Journal of Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Politics is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar79
The Emergence of Party-Based Political Careers in the United Kingdom, 1801–191874
Gendered Justice in Comparative Perspective: False Equality and False Difference in Criminal Appeals60
Civic Education and Voting under Authoritarianism: A Field Experiment during the 2021 Vietnamese National Assembly Election55
Why Do Citizens Support Ineffective Military Policing Policies? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments in Colombia44
Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective43
The Filibuster and Legislative Discussion40
Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment37
Dynamic Screening in International Crises37
The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanian Public Opinion: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment37
Elections, Right-Wing Populism, and Political-Economic Polarization: The Role of Institutions and Political Outsiders36
Constructive and Destructive Legislative Review: The Government-Opposition Divide in Parliamentary Oversight32
Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India31
Who Benefits? How Gender Shapes the Perceived Deservingness of Welfare Claimants31
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies at the Voting Booth: Evidence from Polling Effects around Electoral Thresholds28
Gender Quota Laws and Women in Cabinets28
Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians27
Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality: Double-Minorities in Asian Cabinets25
When Capabilities Backfire: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes24
Disappointed Hope: Reimagining Resistance in the Wake of the Egyptian Revolution24
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation24
Military Attitudes on the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Evidence from the Pacific Theater23
Policy Making and Appointments under Electoral and Judicial Constraints22
Extremists Not on Board: Labor Market Costs to Radical Behavior in Elected Office22
Nonpartisan Ballots and the Partisanship of Who Serves in Office22
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens22
Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reform22
How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes21
The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames20
Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal20
Left Out: How Political Ideology Affects Support for Migrants in Colombia19
The Cultural Origins of Populism19
Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control19
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits18
Social Group Appeals in Party Rhetoric: Effects on Policy Support and Polarization18
Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries18
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse18
Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation18
Measuring the Contribution of Voting Blocs to Election Outcomes18
Intersectional Threat: How Race, Gender, and Sexuality Shape Black Americans’ Perspectives on Policing18
Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan’s Diarchy17
Polity Size and the Congested Budget: Evidence from Italian Municipalities17
The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras17
Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds17
Registering Returning Citizens to Vote: A Field Experiment in North Carolina17
Bilingual Education Reduces Ethnic Outgroup Discrimination17
Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India17
How (not) to Keep a Promise in Two Stages: The Context-Dependent Gaps Between Parties' Representational Goals and Outcomes Through Nomination and Election17
The Cost of Voting and the Cost of Votes16
The Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil16
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?16
Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption15
Cadre networks and bureaucratic careers in autocracies15
Ruling Party Personalism and Central Bank Independence15
A Theory of Electoral Competition in Developing Democracies15
Comparing Responsible Party Government in the United States and the United Kingdom15
Turnover: How Lame-Duck Governments Disrupt the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery before Leaving Office15
What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections15
Culture, Institutional Politics, and the Challenge for Higher Education14
Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects14
Campaign Contributions, Reciprocity, and Gender Solidarity14
Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media14
Partisan Conversion Through Neighborhood Influence: How Voters Adopt the Partisanship of Their Neighbors14
With Friends like These, Who Needs Enemies?14
Who Should Politicians Represent? How Winning an Election Influences Citizens' Views on Representation14
Local Politics, Global Consequences: How Structural Imbalance in Domestic Political Networks Affects International Relations14
The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women14
Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment14
Ethnic Coalitions and Media Freedom in African Autocracies14
“It’s a Gender Thing”: The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation14
Crossing the District Line: Border Mismatch and Targeted Redistribution13
Local Backlash Against INGOs? How Heterogeneous Interests Condition the Effects of Conservation Advocacy Campaigns13
A Model of Focusing in Political Choice13
Front Matter12
Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics12
Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads, and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa12
When Redistribution Backfires Politically: Theory and Evidence from Land Reform in Portugal12
Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine12
Acting Otherwise in the Face of Ecological Collapse: Günther Anders and the Politics of Infinite Delay12
DC On My Mind: Voter Evaluations of Nationalized Policy Positions in State and Local Elections12
Political Economy of Information Provision12
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes12
Two Varieties of White Ignorance12
Consuming Cross-Cutting Media Causes Learning and Moderates Attitudes: A Field Experiment with Fox News Viewers11
Countering Capture in Local Politics: Evidence from Eight Field Experiments11
BERT, RoBERTa, or DeBERTa? Comparing Performance Across Transformers Models in Political Science Text11
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids11
Improving Compliance in Experimental Studies of Discrimination11
Gender Cues, Attributions and Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians11
Political Speech for Democratic Realists11
A Diffusion Network Event History Estimator10
Resilient Democracies10
Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Postelection Responses to Defeats10
Democratic Integration of Former Insurgents: Evidence from a Civic Inclusion Campaign in Colombia10
Capital Influence: Endorsements and Donations to Political and Charitable Organizations10
Expanding the Spatial Toolkit with Spatial Eigenfunction Modeling10
Systemic and Sequential Links Between Campaign Donations and Lobbying10
The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation10
Bayesian Rule Set: A Quantitative Alternative to Qualitative Comparative Analysis10
Front Matter10
Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement10
Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments10
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing10
Reading Ellison through Herder: Language, Integration, and Democracy10
Selective Exposure and Electoral Competition10
Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments10
Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties9
Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements9
Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intraparty Dissent in Parliaments9
Comparative Vote Switching: A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multiparty Competition9
Fiscal Rules, Corruption, and Electoral Accountability9
Between Withdrawal and Engagement: Disentangling the Effects of COVID-19 on Turnout9
Empowered by Information: Disease Outbreak Reporting at the World Health Organization9
Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even after the Contentious 2020 Election9
Inequality in the Classroom: Electoral Incentives and the Distribution of Local Education Spending9
Quantitative Political Science Research Is Greatly Underpowered9
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda-Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion9
Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Coproduction of Public Safety9
The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and Tax Audits9
Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China9
Political Awareness and the Identity-to-Politics Link in Public Opinion8
Issue Indivisibility as a Cause of Peace8
One-Dimensional Scaling without Apologies8
Local Suffrage Increases Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union8
Hidden Redemption and the Duty to Play the Villain: A Political Exploration8
Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts8
Coalition Politics and War Termination8
Political Power of Bureaucratic Agents: Evidence from Policing in New York City8
Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections8
Unpacking Compliance and "Leakages'' in International Regimes: The Case of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention7
Full-Power Cabinets and Caretaker Administrations in Parliamentary Democracies, 1945-20247
When Suicide Is Unjust Violence: Power, Structural Harms, and Moral Culpability7
Do Partisanship and Policy Agreement Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?7
Do Local Economic Benefits of Asylum Seekers Lead to More Support for Local Refugee Intake?7
Is Clientelism (Only) for the Poor? Insights on Class and Clientelism from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon7
Race, Diversity, and the Development of Political Attitudes on College Campuses7
Election Outcomes and The Digestion of Grievance7
Messages Matter: How Voter Education Campaigns Affect Citizens’ Willingness to Vote for Women7
Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak7
Playing to the Audience: Responses to Violations of International Order7
Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships7
Origin of (A)symmetry: The Evolution of Out-Party Distrust in the United States7
The Answer Was There All Along: Worry About the Dynamics!7
The Contemporary Landscape of Gendered Personality Traits7
A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women’s Agency in Myanmar7
Do Shifts in Late-Counted Votes Signal Fraud? Evidence from Bolivia7
Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies7
When Do Campaign Donors Reject Extremists? Evidence from the US Foreclosure Crisis7
Socialization, Self-Selection, and the Life Experiences of World Leaders: Why Business Experience Influences Defense Spending7
Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party’s Public Good7
Beyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions7
Erratum7
Unraveling a “Cancel Culture” Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive Speech6
Signaling Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Names: Challenges and Recommendations6
Managing the Costs of Backing Down: A “Mirror Experiment” on Reputations and Audience Costs in a Real-World Conflict6
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal6
The Politics of Disaster Prevention6
Media, Electoral Accountability, and Partisan Polarization6
Cooperative Communities in the International System: Networked Cooperation of Similar States6
When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?6
Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments6
Front Matter6
When Do Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South6
Confucian Democratic Leadership: A Reconstruction for Contemporary East Asia6
The Effects of Religious Communication on Gendered Political Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Colombia6
Erratum6
Strange Familiarity: Beyond the Urban-Rural Divide6
The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a Trump Effect6
Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot?5
Freedom of Movement Restrictions Inhibit the Psychological Integration of Refugees5
Foreignness as an Asset: European Carbon Regulation and the Relocation Threat among Multinational Firms5
Special Interests in Foreign Policy Bureaucracies: Evidence from Foreign Aid5
Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?5
The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War5
The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari5
Rally ’Round the Mask: Congressional Social Media Images and Masking during COVID-195
Constituents Ask Female Legislators to Do More5
Loss Framing in Territorial Disputes5
Front Matter5
Meet the Press: Gendered Conversational Norms in Televised Political Discussion5
Front Matter5
Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement5
Family Ties as Corporate Power5
Large-Scale Agricultural Investments, Employment Opportunities, and Communal Conflict5
Legislators talk less about the future as they age5
Does Informing Partisans About Partisan Bias Reduce Partisan Bias?5
Gender Stereotypes in Autocracies: Experimental Evidence from Morocco5
Strategically Ambiguous Identities: Evidence from Evangelical Clergy in Brazilian Elections5
Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences: A Hard Test of the Low-Dimensionality Hypothesis5
The Gap Within: The Impact of Separate-Gender Polling Stations on Voter Turnout5
Characterizing Agencies’ Political Environments: Partisan Agreement and Disagreement in the US Executive Branch5
Executive–Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis5
Are Politicians Biased against Ethnic Minority Candidates? Experimental Evidence from Norway5
Matching Bounds: How Choice of Matching Algorithm Impacts Treatment Effects Estimates and What to Do About It.5
The Effect of Anger Appeals on the Support for Secessionist Parties5
Bounded Rule and Regional Stability in Fragile States5
The Impossibility of a Bayesian Liberal?5
Propaganda of Democratic Flaws and Its Impact on Regime Evaluations in Autocracies5
From Investiture to Worms: European Development and the Rise of Political Authority5
Occupation-Specific Skills, Labor Market Context, and Preferences for Redistribution5
Complacent and Conservative? Redeeming the Liberalism of Fear5
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law: Tainted Judges and Accountability for Nazi Crimes in West Germany5
The Punisher’s Dilemma5
The Hidden Universe of Operationalizing Natural Experiments: Navigating Extreme Weather5
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy5
Strategic Communication in Dictatorships: Performance, Patriotism, and Intimidation5
The Peaceful Transfer of Power and the Social Contract5
Do Multi-dimensional Quotas Improve Social Equality? Intersectional Representation & Group Relations5
What Happens When Women Win Elections? The Electoral Returns to Increased Representation of Women5
Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power5
Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during COVID-195
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