American Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Political Science 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism140
Trains, trade, and transformation: A spatial Rogowski theory of America's 19th‐century protectionism133
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation106
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change100
Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications78
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide71
Collective procrastination and protest cycles67
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The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Critique of Carl Schmitt52
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates41
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation40
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences40
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework38
A Dynamic Measure of Bureaucratic Reputation: New Data for New Theory36
The Electoral Consequences of Household Indebtedness under Austerity32
Institutions and Political Restraint31
One More Time? Parties’ Repeated Electoral Entry in Younger Democracies31
Pliable Prejudice: The Case of Welfare30
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe29
Decentralization Can Increase Cooperation among Public Officials27
Electoral Campaigns and Biased Perceptions of Voter Interests27
When you come at the king: Opposition coalitions and nearly stunning elections26
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Ideological Competition25
The Play of Conspiracy and Democratic Erosion in Plato'sRepublic24
Political diversity in U.S. police agencies24
Framing Unpopular Foreign Policies24
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings24
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China24
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion24
Expropriation as reparation23
A Costly Commitment: Populism, Economic Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy22
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability22
Money Can't Buy You Love: Partisan Responses to Vote‐Buying Offers22
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Postwar Czechoslovakia21
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data21
Rethinking the imperative mandate: Toward a better balance between independence and accountability19
Does Relative Deprivation Condition the Effects of Social Protection Programs on Political Support? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan19
Persuasive lobbying and the value of connections18
Sowing the Seeds: Radicalization as a Political Tool18
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war18
Antagonistic Cooperation: Factional Competition in the Shadow of Elections18
Threat‐Inducing Violent Events Exacerbate Social Desirability Bias in Survey Responses18
Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties18
Divided Government, Strategic Substitution, and Presidential Unilateralism18
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It17
Causal Inference with Latent Treatments17
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis17
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements17
Race, shaming, and international human rights16
Using cross‐encoders to measure the similarity of short texts in political science16
Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most16
Endogenous opposition: Identity and ideology in Kuwaiti electoral politics16
Brokers, Social Networks, Reciprocity, and Clientelism15
Empirical realism and democratic equality15
Emigration and radical right populism15
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion15
Expertise acquisition in Congress15
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture14
Testing the Benefits of Public Deliberation14
Indecent Disclosures: Anticorruption Reforms and Political Selection14
Why masses support democratic backsliding13
The Political Consequences of Depression: How Conspiracy Beliefs, Participatory Inclinations, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence13
Corporate Board Quotas and Gender Equality Policies in the Workplace12
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming12
State Support for Rebels and Interstate Bargaining11
Censorship and the Impact of Repression on Dissent11
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law11
Racial Identity, Group Consciousness, and Attitudes: A Framework for Assessing Multiracial Self‐Classification11
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia10
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption10
Presidential Cues and the Nationalization of Congressional Rhetoric, 1973–201610
A Social Policy Theory of Everyday Borrowing: On the Role of Welfare States and Credit Regimes10
Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics?10
Ethnic Visibility10
Centripetal Representation9
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Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties9
The politics of rejection: Explaining Chinese import refusals8
How Politicians Learn from Citizens’ Feedback: The Case of Gender on Twitter8
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Who Rallies around the Flag? Nationalist Parties, National Security, and the 2019 Indian Election8
How Threats of Exclusion Mobilize Palestinian Political Participation7
Correcting misperceptions about ethno‐racial discrimination: The limits of evidence‐based awareness raising to promote support for equal‐treatment policies7
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory7
Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior7
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration7
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg7
Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy7
An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia7
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Political accountability under moral hazard7
The right to dream: Martin Luther King Jr.’s pragmatist argument for racial progress7
Placebo Tests for Causal Inference7
Austerity, economic vulnerability, and populism7
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design7
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Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options6
Qualitative Imputation of Missing Potential Outcomes6
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection6
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Hierarchy and war6
The Aptness of Envy6
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties6
Causal inference with latent outcomes5
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures5
Persuasion in veto bargaining5
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Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan5
Border Anxiety in International Discourse5
Local orientation in the U.S. House of Representatives5
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation5
(The Impossibility of) Deliberation‐Consistent Social Choice5
When Do UN Peacekeeping Operations Implement Their Mandates?5
Measuring Agenda Setting in Interactive Political Communication5
Differentially private survey research4
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment4
Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation4
Local Immigration and Support for Anti‐Immigration Parties: A Meta‐Analysis4
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries4
Public comment and public policy4
Dynamic Policy Sabotage4
Winners’ Consent? Citizen Commitment to Democracy When Illiberal Candidates Win Elections4
Metrics Management and Bureaucratic Accountability: Evidence from Policing4
Religious Mobilization and the Selection of Political Elites: Evidence from Postwar Italy4
Competence and advice4
Where Motivated Reasoning Withers and Looms Large: Fear and Partisan Reactions to the COVID‐19 Pandemic4
How Economic Informality Constrains Demand for Programmatic Policy4
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders4
Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico4
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis4
Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops4
Power, costs, collective action, bargaining, and solidarity3
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia3
Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment3
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment3
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Building tribes: How administrative units shaped ethnic groups in Africa3
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action3
Sexism and the Far‐Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash3
Rebel Strategies and the Prospects for Peace3
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy3
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Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma3
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
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What Was the Point of Equality?3
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Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa2
The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability2
Comparing religious and secular interventions to increase young adult political participation: Evidence from WhatsApp‐based civic education courses in Zambia2
International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders2
Crowd Cohesion and Protest Outcomes2
Is Justice a Fixed Point?2
Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes2
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement2
Ascriptive Characteristics and Perceptions of Impropriety in the Rule of Law: Race, Gender, and Public Assessments of Whether Judges Can Be Impartial2
Bending the Iron Law: The distribution of power within political parties2
When politicians behave badly: Political, democratic, and social consequences of political incivility2
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Talking Shops: The Effects of Caucus Discussion on Policy Coalitions2
Partisanship, Economic Assessments, and Presidential Accountability2
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain2
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The Fortification Dilemma: Border Control and Rebel Violence2
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries2
The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences2
Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies2
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation2
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation2
Religious Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War2
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Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective‐Getting1
Parties as Disciplinarians: Charisma and Commitment Problems in Programmatic Campaigning1
Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy1
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making1
Globalization and Promissory Representation1
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data1
Political Phantasies: Aristotle on Imagination and Collective Action1
Rebel Capacity, Intelligence Gathering, and Combat Tactics1
Can Americans’ trust in local news be trusted? The emergence, sources, and implications of the local news trust advantage1
Rain, rain, go away: 194 potential exclusion‐restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable1
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Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy1
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Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial1
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19161
A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force1
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers1
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. 82–1
Agenda Control under Policy Uncertainty1
Antiglobalization sentiment: Exposure and immobility1
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency1
Making fair comparisons in political theory1
UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars1
Why Compete for Firms? Electoral Effects of Corporate Headquarters Relocation1
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Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies1
Race, legislative speech, and symbolic representation in Congress1
Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax‐Break Policy1
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Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?1
The logic of idealization in political theory1
The Necessity of Moving Averages in Dynamic Linear Regression Models1
Is authority fungible? Legitimacy, domain congruence, and the limits of power in Africa1
How budget trade‐offs undermine electoral incentives to build public housing1
A Priori Bounds on Legislative Bargaining Agreements1
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation1
Can Descriptive Representation Help the Right Win Votes from the Poor? Evidence from Brazil1
“A Sacred Effort”: Lincoln's Second Inaugural and the Problem of Justice1
Roadblocks: How Property Rights Undermine Development in Colombia1
Uncertain times: The causal effects of coups on national income1
Change We Can Believe In: Structural and Content Dynamics within Belief Networks1
Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity1
Phantom Counterfactuals1
War as a Redistributive Problem1
Gaslighting Citizens1
Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat1
Pandora's ballot box: Electoral politics of direct democracy1
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects1
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians1
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