American Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Political Science 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism142
Trains, trade, and transformation: A spatial Rogowski theory of America's 19th‐century protectionism105
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation94
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change92
Collective procrastination and protest cycles83
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Brokers, Social Networks, Reciprocity, and Clientelism54
Corporate Board Quotas and Gender Equality Policies in the Workplace49
The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Critique of Carl Schmitt44
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences36
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework35
A Dynamic Measure of Bureaucratic Reputation: New Data for New Theory33
The Electoral Consequences of Household Indebtedness under Austerity33
The Political Consequences of Depression: How Conspiracy Beliefs, Participatory Inclinations, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence29
One More Time? Parties’ Repeated Electoral Entry in Younger Democracies28
Institutions and Political Restraint25
Decentralization Can Increase Cooperation among Public Officials24
Pliable Prejudice: The Case of Welfare24
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Electoral Campaigns and Biased Perceptions of Voter Interests23
The Play of Conspiracy and Democratic Erosion in Plato'sRepublic21
When you come at the king: Opposition coalitions and nearly stunning elections21
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China21
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion21
Ideological Competition21
Framing Unpopular Foreign Policies20
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion18
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Postwar Czechoslovakia18
Expropriation as reparation18
Censorship and the Impact of Repression on Dissent18
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation18
Money Can't Buy You Love: Partisan Responses to Vote‐Buying Offers18
Deepening or Diminishing Ethnic Divides? The Impact of Urban Migration in Kenya17
Does Relative Deprivation Condition the Effects of Social Protection Programs on Political Support? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan17
Rethinking the imperative mandate: Toward a better balance between independence and accountability17
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Indecent Disclosures: Anticorruption Reforms and Political Selection16
Sowing the Seeds: Radicalization as a Political Tool16
Presidential Approval and the Inherited Economy16
Antagonistic Cooperation: Factional Competition in the Shadow of Elections16
Divided Government, Strategic Substitution, and Presidential Unilateralism15
Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties15
Threat‐Inducing Violent Events Exacerbate Social Desirability Bias in Survey Responses15
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture15
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war15
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data14
Testing the Benefits of Public Deliberation14
A Costly Commitment: Populism, Economic Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy14
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe14
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability14
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements13
Causal Inference with Latent Treatments13
State Support for Rebels and Interstate Bargaining13
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming13
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law12
Racial Identity, Group Consciousness, and Attitudes: A Framework for Assessing Multiracial Self‐Classification12
Race, shaming, and international human rights12
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It12
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis12
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide11
Emigration and radical right populism11
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis10
A Social Policy Theory of Everyday Borrowing: On the Role of Welfare States and Credit Regimes10
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action10
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings10
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design10
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia10
Expertise acquisition in Congress10
Religious Mobilization and the Selection of Political Elites: Evidence from Postwar Italy10
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption10
How Politicians Learn from Citizens’ Feedback: The Case of Gender on Twitter9
Centripetal Representation9
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Presidential Cues and the Nationalization of Congressional Rhetoric, 1973–20169
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties9
Ethnic Visibility9
Political accountability under moral hazard8
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How Threats of Exclusion Mobilize Palestinian Political Participation8
Metrics Management and Bureaucratic Accountability: Evidence from Policing8
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg8
Qualitative Imputation of Missing Potential Outcomes7
Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options7
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Dynamic Policy Sabotage7
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Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico7
Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior7
The Aptness of Envy7
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Austerity, economic vulnerability, and populism7
Causal inference with latent outcomes6
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders6
Hierarchy and war6
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Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation6
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation6
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection6
Sexism and the Far‐Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash6
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan5
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures5
Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics?5
Public comment and public policy5
Differentially private survey research5
How Economic Informality Constrains Demand for Programmatic Policy5
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma5
The politics of rejection: Explaining Chinese import refusals5
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties5
Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops5
Competence and advice5
Border Anxiety in International Discourse5
Measuring Agenda Setting in Interactive Political Communication5
Local Immigration and Support for Anti‐Immigration Parties: A Meta‐Analysis5
Who Rallies around the Flag? Nationalist Parties, National Security, and the 2019 Indian Election5
(The Impossibility of) Deliberation‐Consistent Social Choice5
Where Motivated Reasoning Withers and Looms Large: Fear and Partisan Reactions to the COVID‐19 Pandemic5
When Do UN Peacekeeping Operations Implement Their Mandates?5
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment4
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings4
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Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy4
(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets4
The right to dream: Martin Luther King Jr.’s pragmatist argument for racial progress4
Placebo Tests for Causal Inference4
Rebel Strategies and the Prospects for Peace4
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory4
Persuasion in veto bargaining4
Winners’ Consent? Citizen Commitment to Democracy When Illiberal Candidates Win Elections4
Correcting misperceptions about ethno‐racial discrimination: The limits of evidence‐based awareness raising to promote support for equal‐treatment policies4
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration4
Building tribes: How administrative units shaped ethnic groups in Africa4
Local orientation in the U.S. House of Representatives4
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries4
Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective‐Getting3
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Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment3
Religious Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War3
Crowd Cohesion and Protest Outcomes3
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data3
Agenda Control under Policy Uncertainty3
Ascriptive Characteristics and Perceptions of Impropriety in the Rule of Law: Race, Gender, and Public Assessments of Whether Judges Can Be Impartial3
Adaptive Experimental Design: Prospects and Applications in Political Science3
Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
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Partisanship, Economic Assessments, and Presidential Accountability3
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation3
Change We Can Believe In: Structural and Content Dynamics within Belief Networks3
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Is Justice a Fixed Point?3
What Was the Point of Equality?3
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Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation3
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain3
Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees3
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians2
Comparing religious and secular interventions to increase young adult political participation: Evidence from WhatsApp‐based civic education courses in Zambia2
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Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax‐Break Policy2
Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies2
Erratum to “The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse” American Journal of Political Science, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2020, pp. 82–2
Is authority fungible? Legitimacy, domain congruence, and the limits of power in Africa2
The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences2
The Fortification Dilemma: Border Control and Rebel Violence2
Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter‐Driven Accountability in Senegal2
UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars2
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa2
Talking Shops: The Effects of Caucus Discussion on Policy Coalitions2
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries2
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial2
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers2
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement2
The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability2
International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders2
Bending the Iron Law: The distribution of power within political parties2
When politicians behave badly: Political, democratic, and social consequences of political incivility2
How budget trade‐offs undermine electoral incentives to build public housing2
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?2
Phantom Counterfactuals1
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Can Descriptive Representation Help the Right Win Votes from the Poor? Evidence from Brazil1
Public Infrastructure and Economic Development: Evidence from Postal Systems1
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy1
Gaslighting Citizens1
Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat1
The Great Society, Reagan's Revolution, and Generations of Presidential Voting1
Selective exposure and echo chambers in partisan television consumption: Evidence from linked viewership, administrative, and survey data1
A Priori Bounds on Legislative Bargaining Agreements1
Bilateral Conflict: An Experimental Study of Strategic Effectiveness and Equilibrium1
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency1
Antiglobalization sentiment: Exposure and immobility1
Making fair comparisons in political theory1
Pandora's ballot box: Electoral politics of direct democracy1
Positive Spillovers from Negative Campaigning1
“A Sacred Effort”: Lincoln's Second Inaugural and the Problem of Justice1
Roadblocks: How Property Rights Undermine Development in Colombia1
Boundaries of Solidarity: Immigrants, Economic Contributions, and Welfare Attitudes1
Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data1
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects1
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy1
Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity1
Capital Meets Democracy: The Impact of Franchise Extension on Sovereign Bond Markets1
Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not1
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Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?1
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress1
The logic of idealization in political theory1
Why Compete for Firms? Electoral Effects of Corporate Headquarters Relocation1
Parties as Disciplinarians: Charisma and Commitment Problems in Programmatic Campaigning1
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?1
Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal1
Political Phantasies: Aristotle on Imagination and Collective Action1
War as a Redistributive Problem1
Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?1
The Necessity of Moving Averages in Dynamic Linear Regression Models1
Race, legislative speech, and symbolic representation in Congress1
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World1
Gridlock, Bureaucratic Control, and Nonstatutory Policymaking in Congress1
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A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making1
Polarities of the Human and Divine: Aquinas and Schmitt on Political Theology1
Globalization and Promissory Representation1
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19161
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies1
Uncertain times: The causal effects of coups on national income1
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