Citizens’ Preferences: Evidence from Conjoint Experiments2
Framing the Exit: Pollsters, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Military Withdrawal2
The Asymmetric Polarization of Immigration Opinion in the United States2
The Polls—Trends2
Reducing Item Nonresponse to Vote-Choice Questions: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Mexico2
Participants’ Reported Discomfort with Live Video as a Mode for Answering a Sensitive Survey Question2
Qualitative Methods for Research on a Hard-to-Reach and Vulnerable Population in Burma2
The Trump Election and Attitudes toward the United States in Latin America2
Efrén Pérez and Margit Tavits. Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion2
National Origin Identity and Descriptive Representativeness: Understanding Preferences for Asian Candidates and Representation2
James N. Druckman. Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments2
Which Republican Constituencies Support Restrictive Abortion Laws? Comparisons Among Donors, Wealthy, and Mass Publics2
Impression Management and Expectations of Political Cynicism2
Measuring Political Knowledge in Online Surveys2
Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Interest1
Varieties of Mobility Measures: Comparing Survey and Mobile Phone Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Trust in the Count: Improving Voter Confidence with Post-election Audits1
Trump Support Explains COVID-19 Health Behaviors in the United States1
“Deservingness” and Public Support for Universal Public Goods: A Survey Experiment1
Partisan Poll Watchers and Americans’ Perceptions of Electoral Fairness1
AAPOR Awards for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement1
Race, Justice, and Public Opinion1
Manuscript Referees, 20241
Updating amidst Disagreement: New Experimental Evidence on Partisan Cues1
Legacies of Mistrust?1
Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences1
Persisting Anxiety: The Duration of Emotions during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
The Polls—Trends1
Thomas R. Marshall. American Public Opinion and the Supreme Court, 1930–2020: A Representative Institution1
Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason. Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy1
Yes to Koch, No to Woke: Public Opinion, Free Markets, and Business Involvement in Politics1
André Blais and Jean-François Daoust. The Motivation to Vote: Explaining Electoral Participation1
Partisan Influence on Policy Preferences in Retrenching the Welfare State1
The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada1
Does Measurement Affect the Gender Gap in Political Partisanship?1
Reclaiming the Narrative and Charting Our Course through the New Normal of Public Opinion Research1
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement1
Affective Polarization towards Parties and Leaders, and Electoral Participation in 13 Parliamentary Democracies, 1980–20191
Fear and Loathing: How Demographic Change Affects Support for Christian Nationalism1
Political Distinctiveness and Diversity Among LGBT Americans1
Misleading Polls in the Media: Does Survey Clickbait Have Social Consequences?1
Diana C. Mutz. Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade1
Joshua P. Darr, Matthew P. Hitt, and Johanna L. Dunaway. Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization1
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