Public Opinion Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Opinion Quarterly 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
AAPOR Presidential Address Focusing Our Vision: Drawing on AAPOR’s New Strategic Plan to Shape Our Future59
Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States43
Where Are the Sore Losers? Competitive Authoritarianism, Incumbent Defeat, and Electoral Trust in Zambia’s 2021 Election37
Polarization in Black and White29
Racial Identity, Reparations, and Modern Views of Justice Concerning Slavery29
Social Media Effects on Public Trust in the European Union25
The Long Shadow of the Big Lie: How Beliefs about the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election Spill Over onto Future Elections23
Emily Van Duyn. Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep their Politics a Secret.23
Electoral Proximity and Issue-Specific Responsiveness21
Experts or Politicians? Citizen Responses to Vaccine Endorsements across Five OECD Countries19
Strategic Discrimination in the 2020 Democratic Primary18
Rural Identity and LGBT Public Opinion in the United States18
Issues, Groups, or Idiots? Comparing Theories of Partisan Stereotypes17
Measuring Misperceptions17
All the President’s Lies: Repeated False Claims and Public Opinion16
Attitudes toward Police and Police Spending16
Editorial Treatment of Lynchings15
Robert J. Norris, William D. Hicks, and Kevin J. Mullinix. The Politics of Innocence: How Wrongful Convictions Shape Public Opinion15
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement14
Violence Against Politicians Drives Support for Political Violence Among (Some) Voters: Evidence from a Natural Experiment14
Privacy Attitudes toward Mouse-Tracking Paradata Collection14
A Racial Model of Electoral Reform: The Relationship between Restrictive Voting Policies and Voter Confidence for Black and White Voters13
Public Support for Democracy in the United States Has Declined Generationally13
The Effects of Elite Attacks on Copartisan Media: Evidence from Trump and Fox News13
White or Woke Christian Nationalists? How Race Moderates the Link Between Christian Nationalism and Progressive Identities13
Presidential Address13
Measuring Support for Women’s Political Leadership13
Did Trump’s Indictments Rally His Base? Evidence from the Counterfactual Format12
The Polls—Trends12
Panel Conditioning Biases in the Current Population Survey’s Food Security Supplement11
Experimenting with List Experiments: Interviewer Effects and Immigration Attitudes11
Steven W. Webster. American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics11
Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Study11
Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless. News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement11
Emotionally Coping with Terrorism11
David Primo and Jeffrey Milyo. Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters11
Does Social Desirability Bias Distort Survey Analyses of Ideology and Self-Interest? Evidence from a List Experiment on Progressive Taxation10
Lying for Trump? Elite Cue-Taking and Expressive Responding on Vote Method10
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 Wisc10
Measuring the Extent to Which Voter Fraud Beliefs Link Election Reforms to Voter Confidence in the United States10
Political Accountability and Selective Perception in the Time of COVID9
Mass Beliefs about the Working Poor and Support for Redistributive Policies9
Asking about Complex Policies9
Public Attitudes toward Internal and Foreign Migration8
Matt Guardino.Framing Inequality: News Media, Public Opinion, and the Neoliberal Turn in U.S. Public Policy8
Conspiracy Beliefs and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity: Cross-National Evidence from 29 Countries7
Partisanship and Older Americans’ Engagement with Dubious Political News7
The Structure of American Political Discontent7
Slant, Extremity, and Diversity: How the Shape of News Use Explains Electoral Judgments and Confidence7
What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization across Countries?7
Strategies for Detecting Insincere Respondents in Online Polling7
What They Have but Also Who They Are: Avarice, Elitism, and Public Support for Taxing the Rich7
AAPOR Awards for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement6
Political Alienation and the Trump Vote in the 2016 and 2020 US Presidential Elections6
Validating the “Genuine Pipeline” to Limit Social Desirability Bias in Survey Estimates of Voter Turnout6
How Different Mixed-Mode Data Collection Approaches Impact Response Rates and Provision of Biomeasure Samples6
Investigating the Origins of Status Threat among White Americans6
The Rhetorical “What Goes with What”: Political Pundits and the Discursive Superstructure of Ideology in US Politics6
Nostalgia in Politics6
Autocratization Spillover: When Electing an Authoritarian Erodes Election Trust across Borders6
The Impact of Racial Descriptive Norms on Vaccination against COVID-196
Kim L. Fridkin and Patrick J. Kenney. Choices in a Chaotic Campaign: Understanding Citizen Decisions in the 2020 Election6
Improving the Measurement of Hostile Sexism5
The Conditional Relationship of Psychological Needs to Ideology5
Testing Public Reactions to Mass-Protest Hybrid Media Events5
How to Catch a Falsifier5
To Report or Not to Report? A Qualitative Analysis of Journalists’ Perspectives on Harm to Public Opinion5
News from Home: How Local Media Shapes Climate Change Attitudes5
How the Age-Friendly Domains Apply to Low-Income Cities and Guide Improvements: Perspectives of Long-Term Residents in New Jersey5
Think of the Children?5
Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback5
Does Political Participation Contribute to Polarization in the United States?5
Evaluating Pre-election Polling Estimates Using a New Measure of Non-ignorable Selection Bias5
The Prospect of Antiracism5
The Father’s Love: Collective Narcissism and Defensive Reactions to Allegations about Pope John Paul II in Polish Public Opinion5
Trends in Abortion Attitudes: From Roe to Dobbs5
Personality and Survey Satisficing4
Manuscript Referees, 20214
Political Surveys Bias Self-Reported Economic Perceptions4
From the Streets to the Voting Booth: The Electoral Effect of Grassroots Mobilization Against the Far Right4
Research Synthesis4
Bias and Variance in Multiparty Election Polls4
Why Economic Inequality Undermines Political Trust: An Analysis of Mechanisms4
Concerns About Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among American Indian Community Members: A Qualitative Secondary Analysis4
Social Desirability and Affective Polarization4
What Girls Do: The Effects of Exposure to Women Candidates on Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Women Leaders4
The Causal Effect of Candidate Extremity on Citizens’ Preferences: Evidence from Conjoint Experiments3
The Effects of Ideological and Ethnoracial Identity on Political (Mis)Information3
Nationalist Erosion after Protest and Repression3
The Effects of Forecasts on the Accuracy and Precision of Expectations3
The Reverse Backlash: How the Success of Populist Radical Right Parties Relates to More Positive Immigration Attitudes3
Peter Lynn (Editor). Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology3
Framing the Exit: Pollsters, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Military Withdrawal3
Truth and Bias, Left and Right: Testing Ideological Asymmetries with a Realistic News Supply3
How to Detect and Influence Looking Up Answers to Political Knowledge Questions in Web Surveys3
From Confidence to Convenience: Changes in Voting Systems, Donald Trump, and Voter Confidence3
Social Justice and Native American Political Engagement3
Your Typical Criminal: Why White Americans Hate Voter Fraud3
The Asymmetric Polarization of Immigration Opinion in the United States3
National Origin Identity and Descriptive Representativeness: Understanding Preferences for Asian Candidates and Representation3
The COVID-19 Infodemic and the Efficacy of Interventions Intended to Reduce Misinformation3
Autocratic Legalism, Partisanship, and Popular Legitimation in Authoritarian Cameroon3
Transitioning Opinion?3
The Polls—Trends3
Ascendant Public Opinion3
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement3
The Trump Election and Attitudes toward the United States in Latin America2
James N. Druckman. Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments2
Impression Management and Expectations of Political Cynicism2
Affective Polarization towards Parties and Leaders, and Electoral Participation in 13 Parliamentary Democracies, 1980–20192
Trump Support Explains COVID-19 Health Behaviors in the United States2
The Polls—Trends2
Qualitative Methods for Research on a Hard-to-Reach and Vulnerable Population in Burma2
Correction to: Are Nonprobability Surveys Fit for Purpose?2
Efrén Pérez and Margit Tavits. Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion2
Participants’ Reported Discomfort with Live Video as a Mode for Answering a Sensitive Survey Question2
Reducing Item Nonresponse to Vote-Choice Questions: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Mexico2
Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason. Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy2
Fear and Loathing: How Demographic Change Affects Support for Christian Nationalism2
AAPOR Awards for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement2
Measuring Political Knowledge in Online Surveys2
Which Republican Constituencies Support Restrictive Abortion Laws? Comparisons Among Donors, Wealthy, and Mass Publics2
Public Reactions to Communication of Uncertainty: How Long-Term Benefits Can Outweigh Short-Term Costs2
Ethical Considerations for Augmenting Surveys with Auxiliary Data Sources2
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement2
“Deservingness” and Public Support for Universal Public Goods: A Survey Experiment2
Thomas R. Marshall. American Public Opinion and the Supreme Court, 1930–2020: A Representative Institution2
Humanity’s Attitudes about Democracy and Political Leaders2
The Polls—Trends2
Correction to: What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?2
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