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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes125
Replication of “Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism” (Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega 2024)121
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM97
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM77
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification75
The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone73
Elite Partisan Disagreement and Military Victory: Evidence from South Korean Battle Experiments71
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric66
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates65
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom61
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism61
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet57
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States57
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China55
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior54
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis52
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India48
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors41
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America40
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative39
Structural Responsibility38
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–202038
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance37
Notes from the Editors: New Tracks at the APSR37
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements37
The Impact of Welfare on Intergroup Relations: Caste-Based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India37
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Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection33
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension33
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice33
Attitudes Toward Electoral System Reform and Party System Change in the U.S.32
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes32
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach31
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa31
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election30
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites30
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability29
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia28
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination28
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation27
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Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations27
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?27
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy27
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings26
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution26
Exiting Russia26
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd26
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – ADDENDUM25
What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans25
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution24
Curation Bubbles24
The Cornered Mouse: Sanctioned Elites and Authoritarian Realignment in the Japanese Legislature, 1936–194224
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data24
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM24
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity24
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act23
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”23
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe23
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced22
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared21
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South21
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM21
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico21
Mapping the Political Contours of the Regulatory State: Dynamic Estimates of Agency Ideal Points21
Elite Cues and Noncompliance21
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Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology21
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures21
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup20
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy20
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy20
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism19
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes19
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices19
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War19
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States19
Legislative Effectiveness, Progressive Ambition, and Electoral Success19
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico18
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice18
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform18
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries18
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party17
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy17
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques17
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing17
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests17
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM17
Coethnics Covote in Africa: Studying Electoral Cleavages with a Covoting Regression Model17
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship17
Partisan Leaning17
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank17
PSR volume 120 issue 2 Cover and Back matter17
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations16
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records16
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
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders16
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism16
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact16
“Moderates”15
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization15
The Class Ceiling in Politics15
Claimability in International Relations: Oil Discoveries, Territorial Claims, and Interstate Conflicts15
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle15
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM15
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below15
New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research15
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria15
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber14
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities14
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians14
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe14
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes14
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–202214
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation14
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes14
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category14
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Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust13
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation13
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems13
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece13
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism13
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies12
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming12
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models11
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism11
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM11
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
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Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism11
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data11
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Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War10
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Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies10
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism10
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire10
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White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash10
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains10
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level10
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community10
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The Right to Hunger Strike10
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?10
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization10
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil9
Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas9
Rebel Motivations and Repression9
Democratic Deepening or Elite Persistence? How Local Elites Adapt to Electoral Reform in Rural India9
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism9
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments9
Bureaucratic Resistance and Policy Inefficiency9
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension9
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience9
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives9
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?9
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation9
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Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers9
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid8
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey8
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“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment8
Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism8
What Is the Wrong of Capitalism? A Reply to Chiara Cordelli8
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda8
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods8
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization8
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India8
State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem8
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization8
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security8
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization8
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base8
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam8
Institutional Forbearance as a Mechanism of Democratic Stability8
Notes from the Editors8
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”8
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)8
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home8
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights7
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The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media7
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe7
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability7
Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers7
Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization7
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries7
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis7
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich7
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness7
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences7
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination7
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home7
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior7
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia7
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern7
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia7
The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico6
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains6
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Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics6
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition6
The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy—CORRIGENDUM6
Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking6
Notes from the Editors6
A New Measure of Affective Polarization6
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability6
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation6
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication6
Publication of Replication Materials for “Political Cleavages within Industry: Firm-Level Lobbying for Trade Liberalization”6
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminations6
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies6
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes6
The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us6
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities6
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Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies6
Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism6
Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China5
Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters5
What’s Wrong with Neocolonialism: The Case of Unequal Trade in Cultural Goods5
Demand and Supply of Criminal Governance: Experimental Evidence from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador5
Ideology for the Future5
Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism5
Se Habla Español: Spanish-Language Appeals and Candidate Evaluations in the United States5
Language, Skin Tone, and Attitudes toward Puerto Rico in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria5
How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments5
Misperceptions about Refugee Policy5
The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation – CORRIGENDUM5
Does Victim Gender Matter for Justice Delivery? Police and Judicial Responses to Women’s Cases in India5
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program5
Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions5
State-Building in the City: An Experiment in Civilian Alternatives to Policing5
Development in Decolonization: Walter Rodney, Third World Developmentalism, and “Decolonizing Political Theory”5
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The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals5
Rule Significance and Interbranch Competition in Rulemaking Processes5
Automatic Voter Reregistration as a Housewarming Gift: Quantifying Causal Effects on Turnout Using Movers5
Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior5
The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years—CORRIGENDUM4
Local News and the Electoral Incentive to Invest in Infrastructure4
“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen4
Notes from the Editors: The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines for Ethical Reviews and Suspicions about Plagiarism4
From Victims to Dissidents: Legacies of Violence and Popular Mobilization in Iraq (2003–2018)4
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