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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Party Time: The Effect of Partisan and Nonpartisan Media Messages on Support for Packing the US Supreme Court32
Conceptualizing and Measuring Structural Overlap in the Political Attitudes and Orientations of Multidimensional Groups31
Do Not Forget About Politics! Explaining the Selective Breach of Bilateral Investment Treaties25
Hold your fire! Influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the United States23
Predicting Congressional Elections From Expert Ratings, 1964–202222
Support for democracy in ego‐centered social contexts20
Extending the stereotype content model of racial attitudes among college freshmen19
Impact of opponents’ race, gender, and party on U.S. congressional fundraising19
Objective conditions, political knowledge, and perceptions of electoral competition in U.S. mayoral elections18
All aboard? An analysis of public opinion regarding high‐speed rail17
Exclusionist reactions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean citizens’ support for border restriction16
Does Country Setting Make a Difference? A Cross‐National Study on the Relationship Between Political Ideology and Conspiracy Mentality14
Partisanship, Trump Favorability, and Americans’ Evaluations of the FBI14
To Cancel or Not to Cancel. That Is the Question. The Role of Quest for Significance and Significance Loss in Cancel Culture13
A conceptual validation of transformative learning theory13
Can Donald Trump Shape the Outcome of Elections Abroad? Unraveling and Comparing the “Trump Effect” in the 2025 Canadian and Australian Federal Elections12
Who speaks? Individual and institutional predictors of CEO activism12
Our thoughts on approaching peer review12
Restrictive State Electoral Environments and the Health of Black Americans11
How do racial stereotypes affect social preferences? An experimental investigation11
Advancing Transportation Justice: The Impact of Minority Representation Across Federal and State Agencies11
A Forgotten Tie Between Democracies and Nondemocracies in Asymmetric Cooperation11
Volatile pies: Modeling compositional volatility11
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Intergroup Contact Versus Competitive Threat: Does Immigration Change Immigration Votes? Evidence From Switzerland Using Objective Municipality‐Level Panel Data From 2010 to 202011
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Understanding and Addressing the Rise of Conspiracy Theories in the 21st Century—An Introduction to the Special Issue10
The boundaries of confusion: Gerrymandering and racial disparities in state House and congressional district line congruity10
Unveiling health inequities: Exploring the role of social capital and public trust in bridging racial disparities in health‐care coverage for Hispanics10
The effect of cumulative job mobility on early‐career wage development: Does job mobility actually pay?10
Understanding the effect of abortion attitudes on elections after Dobbs: Evidence from cross‐sectional and panel surveys in Texas10
Does the competitiveness of election moderate the impact of descriptive social norms on voter turnout? A survey experiment in Japan10
Learning disability in adolescence and civic engagement in young adulthood: Uncovering social‐psychological mechanisms10
Talent, Capital, and the FIFA World Cup: How Participation Affects Football Players’ Market Value10
Why Do White Supremacist Groups Re‐Emerge? The Case of the 1960s Ku Klux Klan10
The decline of the non‐Hispanic white population in the United States of America9
(Mis)Informing the public? The public's responsiveness to reliable and unreliable information in illiberal information environments9
Productivity and wages of firms using COVID‐19‐related support policies9
Abortion Attitudes in the Age of Trump: A Comparison of Latino and White Americans9
Migrant Political Activism in Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, and Amsterdam: The Role of Voting Rights in Shaping Protest Behavior9
Partisan media exposure, polarization, and candidate evaluations in the 2016 general election9
The temporary and partial personalization of political parties in India: A comparison of Indira Gandhi's INC and Narendra Modi's BJP9
Judicial recentralization as political control: Evidence from the judicial leader rotation in China9
The Crooked Pictures in Our Heads: Partisan Cable Coverage of Congress9
Ethnical incomes’ gap in Spain. The case of Roma9
Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida: Examining abortion identity terms across English and Spanish in the United States9
Community‐oriented policing (COP): An empirical study of its effectiveness on fear of crime9
Interest Group Coalitions in the States9
Elite polarization and mass policy attitudes: A study of the 2010 senate election9
Does individualism lead to longer working hours?9
Public opinion on reforming U.S. primaries8
When demography is (not) destiny: Exploring identity and issue cross‐pressures among Latino voters in the 2020 presidential election8
Public perceptions of castle doctrine and stand your ground cases8
Political Origin of High Trust in the Government During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Selective Responsibility Attribution to Opposition Parties and Nonpartisan Experts8
Erratum for SSQU131777
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Primary Elections and Mail Voting7
Perceptions of Wicked Policy Problems and Anti‐Privatization Attitudes: The Mediating Role of Political Leadership Preferences7
US Supreme Court Institutional Integrity in Case Selection7
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Perceptions of Partisanship in Local American Politics7
The effects of attitudes on household energy behavior. A study of climate change concern, responsibility, and awareness in European societies7
The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–20236
Evaluating Evidentiary Standards in the Realm of Citizen Policy Evaluation6
How Advocacy Messages Influence Support for “Ban the Box” in College Admissions6
Public Support for Gay Rights Across Countries and Over Time6
Public perceptions of pollsters in the United States: Experimental evidence6
Interprofessional collaboration and work stress among health‐care providers in China: A comparative study between physicians and nurses6
Two birds with one stone: Reducing corruption raises national income6
Do Cooperative credit unions reduce or increase poverty in Cameroon?6
Meeting Students Where They Are: A Field Experiment of Classroom Interventions for Voter Turnout Among College Students6
Income inequality is unrelated to perceived inequality and support for redistribution6
Race differences in support for anti‐racism policies: Endorsements of anti‐black and anti‐white stereotypes5
Justice Bork, or, be careful which supreme court nominees you choose to fight5
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What goes up must come down: Theory and model specification of threshold dynamics5
Is socially responsible capitalism truly polarizing?5
Panethnic Fate Unlinked: Who Finds the Term “Chinese Virus” Acceptable?5
Differences in team performance: Gender versus ability5
Institutional design and the stability of responsiveness in the American states5
How voter distributions, issue ownership, and position influence party emphasis5
Occupational Prestige of Law Enforcement Officers: Quantifying Self and Public Perceptions of Prestige5
Gender and ethno‐racial disparities in access to mortgage credit5
CO 2 Emission and Climate Change Perceptions: Do Residents of High‐Emission Countries Underestimate Climate Change?5
Poverty and self‐rated health in later life: The mediating role of material hardship5
Does it matter how we measure conspiracy beliefs? A test of three measurement approaches5
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Revealing the impact of individual income inequality on different types of charitable giving in China through social interactions5
Trapped within the logic of modernity/coloniality5
Stories From the Trenches: The Difference Disability Makes in the Campaign Experiences of Candidates With Disabilities4
Is one's happiness associated with their spouse's income, and vice versa? Insights from China4
Racial resentment, sexism, and evaluations of Kamala Harris in the 2020 U.S. presidential election4
Students or prisoners: Contrasting approaches to rural economic development4
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Leading while female: Analyzing women CEOs’ post‐appointment trajectory4
Civil Society and Democracy4
Understanding the adoption of military equipment by local law enforcement agencies in the United States4
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Climate‐related disasters and transparency: Records and the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency4
The Politics of Presidential Pardons: Partisan Differences in Modern Clemency Decisions4
Do Parents’ Political Connections Matter for Children's Charitable Giving?4
The impact of acculturation and personal discrimination on Latinx public opinion4
Unveiling the Shadows: Corruption, Informal Economies, and Income Inequality in Low‐Income Countries4
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With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics4
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Trust, institutional quality, and the protection of property rights: A cross‐regional study of East Asia and Western countries4
The Twitter Blackout: Do congressional rules influence the cyberworld?4
Explaining state differences in firearm legislation: A South/non‐South analysis4
All politics are national: Partisan defection in national and subnational elections4
Marginal Food Security and Depressive Symptoms: NHANES 2009–20204
Religious liberties or reading rainbows? The partisan implications of religious liberties frames in education attitudes4
What about us? Political competition, economic performance, immigration, and nativist appeals4
Travel to allies or adversaries? A compositional analysis of U.S. diplomatic visits4
The Trumpization of the Grand Old Party4
Beyond polarization and priming: Public agenda diversity and trust in government4
The Politics of (Mis)perception: Understanding Americans’ Beliefs About Immigrant Welfare Usage4
Investment in Signings in LaLiga: Analysis of Sports Directors’ Efficiency3
Absence of Political Parties and People's Trust in the Government: A Positive Analysis of Pacific Island Countries and Other Microstates3
Privately Provided Public Service and Local Financial Condition: The Cost of Externalized Service Accountability3
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Individual legal action as minority activism: Romani Germans in 1950s West Germany3
Achieving electoral equity after Brnovich: A case study of Native activism in Nevada3
Staffing Elections3
Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending?3
Chief Justices, Consensus, and Policy Cohesion: Examining How Chief Justices Marshal Their Courts3
Can a measurement error perspective improve estimation in neighborhood effects research? A hierarchical Bayesian methodology3
Replication of “Do state‐customized TANF work policies actually reduce unemployment?”3
Does the frequency of using Internet entertainment affect happiness? Evidence from China3
Predicting competitive integrated employment outcomes of Asian American vocational rehabilitation Clients: A national study3
White NIMBYism and diversity close to home3
Are retrospective evaluations of local governments moderated by perceptions of influence?3
Culture Regions and Policy Attitudes: Evaluating Welfare Spending Preferences Across Tennessee's Grand Divisions3
Fear of Mass Shootings and Gun Control Sentiment: A Study of Emerging Adults in Contemporary America3
The Public Consequences of Presidential Legitimacy Rhetoric3
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Premigratory political experiences with autocracy and violence and immigrants’ willingness to vote3
The effect of incarceration on political beliefs for vulnerable populations3
Survey participation as a function of democratic engagement, trust in institutions, and perceptions of surveys3
Understanding democratic perceptions and political participation among the younger generation in China's changing society: No news is good news for the Chinese government3
Bad times keep us together: Policy priorities and economic shocks3
Protecting Children With More Guns?: The Effect of School Shootings on Parents' Gun Regulation Attitudes3
Broken Hoop Dreams? Racism in NBA Entry, 1980–20213
Mulattoes in colonial Maryland: The effects of colonial law on patterns of freedom and enslavement3
Call of Duty: CEOs’ Poverty Experience and Education Philanthropy3
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Crime and credit: The empirical study of how crime affects credit ratings of large U.S. cities3
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Perceived Social Mobility and Populist Attitudes3
A comparative study of intimate partner violence among U.S.‐born and foreign‐born Hispanic women3
Civility norm violations and political accountability3
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Party identification as a mediating variable in the perception of governmental legitimacy in Israel during the coronavirus epidemic2
Racialized Emotions: Happiness and Pleasure in American Racism2
Biases in elections with well‐informed voters: Evidence from public voting for football awards2
Revisiting the nexus between development aid, institutions, and growth: A global evidence2
Double take: Abolition and the size of transferred property rights*2
How low can we go: Court approval effects on public opinion2
Partisan habitual voters in South Korea: Employing Random Forests to understand Korean voters' electoral choices2
Defining and validating the system is broken index2
People are scarier than ghosts? Workplace haters and knowledge sharing2
Education and polypharmacy: A national study of racial and ethnic variations2
The Effect of Candidate List Position on Vote Share: Improving Internal Validity and Expanding Scope Conditions2
The nonlinear relationship between political trust and nonelectoral political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes2
Effects of National Voting Experience During High School on Political Participation: Evidence From South Korea2
I'm Not a Scientist, I Just Know What I See: Hurricane experience and climate change acceptance2
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The heterogeneous impact of college education on happiness by gender2
The initiator or responder in chief? Reconciling two prominent theories of presidential power2
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Intragenerational Household Net Worth Mobility and Mental Health Outcomes in the United States2
Religious freedom and welfare in Africa2
Revisiting Racial Disparities in NBA Career Longevity2
Economic inclusion and social trust in Africa: The positive effects of political reach2
Political Elites and Attitudes Toward International Organizations in the Trump Era2
Abortion, religion, and racial resentment: Unpacking the underpinnings of contemporary abortion attitudes2
Racial Discrimination in the Marriage Market? An Exploration of Swedish Adoption Data2
Pollution and Credit Quality: Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Pollution and Credit Ratings in US States2
Institutions and incarceration: The role of economic freedom at the MSA level2
The economic effects of winning coalition size on the aid‐growth nexus2
The system is broken: Can we have some more?2
Visitors Out! The Absence of Away Team Supporters as a Source of Home Advantage in Football2
Populist media diets2
From Steppe to City: Reaching Chinese and Mongolian Voices Using a Novel Survey Methodology2
Voter attitudes and politicians with health conditions and disabilities2
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Role of trust in government and collaboration in building disaster resilience2
The Effects of SNAP Work Requirement on Recidivism2
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Translating interdisciplinary knowledge for gender equity: Quantifying the impact of NSF ADVANCE2
Incarceration risk, asset pricing, and black‐white wealth inequality2
Premigratory experiences with Civil War violence and social trust2
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Playing With Perceptions: Investigating Bias in Soccer Through Skin Tone Manipulation2
Mistrust and Backfire: Information on Government Responsiveness and Tax Compliance in China2
The impact of voter confusion in ranked choice voting2
Are Christian nationalists antisemitic and why?2
The Paradox of Progress: Modernization, Shifting Values, and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in China2
Voters’ Facial Expression Analysis as a Complement to Traditional Election Polls: Affective Voting in Spanish National Elections in 20232
Measuring Ideological Polarization in State Supreme Courts 1970–20192
A mixed‐methods analysis of stereotypical female librarian representation in memes2
Smallness and democracy in Pacific island countries from an institutional perspective2
Firearms, families, and financial distress: Economic instability and increased gun desire2
Climate Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Forced Displacement: A 23‐Year Spatial Analysis in Colombia2
Evaluating the pinnacle of football match key statistics as in‐play information for determining the match outcome of Europe's foremost leagues2
Desires of technocracy in pandemic times: A multilevel study2
Corporate Political Responsibility and Board Diversity in the United States: A Study of Demographic, Cognitive, and Gender Influences2
Spatial and statistical predictors of voter purge rates in Michigan2
Demographic change threat, preference for nondemocratic governance, and support for political violence2
Staying in the shadow or not? Remittances and the Shadow Economy2
Polarized Equality? Ideological and Affective Divides Over Gender Equality in Europe2
Beyond racial resentment: Systemic racism beliefs and public attitudes toward criminal justice institutions and reforms2
Who Were You Thinking About? Participant Reports of People They Imagined While Responding to an Abortion Attitudes Survey2
The affective model of far‐right vote in Europe: Anger, political trust, and immigration2
Exploring word choice and narrative framing in trump's trade tweets2
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Does Democracy Save Lives? Modeling Effects of Political Institutions on COVID‐19 Mortality2
The prosecutor gender gap in Texas death penalty cases2
Complexities of the Status‐Legitimacy Hypothesis: Authoritarian Personality and System Justification Across Class2
The diffusion of American fair housing law and policy2
Do You See What I See?: Observed Race and the Ascription of American Identity1
From Lack of Concerns to Complicity: How Misinformation Concerns Influences Fake News Sharing on WhatsApp via the Partisan Legitimation of Fake News1
The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non‐Democracies: The Case of Hungary1
Economic complexity and income inequality: New evidence of a nonlinear effect1
Silence in the Stands: Assessing the Impact of Russian State‐Linked “Sportswashing” on Online Fan Behavior Following the Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine1
Fear of a Dying Planet and Fear of a Dying God: Beliefs About God and Attitudes toward Climate Change in the United States1
The Relative Contributions of Changes in Vertical and Horizontal Mechanisms to Overall Changes in Occupational Gender Segregation in the United States, 2006–20191
The ‘Euphoria’ effect: A popular HBO show, Gen Z, and drug policy beliefs1
Public sector corruption is fertile ground for conspiracy beliefs: A comparison between 26 Western and non‐Western countries1
Formal Education Levels and Environmental Interest1
The determinants of voting for Republican congressional candidates in the Texas borderlands1
Modern judicial confirmation hearings and institutional support for the Supreme Court1
Deindustrialization, Identity Politics, and Public Support for Liberal Policies in the United States1
Early‐Life Famine Experience and Households’ Diversity of Financial Asset Portfolio: Evidence From China1
Correction to “With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics”1
Intersecting Identities and Perceptions of Judicial Misconduct1
Driving economic growth in African countries: Do Chinese OFDI sectors matter?1
Who Believes in the “Great Replacement”? Political Attitudes and Democratic Alienation Among Supporters of Immigration‐Related Conspiracy Theories in Europe1
Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility1
Framing Motives and Objectives: Which Frames Increase US Public Support for Defending Taiwan?1
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Has Political Violence Affected Americans’ Commitment to Democratic Participation? The Mitigating Role of Neighborhood Social Cohesion1
The Impact of Ego‐Tropic and Socio‐Tropic Perceptions on Vote Choice in Constitutional Referendums: Evidence From Chile in 20221
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Mirrorball Politics: How Taylor Swift Reflects America's Partisan and Gender Divides1
Dismantling the Master's House: An Assessment of the Gender Gap in the Political Knowledge of African Americans1
Winners and losers in U.S.–China trade disputes: A dynamic compositional analysis of foreign direct investment1
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