American Political Science Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Political Science Review is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes121
Replication of “Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism” (Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega 2024)116
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM93
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM76
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification72
The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone71
Elite Partisan Disagreement and Military Victory: Evidence from South Korean Battle Experiments68
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric66
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates63
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism60
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China58
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom56
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis55
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States55
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet52
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior52
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India52
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors47
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America41
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative40
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–202039
Structural Responsibility39
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements38
Notes from the Editors: New Tracks at the APSR37
The Impact of Welfare on Intergroup Relations: Caste-Based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India37
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection36
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination36
PSR volume 119 issue 4 Cover and Back matter36
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach35
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election34
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa32
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability32
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites32
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia32
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance31
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes31
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension30
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings30
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice29
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter28
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy28
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings27
Exiting Russia27
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd27
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation27
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations27
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – ADDENDUM26
What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans26
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?25
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age25
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity25
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data25
Curation Bubbles25
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution25
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM24
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution24
Elite Cues and Noncompliance23
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe23
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”23
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced23
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act23
The Cornered Mouse: Sanctioned Elites and Authoritarian Realignment in the Japanese Legislature, 1936–194223
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War22
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures22
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM21
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States21
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared21
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology21
PSR volume 120 issue 1 Cover and Front matter21
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes20
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico20
Legislative Effectiveness, Progressive Ambition, and Electoral Success20
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup20
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty20
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism20
Mapping the Political Contours of the Regulatory State: Dynamic Estimates of Agency Ideal Points20
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South20
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy19
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices19
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy19
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice18
Coethnics Covote in Africa: Studying Electoral Cleavages with a Covoting Regression Model18
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform18
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico18
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries18
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank18
PSR volume 120 issue 2 Cover and Back matter17
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques17
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship17
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing17
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism16
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records16
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations16
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests16
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM16
The Class Ceiling in Politics16
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact16
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy16
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders16
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany16
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals16
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party16
Partisan Leaning16
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization15
“Moderates”15
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria15
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category15
Claimability in International Relations: Oil Discoveries, Territorial Claims, and Interstate Conflicts15
New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research15
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes15
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM15
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle15
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below15
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities15
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion15
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe14
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation14
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–202214
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber14
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes14
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies13
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism13
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming13
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Back matter13
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems13
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation13
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models12
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece12
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak12
PSR volume 119 issue 3 Cover and Back matter12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM12
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust12
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism12
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Back matter12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism12
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-1911
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level11
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data11
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils11
White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash10
Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War10
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Front matter10
Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies10
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains10
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism10
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire10
PSR volume 117 issue 4 Cover and Front matter10
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?10
Bureaucratic Resistance and Policy Inefficiency10
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism10
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil10
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community10
PSR volume 117 issue 3 Cover and Back matter10
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives10
Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas10
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation10
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?10
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey9
Democratic Deepening or Elite Persistence? How Local Elites Adapt to Electoral Reform in Rural India9
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Rebel Motivations and Repression9
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension9
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments9
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods9
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers9
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization9
The Right to Hunger Strike9
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability8
Institutional Forbearance as a Mechanism of Democratic Stability8
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization8
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience8
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment8
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid8
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)8
Notes from the Editors8
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior8
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India8
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis8
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam8
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”8
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base8
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe8
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia8
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security8
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich8
State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem8
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda8
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization8
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization8
PSR volume 118 issue 3 Cover and Front matter8
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan8
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness7
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media7
What Is the Wrong of Capitalism? A Reply to Chiara Cordelli7
A New Measure of Affective Polarization7
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies7
Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism7
PSR volume 117 issue 1 Cover and Front matter7
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia7
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights7
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination7
Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers7
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home7
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences7
Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization7
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern7
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition6
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home6
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Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism6
Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies6
Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics6
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities6
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries6
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes6
Notes from the Editors6
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation6
The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us6
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication6
Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking6
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains6
The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico6
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability6
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminations6
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Front matter5
Demand and Supply of Criminal Governance: Experimental Evidence from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador5
Automatic Voter Reregistration as a Housewarming Gift: Quantifying Causal Effects on Turnout Using Movers5
Voting in Authoritarian Elections5
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program5
Se Habla Español: Spanish-Language Appeals and Candidate Evaluations in the United States5
PSR volume 116 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
Language, Skin Tone, and Attitudes toward Puerto Rico in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria5
Publication of Replication Materials for “Political Cleavages within Industry: Firm-Level Lobbying for Trade Liberalization”5
State-Building in the City: An Experiment in Civilian Alternatives to Policing5
Rule Significance and Interbranch Competition in Rulemaking Processes5
Civic Responses to Police Violence5
Does Victim Gender Matter for Justice Delivery? Police and Judicial Responses to Women’s Cases in India5
Ideology for the Future5
How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments5
Development in Decolonization: Walter Rodney, Third World Developmentalism, and “Decolonizing Political Theory”5
The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy—CORRIGENDUM5
The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals5
The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation – CORRIGENDUM5
Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism5
Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior5
Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions5
What’s Wrong with Neocolonialism: The Case of Unequal Trade in Cultural Goods5
Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China5
Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters5
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