Social Science Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Science 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Voter experience and ballot language framing effects: Evidence from a survey experiment77
The new older adult participant in American politics56
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Extending the stereotype content model of racial attitudes among college freshmen45
All aboard? An analysis of public opinion regarding high‐speed rail38
Objective conditions, political knowledge, and perceptions of electoral competition in U.S. mayoral elections32
Impact of opponents’ race, gender, and party on U.S. congressional fundraising27
Party Time: The Effect of Partisan and Nonpartisan Media Messages on Support for Packing the US Supreme Court22
To Cancel or Not to Cancel. That Is the Question. The Role of Quest for Significance and Significance Loss in Cancel Culture21
Does Country Setting Make a Difference? A Cross‐National Study on the Relationship Between Political Ideology and Conspiracy Mentality21
Uncalculated first‐party externalities given a beverage tax21
Conceptualizing and Measuring Structural Overlap in the Political Attitudes and Orientations of Multidimensional Groups21
Determinants of citizens’ support for democracy in Ghana18
Sociodemographic correlates of vaccine hesitancy in the United States and the mediating role of beliefs about governmental conspiracies17
Support for democracy in ego‐centered social contexts16
Hold your fire! Influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the United States16
Who speaks? Individual and institutional predictors of CEO activism15
A conceptual validation of transformative learning theory15
Exclusionist reactions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean citizens’ support for border restriction14
How do racial stereotypes affect social preferences? An experimental investigation13
Our thoughts on approaching peer review13
Volatile pies: Modeling compositional volatility13
Restrictive State Electoral Environments and the Health of Black Americans13
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Advancing Transportation Justice: The Impact of Minority Representation Across Federal and State Agencies11
A Forgotten Tie Between Democracies and Nondemocracies in Asymmetric Cooperation11
Understanding and Addressing the Rise of Conspiracy Theories in the 21st Century—An Introduction to the Special Issue11
Intergroup Contact Versus Competitive Threat: Does Immigration Change Immigration Votes? Evidence From Switzerland Using Objective Municipality‐Level Panel Data From 2010 to 202011
Understanding the effect of abortion attitudes on elections after Dobbs: Evidence from cross‐sectional and panel surveys in Texas10
Marginal material or key data? Understanding community attitudes to a survey about domestic and family violence10
Unveiling health inequities: Exploring the role of social capital and public trust in bridging racial disparities in health‐care coverage for Hispanics10
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The effect of cumulative job mobility on early‐career wage development: Does job mobility actually pay?10
The boundaries of confusion: Gerrymandering and racial disparities in state House and congressional district line congruity9
Nobody does it better: Identity, ideology, and the future of James Bond9
Polarized social distancing: Residents of Republican‐majority counties spend more time away from home during the COVID‐19 crisis9
Looking in a mirror: Asylum in the United States as a reflection of white supremacy9
Understanding Chinese nationalism: Does location matter?9
Does the competitiveness of election moderate the impact of descriptive social norms on voter turnout? A survey experiment in Japan9
Learning disability in adolescence and civic engagement in young adulthood: Uncovering social‐psychological mechanisms9
Community‐oriented policing (COP): An empirical study of its effectiveness on fear of crime8
Does individualism lead to longer working hours?8
Migrant Political Activism in Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, and Amsterdam: The Role of Voting Rights in Shaping Protest Behavior8
When demography is (not) destiny: Exploring identity and issue cross‐pressures among Latino voters in the 2020 presidential election8
Exposure to television and support for restrictive immigration policies in the midst of the immigration crisis: A cross‐national comparison8
Party does not matter: Unified government and midterm elections8
Public perceptions of castle doctrine and stand your ground cases7
Ethnical incomes’ gap in Spain. The case of Roma7
Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida: Examining abortion identity terms across English and Spanish in the United States7
Reexamining Confederate symbols displayed on flags and monuments in public spaces: Two fallacies in the heritage versus hate debate7
(Mis)Informing the public? The public's responsiveness to reliable and unreliable information in illiberal information environments7
The decline of the non‐Hispanic white population in the United States of America7
Partisan media exposure, polarization, and candidate evaluations in the 2016 general election7
The temporary and partial personalization of political parties in India: A comparison of Indira Gandhi's INC and Narendra Modi's BJP7
Judicial recentralization as political control: Evidence from the judicial leader rotation in China7
Public opinion on reforming U.S. primaries7
Elite polarization and mass policy attitudes: A study of the 2010 senate election7
Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences7
Productivity and wages of firms using COVID‐19‐related support policies7
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Residential stability and fear of crime: Examining the impact of homeownership and length of residence on citizens’ fear of crime6
Perceptions of Partisanship in Local American Politics6
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Income inequality is unrelated to perceived inequality and support for redistribution6
Do Cooperative credit unions reduce or increase poverty in Cameroon?6
Political Origin of High Trust in the Government During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Selective Responsibility Attribution to Opposition Parties and Nonpartisan Experts6
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Public Support for Gay Rights Across Countries and Over Time6
Two birds with one stone: Reducing corruption raises national income6
Interest Group Coalitions in the States6
Question wording and attitudinal ambivalence: COVID, the economy, and Americans' response to a real‐life trolley problem5
The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–20235
Is socially responsible capitalism truly polarizing?5
Occupational Prestige of Law Enforcement Officers: Quantifying Self and Public Perceptions of Prestige5
With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics5
How voter distributions, issue ownership, and position influence party emphasis5
What goes up must come down: Theory and model specification of threshold dynamics5
Public perceptions of pollsters in the United States: Experimental evidence5
The debt crisis, austerity measures, and suicide in Greece5
How Advocacy Messages Influence Support for “Ban the Box” in College Admissions5
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Leading while female: Analyzing women CEOs’ post‐appointment trajectory5
The effects of attitudes on household energy behavior. A study of climate change concern, responsibility, and awareness in European societies5
Interprofessional collaboration and work stress among health‐care providers in China: A comparative study between physicians and nurses5
Gender and ethno‐racial disparities in access to mortgage credit5
Revealing the impact of individual income inequality on different types of charitable giving in China through social interactions5
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Institutional design and the stability of responsiveness in the American states5
The impact of acculturation and personal discrimination on Latinx public opinion4
All politics are national: Partisan defection in national and subnational elections4
Travel to allies or adversaries? A compositional analysis of U.S. diplomatic visits4
Race differences in support for anti‐racism policies: Endorsements of anti‐black and anti‐white stereotypes4
Trapped within the logic of modernity/coloniality4
Does it matter how we measure conspiracy beliefs? A test of three measurement approaches4
Beyond polarization and priming: Public agenda diversity and trust in government4
Racial resentment, sexism, and evaluations of Kamala Harris in the 2020 U.S. presidential election4
Explaining state differences in firearm legislation: A South/non‐South analysis4
Understanding the adoption of military equipment by local law enforcement agencies in the United States4
What about us? Political competition, economic performance, immigration, and nativist appeals4
Panethnic Fate Unlinked: Who Finds the Term “Chinese Virus” Acceptable?4
Differences in team performance: Gender versus ability4
Justice Bork, or, be careful which supreme court nominees you choose to fight4
Students or prisoners: Contrasting approaches to rural economic development4
Shaky social insurance foundation: Income instability and pension participation in South Korea4
Trust, institutional quality, and the protection of property rights: A cross‐regional study of East Asia and Western countries4
Civil Society and Democracy4
Religious liberties or reading rainbows? The partisan implications of religious liberties frames in education attitudes4
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Poverty and self‐rated health in later life: The mediating role of material hardship4
The Trumpization of the Grand Old Party4
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Freedom dreaming: A symposium on racial injustice, unrest, and abolition4
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Do Parents’ Political Connections Matter for Children's Charitable Giving?4
Culture Regions and Policy Attitudes: Evaluating Welfare Spending Preferences Across Tennessee's Grand Divisions3
Investment in Signings in LaLiga: Analysis of Sports Directors’ Efficiency3
The Public Consequences of Presidential Legitimacy Rhetoric3
Absence of Political Parties and People's Trust in the Government: A Positive Analysis of Pacific Island Countries and Other Microstates3
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A comparative study of intimate partner violence among U.S.‐born and foreign‐born Hispanic women3
Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending?3
Perceived Social Mobility and Populist Attitudes3
Civility norm violations and political accountability3
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Does the frequency of using Internet entertainment affect happiness? Evidence from China3
The affective model of far‐right vote in Europe: Anger, political trust, and immigration3
Call of Duty: CEOs’ Poverty Experience and Education Philanthropy3
Self and political efficacy and the justifiability of political violence and the role of state terror: A cross‐national analysis3
Staffing Elections3
Climate‐related disasters and transparency: Records and the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency3
Survey participation as a function of democratic engagement, trust in institutions, and perceptions of surveys3
Income sorting by specialized services: Service differentiation by overlapping governments3
Is one's happiness associated with their spouse's income, and vice versa? Insights from China3
The Twitter Blackout: Do congressional rules influence the cyberworld?3
Presidential firepower: The effect of the presidential party on gun ownership, 1980–20183
Replication of “Do state‐customized TANF work policies actually reduce unemployment?”3
Are retrospective evaluations of local governments moderated by perceptions of influence?3
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Predicting competitive integrated employment outcomes of Asian American vocational rehabilitation Clients: A national study3
Understanding democratic perceptions and political participation among the younger generation in China's changing society: No news is good news for the Chinese government3
The conditional relationship between cultural and economic threats in white Americans’ support for refugee relocation programs3
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Crime and credit: The empirical study of how crime affects credit ratings of large U.S. cities3
Stories From the Trenches: The Difference Disability Makes in the Campaign Experiences of Candidates With Disabilities3
Premigratory political experiences with autocracy and violence and immigrants’ willingness to vote3
The effect of incarceration on political beliefs for vulnerable populations3
Achieving electoral equity after Brnovich: A case study of Native activism in Nevada3
Can a measurement error perspective improve estimation in neighborhood effects research? A hierarchical Bayesian methodology3
Mulattoes in colonial Maryland: The effects of colonial law on patterns of freedom and enslavement3
Impact of the Special Zone for Asian Headquarters policy implementation in Tokyo2
The impact of voter confusion in ranked choice voting2
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Desires of technocracy in pandemic times: A multilevel study2
Institutions and incarceration: The role of economic freedom at the MSA level2
The economic effects of winning coalition size on the aid‐growth nexus2
How low can we go: Court approval effects on public opinion2
Smallness and democracy in Pacific island countries from an institutional perspective2
A mixed‐methods analysis of stereotypical female librarian representation in memes2
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Visitors Out! The Absence of Away Team Supporters as a Source of Home Advantage in Football2
Racialized Emotions: Happiness and Pleasure in American Racism2
Demographic change threat, preference for nondemocratic governance, and support for political violence2
Populist media diets2
Privately Provided Public Service and Local Financial Condition: The Cost of Externalized Service Accountability2
Religious freedom and welfare in Africa2
Individual legal action as minority activism: Romani Germans in 1950s West Germany2
People are scarier than ghosts? Workplace haters and knowledge sharing2
Has DACA promoted work over schooling and professional advancement for qualifying Mexican Dreamers?2
Role of trust in government and collaboration in building disaster resilience2
Bad times keep us together: Policy priorities and economic shocks2
Firearms, families, and financial distress: Economic instability and increased gun desire2
Biases in elections with well‐informed voters: Evidence from public voting for football awards2
Gender differences in the perceptions of green spaces characteristics2
Beyond racial resentment: Systemic racism beliefs and public attitudes toward criminal justice institutions and reforms2
Criminal justice in Indian country: Examining declination rates of tribal cases2
Voluntary sector participation and individual health and welfare: Does it matter where?2
Party identification as a mediating variable in the perception of governmental legitimacy in Israel during the coronavirus epidemic2
Double take: Abolition and the size of transferred property rights*2
Adolescents’ exposure to classmates from non‐immigrant families and adulthood volunteerism2
A People's Abolition: How policed communities describe and enact liberatory futures2
Congressional nominations and party emergence, 1788–18082
The Paradox of Progress: Modernization, Shifting Values, and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in China2
The impact of turnout on partisan bias in U.S. House elections, 1972–2018*2
“Easy” and “hard” issues: Attitude extremity and a role of the need to evaluate2
Evaluating the pinnacle of football match key statistics as in‐play information for determining the match outcome of Europe's foremost leagues2
The system is broken: Can we have some more?2
Intragenerational Household Net Worth Mobility and Mental Health Outcomes in the United States2
Staying in the shadow or not? Remittances and the Shadow Economy2
White NIMBYism and diversity close to home2
The nonlinear relationship between political trust and nonelectoral political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes2
Translating interdisciplinary knowledge for gender equity: Quantifying the impact of NSF ADVANCE2
Partisan habitual voters in South Korea: Employing Random Forests to understand Korean voters' electoral choices2
The initiator or responder in chief? Reconciling two prominent theories of presidential power2
Are Christian nationalists antisemitic and why?2
The prosecutor gender gap in Texas death penalty cases2
Economic inclusion and social trust in Africa: The positive effects of political reach2
Playing With Perceptions: Investigating Bias in Soccer Through Skin Tone Manipulation2
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Defining and validating the system is broken index2
Voter attitudes and politicians with health conditions and disabilities2
Revisiting the nexus between development aid, institutions, and growth: A global evidence2
Education and polypharmacy: A national study of racial and ethnic variations2
From the American South to South America: Testing whether patterns of competition in two‐round elections travel from the United States to Latin America2
Climate Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Forced Displacement: A 23‐Year Spatial Analysis in Colombia2
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The Effect of Candidate List Position on Vote Share: Improving Internal Validity and Expanding Scope Conditions2
Explaining the American crisis of policing: Media, malfeasance, and racial prejudice2
Premigratory experiences with Civil War violence and social trust2
From Steppe to City: Reaching Chinese and Mongolian Voices Using a Novel Survey Methodology2
Racial Discrimination in the Marriage Market? An Exploration of Swedish Adoption Data2
Pollution and Credit Quality: Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Pollution and Credit Ratings in US States2
Scientists, presidents, and pandemics—comparing the science–politics nexus during the Zika virus and COVID‐19 outbreaks2
Abortion, religion, and racial resentment: Unpacking the underpinnings of contemporary abortion attitudes2
Political Elites and Attitudes Toward International Organizations in the Trump Era2
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The diffusion of American fair housing law and policy2
Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility1
The determinants of voting for Republican congressional candidates in the Texas borderlands1
Apologies, Cheap Talk, and Silence: How People Think About Reputations in Public Goods Scenarios1
Quality or Complexion? Experience and Skin Tone as Determinants of Electoral Success in Mexico1
Public sector corruption is fertile ground for conspiracy beliefs: A comparison between 26 Western and non‐Western countries1
Who Believes in the “Great Replacement”? Political Attitudes and Democratic Alienation Among Supporters of Immigration‐Related Conspiracy Theories in Europe1
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The ‘Euphoria’ effect: A popular HBO show, Gen Z, and drug policy beliefs1
Politics or need? Explaining state protective measures in the coronavirus pandemic1
Formal Education Levels and Environmental Interest1
Correction to “With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics”1
The Relative Contributions of Changes in Vertical and Horizontal Mechanisms to Overall Changes in Occupational Gender Segregation in the United States, 2006–20191
Fear of a Dying Planet and Fear of a Dying God: Beliefs About God and Attitudes toward Climate Change in the United States1
Modern judicial confirmation hearings and institutional support for the Supreme Court1
Public attitudes toward organized labor1
How Latinos’ perceptions of environmental health threats impact policy preferences1
Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age1
Media Attributions and Public's Responses to Russia–Ukraine War: The Role of Emotions Toward Nation and Individuals1
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Driving economic growth in African countries: Do Chinese OFDI sectors matter?1
Investigating effects of social endorsements on exposure to and engagement with political disagreement on social networking sites*1
Intersecting Identities and Perceptions of Judicial Misconduct1
British perceptions of voter fraud and support for voter photo identification1
The right to work and to live: The implications of India's NREGS program for missing women1
The strategy of protest against Covid‐19 containment policies in Germany1
From Lack of Concerns to Complicity: How Misinformation Concerns Influences Fake News Sharing on WhatsApp via the Partisan Legitimation of Fake News1
Varieties of democracy and life satisfaction: Is there a connection?1
Early‐Life Famine Experience and Households’ Diversity of Financial Asset Portfolio: Evidence From China1
Latinx identification with whiteness: What drives it, and what effects does it have on political preferences?1
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Gerald Ford: A minority legislator promoting New Right Lite1
Winners and losers in U.S.–China trade disputes: A dynamic compositional analysis of foreign direct investment1
Silence in the Stands: Assessing the Impact of Russian State‐Linked “Sportswashing” on Online Fan Behavior Following the Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine1
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