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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research113
The Stability of Immigration Attitudes: Evidence and Implications91
What Have We Learned about Gender from Candidate Choice Experiments? A Meta-Analysis of Sixty-Seven Factorial Survey Experiments86
Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research66
(Mis)estimating Affective Polarization60
Racial Sympathy and Its Political Consequences60
Democratic Hypocrisy and Out-Group Threat: Explaining Citizen Support for Democratic Erosion45
Family History and Attitudes toward Out-Groups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis40
Populist Psychology: Economics, Culture, and Emotions39
Where Self-Interest Trumps Ideology: Liberal Homeowners and Local Opposition to Housing Development37
Do Women Pay a Higher Price for Power? Gender Bias in Political Violence in Sweden36
Does Public Opinion Affect the Preferences of Foreign Policy Leaders? Experimental Evidence from the UK Parliament35
Does Homeownership Influence Political Behavior? Evidence from Administrative Data35
Combining Patronage and Merit in Public Sector Recruitment34
Voter Preferences and the Political Underrepresentation of Minority Groups: Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Candidates in Advanced Democracies33
Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China30
The Populist Appeal: Personality and Antiestablishment Communication29
Who’s at the Party? Group Sentiments, Knowledge, and Partisan Identity28
Property, Legitimacy, Ideology: A Reality Check26
Culture, Capital, and the Political Economy Gender Gap: Evidence from Meghalaya’s Matrilineal Tribes26
Ideology of Affluence: Explanations for Inequality and Economic Policy Preferences among Rich Americans26
Affluence and Congruence: Unequal Representation around the World26
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations26
Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries25
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?25
The Connections of Party Brokers: Which Brokers Do Parties Select?24
Immigration, Voting Rights, and Redistribution: Evidence from Local Governments in Europe24
Fighting Propaganda with Censorship: A Study of the Ukrainian Ban on Russian Social Media23
From Conquest to Centralization: Domestic Conflict and the Transition to Direct Rule23
How State and Protester Violence Affect Protest Dynamics23
Rock the Registration: Same Day Registration Increases Turnout of Young Voters23
Partisan Enclaves and Information Bazaars: Mapping Selective Exposure to Online News23
Corruption, Accountability, and Women’s Access to Power23
Unpopular Protest: Mass Mobilization and Attitudes to Democracy in Post-Mubarak Egypt22
Peacekeeping and the Enforcement of Intergroup Cooperation: Evidence from Mali22
The Media Matters: Muslim American Portrayals and the Effects on Mass Attitudes22
Congressional Oversight Revisited: Politics and Procedure in Agency Rulemaking22
Do Partisan Types Stop at the Water’s Edge?22
Sheltering Populists? House Prices and the Support for Populist Parties21
Antinormative Messaging, Group Cues, and the Nuclear Ban Treaty21
Business Owners and Executives as Politicians: The Effect on Public Policy21
Who Supports QAnon? A Case Study in Political Extremism21
Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation21
A Republic, If You Can Keep It: Breakdown and Erosion in Modern Democracies20
Private Returns to Public Investment: Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment in China20
State Violence and Wartime Civilian Agency: Evidence from Peru19
Private Sector Policy Making: Business Background and Politicians’ Behavior in Office19
Ethnic Marginalization and (Non)Compliance in Public Health Emergencies19
A Conditional Model of Local Income Shock and Civil Conflict19
Just a Number? Voter Evaluations of Age in Candidate-Choice Experiments19
The Social Consequences of Political Anger18
Bilateral or Multilateral? International Financial Flows and the Dirty-Work Hypothesis18
Do Transitional Justice Museums Persuade Visitors? Evidence from a Field Experiment18
Anticipating Dissent: The Repression of Politicians in Pinochet’s Chile18
Who Do Voter ID Laws Keep from Voting?18
Neither Left Behind nor Superstar: Ordinary Winners of Digitalization at the Ballot Box17
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns17
The Electoral Impact of Newly Enfranchised Groups: The Case of Women’s Suffrage in the United States17
Social Lobbying17
The Morning After: Cabinet Instability and the Purging of Ministers after Failed Coup Attempts in Autocracies17
The Social Divisions of Politics: How Parties’ Group-Based Appeals Influence Social Group Differences in Vote Choice17
Humiliation and International Conflict Preferences16
The Temporal Focus of Campaign Communication16
How Does Armed Conflict Shape Investment? Evidence from the Mining Sector16
Objective Facts and Elite Cues: Partisan Responses to COVID-1916
Regional Governance in Divided Societies: Evidence from the Republic of Congo and Kenya16
The Stability and Durability of the US Supreme Court’s Legitimacy15
Survey Design, Order Effects, and Causal Mediation Analysis14
Beyond Gatekeeping: Propaganda, Democracy, and the Organization of Digital Publics14
Issues versus Affect: How Do Elite and Mass Polarization Compare?14
Changing Tides: Public Attitudes on Climate Migration14
The Political Logic of Government Disclosure: Evidence from Information Requests in Mexico14
A Little Bit of Cheap Talk Is a Dangerous Thing: States Can Communicate Intentions Persuasively and Raise the Risk of War14
Reconsidering the Relationship between Authoritarianism and Republican Support in 2016 and Beyond14
Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence14
Information, Candidate Selection, and the Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal14
How Distributional Conflict over In-Kind Benefits Generates Support for Far-Right Parties14
Learning from Democratic Practices: New Perspectives in Institutional Design14
At What Cost? Reexamining Audience Costs in Realistic Settings13
International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest13
Bargain Down or Shop Around? Outside Options and IMF Conditionality13
Competence versus Priorities: Negative Electoral Responses to Education Quality in Brazil13
Rebel Leader Ascension and Wartime Sexual Violence13
Can International Courts Enhance Domestic Judicial Review? Separation of Powers and the European Court of Justice13
Family Matters: The Double-Edged Sword of Police-Community Connections13
Closing the Gap: Information and Mass Support in a Dominant Party Regime12
Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination12
When Do Politicians Grandstand? Measuring Message Politics in Committee Hearings12
The Politics of Property Taxation: Fiscal Infrastructure and Electoral Incentives in Brazil12
Do Welfare Benefits Pay Electoral Dividends? Evidence from the National Food Stamp Program Rollout12
Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters12
What Leads Racially Resentful Voters to Choose Black Candidates?12
Tracing Causal Paths from Experimental and Observational Data12
Civil Service and Patronage in Bureaucracies12
Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas12
Valence Attacks Harm the Electoral Performance of the Left but Not the Right12
Coercion and the Credibility of Assurances11
How the Ultrarich Use Media Ownership as a Political Investment11
Voters and Donors: The Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking11
Personalizing Moral Reframing in Interpersonal Conversation: A Field Experiment11
Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?11
Bean Counters: The Effect of Soy Tariffs on Change in Republican Vote Share between the 2016 and 2018 Elections11
Policy Effects, Partisanship, and Elections: How Medicaid Expansion Affected Public Opinion toward the Affordable Care Act11
Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution11
ANES Scales Often Do Not Measure What You Think They Measure11
Engineering Informal Institutions: Long-Run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia10
The Costs of Court Curbing: Evidence from the United States10
Irrelevant Events and Voting Behavior: Replications Using Principles from Open Science10
Extended Dependence: Trade, Alliances, and Peace10
Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus10
Flip-Flopping and Electoral Concerns10
The Real Consequences of Symbolic Politics: Breaking the Soviet Past in Ukraine10
Electoral Backlash or Positive Reinforcement? Wind Power and Congressional Elections in the United States10
Home Price Subsidies Increase Local-Level Political Participation in Urban India10
Breaking the Judicial Glass Ceiling: The Appointment of Women to High Courts Worldwide10
Do Authoritarian Elections Help the Poor? Evidence from Russian Cities10
Lobbyists as Gatekeepers: Theory and Evidence10
Understanding Journalist Killings10
Not All Elections Are Created Equal: Election Quality and Civil Conflict10
Parliamentary Positions and Politicians’ Private Sector Earnings: Evidence from the UK House of Commons10
Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation, and Local Public Goods9
Local Conflict Intensity and Public Perceptions of the Police: Evidence from Afghanistan9
Is an Ultimatum the Last Word on Crisis Bargaining?9
The Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement Overstates Minority Turnout9
Latino-Targeted Misinformation and the Power of Factual Corrections9
Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Unequal Class Influence in American Policy9
Civic Duty and Voting under Autocracy9
Elite Cleavage and the Rise of Capitalism under Authoritarianism: A Tale of Two Provinces in China9
Deadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines9
Political Science Is a Data Science9
Public Opinion and Nuclear Use: Evidence from Factorial Experiments9
How Do Third Parties Affect Compliance in the Trade Regime?9
Decentralization, Repression, and Gambling for Unity9
Why Do Voters Support Corrupt Politicians? Experimental Evidence from South Africa9
Leadership Targeting and Militant Alliance Breakdown8
Strategies of Contestation: International Law, Domestic Audiences, and Image Management8
Leadership Styles and Political Survival of Chinese Communist Party Elites8
Multiracial Identity and Political Preferences8
Jizyaagainst Nationalism: Abul A‘la Maududi’s Attempt at Decolonizing Political Theory8
Can Good Politicians Compensate for Bad Institutions? Evidence from an Original Survey of Italian Mayors8
The Primary Path for Turning Legislative Effectiveness into Electoral Success8
Aiding War or Peace? The Insiders’ View on Aid to Postconflict Transitions8
Contact and Context: How Municipal Traffic Stops Shape Citizen Character8
Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence from Canada8
Wait and See? Public Opinion Dynamics after Terrorist Attacks8
Do Major-Power Interventions Encourage the Onset of Civil Conflict? A Structural Analysis8
Ex Post Review and Expert Policy Making: When Does Oversight Reduce Accountability?8
The Politics of Interruptions: Gendered Disruptions of Legislative Speeches8
Improved Multilevel Regression with Poststratification through Machine Learning (autoMrP)8
Trust in Public Policy Algorithms8
Electoral Dis-Connection: The Limits of Reelection in Contexts of Weak Accountability8
Multilingual Parties and the Ethics of Partisanship8
Never Forget the First Time: The Persistent Effects of Corruption and the Rise of Populism in Italy8
X Marks the Spot: Unlocking the Treasure of Spatial-X Models8
State Action to Prevent Violence against Women: The Effect of Women’s Police Stations on Men’s Attitudes toward Gender-Based Violence8
Strategic Communication in Dictatorships: Performance, Patriotism, and Intimidation7
All (Mayoral) Politics Is Local?7
Motivating the Machine: Which Brokers Do Parties Pay?7
Higher Education and Cultural Liberalism: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Romania7
Military Coalitions and the Politics of Information7
Is Ideal Theory Useless for Nonideal Theory?7
An International Game of Risk: Troop Placement and Major Power Competition7
Foreign Direct Investment, Unmet Expectations, and the Prospects of Political Leaders: Evidence from Chinese Investment in Africa7
Invisible to Political Science: Indigenous Politics in a World in Flux7
Inequality in Agency Response: Evidence from Salient Wildfire Events7
Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly7
What Makes Anticorruption Punishment Popular? Individual-Level Evidence from China7
The Budgetary Origins of Fiscal-Military Prowess7
Does International Terrorism Affect Public Attitudes toward Refugees? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment7
National Penalties Reversed: The Local Politics of Citizenship and Politician Responsiveness to Immigrants7
Strategic Power Sharing: Commitment, Capability, and Authoritarian Survival7
Is the Political Right More Credulous? Experimental Evidence against Asymmetric Motivations to Believe False Political Information7
Freedom of Movement Restrictions Inhibit the Psychological Integration of Refugees7
Locked Down, Lashing Out: COVID-19 Effects on Asian Hate Crimes in Italy7
Fake News, Fact Checking, and Partisanship: The Resilience of Rumors in the 2018 Brazilian Elections7
Do Shifts in Late-Counted Votes Signal Fraud? Evidence from Bolivia7
The Supply-Equity Trade-Off: The Effect of Spatial Representation on the Local Housing Supply7
The Surprising Stability of Asian Americans’ and Latinos’ Partisan Identities in the Early Trump Era7
Comparing Campaign Finance and Vote-Based Measures of Ideology6
Group-Based Voting in Multicandidate Elections6
Stakeholder Participation in Policy Making: Evidence from Medicare Fee Schedule Revisions6
Ambiguous Rhetoric and Legislative Accountability6
Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak6
Effects of Settlement into Ethnic Enclaves on Immigrant Voter Turnout6
Evade and Deceive? Citizen Responses to Surveillance6
Trump and Trade: Protectionist Politics and Redistributive Policy6
Women’s Advancement in Politics: Evidence from Congressional Staff6
Does Party Competition Affect Political Activism?6
Evaluating Claims of Intersectionality6
Estimating Substantive Effects in Binary Outcome Panel Models: A Comparison6
The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames6
Permissibility of Electoral Systems: A New Look at an Old Question6
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid6
How Interpersonal Contact Affects Appellate Review6
Constituents Ask Female Legislators to Do More6
Signaling Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Names: Challenges and Recommendations6
Adam Smith, Settler Colonialism, and Limits of Liberal Anti-imperialism6
Persistent Inequalities: The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Voter Turnout6
Age of Marriage and Women’s Political Engagement: Evidence from India6
We Are One: The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty5
The Social Dynamics of Collective Action: Evidence from the Diffusion of the Swing Riots, 1830–18315
Against Kantian Statism5
Beyond the Gender Gap: The Role of Gender Identity5
Unveiling: An Unexpected Mid-campaign Court Ruling’s Consequences and the Limits of Following the Leader5
Propaganda, Alternative Media, and Accountability in Fragile Democracies5
The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese American Internment during World War II5
The Bipartisan Path to Effective Lawmaking5
Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory5
Knowing How to Give: International Organization Funding Knowledge and Public Support for Aid Delivery Channels5
Heterogeneity in How Investors Respond to Disputes: Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment and Coindustrial Disputes5
How Often Do People Vote While Incarcerated? Evidence from Maine and Vermont5
Natural Disasters and Green Party Support5
The Missionary Roots of Nationalism: Evidence from China5
Facial Recognition Technology and Voter Turnout5
Aristocracy in America: Tocqueville on White Supremacy5
Policy or Partisanship in the United Kingdom? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brexit5
Changing Hearts and Minds? Why Media Messages Designed to Foster Empathy Often Fail5
The Significance of Differences Interval: Assessing the Statistical and Substantive Difference between Two Quantities of Interest5
Delegating Discipline: How Indexes Restructured the Political Economy of Sovereign Bond Markets5
Authoritarian Infiltration of Organizations: Causes and Consequences5
Disproportional Threat: Redistricting as an Alternative to Proportional Representation5
The Cost of Voting and the Cost of Votes5
Political Discontent in China Is Associated with Isolating Personality Traits5
Welcome to the Party? Ethnicity and the Interaction between Potential Activists and Party Gatekeepers5
Owning It: Accountability and Citizens’ Ownership over Oil, Aid, and Taxes5
You and Whose Army? How Civilian Leaders Leverage the Military’s Prestige to Shape Public Opinion5
The Effect of Wartime Legacies on Electoral Mobilization after Civil War5
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments5
Evaluating Escalation: Conceptualizing Escalation in an Era of Emerging Military Technologies5
What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections5
The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a Trump Effect5
How Do Voters Hold Politicians Accountable for Personal Welfare? Evidence of a Self-Serving Bias5
More Money, More Turnout? Minimum Wage Increases and Voting5
A Longevity Mechanism of Chinese Absolutism5
Republican-Majority Appellate Panels Increase Execution Rates for Capital Defendants5
Electoral Administration in Fledgling Democracies: Experimental Evidence from Kenya5
The Continuity of Ethics and Political Theory5
Do Partisanship and Policy Agreement Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?4
How Voters Use Contextual Information to Reward and Punish: Credit Claiming, Legislative Performance, and Democratic Accountability4
The Politics of Stashing Wealth: The Decline of Labor Power and the Global Rise in Corporate Savings4
Bill Text and Agenda Control in the US Congress4
Party System Institutionalization and Economic Voting: Evidence from India4
Degrees of Disrespect: How Only Extreme and Rare Incivility Alienates the Base4
The Corporate Power Trilemma4
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes4
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers4
Same as It Ever Was? The Impact of Racial Resentment on White Juror Decision-Making4
Exit or Invest: Segregation Increases Investment in Public Schools4
Twice the Trouble: Twinning and the Cost of Voting4
Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War4
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