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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements149
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework140
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis110
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change102
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences80
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data72
Ideological Competition71
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation65
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide55
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation43
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law40
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan39
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe39
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Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection33
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment33
Competence and advice32
Hierarchy and war32
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption30
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. 82–30
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma30
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics28
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians28
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies27
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial27
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy27
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric26
Polarization in police union politics26
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency25
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Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy24
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front24
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?24
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad24
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats24
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Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India22
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders20
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era20
The politics of teachers' union endorsements20
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control19
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India19
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?19
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure19
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma19
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?18
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric18
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models18
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India17
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Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections17
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem16
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas16
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Christmas, Crescents, and Crosses: When Is Symbolic Religious Establishment Permissible?16
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico15
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia15
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict15
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Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations14
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office14
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis14
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City14
Institutions and Political Restraint14
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany14
National identity after conquest14
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Collective procrastination and protest cycles13
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates13
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion12
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion12
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war12
Expertise acquisition in Congress11
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming11
Persuasion in veto bargaining11
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy11
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties10
Political accountability under moral hazard10
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration10
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg10
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis10
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia10
Differentially private survey research10
Causal inference with latent outcomes10
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia10
Ethnic Visibility10
Centripetal Representation9
Border Anxiety in International Discourse9
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation9
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders9
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries8
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory8
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When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries8
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action8
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects7
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement7
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation7
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa7
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?7
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Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain7
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation7
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers7
Measuring electoral democracy with observables6
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data6
Making fair comparisons in political theory6
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment6
Enchanted democracy: Religion and democratic thought in nineteenth‐century Latin America6
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies6
Is Justice a Fixed Point?6
UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars6
Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?6
Roadblocks: How Property Rights Undermine Development in Colombia6
The gendered costs of stigma: How experiences of conflict‐related sexual violence affect civic engagement for women and men5
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19165
Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought5
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Chinese state media persuades a global audience that the “China model” is superior: Evidence from a 19‐country experiment5
Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China5
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The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity5
Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory5
Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization5
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress5
Community interventions in the administration of justice5
Campaign Messages, Polling, and Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence5
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators4
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Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications4
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China4
The contestable peoplehood account of democratically legitimate boundaries4
Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture?4
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
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings4
Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms4
Erratum to The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
Tracing the “true liberalism”: F. A. Hayek as a reader of Tocqueville4
Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy4
Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform3
Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity3
The rise of and demand for identity‐oriented media coverage3
Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options3
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures3
Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture3
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation3
Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?3
Phantom Counterfactuals3
“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?3
The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability3
Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation3
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Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico3
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World3
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods: The Evidence from Deforestation3
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making3
Gaslighting Citizens3
Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy3
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties3
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The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences3
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
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Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems2
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election2
Kompromat Can Align Incentives but Ruin Reputations2
Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military2
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Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses2
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France2
Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law2
Detecting and Deterring Information Search in Online Surveys2
Threat‐Inducing Violent Events Exacerbate Social Desirability Bias in Survey Responses2
The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Critique of Carl Schmitt2
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How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign–Domestic Threat Dilemma in China2
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting2
How UN peacekeeping missions enforce peace agreements2
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion2
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Xs we share: Context similarity, culture, and the diffusion of populism2
Border fortification and legibility: Evidence from Afghanistan2
Going into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence2
Evaluating (in)experience in congressional elections2
Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in Emerging Economies2
Veto Institutions, Hostage‐Taking, and Tacit Cooperation2
Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior2
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil2
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt2
Public Money Talks Too: How Public Campaign Financing Degrades Representation2
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Causal Effects, Migration, and Legacy Studies2
State Support for Rebels and Interstate Bargaining2
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