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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Voter experience and ballot language framing effects: Evidence from a survey experiment74
The new older adult participant in American politics51
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Exclusionist reactions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean citizens’ support for border restriction44
Objective conditions, political knowledge, and perceptions of electoral competition in U.S. mayoral elections43
Impact of opponents’ race, gender, and party on U.S. congressional fundraising41
All aboard? An analysis of public opinion regarding high‐speed rail38
Extending the stereotype content model of racial attitudes among college freshmen34
Uncalculated first‐party externalities given a beverage tax30
Determinants of citizens’ support for democracy in Ghana26
The effectiveness of government measures during the first wave of the outbreak25
Sociodemographic correlates of vaccine hesitancy in the United States and the mediating role of beliefs about governmental conspiracies21
Hold your fire! Influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the United States21
Support for democracy in ego‐centered social contexts21
Conservatism and infrequent mask usage: A study of US counties during the novel coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic20
Who speaks? Individual and institutional predictors of CEO activism20
Party Time: The Effect of Partisan and Nonpartisan Media Messages on Support for Packing the US Supreme Court18
Does Country Setting Make a Difference? A Cross‐National Study on the Relationship Between Political Ideology and Conspiracy Mentality17
Conceptualizing and Measuring Structural Overlap in the Political Attitudes and Orientations of Multidimensional Groups17
To Cancel or Not to Cancel. That Is the Question. The Role of Quest for Significance and Significance Loss in Cancel Culture16
A conceptual validation of transformative learning theory15
Volatile pies: Modeling compositional volatility15
Our thoughts on approaching peer review15
A Forgotten Tie Between Democracies and Nondemocracies in Asymmetric Cooperation14
Intergroup Contact Versus Competitive Threat: Does Immigration Change Immigration Votes? Evidence From Switzerland Using Objective Municipality‐Level Panel Data From 2010 to 202014
How do racial stereotypes affect social preferences? An experimental investigation14
Marginal material or key data? Understanding community attitudes to a survey about domestic and family violence13
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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
Nobody does it better: Identity, ideology, and the future of James Bond10
Partisan media exposure, polarization, and candidate evaluations in the 2016 general election10
Polarized social distancing: Residents of Republican‐majority counties spend more time away from home during the COVID‐19 crisis10
Advancing Transportation Justice: The Impact of Minority Representation Across Federal and State Agencies10
Community‐oriented policing (COP): An empirical study of its effectiveness on fear of crime10
Understanding and Addressing the Rise of Conspiracy Theories in the 21st Century—An Introduction to the Special Issue10
Does individualism lead to longer working hours?10
Public perceptions of castle doctrine and stand your ground cases9
When demography is (not) destiny: Exploring identity and issue cross‐pressures among Latino voters in the 2020 presidential election9
Migrant Political Activism in Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, and Amsterdam: The Role of Voting Rights in Shaping Protest Behavior9
Elite polarization and mass policy attitudes: A study of the 2010 senate election9
Party does not matter: Unified government and midterm elections9
Judicial recentralization as political control: Evidence from the judicial leader rotation in China9
Exposure to television and support for restrictive immigration policies in the midst of the immigration crisis: A cross‐national comparison9
Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida: Examining abortion identity terms across English and Spanish in the United States8
The decline of the non‐Hispanic white population in the United States of America8
Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences8
(Mis)Informing the public? The public's responsiveness to reliable and unreliable information in illiberal information environments8
Public opinion on reforming U.S. primaries8
Productivity and wages of firms using COVID‐19‐related support policies8
Ethnical incomes’ gap in Spain. The case of Roma8
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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Public Support for Gay Rights Across Countries and Over Time7
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Interest Group Coalitions in the States7
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Political Origin of High Trust in the Government During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Selective Responsibility Attribution to Opposition Parties and Nonpartisan Experts7
Two birds with one stone: Reducing corruption raises national income7
Reexamining Confederate symbols displayed on flags and monuments in public spaces: Two fallacies in the heritage versus hate debate7
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Do Cooperative credit unions reduce or increase poverty in Cameroon?7
The effects of attitudes on household energy behavior. A study of climate change concern, responsibility, and awareness in European societies7
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
What goes up must come down: Theory and model specification of threshold dynamics6
Revealing the impact of individual income inequality on different types of charitable giving in China through social interactions6
Gender and ethno‐racial disparities in access to mortgage credit6
Income inequality is unrelated to perceived inequality and support for redistribution6
Interprofessional collaboration and work stress among health‐care providers in China: A comparative study between physicians and nurses6
How voter distributions, issue ownership, and position influence party emphasis6
The debt crisis, austerity measures, and suicide in Greece6
How Advocacy Messages Influence Support for “Ban the Box” in College Admissions6
Question wording and attitudinal ambivalence: COVID, the economy, and Americans' response to a real‐life trolley problem6
Income and cost of living: Are less equal places more costly?6
The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–20236
Is socially responsible capitalism truly polarizing?6
Occupational Prestige of Law Enforcement Officers: Quantifying Self and Public Perceptions of Prestige6
With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics5
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Justice Bork, or, be careful which supreme court nominees you choose to fight5
Race differences in support for anti‐racism policies: Endorsements of anti‐black and anti‐white stereotypes5
Panethnic Fate Unlinked: Who Finds the Term “Chinese Virus” Acceptable?5
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Travel to allies or adversaries? A compositional analysis of U.S. diplomatic visits5
Leading while female: Analyzing women CEOs’ post‐appointment trajectory5
Trapped within the logic of modernity/coloniality5
Differences in team performance: Gender versus ability5
Poverty and self‐rated health in later life: The mediating role of material hardship5
Trust, institutional quality, and the protection of property rights: A cross‐regional study of East Asia and Western countries5
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Institutional design and the stability of responsiveness in the American states5
The Trumpization of the Grand Old Party5
Does it matter how we measure conspiracy beliefs? A test of three measurement approaches5
Freedom dreaming: A symposium on racial injustice, unrest, and abolition5
What about us? Political competition, economic performance, immigration, and nativist appeals5
Do Parents’ Political Connections Matter for Children's Charitable Giving?4
Understanding the adoption of military equipment by local law enforcement agencies in the United States4
Climate‐related disasters and transparency: Records and the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency4
A comparative study of intimate partner violence among U.S.‐born and foreign‐born Hispanic women4
Is one's happiness associated with their spouse's income, and vice versa? Insights from China4
Presidential firepower: The effect of the presidential party on gun ownership, 1980–20184
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Racial resentment, sexism, and evaluations of Kamala Harris in the 2020 U.S. presidential election4
Shaky social insurance foundation: Income instability and pension participation in South Korea4
Religious liberties or reading rainbows? The partisan implications of religious liberties frames in education attitudes4
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Crime and credit: The empirical study of how crime affects credit ratings of large U.S. cities4
Survey participation as a function of democratic engagement, trust in institutions, and perceptions of surveys4
Premigratory political experiences with autocracy and violence and immigrants’ willingness to vote4
The logics of COVID‐19 travel restrictions between European countries4
Does social media type matter to politics? Investigating the difference in political participation depending on preferred social media sites4
Students or prisoners: Contrasting approaches to rural economic development4
Civil Society and Democracy4
Explaining state differences in firearm legislation: A South/non‐South analysis4
Income sorting by specialized services: Service differentiation by overlapping governments4
Stories From the Trenches: The Difference Disability Makes in the Campaign Experiences of Candidates With Disabilities4
The effect of incarceration on political beliefs for vulnerable populations4
The impact of acculturation and personal discrimination on Latinx public opinion4
All politics are national: Partisan defection in national and subnational elections4
Beyond polarization and priming: Public agenda diversity and trust in government4
Individual legal action as minority activism: Romani Germans in 1950s West Germany3
Understanding democratic perceptions and political participation among the younger generation in China's changing society: No news is good news for the Chinese government3
Political Elites and Attitudes Toward International Organizations in the Trump Era3
Biases in elections with well‐informed voters: Evidence from public voting for football awards3
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Predicting competitive integrated employment outcomes of Asian American vocational rehabilitation Clients: A national study3
Absence of Political Parties and People's Trust in the Government: A Positive Analysis of Pacific Island Countries and Other Microstates3
The affective model of far‐right vote in Europe: Anger, political trust, and immigration3
Has DACA promoted work over schooling and professional advancement for qualifying Mexican Dreamers?3
Replication of “Do state‐customized TANF work policies actually reduce unemployment?”3
Civility norm violations and political accountability3
Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending?3
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
Beyond racial resentment: Systemic racism beliefs and public attitudes toward criminal justice institutions and reforms3
The diffusion of American fair housing law and policy3
Investment in Signings in LaLiga: Analysis of Sports Directors’ Efficiency3
Perceived Social Mobility and Populist Attitudes3
Culture Regions and Policy Attitudes: Evaluating Welfare Spending Preferences Across Tennessee's Grand Divisions3
Are retrospective evaluations of local governments moderated by perceptions of influence?3
Bad times keep us together: Policy priorities and economic shocks3
Self and political efficacy and the justifiability of political violence and the role of state terror: A cross‐national analysis3
Privately Provided Public Service and Local Financial Condition: The Cost of Externalized Service Accountability3
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The Public Consequences of Presidential Legitimacy Rhetoric3
The Twitter Blackout: Do congressional rules influence the cyberworld?3
White NIMBYism and diversity close to home3
State legislative committee deliberations: Why some issues are difficult and where state legislators turn for help3
The prosecutor gender gap in Texas death penalty cases3
The initiator or responder in chief? Reconciling two prominent theories of presidential power3
The impact of voter confusion in ranked choice voting3
Does the frequency of using Internet entertainment affect happiness? Evidence from China3
Call of Duty: CEOs’ Poverty Experience and Education Philanthropy3
Mulattoes in colonial Maryland: The effects of colonial law on patterns of freedom and enslavement3
Translating interdisciplinary knowledge for gender equity: Quantifying the impact of NSF ADVANCE3
The conditional relationship between cultural and economic threats in white Americans’ support for refugee relocation programs3
Achieving electoral equity after Brnovich: A case study of Native activism in Nevada3
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A People's Abolition: How policed communities describe and enact liberatory futures2
Role of trust in government and collaboration in building disaster resilience2
Abortion, religion, and racial resentment: Unpacking the underpinnings of contemporary abortion attitudes2
Racialized Emotions: Happiness and Pleasure in American Racism2
Are police obsolete in Minneapolis? Racial capitalism and police abolition2
Gender differences in the perceptions of green spaces characteristics2
Impact of the Special Zone for Asian Headquarters policy implementation in Tokyo2
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Congressional nominations and party emergence, 1788–18082
Voluntary sector participation and individual health and welfare: Does it matter where?2
Mistrust and Backfire: Information on Government Responsiveness and Tax Compliance in China2
From the American South to South America: Testing whether patterns of competition in two‐round elections travel from the United States to Latin America2
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Religious freedom and welfare in Africa2
Brexit, COVID‐19, and attitudes toward immigration in Britain2
Explaining the American crisis of policing: Media, malfeasance, and racial prejudice2
A mixed‐methods analysis of stereotypical female librarian representation in memes2
The political science of Covid‐19: An introduction2
Defining and validating the system is broken index2
Party identification as a mediating variable in the perception of governmental legitimacy in Israel during the coronavirus epidemic2
Intragenerational Household Net Worth Mobility and Mental Health Outcomes in the United States2
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Demographic change threat, preference for nondemocratic governance, and support for political violence2
Coping with the COVID‐19 pandemic through institutional trust: Rally effects, compensatory control, and emotions2
Racial Discrimination in the Marriage Market? An Exploration of Swedish Adoption Data2
The causal nexus between innovation and economic growth: An OECD study2
Revisiting the nexus between development aid, institutions, and growth: A global evidence2
Partisan habitual voters in South Korea: Employing Random Forests to understand Korean voters' electoral choices2
Incarceration risk, asset pricing, and black‐white wealth inequality2
The Effect of Candidate List Position on Vote Share: Improving Internal Validity and Expanding Scope Conditions2
Economic inclusion and social trust in Africa: The positive effects of political reach2
The nonlinear relationship between political trust and nonelectoral political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes2
People are scarier than ghosts? Workplace haters and knowledge sharing2
Climate Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Forced Displacement: A 23‐Year Spatial Analysis in Colombia2
From Steppe to City: Reaching Chinese and Mongolian Voices Using a Novel Survey Methodology2
Visitors Out! The Absence of Away Team Supporters as a Source of Home Advantage in Football2
Populist media diets2
“Easy” and “hard” issues: Attitude extremity and a role of the need to evaluate2
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Double take: Abolition and the size of transferred property rights*2
Firearms, families, and financial distress: Economic instability and increased gun desire2
Desires of technocracy in pandemic times: A multilevel study2
Premigratory experiences with Civil War violence and social trust2
Adolescents’ exposure to classmates from non‐immigrant families and adulthood volunteerism2
Voter attitudes and politicians with health conditions and disabilities2
The impact of turnout on partisan bias in U.S. House elections, 1972–2018*2
The Paradox of Progress: Modernization, Shifting Values, and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in China2
Exploring word choice and narrative framing in trump's trade tweets2
Pollution and Credit Quality: Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Pollution and Credit Ratings in US States2
Smallness and democracy in Pacific island countries from an institutional perspective2
I'm Not a Scientist, I Just Know What I See: Hurricane experience and climate change acceptance2
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Institutions and incarceration: The role of economic freedom at the MSA level2
Spatial and statistical predictors of voter purge rates in Michigan2
Staying in the shadow or not? Remittances and the Shadow Economy2
How low can we go: Court approval effects on public opinion2
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Criminal justice in Indian country: Examining declination rates of tribal cases2
The system is broken: Can we have some more?2
Education and polypharmacy: A national study of racial and ethnic variations2
Evaluating the pinnacle of football match key statistics as in‐play information for determining the match outcome of Europe's foremost leagues2
The economic effects of winning coalition size on the aid‐growth nexus2
Are Christian nationalists antisemitic and why?2
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Playing With Perceptions: Investigating Bias in Soccer Through Skin Tone Manipulation2
Varieties of democracy and life satisfaction: Is there a connection?1
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
Whose democracy in which state?: Abolition democracy from Angela Davis to W. E. B. Du Bois1
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Public attitudes toward organized labor1
The right to work and to live: The implications of India's NREGS program for missing women1
Correction to “With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics”1
Investigating effects of social endorsements on exposure to and engagement with political disagreement on social networking sites*1
Intersecting Identities and Perceptions of Judicial Misconduct1
A multilevel analysis of the determinants of the attitude toward separate cycle paths in Taiwan1
Economic complexity and income inequality: New evidence of a nonlinear effect1
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Silence in the Stands: Assessing the Impact of Russian State‐Linked “Sportswashing” on Online Fan Behavior Following the Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine1
Formal Education Levels and Environmental Interest1
Early‐Life Famine Experience and Households’ Diversity of Financial Asset Portfolio: Evidence From China1
Immigrant status, race, and voter turnout in the American mass public1
Gender and attention to and framing of COVID‐19 in congressional tweets1
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