American Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Political Science is 7. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences40
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation40
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
One More Time? Parties’ Repeated Electoral Entry in Younger Democracies31
Institutions and Political Restraint31
Pliable Prejudice: The Case of Welfare30
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe29
Electoral Campaigns and Biased Perceptions of Voter Interests27
Decentralization Can Increase Cooperation among Public Officials27
When you come at the king: Opposition coalitions and nearly stunning elections26
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents26
Ideological Competition25
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
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
Expropriation as reparation23
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability22
Money Can't Buy You Love: Partisan Responses to Vote‐Buying Offers22
A Costly Commitment: Populism, Economic Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy22
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Postwar Czechoslovakia21
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data21
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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
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
Persuasive lobbying and the value of connections18
Sowing the Seeds: Radicalization as a Political Tool18
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war18
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
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It17
Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most16
Endogenous opposition: Identity and ideology in Kuwaiti electoral politics16
Race, shaming, and international human rights16
Using cross‐encoders to measure the similarity of short texts in political science16
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion15
Expertise acquisition in Congress15
Brokers, Social Networks, Reciprocity, and Clientelism15
Empirical realism and democratic equality15
Emigration and radical right populism15
Indecent Disclosures: Anticorruption Reforms and Political Selection14
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture14
Testing the Benefits of Public Deliberation14
The Political Consequences of Depression: How Conspiracy Beliefs, Participatory Inclinations, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence13
Why masses support democratic backsliding13
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming12
Corporate Board Quotas and Gender Equality Policies in the Workplace12
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
State Support for Rebels and Interstate Bargaining11
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
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia10
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption10
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Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties9
Centripetal Representation9
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
The politics of rejection: Explaining Chinese import refusals8
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
Austerity, economic vulnerability, and populism7
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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
Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior7
Political accountability under moral hazard7
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration7
The right to dream: Martin Luther King Jr.’s pragmatist argument for racial progress7
Placebo Tests for Causal Inference7
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design7
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