American Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Political Science 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society307
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture148
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation145
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation102
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide90
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data87
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements78
Ideological Competition70
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change50
Experience and self‐interest: Diverging responses to global warming47
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe44
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection42
Hierarchy and war40
Veto players and policy development39
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption39
Competence and advice34
Issue Information28
Unpacking gendered co‐participation in political violence: Women perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda28
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma27
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Correction to “Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data”25
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan25
Erratum to “The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse” American Journal of Political Science , 24
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial24
Climate exposure drives firm political behavior: Evidence from earnings calls and lobbying data24
Race, gender, and party in EEOC cases, 1996–2006: Assessing the role of judge attributes in case outcomes in the US district courts24
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics24
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians24
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy24
Issue Information22
Polarization in police union politics22
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians21
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric21
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad19
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies19
Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy18
Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state17
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front17
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?16
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency16
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?16
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy16
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India15
Issue Information14
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure14
The politics of teachers' union endorsements14
The effect of real‐news party cues14
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Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections13
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?13
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India13
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma12
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats12
The declarations of independents: Open‐ended survey responses and the nature of non‐identification12
Electoral responses to economic crises12
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era12
Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding12
The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa12
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control12
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem11
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?11
Issue Information11
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models11
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India11
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Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico10
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City10
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia10
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Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office10
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations10
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany10
Can riots represent? A democratic theory10
Institutions and Political Restraint10
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas10
National identity after conquest10
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict10
Classification algorithms and social outcomes10
Expertise acquisition in Congress9
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war9
Breaking barriers: How an international treaty for women reduces the size of the informal economy9
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy9
Collective procrastination and protest cycles9
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion9
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates9
Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies9
Differentially private survey research8
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action8
Centripetal Representation8
Political accountability under moral hazard8
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia8
Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests8
Border Anxiety in International Discourse8
Ethnic Visibility8
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration8
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis8
How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service: Evidence from a census of legislator requests to U.S. federal agencies8
Long‐run confidence: Estimating uncertainty when using long‐run multipliers8
Latinos mobilizing beyond threats: The role of fear and hope in issue activism8
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory8
Persuasion in veto bargaining8
Causal inference with latent outcomes7
Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war7
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers7
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders7
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation7
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement7
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia7
Issue Information7
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation7
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation6
Migrating to stay or commuting to work? How fairness perceptions and exposure shape attitudes toward labor migration6
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Measuring electoral democracy with observables6
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies6
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries6
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment6
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain6
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?6
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data6
States, cities, and border control: Do sub‐state collectives have a right to protect vulnerable people on the move?6
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects6
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa6
A cause to fight6
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents6
Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought6
Making fair comparisons in political theory5
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19165
Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory5
Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?5
Enchanted democracy: Religion and democratic thought in nineteenth‐century Latin America5
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents5
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress5
Grounding the diasporic turn in political theory: Meta‐commitment, transnationalism, and political obligation5
The gendered costs of stigma: How experiences of conflict‐related sexual violence affect civic engagement for women and men4
Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model4
Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?4
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Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings4
Playing politics with traffic fines: Sheriff elections and political cycles in traffic fines revenue4
Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security4
Chinese state media persuades a global audience that the “China model” is superior: Evidence from a 19‐country experiment4
Community interventions in the administration of justice4
Campaign Messages, Polling, and Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence4
Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China4
Tracing the “true liberalism”: F. A. Hayek as a reader of Tocqueville4
The contestable peoplehood account of democratically legitimate boundaries4
Erratum to The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations4
What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?4
Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms4
Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications4
Climate crisis and policy inaction in Indonesia4
Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy4
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Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options3
Trains, trade, and transformation: A spatial Rogowski theory of America's 19th‐century protectionism3
The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences3
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Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy3
Phantom Counterfactuals3
Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform3
The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability3
Testing the stability and temporal order of People of Color Identity and People of Color Solidarity: New evidence from a survey panel of Asian, Black, Latino, and multiracial adults3
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China3
Encouraging crossover voting in the 2024 presidential primary3
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Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
To fight or to govern? Political capital and electoral competition3
The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference3
“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?3
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures3
Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–15193
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”3
The rise of and demand for identity‐oriented media coverage3
Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade3
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France2
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Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion2
How UN peacekeeping missions enforce peace agreements2
Detecting and Deterring Information Search in Online Surveys2
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt2
Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military2
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Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses2
Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law2
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Xs we share : Context similarity, culture, and the diffusion of populism2
Border fortification and legibility: Evidence from Afghanistan2
Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in Emerging Economies2
Evaluating (in)experience in congressional elections2
Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior2
Defiant pride: Origins and consequences of ethnic voting2
How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign–Domestic Threat Dilemma in China2
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation2
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making2
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil2
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Veto Institutions, Hostage‐Taking, and Tacit Cooperation2
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Causal Effects, Migration, and Legacy Studies2
Post‐instrument bias2
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