Public Opinion Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Opinion Quarterly is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
AAPOR Presidential Address Focusing Our Vision: Drawing on AAPOR’s New Strategic Plan to Shape Our Future82
Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States63
Where Are the Sore Losers? Competitive Authoritarianism, Incumbent Defeat, and Electoral Trust in Zambia’s 2021 Election38
The Long Shadow of the Big Lie: How Beliefs about the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election Spill Over onto Future Elections33
Thinking Ideologically: The Limited Role of Left and Right Labels as Policy Shortcuts32
Polarization in Black and White31
Measuring Political Attitudes with Word Association28
Social Media Effects on Public Trust in the European Union27
Racial Identity, Reparations, and Modern Views of Justice Concerning Slavery25
Emily Van Duyn. Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep their Politics a Secret.24
Experts or Politicians? Citizen Responses to Vaccine Endorsements across Five OECD Countries23
Strategic Discrimination in the 2020 Democratic Primary22
Electoral Proximity and Issue-Specific Responsiveness22
Rural Identity and LGBT Public Opinion in the United States21
Issues, Groups, or Idiots? Comparing Theories of Partisan Stereotypes19
Mind the Gap: Partisan Bias in Justifying Political Violence in the United States18
Attitudes toward Police and Police Spending18
Robert J. Norris, William D. Hicks, and Kevin J. Mullinix. The Politics of Innocence: How Wrongful Convictions Shape Public Opinion18
All the President’s Lies: Repeated False Claims and Public Opinion17
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement17
Editorial Treatment of Lynchings17
Violence Against Politicians Drives Support for Political Violence Among (Some) Voters: Evidence from a Natural Experiment16
Privacy Attitudes toward Mouse-Tracking Paradata Collection16
Mia Costa. How Politicians Polarize: Political Representation in an Age of Negative Partisanship15
Measuring Support for Women’s Political Leadership15
Public Support for Democracy in the United States Has Declined Generationally15
Comparing Speech-to-Text Algorithms for Transcribing Voice Data from Surveys15
A Racial Model of Electoral Reform: The Relationship between Restrictive Voting Policies and Voter Confidence for Black and White Voters14
White or Woke Christian Nationalists? How Race Moderates the Link Between Christian Nationalism and Progressive Identities14
Did Trump’s Indictments Rally His Base? Evidence from the Counterfactual Format14
Sexism as a Predictor of Political Attitudes and Voting Behavior: A Systematic Review13
Designing Passwords for Web Survey Access: The Effects of Password Length and Complexity on Survey and Panel Recruitment13
Presidential Address13
The Effects of Elite Attacks on Copartisan Media: Evidence from Trump and Fox News13
Media Trust in the Americas, 2008–202312
Correcting Misperceptions Across Contexts: The Political Impact of Gender Inequality Information in Japan and South Korea12
Steven W. Webster. American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics12
Emotionally Coping with Terrorism12
Does Social Desirability Bias Distort Survey Analyses of Ideology and Self-Interest? Evidence from a List Experiment on Progressive Taxation11
Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Study11
Panel Conditioning Biases in the Current Population Survey’s Food Security Supplement11
Experimenting with List Experiments: Interviewer Effects and Immigration Attitudes11
Asking about Complex Policies10
Lying for Trump? Elite Cue-Taking and Expressive Responding on Vote Method10
Lewis A. Friedland, Dhavan V. Shah, Michael W. Wagner, Katherine J. Cramer, Chris Wells, and Jon Pevehouse. Battleground: Asymmetric Communication Ecologies and the Erosion of Civil Society in Wisc10
How Can We Size Your Core Issue? Assessing Salience Validity Using Psychophysiology10
Measuring the Extent to Which Voter Fraud Beliefs Link Election Reforms to Voter Confidence in the United States10
Political Accountability and Selective Perception in the Time of COVID9
Mass Beliefs about the Working Poor and Support for Redistributive Policies9
Slant, Extremity, and Diversity: How the Shape of News Use Explains Electoral Judgments and Confidence9
What They Have but Also Who They Are: Avarice, Elitism, and Public Support for Taxing the Rich8
How Different Mixed-Mode Data Collection Approaches Impact Response Rates and Provision of Biomeasure Samples8
Partisanship and Older Americans’ Engagement with Dubious Political News8
Kim L. Fridkin and Patrick J. Kenney. Choices in a Chaotic Campaign: Understanding Citizen Decisions in the 2020 Election8
Conspiracy Beliefs and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity: Cross-National Evidence from 29 Countries8
How to Estimate Public Support for Political Violence and Why It Matters: Impact of Sampling, Engagement Checks, and Question Phrasing8
Political Alienation and the Trump Vote in the 2016 and 2020 US Presidential Elections7
Autocratization Spillover: When Electing an Authoritarian Erodes Election Trust across Borders7
Investigating the Origins of Status Threat among White Americans7
How Sexuality Affects Evaluations of Immigrant Deservingness and Cultural Similarity: A Conjoint Survey Experiment7
What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization across Countries?7
The Impact of Racial Descriptive Norms on Vaccination against COVID-197
Validating the “Genuine Pipeline” to Limit Social Desirability Bias in Survey Estimates of Voter Turnout7
Nostalgia in Politics7
The Rhetorical “What Goes with What”: Political Pundits and the Discursive Superstructure of Ideology in US Politics7
Evaluating Pre-election Polling Estimates Using a New Measure of Non-ignorable Selection Bias6
News from Home: How Local Media Shapes Climate Change Attitudes6
Personality and Survey Satisficing6
How the Age-Friendly Domains Apply to Low-Income Cities and Guide Improvements: Perspectives of Long-Term Residents in New Jersey6
To Report or Not to Report? A Qualitative Analysis of Journalists’ Perspectives on Harm to Public Opinion6
Testing Public Reactions to Mass-Protest Hybrid Media Events6
The Prospect of Antiracism6
Measuring Party Identification in Public Opinion Surveys of Americans6
Does Political Participation Contribute to Polarization in the United States?6
Trends in Abortion Attitudes: From Roe to Dobbs6
Improving the Measurement of Hostile Sexism6
From Social Proximity to Policy Preferences: Contact with Drug Market Participants and Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Drug Policy6
James L. Gibson. Democracy’s Destruction: Changing Perceptions of the Supreme Court, the Presidency, and the Senate after the 2020 Election5
Transitioning Opinion?5
Bias and Variance in Multiparty Election Polls5
The Reverse Backlash: How the Success of Populist Radical Right Parties Relates to More Positive Immigration Attitudes5
The Father’s Love: Collective Narcissism and Defensive Reactions to Allegations about Pope John Paul II in Polish Public Opinion5
Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback5
How to Detect and Influence Looking Up Answers to Political Knowledge Questions in Web Surveys5
Autocratic Legalism, Partisanship, and Popular Legitimation in Authoritarian Cameroon5
Social Desirability and Affective Polarization5
The Partisan Effects of News Coverage Highlighting Inclusion in Congress5
Manuscript Referees, 20215
What Girls Do: The Effects of Exposure to Women Candidates on Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Women Leaders5
Why Economic Inequality Undermines Political Trust: An Analysis of Mechanisms5
Concerns About Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among American Indian Community Members: A Qualitative Secondary Analysis5
From Confidence to Convenience: Changes in Voting Systems, Donald Trump, and Voter Confidence4
Your Typical Criminal: Why White Americans Hate Voter Fraud4
National Origin Identity and Descriptive Representativeness: Understanding Preferences for Asian Candidates and Representation4
From the Streets to the Voting Booth: The Electoral Effect of Grassroots Mobilization Against the Far Right4
Leader-Motivated Behavior: Voting by Mail in the 2020 General Election4
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement4
The Effects of Forecasts on the Accuracy and Precision of Expectations4
Nationalist Erosion after Protest and Repression4
Social Justice and Native American Political Engagement4
Efrén Pérez and Margit Tavits. Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion4
Truth and Bias, Left and Right: Testing Ideological Asymmetries with a Realistic News Supply3
Ethical Considerations for Augmenting Surveys with Auxiliary Data Sources3
Measuring Political Knowledge in Online Surveys3
Public Reactions to Communication of Uncertainty: How Long-Term Benefits Can Outweigh Short-Term Costs3
Impression Management and Expectations of Political Cynicism3
Why Do Some Union Members Vote Republican? The Role of Workplace Political Discussion3
Framing the Exit: Pollsters, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Military Withdrawal3
The Asymmetric Polarization of Immigration Opinion in the United States3
Which Republican Constituencies Support Restrictive Abortion Laws? Comparisons Among Donors, Wealthy, and Mass Publics3
The Polls—Trends3
Correction to: Are Nonprobability Surveys Fit for Purpose?3
The Polls—Trends3
The Causal Effect of Candidate Extremity on Citizens’ Preferences: Evidence from Conjoint Experiments3
James N. Druckman. Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments3
AAPOR Presidential Address3
Correction to: What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?3
Participants’ Reported Discomfort with Live Video as a Mode for Answering a Sensitive Survey Question3
Fear and Loathing: How Demographic Change Affects Support for Christian Nationalism3
Qualitative Methods for Research on a Hard-to-Reach and Vulnerable Population in Burma3
Reducing Item Nonresponse to Vote-Choice Questions: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Mexico2
Republican Pushback on Patriotism-Linked COVID-19 Vaccine Messages: A Note on Moral Reframing2
Persisting Anxiety: The Duration of Emotions during the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences2
Thomas R. Marshall. American Public Opinion and the Supreme Court, 1930–2020: A Representative Institution2
“Deservingness” and Public Support for Universal Public Goods: A Survey Experiment2
Trust in the Count: Improving Voter Confidence with Post-election Audits2
An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments2
Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason. Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy2
Affective Polarization towards Parties and Leaders, and Electoral Participation in 13 Parliamentary Democracies, 1980–20192
AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement2
Reclaiming the Narrative and Charting Our Course through the New Normal of Public Opinion Research2
Susceptibility to Moral Arguments Among Liberals and Conservatives1
Americans’ Responses to COVID-19 and the Conditional Role of Dispositional Needs for Security: A Replication and Extension1
Stacy Ulbig. Angry Politics: Partisan Hatred and Political Polarization among College Students1
Ineffectiveness of Priming and Contextualizing Personal Weather Experiences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Summer Heat1
Blame Shifting in Presidential Systems: Ministerial Terminations’ Corrective Effect on Approval1
Direct Experience with Poor Working Conditions and Partisan Labor Policy Preferences1
Legacies of Mistrust?1
Manuscript Referees, 20241
Trump Support Explains COVID-19 Health Behaviors in the United States1
Updating amidst Disagreement: New Experimental Evidence on Partisan Cues1
Race, Justice, and Public Opinion1
A Matter of Misunderstanding? Explaining (Mis)Perceptions of Electoral Integrity across 25 Different Nations1
The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada1
Misleading Polls in the Media: Does Survey Clickbait Have Social Consequences?1
Political Self-Confidence and Affective Polarization1
Varieties of Mobility Measures: Comparing Survey and Mobile Phone Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Yes to Koch, No to Woke: Public Opinion, Free Markets, and Business Involvement in Politics1
Partisan Poll Watchers and Americans’ Perceptions of Electoral Fairness1
Not So Sexually Modern After All: Homonegativity and Prejudice Against Open and Age-Gap Relationships1
Worlds Apart? Public Agenda Fragmentation in Sweden 1987–20211
The Devil No More? Decreasing Negative Outparty Affect through Asymmetric Partisan Thinking1
Understanding Public Attitudes Toward Redistribution: Analysis by Ideological Subgroups1
In-Party Love, Out-Party Hate, and Affective Polarization in Twelve Established Democracies1
Partisan Influence on Policy Preferences in Retrenching the Welfare State1
Beyond Surveys: Leveraging Real-World Events to Validate Behavioral Measures of News Exposure1
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