American Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Political Science is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements220
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe170
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture107
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis84
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences83
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data82
The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society77
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation74
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation58
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide53
Ideological Competition47
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change39
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Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan36
Hierarchy and war36
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection36
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma35
Competence and advice33
Unpacking gendered co‐participation in political violence: Women perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda32
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption31
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial31
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics31
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy27
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. 82–27
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians27
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric26
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Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency24
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?23
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies22
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians22
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy21
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad21
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Polarization in police union politics20
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front20
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats19
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?18
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma18
Electoral responses to economic crises18
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections17
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?17
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control17
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India17
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era16
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure16
The politics of teachers' union endorsements16
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India16
The effect of real‐news party cues16
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric15
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders15
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models15
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?15
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How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis12
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict12
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India12
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem12
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia12
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Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico12
National identity after conquest12
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations11
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City11
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office10
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Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas10
Institutions and Political Restraint10
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany10
Expertise acquisition in Congress10
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming9
Classification algorithms and social outcomes9
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates9
Collective procrastination and protest cycles9
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy9
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war9
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion8
Border Anxiety in International Discourse8
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia8
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries8
Ethnic Visibility8
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders8
Differentially private survey research8
Can riots represent? A democratic theory8
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration8
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties8
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation8
Persuasion in veto bargaining7
Causal inference with latent outcomes7
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory7
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment7
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia7
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg7
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action7
Political accountability under moral hazard7
Centripetal Representation7
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis7
Issue Information7
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?6
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A cause to fight6
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects6
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa6
Measuring electoral democracy with observables6
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers6
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries6
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement6
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Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation5
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain5
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies5
Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought5
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Enchanted democracy: Religion and democratic thought in nineteenth‐century Latin America5
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19165
Making fair comparisons in political theory5
Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war5
Campaign Messages, Polling, and Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence5
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress5
Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization5
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data5
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation5
Roadblocks: How Property Rights Undermine Development in Colombia5
States, cities, and border control: Do sub‐state collectives have a right to protect vulnerable people on the move?5
Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?5
The gendered costs of stigma: How experiences of conflict‐related sexual violence affect civic engagement for women and men5
Tracing the “true liberalism”: F. A. Hayek as a reader of Tocqueville4
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings4
Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory4
Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China4
Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture?4
The contestable peoplehood account of democratically legitimate boundaries4
Playing politics with traffic fines: Sheriff elections and political cycles in traffic fines revenue4
Trains, trade, and transformation: A spatial Rogowski theory of America's 19th‐century protectionism4
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China4
Community interventions in the administration of justice4
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators4
Erratum to The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations4
Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy4
Climate crisis and policy inaction in Indonesia4
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security4
Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms4
Chinese state media persuades a global audience that the “China model” is superior: Evidence from a 19‐country experiment4
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Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications4
Testing the stability and temporal order of People of Color Identity and People of Color Solidarity: New evidence from a survey panel of Asian, Black, Latino, and multiracial adults3
Gaslighting Citizens3
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A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making3
Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform3
The rise of and demand for identity‐oriented media coverage3
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation3
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures3
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“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?3
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods: The Evidence from Deforestation3
The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference3
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Phantom Counterfactuals3
The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability3
Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy3
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties3
Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade3
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World3
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Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity3
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The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences3
Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options3
Evaluating (in)experience in congressional elections2
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting2
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election2
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt2
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How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign–Domestic Threat Dilemma in China2
Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law2
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Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems2
Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior2
Causal Effects, Migration, and Legacy Studies2
Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military2
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France2
Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in Emerging Economies2
Xs we share: Context similarity, culture, and the diffusion of populism2
Veto Institutions, Hostage‐Taking, and Tacit Cooperation2
Border fortification and legibility: Evidence from Afghanistan2
Detecting and Deterring Information Search in Online Surveys2
Going into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence2
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How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil2
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses2
How UN peacekeeping missions enforce peace agreements2
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion2
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