Journal of Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Politics is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar148
The Emergence of Party-Based Political Careers in the United Kingdom, 1801–1918120
Constructive and Destructive Legislative Review: The Government-Opposition Divide in Parliamentary Oversight109
Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment85
Disappointed Hope: Reimagining Resistance in the Wake of the Egyptian Revolution78
Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective72
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers55
Elections, Right-wing Populism, and Political-Economic Polarization:  The Role of Institutions and Political Outsiders54
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation51
The Social Consequences of Political Anger45
The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanian Public Opinion: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment45
Gendered Justice in Comparative Perspective: False Equality and False Difference in Criminal Appeals43
We Are One: The Social Maintenance of Black Democratic Party Loyalty40
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India37
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes37
The Filibuster and Legislative Discussion33
Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation32
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns32
Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians32
Dynamic Screening in International Crises31
Strategic Delay and the Use of Incompatibility Rulings at the German Constitutional Court30
Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reforms30
Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation29
How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes29
The Cultural Origins of Populism28
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits27
Black Workers in White Places: Daytime Racial Diversity and White Public Opinion27
Beyond Persuasion: Rhetoric as a Tool of Political Motivation26
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens26
Voters and Donors: The Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking26
Left Out: How Political Ideology Affects Support for Migrants in Colombia26
From Conquest to Centralization: Domestic Conflict and the Transition to Direct Rule26
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–194026
The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames26
Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control25
Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries25
Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal25
(Mis)estimating Affective Polarization25
Social Group Appeals in Party Rhetoric: Effects on Policy Support and Polarization25
Front Matter25
Extremists Not on Board: Labor Market Costs to Radical Behavior in Elected Office24
Measuring the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Election Outcomes23
Policy Making and Appointments under Electoral and Judicial Constraints22
Do Authoritarian Elections Help the Poor? Evidence from Russian Cities22
Military Attitudes on the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Evidence from the Pacific Theater22
Polity Size and the Congested Budget: Evidence from Italian Municipalities21
The Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement Overstates Minority Turnout21
The Morning After: Cabinet Instability and the Purging of Ministers after Failed Coup Attempts in Autocracies21
Agricultural Comparative Advantage and Legislators’ Support for Trade Agreements21
Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India20
Republican-Majority Appellate Panels Increase Execution Rates for Capital Defendants19
Turnover: How Lame-Duck Governments Disrupt the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery before Leaving Office19
State Action to Prevent Violence against Women: The Effect of Women’s Police Stations on Men’s Attitudes toward Gender-Based Violence19
The Cost of Voting and the Cost of Votes19
Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory18
Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds18
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse18
The Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil18
Deadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines17
Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution17
Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects17
Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly17
The Budgetary Origins of Fiscal-Military Prowess17
Is Ideal Theory Anarchic?17
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?17
Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption17
Comparing Responsible Party Government in the United States and the United Kingdom17
A Theory of Electoral Competition in Developing Democracies16
Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies16
The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women16
Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment16
What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections16
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of their Neighbors16
Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media16
A Recursive Measure of Voting Power with Partial Decisiveness or Efficacy15
With Friends like These, Who Needs Enemies?15
Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?15
“I Know Not If I Delude Myself”: Rousseau’s Julie and the Ambiguities of Self-Deception14
Two Varieties of White Ignorance14
A Model of Focusing in Political Choice14
Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads, and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa14
"It’s a Gender Thing” - The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation14
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids14
Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics14
Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research14
Local Politics, Global Consequences: How Structural Imbalance in Domestic Political Networks Affects International Relations14
Hierarchical Oversight and the Value of Public Office: Evidence from Colonial Peru14
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalyses, and Recommendations14
Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine13
Consuming Cross-Cutting Media Causes Learning and Moderates Attitudes: A Field Experiment with Fox News Viewers13
Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation13
Ethnic Coalitions and Media Freedom in African Autocracies13
When Redistribution Backfires Politically: Theory and Evidence from Land Reform in Portugal13
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes13
BERT, RoBERTa, or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformers Models in Political Science Text13
Gender Cues, Attributions and Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians13
Who Supports QAnon? A Case Study in Political Extremism13
Political Speech for Democratic Realists12
Improving Compliance in Experimental Studies of Discrimination12
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing12
Local Backlash Against INGOs? How Heterogeneous Interests Condition the Effects of Conservation Advocacy Campaigns12
Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties11
The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation11
Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence11
Evade and Deceive? Citizen Responses to Surveillance11
Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement11
Countering Capture in Local Politics: Evidence from Eight Field Experiments11
Systemic and Sequential Links between Campaign Donations and Lobbying11
A Diffusion Network Event History Estimator11
Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Postelection Responses to Defeats11
Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments11
Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments11
Anticipating Unilateralism11
Democratic Integration of Former Insurgents: Evidence from a Civic Inclusion Campaign in Colombia10
Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements10
Local Suffrage increases non-EU Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union10
Does International Terrorism Affect Public Attitudes toward Refugees? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment10
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion10
Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China10
Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Coproduction of Public Safety10
Learning from Democratic Practices: New Perspectives in Institutional Design10
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits10
Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War10
Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence from Canada10
Fiscal Rules, Corruption and Electoral Accountability10
Front Matter10
Comparative Vote Switching: A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multiparty Competition10
Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered10
Making Nonvoters Pay: Prices as an Alternative to Compulsory Voting9
Selective Exposure and Electoral Competition9
Inequality in the Classroom: Electoral Incentives and the Distribution of Local Education Spending9
Front Matter9
Bayesian Rule Set: A Quantitative Alternative to Qualitative Comparative Analysis9
Reading Ellison through Herder: Language, Integration, and Democracy9
Populist Psychology: Economics, Culture, and Emotions9
Political Awareness and the Identity-to-Politics Link in Public Opinion9
Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even after the Contentious 2020 Election9
Age of Marriage and Women’s Political Engagement: Evidence from India9
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments9
Playing to the Audience: Responses to Violations of International Order9
An International Game of Risk: Troop Placement and Major Power Competition9
Between Withdrawal and Engagement: Disentangling the Effects of Covid-19 on Turnout9
Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies8
Issue Indivisibility as a Cause of Peace8
When Suicide Is Unjust Violence: Power, Structural Harms, and Moral Culpability8
The Politics of Interruptions: Gendered Disruptions of Legislative Speeches8
State Violence and Wartime Civilian Agency: Evidence from Peru8
When Do Campaign Donors Reject Extremists? Evidence from the US Foreclosure Crisis8
Decree Power in Parliamentary Systems: Theory and Evidence from India8
Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party's Public Good8
Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships8
Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Attitudes on College Campuses8
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
Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections8
Coalition Politics and War Termination8
Hidden Redemption and the Duty to Play the Villain: A Political Exploration8
The answer was there all along: Worry about the dynamics!8
One-Dimensional Scaling without Apologies8
Do Local Economic Benefits of Asylum Seekers Lead to More Support for Local Refugee Intake?8
Confucian Democratic Leadership: A Reconstruction for Contemporary East Asia7
Shooting the Messenger: The Challenge of National Security Whistleblowing7
Electoral Administration in Fledgling Democracies: Experimental Evidence from Kenya7
Issues versus Affect: How Do Elite and Mass Polarization Compare?7
The Contemporary Landscape of Gendered Personality Traits7
Mobilization and Countermobilization: The Effect of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2016 Presidential Election7
Do Shifts in Late-Counted Votes Signal Fraud? Evidence from Bolivia7
Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak7
A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women's Agency in Myanmar7
Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts7
Beyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions7
Cooperative Communities in the International System: Networked Cooperation of Similar States7
A Longevity Mechanism of Chinese Absolutism7
Unraveling a “Cancel Culture” Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive Speech7
Messages matter: How voter education campaigns affect citizens’ willingness to vote for women7
Erratum7
International Pressure, State Repression, and the Spread of Protest7
The Stability of Immigration Attitudes: Evidence and Implications7
Is Clientelism (Only) for the Poor? Insights on Class and Clientelism from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon7
The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a Trump Effect6
The Punisher’s Dilemma6
Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences: A Hard Test of the Low-Dimensionality Hypothesis6
Motivating the Machine: Which Brokers Do Parties Pay?6
The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War6
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law: Tainted Judges and Accountability for Nazi Crimes in West Germany6
Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters6
Mass Dissimulation in the Syrian Civil War6
The Politics of Disaster Prevention6
Signaling Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Names: Challenges and Recommendations6
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal6
Constituents Ask Female Legislators to Do More6
Front Matter6
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy6
Ambiguous Rhetoric and Legislative Accountability6
The Gap Within: The Impact of Separate-Gender Polling Stations on Voter Turnout6
When Do Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South6
When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?6
Managing the Costs of Backing Down: A “Mirror Experiment” on Reputations and Audience Costs in a Real-World Conflict6
The hidden universe of operationalizing natural experiments: Navigating extreme weather6
Characterizing Agencies’ Political Environments: Partisan Agreement and Disagreement in the US Executive Branch6
Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?6
The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari6
Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination6
Executive-Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis6
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