American Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Political Science is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets105
Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information‐Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading?79
To Repress or to Co‐opt? Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance62
People Haven't Had Enough of Experts: Technocratic Attitudes among Citizens in Nine European Democracies62
American Politics in Two Dimensions: Partisan and Ideological Identities versus Anti‐Establishment Orientations61
Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data60
Re‐Assessing Elite‐Public Gaps in Political Behavior58
The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity53
How Political Parties Shape Public Opinion in the Real World50
Pleasing the Principal: U.S. Influence in World Bank Policymaking46
Labor Unions and White Racial Politics42
Policy Diffusion: The Issue‐Definition Stage42
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data39
Gender Quotas and International Reputation38
Ideology, Not Affect: What Americans Want from Political Representation37
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis37
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design35
Does Public Opinion Affect Political Speech?35
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?29
Paper Cuts: How Reporting Resources Affect Political News Coverage29
Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax‐Break Policy29
Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not27
The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access27
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law25
The Dictator's Power‐Sharing Dilemma: Countering Dual Outsider Threats25
Adjusting for Confounding with Text Matching25
The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy24
Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning23
Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon Coalition23
The Side Effects of Central Bank Independence23
The Divide Over Independence: Explaining Preferences for Secession in an Advanced Open Economy22
What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal‐Dependent Political Evaluation21
State Visits and Leader Survival21
Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees21
Multidimensional Representation21
Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective‐Getting19
Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops19
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It19
How Settlement Locations and Local Networks Influence Immigrant Political Integration18
Party Sub‐Brands and American Party Factions17
Candidate Supply Is Not a Barrier to Immigrant Representation: A Case–Control Study17
Political Scandal: A Theory17
Policing the Organizational Threat in Morocco: Protest and Public Violence in Liberal Autocracies16
Do Politicians Discriminate Against Internal Migrants? Evidence from Nationwide Field Experiments in India16
The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants15
Persuasive Lobbying with Allied Legislators15
At‐Large Elections and Minority Representation in Local Government15
Policy Inventing and Borrowing among State Legislatures15
Strength in Numbers: How Women's Groups Close India's Political Gender Gap14
Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?14
Partisan‐Motivated Evaluations of Sexual Misconduct and the Mitigating Role of the #MeToo Movement14
Local Immigration and Support for Anti‐Immigration Parties: A Meta‐Analysis14
How War Changes Land: Soil Fertility, Unexploded Bombs, and the Underdevelopment of Cambodia14
Reference Points and Democratic Backsliding13
Fault Lines: The Effects of Bureaucratic Power on Electoral Accountability13
Brokers, Social Networks, Reciprocity, and Clientelism13
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World12
Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics?12
When Do UN Peacekeeping Operations Implement Their Mandates?12
Hassling: How States Prevent a Preventive War12
If They Endorse It, I Can't Trust It: How Outgroup Leader Endorsements Undercut Public Support for Civil War Peace Settlements12
Winners’ Consent? Citizen Commitment to Democracy When Illiberal Candidates Win Elections12
Partisan Procurement: Contracting with the United States Federal Government, 2003–201512
Winning Hearts and Minds in Civil Wars: Governance, Leadership Change, and Support for Violent Groups in Iraq11
City‐State Ideological Incongruence and Municipal Preemption11
Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and Policy Effects of Campaign Finance Contributions11
Effectiveness of Connected Legislators11
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting11
Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter‐Driven Accountability in Senegal11
How Markets Shape Values and Political Preferences: A Field Experiment11
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election10
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil10
Does Transparency Inhibit Political Compromise?10
Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior10
Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent's Perspective10
Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy10
Media Influence on Vote Choices: Unemployment News and Incumbents' Electoral Prospects10
Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America10
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses10
Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility10
UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars10
Propaganda and Skepticism10
Positive Spillovers from Negative Campaigning9
Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines9
Causal Inference with Latent Treatments9
Misgovernance and Human Rights: The Case of Illegal Detention without Intent9
Bringing War Back in: Victory and State Formation in Latin America9
Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems9
Ascriptive Characteristics and Perceptions of Impropriety in the Rule of Law: Race, Gender, and Public Assessments of Whether Judges Can Be Impartial9
How Weakly Institutionalized Parties Monitor Brokers in Developing Democracies: Evidence from Postconflict Liberia9
How Does Minority Political Representation Affect School District Administration and Student Outcomes?8
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric8
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods: The Evidence from Deforestation8
Sexism and the Far‐Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash8
Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth‐Century France8
How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics8
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators8
Democratization and Representative Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Promotion Patterns in Indonesia's Civil Service, 1980–20158
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment8
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats8
The Great Society, Reagan's Revolution, and Generations of Presidential Voting8
The Organizational Voter: Support for New Parties in Young Democracies8
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture8
Do Campaign Contribution Limits Curb the Influence of Money in Politics?7
Adaptive Experimental Design: Prospects and Applications in Political Science7
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries7
In Strongman We Trust: The Political Legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea7
Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict7
Measuring Agenda Setting in Interactive Political Communication7
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis7
Earned Income and Women's Segmented Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from Jordan7
Change We Can Believe In: Structural and Content Dynamics within Belief Networks7
Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation7
The Dynamic American Dream7
Public Infrastructure and Economic Development: Evidence from Postal Systems6
Strategic Allocation of Irrevocable and Durable Benefits6
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming6
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders6
Good Times and Bad Apples: Rebel Recruitment in Crackdown and Truce6
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties6
I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends: Leveraging Campaign Resources to Maximize Congressional Power6
Commitment Problems in Alliance Formation6
Executive Accountability Beyond Outcomes: Experimental Evidence on Public Evaluations of Powerful Prime Ministers6
Placebo Tests for Causal Inference6
Public Money Talks Too: How Public Campaign Financing Degrades Representation6
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models5
Gaslighting Citizens5
Metrics Management and Bureaucratic Accountability: Evidence from Policing5
A Dynamic Measure of Bureaucratic Reputation: New Data for New Theory5
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion5
Channels for Influence or Maps of Behavior? A Field Experiment on Social Networks and Cooperation5
Competing Principals? Legislative Representation in List Proportional Representation Systems5
Phantom Counterfactuals5
Courting Informal Workers: Exclusion, Forbearance, and the Left5
Censorship and the Impact of Repression on Dissent5
Policy Networks Across Political Systems5
All the President's Justices? The Impact of Presidential Copartisanship on Supreme Court Job Approval5
Observed without Sympathy: Adam Smith on Inequality and Spectatorship5
Corporate Board Quotas and Gender Equality Policies in the Workplace5
Racial Identity, Group Consciousness, and Attitudes: A Framework for Assessing Multiracial Self‐Classification5
Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal4
International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders4
Responsibility For Financial Crises4
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis4
Deepening or Diminishing Ethnic Divides? The Impact of Urban Migration in Kenya4
Conflict, Protection, and Punishment: Repercussions of Violence in Eastern DR Congo4
Can Popular Sovereignty Be Represented? Jacobinism from Radical Democracy to Populism4
Trade and Political Fragmentation on the Silk Roads: The Economic Effects of Historical Exchange between China and the Muslim East4
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties4
How (Not) to Use the History of Political Thought for Contemporary Purposes4
Antagonistic Cooperation: Factional Competition in the Shadow of Elections4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
Gridlock, Bureaucratic Control, and Nonstatutory Policymaking in Congress4
Rebel Strategies and the Prospects for Peace4
Dynamic Policy Sabotage4
Decentralization Can Increase Cooperation among Public Officials4
Sowing the Seeds: Radicalization as a Political Tool4
How Organizational Capacity Can Improve Electoral Accountability4
When Issue Salience Affects Adjudication: Evidence from Swiss Asylum Appeal Decisions4
Father Founders: Did Child Gender Affect Voting at the Constitutional Convention?3
Partisanship, Economic Assessments, and Presidential Accountability3
What Was the Point of Equality?3
Threat‐Inducing Violent Events Exacerbate Social Desirability Bias in Survey Responses3
Exposure and Preferences: Evidence from Indian Slums3
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office3
Boundaries of Solidarity: Immigrants, Economic Contributions, and Welfare Attitudes3
Does Economic Inequality Drive Voters' Disagreement about Party Placement?3
Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico3
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe3
Mutual Optimism and War, and the Strategic Tensions of the July Crisis3
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control3
District Magnitude and Female Representation: Evidence from Argentina and Latin America3
Is Justice a Fixed Point?3
How Threats of Exclusion Mobilize Palestinian Political Participation3
Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties3
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