American Political Science Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Political Science Review 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric261
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom196
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing86
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification84
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism74
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates71
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM64
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States64
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis62
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet62
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest59
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China59
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior58
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America57
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide54
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative52
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach50
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act50
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa50
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia49
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election45
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements44
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection41
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability40
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination40
Structural Responsibility39
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes38
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India37
Notes from the Editors: #APSR37
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice36
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions35
Representative Democracy and Social Equality35
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia35
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress33
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings33
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd32
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes31
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age30
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data29
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution29
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction28
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Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy28
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations28
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?28
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity27
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced27
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation27
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution27
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings27
Curation Bubbles27
Elite Cues and Noncompliance27
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes —CORRIGENDUM26
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe26
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM26
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act25
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis25
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India24
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies24
Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”24
Legal Civic Orders and Equitable Lived Citizenships23
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”23
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico23
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy22
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism22
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup22
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Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared22
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States22
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM22
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty21
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South21
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War21
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes21
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy21
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice20
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship20
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices20
Effectiveness of Incumbent’s Strategic Communication during Economic Crisis under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey20
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform20
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico20
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing20
Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice19
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank19
Jeremy Bentham: Pauperism, Colonialism, and Imperialism19
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany19
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?19
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy19
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques19
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders19
How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures19
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM18
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism18
Partisan Leaning18
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change18
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests18
Split Feelings: Understanding Implicit and Explicit Political Persuasion18
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party18
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact17
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below17
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle17
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations17
“Moderates”17
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals16
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM16
The Class Ceiling in Politics16
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization16
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber16
Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings16
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STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis16
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe15
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities15
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria15
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes15
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category14
Who Votes: City Election Timing and Voter Composition14
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation14
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Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes14
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia14
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians13
Public Reactions to Noncompliance with Judicial Orders13
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?13
Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems13
The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland13
Swords and Plowshares: Property Rights, Collective Action, and Nonstate Governance in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1920–194813
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism13
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Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming13
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule12
Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments12
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece12
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust12
The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds12
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators12
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation12
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community11
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak11
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils11
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India11
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data11
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Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM11
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM11
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies11
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism11
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma11
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire10
Authoritarian Rallying as Reputational Cascade? Evidence from Putin’s Popularity Surge after Crimea10
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level10
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-1910
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism10
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice10
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization9
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives9
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension9
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism9
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?9
Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies9
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Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas9
White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash9
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains9
Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance9
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation9
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The Right to Hunger Strike9
“Outside Lobbying” over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads9
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?9
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism8
The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return8
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization8
Violence and Voting in the United States: How School Shootings Affect Elections8
Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences8
Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Prosperity: Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in 50 States8
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base8
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments8
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil8
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers8
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda7
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The Shadow Effect of Courts: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform7
Rebel Motivations and Repression7
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery7
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home7
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”7
Collaboration and Its Political Functions7
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid7
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey7
Notes from the Editors7
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security7
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia7
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam7
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods7
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience7
Notes from the Editors7
Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism6
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The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media6
Ambiguous Platforms and Correlated Preferences: Experimental Evidence6
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan6
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment6
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization6
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability6
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis6
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness6
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements6
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization6
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior6
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich6
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe6
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland6
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)6
The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources5
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences5
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Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers5
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes5
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home5
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries5
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability5
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia5
Crossing Over: Majority Party Control Affects Legislator Behavior and the Agenda5
Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization5
Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support5
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies5
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis5
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern5
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights5
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination5
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains5
The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts’s Vision of the League of Nations5
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation4
Development in Decolonization: Walter Rodney, Third World Developmentalism, and “Decolonizing Political Theory”4
How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments4
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Does Public Diplomacy Sway Foreign Public Opinion? Identifying the Effect of High-Level Visits4
Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters4
What Kind of Identity is Partisan Identity? “Social” versus “Political” Partisanship in Divided Democracies4
Language, Skin Tone, and Attitudes toward Puerto Rico in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria4
Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China4
Voter Outreach Campaigns Can Reduce Affective Polarization among Implementing Political Activists: Evidence from Inside Three Campaigns4
The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy—CORRIGENDUM4
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