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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society250
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture120
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation101
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation96
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data93
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide88
Ideological Competition69
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements67
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change57
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe54
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption43
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection43
Competence and advice43
Unpacking gendered co‐participation in political violence: Women perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda38
Hierarchy and war36
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan34
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Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma32
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial31
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
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy30
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics30
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians29
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Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric23
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency22
Polarization in police union politics21
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front21
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The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies20
Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy20
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians19
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy19
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad19
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma18
Electoral responses to economic crises18
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?18
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?18
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control18
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats16
The effect of real‐news party cues16
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure16
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?16
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections16
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India15
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric15
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The politics of teachers' union endorsements13
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era13
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models13
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India13
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?13
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Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India11
National identity after conquest11
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem11
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas11
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia11
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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
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City11
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict10
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations10
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis10
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany10
Expertise acquisition in Congress9
Institutions and Political Restraint9
Can riots represent? A democratic theory9
Classification algorithms and social outcomes9
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates9
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion9
Collective procrastination and protest cycles8
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war8
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy8
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Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration8
Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies8
Causal inference with latent outcomes8
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders7
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia7
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
Centripetal Representation7
Border Anxiety in International Discourse7
Ethnic Visibility7
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation7
Persuasion in veto bargaining7
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action7
Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests7
Political accountability under moral hazard7
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg7
Differentially private survey research7
Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war6
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis6
A cause to fight6
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Measuring electoral democracy with observables6
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries6
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia6
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers6
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain6
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects6
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?6
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Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement6
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation6
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment6
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation5
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data5
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Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China5
Making fair comparisons in political theory5
States, cities, and border control: Do sub‐state collectives have a right to protect vulnerable people on the move?5
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa5
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents5
Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?5
Grounding the diasporic turn in political theory: Meta‐commitment, transnationalism, and political obligation5
Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms5
Enchanted democracy: Religion and democratic thought in nineteenth‐century Latin America5
Roadblocks: How Property Rights Undermine Development in Colombia5
Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought5
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress5
Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory5
Campaign Messages, Polling, and Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence5
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19165
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies5
Climate crisis and policy inaction in Indonesia4
The contestable peoplehood account of democratically legitimate boundaries4
Chinese state media persuades a global audience that the “China model” is superior: Evidence from a 19‐country experiment4
Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy4
Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications4
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture4
Erratum to The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations4
The gendered costs of stigma: How experiences of conflict‐related sexual violence affect civic engagement for women and men4
Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security4
Tracing the “true liberalism”: F. A. Hayek as a reader of Tocqueville4
Trains, trade, and transformation: A spatial Rogowski theory of America's 19th‐century protectionism4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
Playing politics with traffic fines: Sheriff elections and political cycles in traffic fines revenue4
Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization4
Community interventions in the administration of justice4
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From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China4
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings4
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Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform3
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The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences3
Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy3
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Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
Defiant pride: Origins and consequences of ethnic voting3
The rise of and demand for identity‐oriented media coverage3
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation3
The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference3
Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options3
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties3
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making3
Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade3
Phantom Counterfactuals3
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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
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures3
The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability3
“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?3
Speaking their language?: Multilingualism in party communication across democracies2
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses2
Border fortification and legibility: Evidence from Afghanistan2
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France2
How UN peacekeeping missions enforce peace agreements2
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Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most2
Causal Effects, Migration, and Legacy Studies2
Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military2
Detecting and Deterring Information Search in Online Surveys2
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion2
Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems2
Xs we share: Context similarity, culture, and the diffusion of populism2
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Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in Emerging Economies2
Evaluating (in)experience in congressional elections2
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil2
Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior2
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt2
Veto Institutions, Hostage‐Taking, and Tacit Cooperation2
Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law2
How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign–Domestic Threat Dilemma in China2
Going into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence2
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election2
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