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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes98
Replication of “Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism” (Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega 2024)97
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM93
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom85
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric77
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates60
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States59
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM59
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet54
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism54
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior51
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification49
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis49
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China48
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors47
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India47
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements46
Structural Responsibility45
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance43
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election41
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–202041
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability41
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination41
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension39
Notes from the Editors: New Tracks at the APSR37
PSR volume 119 issue 4 Cover and Back matter36
The Impact of Welfare on Intergroup Relations: Caste-Based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia35
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America33
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice33
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa33
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites32
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings32
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act32
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes29
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection29
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation28
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative28
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations28
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach28
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd27
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter27
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings27
Curation Bubbles27
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?27
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution27
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction27
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes26
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data26
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age26
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy25
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity25
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – ADDENDUM25
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM24
What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans24
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution24
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act23
Elite Cues and Noncompliance23
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe23
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced23
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”23
PSR volume 116 issue 1 Cover and Back matter22
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup22
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies22
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty22
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology21
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism21
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico21
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM21
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South21
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared21
Mapping the Political Contours of the Regulatory State: Dynamic Estimates of Agency Ideal Points21
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy20
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War20
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes20
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy20
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice19
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures19
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices19
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States19
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries19
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing19
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?18
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques18
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank18
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico18
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform18
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship18
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM17
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy17
Partisan Leaning17
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below16
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
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party16
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals16
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations16
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change16
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders16
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact16
“Moderates”16
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests16
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism16
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
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Front matter15
The Class Ceiling in Politics15
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Back matter15
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization15
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis15
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation14
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities14
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber14
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria14
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes14
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category14
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–202213
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe13
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems13
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians13
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Back matter13
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia13
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion13
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes13
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation13
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak12
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?12
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism12
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators12
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism12
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule12
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust12
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM12
PSR volume 119 issue 3 Cover and Back matter12
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma12
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece12
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming12
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Back matter12
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level11
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data11
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism11
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models11
Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War11
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community11
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils10
PSR volume 117 issue 4 Cover and Front matter10
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives10
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White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-1910
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White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash10
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire10
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice10
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension10
Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies9
The Right to Hunger Strike9
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains9
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation9
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism9
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization9
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism9
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?9
Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas9
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?9
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil9
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments8
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid8
Rebel Motivations and Repression8
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization8
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The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey8
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base8
Democratic Deepening or Elite Persistence? How Local Elites Adapt to Electoral Reform in Rural India8
State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem8
Institutional Forbearance as a Mechanism of Democratic Stability8
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam8
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers8
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment7
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda7
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods7
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media7
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security7
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior7
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
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)7
Notes from the Editors7
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home7
PSR volume 118 issue 3 Cover and Front matter7
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan7
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization7
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability7
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia7
Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism7
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience7
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India7
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe7
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization7
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”7
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis7
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home6
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Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics6
Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers6
A New Measure of Affective Polarization6
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern6
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries6
Notes from the Editors6
Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism6
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia6
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights6
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences6
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains6
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes6
The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico6
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies6
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Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization6
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination6
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication5
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability5
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Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies5
Se Habla Español: Spanish-Language Appeals and Candidate Evaluations in the United States5
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
Demand and Supply of Criminal Governance: Experimental Evidence from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador5
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities5
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests – CORRIGENDUM5
The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us5
Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking5
Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters5
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What’s Wrong with Neocolonialism: The Case of Unequal Trade in Cultural Goods5
Policing Insecurity5
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation5
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition5
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminations5
The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy—CORRIGENDUM5
The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation – CORRIGENDUM5
Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China5
Voter Outreach Campaigns Can Reduce Affective Polarization among Implementing Political Activists: Evidence from Inside Three Campaigns5
What Kind of Identity is Partisan Identity? “Social” versus “Political” Partisanship in Divided Democracies5
Language, Skin Tone, and Attitudes toward Puerto Rico in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria5
Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework4
State Violence, Party Formation, and Electoral Accountability: The Political Legacy of the Marikana Massacre4
Notes from the Editors: The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines for Ethical Reviews and Suspicions about Plagiarism4
Locking Down Violence: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Non-State Actor Violence4
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