American Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Political Science is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation338
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data167
Experience and self‐interest: Diverging responses to global warming163
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation108
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide99
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe92
Ideological Competition82
The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society80
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture54
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements52
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change51
Hierarchy and war47
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption43
Veto players and policy development41
Competence and advice38
Issue Information31
Unpacking gendered co‐participation in political violence: Women perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda31
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Correction to “Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data”30
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma29
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan29
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection28
Bureaucrat assignments as instruments of political control: Theory and evidence from land administration officials in India27
Erratum to “The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse” American Journal of Political Science , 27
Race, gender, and party in EEOC cases, 1996–2006: Assessing the role of judge attributes in case outcomes in the US district courts27
Climate exposure drives firm political behavior: Evidence from earnings calls and lobbying data27
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics26
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians25
Issue Information23
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy23
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric23
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial23
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Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency20
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies20
Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state19
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy19
Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy18
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad17
Polarization in police union politics17
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front17
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians17
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?16
Issue Information16
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?16
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India16
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era15
The declarations of independents: Open‐ended survey responses and the nature of non‐identification15
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure14
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma14
Issue Information14
Electoral responses to economic crises13
The effect of real‐news party cues13
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India13
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control13
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?13
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections13
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models13
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?13
The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa13
The politics of teachers' union endorsements13
Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding12
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Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City12
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National identity after conquest12
The demand for elections under autocracy: Regime approval and the elimination of local elections in Russia12
Issue Information12
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas12
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India12
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office11
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict11
Collective procrastination and protest cycles11
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany11
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations11
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia11
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico11
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem11
Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies11
Institutions and Political Restraint10
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates10
Can riots represent? A democratic theory10
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion10
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war10
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy10
Breaking barriers: How an international treaty for women reduces the size of the informal economy10
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders9
Expertise acquisition in Congress9
Causal inference with latent outcomes9
Classification algorithms and social outcomes9
How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service: Evidence from a census of legislator requests to U.S. federal agencies9
Persuasion in veto bargaining9
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia9
Political accountability under moral hazard9
Border Anxiety in International Discourse8
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation8
Differentially private survey research8
Centripetal Representation8
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory8
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis8
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia8
Latinos mobilizing beyond threats: The role of fear and hope in issue activism8
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration8
Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests8
Ethnic Visibility8
Long‐run confidence: Estimating uncertainty when using long‐run multipliers8
Issue Information7
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects7
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment7
A cause to fight7
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries7
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement7
Migrating to stay or commuting to work? How fairness perceptions and exposure shape attitudes toward labor migration7
Measuring electoral democracy with observables7
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action7
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa7
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation7
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain7
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers7
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?6
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents6
Making fair comparisons in political theory6
Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war6
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies6
Enchanted democracy: Religion and democratic thought in nineteenth‐century Latin America6
State surveillance and collective dissent6
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data6
Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought6
What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?5
The gendered costs of stigma: How experiences of conflict‐related sexual violence affect civic engagement for women and men5
Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?5
Is support for authoritarian rule contagious? Evidence from field and survey experiments5
Grounding the diasporic turn in political theory: Meta‐commitment, transnationalism, and political obligation5
Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model5
Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms5
States, cities, and border control: Do sub‐state collectives have a right to protect vulnerable people on the move?5
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19165
Campaign Messages, Polling, and Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence5
Community interventions in the administration of justice5
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress5
Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory5
Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security4
Chinese state media persuades a global audience that the “China model” is superior: Evidence from a 19‐country experiment4
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China4
The contestable peoplehood account of democratically legitimate boundaries4
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures4
Getting on the grid: A field experiment on bottom‐up political pressure and access to essential public services4
Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy4
Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
Playing politics with traffic fines: Sheriff elections and political cycles in traffic fines revenue4
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents4
Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization4
Tracing the “true liberalism”: F. A. Hayek as a reader of Tocqueville4
Trains, trade, and transformation: A spatial Rogowski theory of America's 19th‐century protectionism4
Testing the stability and temporal order of People of Color Identity and People of Color Solidarity : New 4
What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”4
Correcting measurement error bias in conjoint survey experiments4
Climate crisis and policy inaction in Indonesia4
Erratum to The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations4
Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?4
Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China4
Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–15194
Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications4
Encouraging crossover voting in the 2024 presidential primary4
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings4
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Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy4
The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences3
To fight or to govern? Political capital and electoral competition3
The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference3
Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade3
Issue Information3
“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?3
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The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability3
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation3
Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law3
Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform3
How UN peacekeeping missions enforce peace agreements3
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France3
Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
The rise of and demand for identity‐oriented media coverage3
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making3
Phantom Counterfactuals3
Defiant pride: Origins and consequences of ethnic voting3
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