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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society224
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture178
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation109
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences89
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements87
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe85
Ideological Competition84
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide60
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change59
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation50
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data46
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection38
Competence and advice38
Unpacking gendered co‐participation in political violence: Women perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda37
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Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption36
Hierarchy and war32
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma32
Erratum to “The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse” American Journal of Political Science, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2020, pp. 82–31
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Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan31
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial28
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics27
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy27
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians26
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric24
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Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency23
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians22
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front21
Polarization in police union politics21
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad20
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies20
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy20
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?19
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The politics of teachers' union endorsements18
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders18
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era18
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India18
Electoral responses to economic crises18
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models16
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control16
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?16
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India16
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections16
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma15
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure14
The effect of real‐news party cues14
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats14
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?14
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?14
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric13
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Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India13
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem12
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Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City12
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Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office11
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico11
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia11
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis11
National identity after conquest10
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict10
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Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas10
Institutions and Political Restraint10
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany10
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations10
Expertise acquisition in Congress10
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy9
Classification algorithms and social outcomes9
Can riots represent? A democratic theory9
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war9
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates9
Border Anxiety in International Discourse8
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming8
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders8
Collective procrastination and protest cycles8
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration8
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties8
Differentially private survey research8
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion8
Centripetal Representation8
Persuasion in veto bargaining8
Ethnic Visibility7
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory7
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries7
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg7
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation7
Causal inference with latent outcomes7
Political accountability under moral hazard7
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia7
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action7
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation6
Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests6
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers6
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External Validity and Meta‐Analysis6
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation6
Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war6
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia6
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Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries5
Measuring electoral democracy with observables5
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain5
Making fair comparisons in political theory5
Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?5
Enchanted democracy: Religion and democratic thought in nineteenth‐century Latin America5
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement5
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?5
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects5
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents5
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies5
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data5
A cause to fight5
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa5
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment5
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19165
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress5
Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms4
The contestable peoplehood account of democratically legitimate boundaries4
Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy4
The gendered costs of stigma: How experiences of conflict‐related sexual violence affect civic engagement for women and men4
Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China4
Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought4
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators4
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Tracing the “true liberalism”: F. A. Hayek as a reader of Tocqueville4
Playing politics with traffic fines: Sheriff elections and political cycles in traffic fines revenue4
Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture?4
Community interventions in the administration of justice4
Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory4
Roadblocks: How Property Rights Undermine Development in Colombia4
Chinese state media persuades a global audience that the “China model” is superior: Evidence from a 19‐country experiment4
Erratum to The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations4
Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
Climate crisis and policy inaction in Indonesia4
Campaign Messages, Polling, and Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence4
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States, cities, and border control: Do sub‐state collectives have a right to protect vulnerable people on the move?4
Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization4
Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications3
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China3
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
Gaslighting Citizens3
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation3
The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference3
Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy3
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings3
Trains, trade, and transformation: A spatial Rogowski theory of America's 19th‐century protectionism3
Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
Phantom Counterfactuals3
Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform3
Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade3
The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences3
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures3
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
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture3
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The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability3
The rise of and demand for identity‐oriented media coverage3
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“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?3
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making3
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties3
Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options3
Defiant pride: Origins and consequences of ethnic voting2
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Border Orientation in a Globalizing World2
Causal Effects, Migration, and Legacy Studies2
Border fortification and legibility: Evidence from Afghanistan2
Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior2
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Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in Emerging Economies2
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France2
Xs we share: Context similarity, culture, and the diffusion of populism2
Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law2
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt2
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses2
Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems2
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election2
Going into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence2
Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military2
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion2
How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign–Domestic Threat Dilemma in China2
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How UN peacekeeping missions enforce peace agreements2
Veto Institutions, Hostage‐Taking, and Tacit Cooperation2
Detecting and Deterring Information Search in Online Surveys2
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How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil2
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