Social Science Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Science 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Voter experience and ballot language framing effects: Evidence from a survey experiment71
The new older adult participant in American politics47
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Exclusionist reactions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean citizens’ support for border restriction41
All aboard? An analysis of public opinion regarding high‐speed rail40
Objective conditions, political knowledge, and perceptions of electoral competition in U.S. mayoral elections40
Impact of opponents’ race, gender, and party on U.S. congressional fundraising36
Uncalculated first‐party externalities given a beverage tax32
Determinants of citizens’ support for democracy in Ghana28
Linking global leadership to domestic legitimacy: Comparative analysis of perceptions of Xi and Obama25
The effectiveness of government measures during the first wave of the outbreak23
Support for democracy in ego‐centered social contexts21
Sociodemographic correlates of vaccine hesitancy in the United States and the mediating role of beliefs about governmental conspiracies21
Who speaks? Individual and institutional predictors of CEO activism20
Extending the stereotype content model of racial attitudes among college freshmen20
Hold your fire! Influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the United States19
Conceptualizing and Measuring Structural Overlap in the Political Attitudes and Orientations of Multidimensional Groups18
Conservatism and infrequent mask usage: A study of US counties during the novel coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic18
Party Time: The Effect of Partisan and Nonpartisan Media Messages on Support for Packing the US Supreme Court17
A conceptual validation of transformative learning theory16
Our thoughts on approaching peer review15
Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Voting when Absentee Voting is not Allowed15
Intergroup Contact Versus Competitive Threat: Does Immigration Change Immigration Votes? Evidence From Switzerland Using Objective Municipality‐Level Panel Data From 2010 to 202014
A Forgotten Tie Between Democracies and Nondemocracies in Asymmetric Cooperation14
Volatile pies: Modeling compositional volatility14
Racial prejudice, education, and views of climate change13
Marginal material or key data? Understanding community attitudes to a survey about domestic and family violence13
How do racial stereotypes affect social preferences? An experimental investigation13
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Understanding the effect of abortion attitudes on elections after Dobbs: Evidence from cross‐sectional and panel surveys in Texas13
Looking in a mirror: Asylum in the United States as a reflection of white supremacy12
The effect of cumulative job mobility on early‐career wage development: Does job mobility actually pay?12
Learning disability in adolescence and civic engagement in young adulthood: Uncovering social‐psychological mechanisms11
Understanding Chinese nationalism: Does location matter?11
Does the competitiveness of election moderate the impact of descriptive social norms on voter turnout? A survey experiment in Japan11
Unveiling health inequities: Exploring the role of social capital and public trust in bridging racial disparities in health‐care coverage for Hispanics11
The boundaries of confusion: Gerrymandering and racial disparities in state House and congressional district line congruity11
Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences10
Does individualism lead to longer working hours?10
Polarized social distancing: Residents of Republican‐majority counties spend more time away from home during the COVID‐19 crisis10
Community‐oriented policing (COP): An empirical study of its effectiveness on fear of crime10
Nobody does it better: Identity, ideology, and the future of James Bond10
Mass media exposure and disproportional influences on materialistic values and buying impulsiveness among urban youth9
Party does not matter: Unified government and midterm elections9
Interest Group Coalitions in the States9
Exposure to television and support for restrictive immigration policies in the midst of the immigration crisis: A cross‐national comparison9
Reexamining Confederate symbols displayed on flags and monuments in public spaces: Two fallacies in the heritage versus hate debate9
When demography is (not) destiny: Exploring identity and issue cross‐pressures among Latino voters in the 2020 presidential election9
Partisan media exposure, polarization, and candidate evaluations in the 2016 general election8
Public perceptions of castle doctrine and stand your ground cases8
Public opinion on reforming U.S. primaries8
Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida: Examining abortion identity terms across English and Spanish in the United States8
Judicial recentralization as political control: Evidence from the judicial leader rotation in China8
Productivity and wages of firms using COVID‐19‐related support policies8
Elite polarization and mass policy attitudes: A study of the 2010 senate election8
(Mis)Informing the public? The public's responsiveness to reliable and unreliable information in illiberal information environments8
Political Origin of High Trust in the Government During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Selective Responsibility Attribution to Opposition Parties and Nonpartisan Experts7
The decline of the non‐Hispanic white population in the United States of America7
Income and cost of living: Are less equal places more costly?7
Ethnical incomes’ gap in Spain. The case of Roma7
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Public Support for Gay Rights Across Countries and Over Time7
Question wording and attitudinal ambivalence: COVID, the economy, and Americans' response to a real‐life trolley problem7
The temporary and partial personalization of political parties in India: A comparison of Indira Gandhi's INC and Narendra Modi's BJP7
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How Advocacy Messages Influence Support for “Ban the Box” in College Admissions6
Gender and ethno‐racial disparities in access to mortgage credit6
Revealing the impact of individual income inequality on different types of charitable giving in China through social interactions6
Is socially responsible capitalism truly polarizing?6
Public perceptions of pollsters in the United States: Experimental evidence6
Residential stability and fear of crime: Examining the impact of homeownership and length of residence on citizens’ fear of crime6
Do Cooperative credit unions reduce or increase poverty in Cameroon?6
What goes up must come down: Theory and model specification of threshold dynamics6
Differences in team performance: Gender versus ability6
Two birds with one stone: Reducing corruption raises national income6
Interprofessional collaboration and work stress among health‐care providers in China: A comparative study between physicians and nurses6
The effects of attitudes on household energy behavior. A study of climate change concern, responsibility, and awareness in European societies6
How voter distributions, issue ownership, and position influence party emphasis6
The debt crisis, austerity measures, and suicide in Greece6
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Income inequality is unrelated to perceived inequality and support for redistribution6
The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–20236
Leading while female: Analyzing women CEOs’ post‐appointment trajectory5
Institutional design and the stability of responsiveness in the American states5
Panethnic Fate Unlinked: Who Finds the Term “Chinese Virus” Acceptable?5
Travel to allies or adversaries? A compositional analysis of U.S. diplomatic visits5
Poverty and self‐rated health in later life: The mediating role of material hardship5
Justice Bork, or, be careful which supreme court nominees you choose to fight5
Does it matter how we measure conspiracy beliefs? A test of three measurement approaches5
The Trumpization of the Grand Old Party5
Race differences in support for anti‐racism policies: Endorsements of anti‐black and anti‐white stereotypes5
Freedom dreaming: A symposium on racial injustice, unrest, and abolition5
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Evaluating federated voluntary associations’ membership data: An application of Benford's Law5
Trapped within the logic of modernity/coloniality5
With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics5
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Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending?4
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Religious liberties or reading rainbows? The partisan implications of religious liberties frames in education attitudes4
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Trust, institutional quality, and the protection of property rights: A cross‐regional study of East Asia and Western countries4
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Understanding the adoption of military equipment by local law enforcement agencies in the United States4
Does social media type matter to politics? Investigating the difference in political participation depending on preferred social media sites4
Stories From the Trenches: The Difference Disability Makes in the Campaign Experiences of Candidates With Disabilities4
Explaining state differences in firearm legislation: A South/non‐South analysis4
Beyond polarization and priming: Public agenda diversity and trust in government4
Racial resentment, sexism, and evaluations of Kamala Harris in the 2020 U.S. presidential election4
Do Parents’ Political Connections Matter for Children's Charitable Giving?4
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A roadmap to understanding restrictive immigration policy outcomes4
The logics of COVID‐19 travel restrictions between European countries4
The effect of incarceration on political beliefs for vulnerable populations4
Survey participation as a function of democratic engagement, trust in institutions, and perceptions of surveys4
Shaky social insurance foundation: Income instability and pension participation in South Korea4
The impact of acculturation and personal discrimination on Latinx public opinion4
All politics are national: Partisan defection in national and subnational elections4
What about us? Political competition, economic performance, immigration, and nativist appeals4
Students or prisoners: Contrasting approaches to rural economic development4
Premigratory experiences with Civil War violence and social trust3
Playing With Perceptions: Investigating Bias in Soccer Through Skin Tone Manipulation3
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Can a measurement error perspective improve estimation in neighborhood effects research? A hierarchical Bayesian methodology3
Scientists, presidents, and pandemics—comparing the science–politics nexus during the Zika virus and COVID‐19 outbreaks3
Civility norm violations and political accountability3
Individual legal action as minority activism: Romani Germans in 1950s West Germany3
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Translating interdisciplinary knowledge for gender equity: Quantifying the impact of NSF ADVANCE3
Income sorting by specialized services: Service differentiation by overlapping governments3
Has DACA promoted work over schooling and professional advancement for qualifying Mexican Dreamers?3
Crime and credit: The empirical study of how crime affects credit ratings of large U.S. cities3
Climate‐related disasters and transparency: Records and the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency3
Privately Provided Public Service and Local Financial Condition: The Cost of Externalized Service Accountability3
The affective model of far‐right vote in Europe: Anger, political trust, and immigration3
The prosecutor gender gap in Texas death penalty cases3
The diffusion of American fair housing law and policy3
Absence of Political Parties and People's Trust in the Government: A Positive Analysis of Pacific Island Countries and Other Microstates3
Understanding democratic perceptions and political participation among the younger generation in China's changing society: No news is good news for the Chinese government3
The Twitter Blackout: Do congressional rules influence the cyberworld?3
State legislative committee deliberations: Why some issues are difficult and where state legislators turn for help3
The conditional relationship between cultural and economic threats in white Americans’ support for refugee relocation programs3
Bad times keep us together: Policy priorities and economic shocks3
Premigratory political experiences with autocracy and violence and immigrants’ willingness to vote3
Predicting competitive integrated employment outcomes of Asian American vocational rehabilitation Clients: A national study3
Sustainable land urbanization, urban amenities, and population urbanization: Evidence from city‐level data in China3
A comparative study of intimate partner violence among U.S.‐born and foreign‐born Hispanic women3
Self and political efficacy and the justifiability of political violence and the role of state terror: A cross‐national analysis3
Achieving electoral equity after Brnovich: A case study of Native activism in Nevada3
The impact of voter confusion in ranked choice voting3
Biases in elections with well‐informed voters: Evidence from public voting for football awards3
The initiator or responder in chief? Reconciling two prominent theories of presidential power3
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Replication of “Do state‐customized TANF work policies actually reduce unemployment?”3
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White NIMBYism and diversity close to home3
The Public Consequences of Presidential Legitimacy Rhetoric3
Does the frequency of using Internet entertainment affect happiness? Evidence from China3
Presidential firepower: The effect of the presidential party on gun ownership, 1980–20183
Are retrospective evaluations of local governments moderated by perceptions of influence?3
Is one's happiness associated with their spouse's income, and vice versa? Insights from China3
Do Source cues or frames matter? Convincing the public about the veracity of climate science3
Perceived Social Mobility and Populist Attitudes3
Mulattoes in colonial Maryland: The effects of colonial law on patterns of freedom and enslavement3
Political Elites and Attitudes Toward International Organizations in the Trump Era2
Adolescents’ exposure to classmates from non‐immigrant families and adulthood volunteerism2
Demographic change threat, preference for nondemocratic governance, and support for political violence2
Religious freedom and welfare in Africa2
Pollution and Credit Quality: Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Pollution and Credit Ratings in US States2
Voluntary sector participation and individual health and welfare: Does it matter where?2
Racialized Emotions: Happiness and Pleasure in American Racism2
Partisanship and Mental Health: Help Seeking and Institutional Trust in a Polarized Country2
The Effect of Candidate List Position on Vote Share: Improving Internal Validity and Expanding Scope Conditions2
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Smallness and democracy in Pacific island countries from an institutional perspective2
The system is broken: Can we have some more?2
Institutions and incarceration: The role of economic freedom at the MSA level2
People are scarier than ghosts? Workplace haters and knowledge sharing2
Defining and validating the system is broken index2
The political science of Covid‐19: An introduction2
Explaining the American crisis of policing: Media, malfeasance, and racial prejudice2
Brexit, COVID‐19, and attitudes toward immigration in Britain2
A mixed‐methods analysis of stereotypical female librarian representation in memes2
The economic effects of winning coalition size on the aid‐growth nexus2
Are Christian nationalists antisemitic and why?2
Beyond racial resentment: Systemic racism beliefs and public attitudes toward criminal justice institutions and reforms2
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Firearms, families, and financial distress: Economic instability and increased gun desire2
Spatial and statistical predictors of voter purge rates in Michigan2
Criminal justice in Indian country: Examining declination rates of tribal cases2
Profiles in party switching: The case of Southern Party activists2
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How to win the first Olympic medal? And the second?2
Impact of the Special Zone for Asian Headquarters policy implementation in Tokyo2
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Economic inclusion and social trust in Africa: The positive effects of political reach2
Evaluating the pinnacle of football match key statistics as in‐play information for determining the match outcome of Europe's foremost leagues2
Revisiting the nexus between development aid, institutions, and growth: A global evidence2
Populist media diets2
Desires of technocracy in pandemic times: A multilevel study2
I'm Not a Scientist, I Just Know What I See: Hurricane experience and climate change acceptance2
How low can we go: Court approval effects on public opinion2
“Easy” and “hard” issues: Attitude extremity and a role of the need to evaluate2
Double take: Abolition and the size of transferred property rights*2
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Gender differences in the perceptions of green spaces characteristics2
Abortion, religion, and racial resentment: Unpacking the underpinnings of contemporary abortion attitudes2
From Steppe to City: Reaching Chinese and Mongolian Voices Using a Novel Survey Methodology2
State‐level immigration legislation and social life: The impact of the “show me your papers” laws2
From the American South to South America: Testing whether patterns of competition in two‐round elections travel from the United States to Latin America2
Partisan habitual voters in South Korea: Employing Random Forests to understand Korean voters' electoral choices2
Who Were You Thinking About? Participant Reports of People They Imagined While Responding to an Abortion Attitudes Survey2
Racial Discrimination in the Marriage Market? An Exploration of Swedish Adoption Data2
Sexism as a political force: The impact of gender‐based attitudes on the presidential elections of 2012 and 20162
Party identification as a mediating variable in the perception of governmental legitimacy in Israel during the coronavirus epidemic2
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The Paradox of Progress: Modernization, Shifting Values, and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in China2
Staying in the shadow or not? Remittances and the Shadow Economy2
Role of trust in government and collaboration in building disaster resilience2
The impact of turnout on partisan bias in U.S. House elections, 1972–2018*2
Congressional nominations and party emergence, 1788–18082
A People's Abolition: How policed communities describe and enact liberatory futures2
The nonlinear relationship between political trust and nonelectoral political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes2
Education and polypharmacy: A national study of racial and ethnic variations2
Voter attitudes and politicians with health conditions and disabilities2
Coping with the COVID‐19 pandemic through institutional trust: Rally effects, compensatory control, and emotions2
Did sexism drive Latino support for Trump? Latinx, sexism, and presidential vote choice1
Varieties of democracy and life satisfaction: Is there a connection?1
Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility1
Educational gender inequality in the Muslim world: A problem of a cultural heritage, religion, or modernization?1
Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age1
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Gender and attention to and framing of COVID‐19 in congressional tweets1
Apologies, Cheap Talk, and Silence: How People Think About Reputations in Public Goods Scenarios1
The determinants of voting for Republican congressional candidates in the Texas borderlands1
Dismantling the Master's House: An Assessment of the Gender Gap in the Political Knowledge of African Americans1
The ‘Euphoria’ effect: A popular HBO show, Gen Z, and drug policy beliefs1
Public attitudes toward organized labor1
“Deep questions for a Saturday morning”: An investigation of the Australian and Canadian general public's definitions of gender1
The Mediating Effects of Counter‐Attitudinal Exposure, Political Knowledge, and Trust in Government on Community Connectedness1
Modern judicial confirmation hearings and institutional support for the Supreme Court1
The right to work and to live: The implications of India's NREGS program for missing women1
Early‐Life Famine Experience and Households’ Diversity of Financial Asset Portfolio: Evidence From China1
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Immigrant status, race, and voter turnout in the American mass public1
Economic complexity and income inequality: New evidence of a nonlinear effect1
Protests in Russia's regions: The influence of regional governance1
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