American Journal of Political Science

Article	Citations
(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets	131
Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	94
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	90
American Politics in Two Dimensions: Partisan and Ideological Identities versus Anti‐Establishment Orientations	88
How Political Parties Shape Public Opinion in the Real World	75
Re‐Assessing Elite‐Public Gaps in Political Behavior	74
The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity	73
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis	55
Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not	54
Ideology, Not Affect: What Americans Want from Political Representation	50
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design	49
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?	44
The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access	40
Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax‐Break Policy	36
The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy	33
Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective‐Getting	33
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law	30
Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning	29
Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees	28
The Side Effects of Central Bank Independence	27
Political Scandal: A Theory	24
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It	24
Strength in Numbers: How Women's Groups Close India's Political Gender Gap	23
Reference Points and Democratic Backsliding	23
Policing the Organizational Threat in Morocco: Protest and Public Violence in Liberal Autocracies	22

Border Orientation in a Globalizing World	21
How War Changes Land: Soil Fertility, Unexploded Bombs, and the Underdevelopment of Cambodia	21
Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops	21
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models	20
The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants	20
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses	19
Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems	19
Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility	18
Local Immigration and Support for Anti‐Immigration Parties: A Meta‐Analysis	18
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	18
Winners’ Consent? Citizen Commitment to Democracy When Illiberal Candidates Win Elections	18
Brokers, Social Networks, Reciprocity, and Clientelism	18
Partisan‐Motivated Evaluations of Sexual Misconduct and the Mitigating Role of the #MeToo Movement	18
Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics?	18
Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent's Perspective	17
When Do UN Peacekeeping Operations Implement Their Mandates?	17
Partisan Procurement: Contracting with the United States Federal Government, 2003–2015	17
Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?	16
Ascriptive Characteristics and Perceptions of Impropriety in the Rule of Law: Race, Gender, and Public Assessments of Whether Judges Can Be Impartial	16
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting	16
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment	16
The Great Society, Reagan's Revolution, and Generations of Presidential Voting	15
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture	15
How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics	15
Causal Inference with Latent Treatments	15
Propaganda and Skepticism	15
Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy	15
Bringing War Back in: Victory and State Formation in Latin America	15
Do Campaign Contribution Limits Curb the Influence of Money in Politics?	14
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil	14
In Strongman We Trust: The Political Legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea	14
How Does Minority Political Representation Affect School District Administration and Student Outcomes?	14
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric	14
City‐State Ideological Incongruence and Municipal Preemption	13
UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars	13
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats	13
Change We Can Believe In: Structural and Content Dynamics within Belief Networks	13
Positive Spillovers from Negative Campaigning	13
Placebo Tests for Causal Inference	12
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods: The Evidence from Deforestation	12
Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation	12
Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter‐Driven Accountability in Senegal	12
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming	12
Sexism and the Far‐Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash	11
Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict	11
Phantom Counterfactuals	11
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators	10
Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior	10
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders	10
Public Infrastructure and Economic Development: Evidence from Postal Systems	10

Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis	10
Commitment Problems in Alliance Formation	10
Adaptive Experimental Design: Prospects and Applications in Political Science	10
Corporate Board Quotas and Gender Equality Policies in the Workplace	10
Measuring Agenda Setting in Interactive Political Communication	9
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion	9
Channels for Influence or Maps of Behavior? A Field Experiment on Social Networks and Cooperation	9
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis	9
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries	9
Censorship and the Impact of Repression on Dissent	9
Public Money Talks Too: How Public Campaign Financing Degrades Representation	8
International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders	8
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties	8
All the President's Justices? The Impact of Presidential Copartisanship on Supreme Court Job Approval	8
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory	8
Strategic Allocation of Irrevocable and Durable Benefits	8
Metrics Management and Bureaucratic Accountability: Evidence from Policing	8
Boundaries of Solidarity: Immigrants, Economic Contributions, and Welfare Attitudes	7
A Costly Commitment: Populism, Economic Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy	7
Threat‐Inducing Violent Events Exacerbate Social Desirability Bias in Survey Responses	7
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt	7
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties	7
Courting Informal Workers: Exclusion, Forbearance, and the Left	7
Decentralization Can Increase Cooperation among Public Officials	7
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior	7
District Magnitude and Female Representation: Evidence from Argentina and Latin America	7
Racial Identity, Group Consciousness, and Attitudes: A Framework for Assessing Multiracial Self‐Classification	7
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe	7
A Dynamic Measure of Bureaucratic Reputation: New Data for New Theory	7
Conflict, Protection, and Punishment: Repercussions of Violence in Eastern DR Congo	7
What Was the Point of Equality?	6
The Political Consequences of Depression: How Conspiracy Beliefs, Participatory Inclinations, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence	6
Policy Networks Across Political Systems	6
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects	6
When Issue Salience Affects Adjudication: Evidence from Swiss Asylum Appeal Decisions	6
Antagonistic Cooperation: Factional Competition in the Shadow of Elections	6
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office	5
Gaslighting Citizens	5
How Economic Informality Constrains Demand for Programmatic Policy	5
Dynamic Policy Sabotage	5
Indecent Disclosures: Anticorruption Reforms and Political Selection	5
The Electoral Consequences of Household Indebtedness under Austerity	5
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control	5
Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal	5
Who Rallies around the Flag? Nationalist Parties, National Security, and the 2019 Indian Election	5
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg	5
Sowing the Seeds: Radicalization as a Political Tool	5
Gridlock, Bureaucratic Control, and Nonstatutory Policymaking in Congress	5
Partisanship, Economic Assessments, and Presidential Accountability	5
Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico	5
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action	5
Deepening or Diminishing Ethnic Divides? The Impact of Urban Migration in Kenya	5
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption	4
Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties	4
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany	4
How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign–Domestic Threat Dilemma in China	4
Rebel Capacity, Intelligence Gathering, and Combat Tactics	4
Rebel Strategies and the Prospects for Peace	4
A Social Policy Theory of Everyday Borrowing: On the Role of Welfare States and Credit Regimes	4
Money Can't Buy You Love: Partisan Responses to Vote‐Buying Offers	4
Christmas, Crescents, and Crosses: When Is Symbolic Religious Establishment Permissible?	4
Can Popular Sovereignty Be Represented? Jacobinism from Radical Democracy to Populism	4
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?	4
How Threats of Exclusion Mobilize Palestinian Political Participation	4
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements	4
Framing Unpopular Foreign Policies	4
How Organizational Capacity Can Improve Electoral Accountability	4
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections	4
War as a Redistributive Problem	4
Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship? Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy	3
Rain, rain, go away: 194 potential exclusion‐restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable	3
Is Justice a Fixed Point?	3
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma	3
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability	3
Presidential Approval and the Inherited Economy	3
Pliable Prejudice: The Case of Welfare	3
Detecting and Deterring Information Search in Online Surveys	3
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure	3
Father Founders: Did Child Gender Affect Voting at the Constitutional Convention?	3
Religious Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War	3

Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation	3
Mutual Optimism and War, and the Strategic Tensions of the July Crisis	3
Ideological Competition	3
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences	3
Going into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence	3
Sleeping with the Enemy: Effective Representation under Dynamic Electoral Competition	3
Thinking about Government Authority: Constitutional Rules and Political Context in Citizens’ Assessments of Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Action	3
Polarities of the Human and Divine: Aquinas and Schmitt on Political Theology	3
Where Motivated Reasoning Withers and Looms Large: Fear and Partisan Reactions to the COVID‐19 Pandemic	3
How Politicians Learn from Citizens’ Feedback: The Case of Gender on Twitter	3
Divided Government, Strategic Substitution, and Presidential Unilateralism	3
Exposure and Preferences: Evidence from Indian Slums	3
Emigration and radical right populism	3
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas	3
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France	2
Capital Meets Democracy: The Impact of Franchise Extension on Sovereign Bond Markets	2
Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform	2
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians	2
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia	2
Terrorism, Trust, and Identity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria	2
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change	2
Kompromat Can Align Incentives but Ruin Reputations	2
Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents, and the Vote for Radical Parties: Analyzing Text from Twitter	2
Imperial Governance and the Growth of Legislative Power in America	2
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation	2
Parties as Disciplinarians: Charisma and Commitment Problems in Programmatic Campaigning	2
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Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings	2
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City	2
Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture?	2
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India	2
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India	2
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making	2
Talking Shops: The Effects of Caucus Discussion on Policy Coalitions	2
Ethnic Visibility	2
Bicameralism and Policy Responsiveness to Public Opinion	2
Does Relative Deprivation Condition the Effects of Social Protection Programs on Political Support? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan	2
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India	2
Retaining Political Talent: A Candidate‐Centered Theory of Primary Adoption	2