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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework190
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis157
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences95
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide82
Ideological Competition76
The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society76
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements69
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe56
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change52
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation50
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation46
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data39
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Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption38
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan36
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection36
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma36
Competence and advice34
Hierarchy and war32
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
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians29
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy27
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Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric26
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial26
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics26
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency26
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy25
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians24
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?24
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad22
Polarization in police union politics22
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies22
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front22
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The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era20
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections20
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models19
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats18
The politics of teachers' union endorsements18
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma18
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?18
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?17
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure17
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric16
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India16
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders16
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India15
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control15
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What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?15
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Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany14
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem14
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India14
National identity after conquest13
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas13
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia13
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City13
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office13
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict12
Expertise acquisition in Congress12
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis12
Institutions and Political Restraint12
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico12
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations12
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The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming11
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion11
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates11
Collective procrastination and protest cycles10
Ethnic Visibility10
Can riots represent? A democratic theory10
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy10
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war10
Causal inference with latent outcomes9
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis9
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation9
Political accountability under moral hazard9
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders9
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries9
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration9
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory8
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg8
Border Anxiety in International Discourse8
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action8
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties8
Centripetal Representation8
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia8
Persuasion in veto bargaining7
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa7
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Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia7
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects7
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data7
Differentially private survey research7
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers7
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation7
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?6
A cause to fight6
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19166
Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought6
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Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation6
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain6
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment6
Roadblocks: How Property Rights Undermine Development in Colombia6
Enchanted democracy: Religion and democratic thought in nineteenth‐century Latin America6
Measuring electoral democracy with observables6
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement6
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries6
States, cities, and border control: Do sub‐state collectives have a right to protect vulnerable people on the move?6
Making fair comparisons in political theory6
Chinese state media persuades a global audience that the “China model” is superior: Evidence from a 19‐country experiment5
Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms5
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress5
The gendered costs of stigma: How experiences of conflict‐related sexual violence affect civic engagement for women and men5
Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China5
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators5
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Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory5
Community interventions in the administration of justice5
Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization5
Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?5
Campaign Messages, Polling, and Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence5
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies5
Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture?4
Playing politics with traffic fines: Sheriff elections and political cycles in traffic fines revenue4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China4
Tracing the “true liberalism”: F. A. Hayek as a reader of Tocqueville4
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures4
Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico4
Erratum to The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations4
The contestable peoplehood account of democratically legitimate boundaries4
Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy4
Trains, trade, and transformation: A spatial Rogowski theory of America's 19th‐century protectionism4
Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options4
Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation4
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture4
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings4
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Climate crisis and policy inaction in Indonesia4
Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security4
Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications4
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties4
Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy4
Phantom Counterfactuals3
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making3
The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability3
Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods: The Evidence from Deforestation3
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“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?3
Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade3
Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform3
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Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
Gaslighting Citizens3
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World3
How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign–Domestic Threat Dilemma in China3
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Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?3
Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity3
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation3
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The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences3
The rise of and demand for identity‐oriented media coverage3
Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law3
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion3
Causal Effects, Migration, and Legacy Studies2
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil2
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France2
The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Critique of Carl Schmitt2
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting2
Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems2
Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most2
Framing Unpopular Foreign Policies2
Speaking their language?: Multilingualism in party communication across democracies2
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election2
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Veto Institutions, Hostage‐Taking, and Tacit Cooperation2
Public Money Talks Too: How Public Campaign Financing Degrades Representation2
Detecting and Deterring Information Search in Online Surveys2
How UN peacekeeping missions enforce peace agreements2
Xs we share: Context similarity, culture, and the diffusion of populism2
Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in Emerging Economies2
Indecent Disclosures: Anticorruption Reforms and Political Selection2
Testing the Benefits of Public Deliberation2
Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior2
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Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military2
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses2
Going into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence2
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt2
Evaluating (in)experience in congressional elections2
Does Relative Deprivation Condition the Effects of Social Protection Programs on Political Support? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan2
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Postwar Czechoslovakia2
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability2
Border fortification and legibility: Evidence from Afghanistan2
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