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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes138
Replication of “Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism” (Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega 2024)128
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM102
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM77
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric74
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism73
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification67
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis67
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom62
Elite Partisan Disagreement and Military Victory: Evidence from South Korean Battle Experiments60
The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone58
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States53
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates51
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet44
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China42
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior41
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India40
Structural Responsibility39
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors39
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements38
The Impact of Welfare on Intergroup Relations: Caste-Based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India38
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance38
Notes from the Editors: New Tracks at the APSR36
PSR volume 119 issue 4 Cover and Back matter35
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes34
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension34
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia33
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election33
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination31
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa31
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice30
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–202028
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach28
Attitudes Toward Electoral System Reform and Party System Change in the U.S.28
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America27
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative27
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter26
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability26
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?26
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection26
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites26
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations25
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy25
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd24
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution24
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity23
Exiting Russia23
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – ADDENDUM23
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data23
What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans23
Curation Bubbles22
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution21
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings21
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”21
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM21
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced21
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation21
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe20
Elite Cues and Noncompliance20
The Cornered Mouse: Sanctioned Elites and Authoritarian Realignment in the Japanese Legislature, 1936–194220
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act20
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures20
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM19
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes19
PSR volume 120 issue 1 Cover and Front matter19
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy18
Mapping the Political Contours of the Regulatory State: Dynamic Estimates of Agency Ideal Points18
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism18
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South18
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared18
Legislative Effectiveness, Progressive Ambition, and Electoral Success18
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology18
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup17
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States17
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy17
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War17
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico17
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico16
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform16
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices16
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries16
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing15
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM15
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party15
PSR volume 120 issue 2 Cover and Back matter15
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank15
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests15
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany15
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship15
Coethnics Covote in Africa: Studying Electoral Cleavages with a Covoting Regression Model15
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice15
Partisan Leaning15
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques15
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism14
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records14
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations14
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders14
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy14
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below13
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle13
“Moderates”13
The Class Ceiling in Politics12
Claimability in International Relations: Oil Discoveries, Territorial Claims, and Interstate Conflicts12
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria12
New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research12
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals12
The Expressive Duty to Vote12
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes12
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization12
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact12
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM12
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes12
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation11
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion11
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Back matter11
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category11
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–202211
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities11
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber11
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe11
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians11
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM10
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism10
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data10
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece10
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust10
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak10
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models10
PSR volume 119 issue 3 Cover and Back matter10
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Back matter10
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming10
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation10
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism10
Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War10
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems10
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies10
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level9
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism9
White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash9
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives9
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Front matter9
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire9
Portraits of Power: Facial Appearance and the Tacit Domain of Political Selection in China9
PSR volume 117 issue 4 Cover and Front matter9
The Right to Hunger Strike9
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil9
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils9
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community9
PSR volume 117 issue 3 Cover and Back matter9
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?9
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains9
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation8
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism8
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base8
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization8
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?8
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension8
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments8
PSR volume 116 issue 3 Cover and Back matter8
State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem8
Bureaucratic Resistance and Policy Inefficiency8
Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas8
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization8
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers8
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam8
Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies8
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism8
Democratic Deepening or Elite Persistence? How Local Elites Adapt to Electoral Reform in Rural India7
PSR volume 117 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking7
Rebel Motivations and Repression7
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods7
Notes from the Editors7
Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism7
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey7
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience7
Institutional Forbearance as a Mechanism of Democratic Stability7
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India7
The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico7
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid7
The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us6
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition6
The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals6
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation6
Ideology for the Future6
Voting in Authoritarian Elections6
Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior6
Rule Significance and Interbranch Competition in Rulemaking Processes6
Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies6
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities6
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminations6
The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation – CORRIGENDUM6
Does Victim Gender Matter for Justice Delivery? Police and Judicial Responses to Women’s Cases in India6
The Domestic Sources of International Trust6
Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism6
PSR volume 116 issue 4 Cover and Back matter6
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability6
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication6
Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics6
Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions6
Automatic Voter Reregistration as a Housewarming Gift: Quantifying Causal Effects on Turnout Using Movers6
State-Building in the City: An Experiment in Civilian Alternatives to Policing6
What’s Wrong with Neocolonialism: The Case of Unequal Trade in Cultural Goods6
Hobbes and Hats5
Threats and Commitments: International Tribunals and Domestic Trials in Peace Negotiations5
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program5
Locking Down Violence: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Non-State Actor Violence5
Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities5
Electoral Gender Quotas and Democratic Legitimacy5
The Effects of Religious Messages and Endorsements on Political Attitudes: A Meta-Reanalysis5
Misperceptions about Refugee Policy5
Se Habla Español: Spanish-Language Appeals and Candidate Evaluations in the United States5
Initiate and Elevate! How Political Parties Can Set an Agenda5
State Violence, Party Formation, and Electoral Accountability: The Political Legacy of the Marikana Massacre5
Peace Dividends: Criminal Governance, Rational Violence, and Economic Development5
Civic Responses to Police Violence5
PSR volume 117 issue 3 Cover and Front matter5
Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa5
Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework5
The Global Network of Liberty: Toward a New Framework for Understanding the History of Political Concepts4
From Victims to Dissidents: Legacies of Violence and Popular Mobilization in Iraq (2003–2018)4
Local News and the Electoral Incentive to Invest in Infrastructure4
Coordinated Dis-Coordination4
Privatizing Financial Protection: Regulatory Feedback and the Politics of Financial Reform4
Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory4
Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic4
The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years—CORRIGENDUM4
Introducing HiSCoD: A New Gateway for the Study of Historical Social Conflict4
Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali4
Structural Domination and Freedom in the Labor Market: From Voluntariness to Independence4
Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide4
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty – CORRIGENDUM4
Notes from the Editors: The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines for Ethical Reviews and Suspicions about Plagiarism4
“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen4
Financial Crises and the Selection and Survival of Women Finance Ministers4
Notes from the Editors4
A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies4
For Example: How to Use Examples in Political Science4
Who Needs a Theory of Justice? Judith Shklar and the Politics of Injustice4
Beyond Belief Change: The Persuasive Returns of Targeting Attitude–Relevant Beliefs4
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