Journal of Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Politics is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar146
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers120
The Emergence of Party-Based Political Careers in the United Kingdom, 1801–1918106
Gendered Justice in Comparative Perspective: False Equality and False Difference in Criminal Appeals96
Dynamic Screening in International Crises75
The Filibuster and Legislative Discussion64
We Are One: The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty58
The Social Consequences of Political Anger55
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns54
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation45
Who Benefits? How Gender Shapes the Perceived Deservingness of Welfare Claimants43
Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment40
Constructive and Destructive Legislative Review: The Government-Opposition Divide in Parliamentary Oversight39
Elections, Right-Wing Populism, and Political-Economic Polarization: The Role of Institutions and Political Outsiders39
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India38
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes37
Disappointed Hope: Reimagining Resistance in the Wake of the Egyptian Revolution36
Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective35
Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality: Double-Minorities in Asian Cabinets35
Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians35
Black Workers in White Places: Daytime Racial Diversity and White Public Opinion34
The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanian Public Opinion: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment34
Social Group Appeals in Party Rhetoric: Effects on Policy Support and Polarization34
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens33
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–194032
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits32
How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes31
Military Attitudes on the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Evidence from the Pacific Theater31
Policy Making and Appointments under Electoral and Judicial Constraints31
Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reform28
The Cultural Origins of Populism28
Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal26
Voters and Donors: The Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking25
Do Authoritarian Elections Help the Poor? Evidence from Russian Cities25
Measuring the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Election Outcomes25
Intersectional Threat: How Race, Gender, and Sexuality Shape Black Americans’ Perspectives on Policing24
Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control24
Left Out: How Political Ideology Affects Support for Migrants in Colombia24
Nonpartisan Ballots and the Partisanship of Who Serves in Office23
The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames23
Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation23
(Mis)estimating Affective Polarization22
The Morning After: Cabinet Instability and the Purging of Ministers after Failed Coup Attempts in Autocracies22
Extremists Not on Board: Labor Market Costs to Radical Behavior in Elected Office22
Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries22
Agricultural Comparative Advantage and Legislators’ Support for Trade Agreements22
The Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil21
State Action to Prevent Violence against Women: The Effect of Women’s Police Stations on Men’s Attitudes toward Gender-Based Violence21
Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan's Diarchy21
Bilingual Education Reduces Ethnic Outgroup Discrimination20
Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds20
Polity Size and the Congested Budget: Evidence from Italian Municipalities20
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse19
Deadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines19
Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India19
The Cost of Voting and the Cost of Votes19
The Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement Overstates Minority Turnout19
Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory19
Turnover: How Lame-Duck Governments Disrupt the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery before Leaving Office19
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?18
What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections18
Comparing Responsible Party Government in the United States and the United Kingdom18
Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media18
Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption18
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of Their Neighbors18
With Friends like These, Who Needs Enemies?18
The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women17
Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects17
Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution17
Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?17
Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment17
Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies17
A Theory of Electoral Competition in Developing Democracies17
A Recursive Measure of Voting Power with Partial Decisiveness or Efficacy17
"It’s a Gender Thing” - The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation16
Two Varieties of White Ignorance16
Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation16
Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research16
Ethnic Coalitions and Media Freedom in African Autocracies15
Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine15
When Redistribution Backfires Politically: Theory and Evidence from Land Reform in Portugal15
Crossing the District Line: Border Mismatch and Targeted Redistribution15
Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads, and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa15
Gender Cues, Attributions and Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians15
Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics14
Local Politics, Global Consequences: How Structural Imbalance in Domestic Political Networks Affects International Relations14
Who Supports QAnon? A Case Study in Political Extremism14
Local Backlash Against INGOs? How Heterogeneous Interests Condition the Effects of Conservation Advocacy Campaigns14
Consuming Cross-Cutting Media Causes Learning and Moderates Attitudes: A Field Experiment with Fox News Viewers14
A Model of Focusing in Political Choice14
“I Know Not If I Delude Myself”: Rousseau’s Julie and the Ambiguities of Self-Deception14
Front Matter14
Hierarchical Oversight and the Value of Public Office: Evidence from Colonial Peru13
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes13
Acting Otherwise in the Face of Ecological Collapse: Günther Anders and the Politics of Infinite Delay13
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids13
BERT, RoBERTa, or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformers Models in Political Science Text13
A Diffusion Network Event History Estimator12
Expanding the Spatial Toolkit with Spatial Eigenfunction Modeling12
Improving Compliance in Experimental Studies of Discrimination12
Political Speech for Democratic Realists12
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing12
Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments12
Countering Capture in Local Politics: Evidence from Eight Field Experiments12
Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement12
The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation12
Systemic and Sequential Links Between Campaign Donations and Lobbying12
Resilient Democracies12
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations12
Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence11
Inequality in the Classroom: Electoral Incentives and the Distribution of Local Education Spending11
Reading Ellison through Herder: Language, Integration, and Democracy11
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments11
Quantitative Political Science Research Is Greatly Underpowered11
Anticipating Unilateralism11
Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements11
Fiscal Rules, Corruption, and Electoral Accountability11
Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties11
Front Matter11
Selective Exposure and Electoral Competition11
Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments11
Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War11
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits11
Democratic Integration of Former Insurgents: Evidence from a Civic Inclusion Campaign in Colombia11
Front Matter11
Does International Terrorism Affect Public Attitudes toward Refugees? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment11
Local Suffrage Increases Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union10
Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even after the Contentious 2020 Election10
Political Awareness and the Identity-to-Politics Link in Public Opinion10
Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Postelection Responses to Defeats10
Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Coproduction of Public Safety10
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda-Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion10
Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence from Canada10
Hidden Redemption and the Duty to Play the Villain: A Political Exploration9
Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships9
Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China9
Making Nonvoters Pay: Prices as an Alternative to Compulsory Voting9
Coalition Politics and War Termination9
Between Withdrawal and Engagement: Disentangling the Effects of COVID-19 on Turnout9
Issue Indivisibility as a Cause of Peace9
Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections9
Comparative Vote Switching: A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multiparty Competition9
Bayesian Rule Set: A Quantitative Alternative to Qualitative Comparative Analysis9
When Suicide Is Unjust Violence: Power, Structural Harms, and Moral Culpability8
Playing to the Audience: Responses to Violations of International Order8
The answer was there all along: Worry about the dynamics!8
Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party's Public Good8
International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest8
The Politics of Interruptions: Gendered Disruptions of Legislative Speeches8
Cooperative Communities in the International System: Networked Cooperation of Similar States8
Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts8
Do Local Economic Benefits of Asylum Seekers Lead to More Support for Local Refugee Intake?8
Socialization, Self-Selection, and the Life Experiences of World Leaders: Why Business Experience Influences Defense Spending8
Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Attitudes on College Campuses8
Is Clientelism (Only) for the Poor? Insights on Class and Clientelism from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon8
Erratum8
Beyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions8
When Do Campaign Donors Reject Extremists? Evidence from the US Foreclosure Crisis8
Origin of (A)symmetry: The Evolution of Out-Party Distrust in the United States8
Do Partisanship and Policy Agreement Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?8
The Contemporary Landscape of Gendered Personality Traits8
One-Dimensional Scaling without Apologies8
Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies8
Confucian Democratic Leadership: A Reconstruction for Contemporary East Asia8
Do Shifts in Late-Counted Votes Signal Fraud? Evidence from Bolivia7
The Gap Within: The Impact of Separate-Gender Polling Stations on Voter Turnout7
Election Outcomes and The Digestion of Grievance7
Signaling Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Names: Challenges and Recommendations7
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal7
Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak7
When Do Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South7
Messages Matter: How Voter Education Campaigns Affect Citizens’ Willingness to Vote for Women7
Full-Power Cabinets and Caretaker Administrations in Parliamentary Democracies, 1945-20247
A Longevity Mechanism of Chinese Absolutism7
Constituents Ask Female Legislators to Do More7
Shooting the Messenger: The Challenge of National Security Whistleblowing7
A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women’s Agency in Myanmar7
Unraveling a “Cancel Culture” Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive Speech7
Characterizing Agencies’ Political Environments: Partisan Agreement and Disagreement in the US Executive Branch6
Erratum6
The Politics of Disaster Prevention6
The Punisher’s Dilemma6
The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari6
Strategically Ambiguous Identities: Evidence from Evangelical Clergy in Brazilian Elections6
The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a Trump Effect6
When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?6
Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences: A Hard Test of the Low-Dimensionality Hypothesis6
The hidden universe of operationalizing natural experiments: Navigating extreme weather6
Mass Dissimulation in the Syrian Civil War6
Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters6
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law: Tainted Judges and Accountability for Nazi Crimes in West Germany6
Front Matter6
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy6
Executive-Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis6
Managing the Costs of Backing Down: A “Mirror Experiment” on Reputations and Audience Costs in a Real-World Conflict6
Motivating the Machine: Which Brokers Do Parties Pay?6
The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War6
Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?6
Audits for Accountability: Evidence from Municipal By-Elections in South Africa5
Do Major-Power Interventions Encourage the Onset of Civil Conflict? A Structural Analysis5
Democracy and Intensity of Preferences: A Test of Storable Votes and Quadratic Voting on Four California Propositions5
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid5
Occupation-Specific Skills, Labor Market Context, and Preferences for Redistribution5
The Effect of Anger Appeals on the Support for Secessionist Parties5
From Investiture to Worms: European Development and the Rise of Political Authority5
Front Matter5
The Impossibility of a Bayesian Liberal?5
Do Politicians Discriminate against Constituents with an Immigration Background? Field Experimental Evidence from Germany5
Gender Stereotypes in Autocracies: Experimental Evidence from Morocco5
Rally ’Round the Mask: Congressional Social Media Images and Masking during COVID-195
Pietas: A Case for Ethical Patriotism in Aquinas5
The Peaceful Transfer of Power and the Social Contract5
Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power5
Family Ties as Corporate Power5
Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during COVID-195
Freedom of Movement Restrictions Inhibit the Psychological Integration of Refugees5
Complacent and Conservative? Redeeming the Liberalism of Fear5
How Interpersonal Contact Affects Appellate Review5
Legislators talk less about the future as they age5
Personalizing Moral Reframing in Interpersonal Conversation: A Field Experiment5
Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot?5
Loss Framing in Territorial Disputes5
Large-Scale Agricultural Investments, Employment Opportunities, and Communal Conflict5
The Revealed Demand for Hard Versus Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership4
Latino-Targeted Misinformation and the Power of Factual Corrections4
Peacekeeping and the Enforcement of Intergroup Cooperation: Evidence from Mali4
Does informing partisans about partisan bias reduce partisan bias?4
Are Politicians Biased against Ethnic Minority Candidates? Experimental Evidence from Norway4
What Happens When Women Win Elections? The Electoral Returns to Increased Representation of Women4
Once We Too Were Strangers: Can a Heritage of Displacement Be Leveraged to Build Support for Present-Day Refugees?4
Is Ideal Theory Useless for Nonideal Theory?4
Pork versus Policy: Experimental Evidence on Majoritarian Bargaining with Real-World Consequences4
Private Participation: How Populists Engage with International Organizations4
Rock the Registration: Same Day Registration Increases Turnout of Young Voters4
Adam Smith on Political Judgment: Revisiting the Political Theory of the Wealth of Nations4
Front Matter4
Social Media Narratives Across Platforms in Conflict: Evidence from Syria4
Front Matter4
A Gladiatorial Arena: Incivility in the Canadian House of Commons4
Do Neighborhoods Empower or Disenfranchise? Coethnic Concentration, Spatial Disadvantage, and Voter Registration in France4
Representative Democracy versus Government by Opinion4
Is Political Liberalism Antidemocratic?4
The Corporate Power Trilemma4
Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement4
Meet the Press: Gendered Conversational Norms in Televised Political Discussion4
Do Voting Advice Applications Change Political Behavior?4
Foreignness as an Asset: European Carbon Regulation and the Relocation Threat among Multinational Firms4
Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing Direct and Indirect Substantive Effects of Passive Representation4
Improved Multilevel Regression with Poststratification through Machine Learning (autoMrP)4
Who Represses? Career Incentives and the Geography of Repression in China4
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