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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework207
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis164
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences99
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide83
The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society80
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change80
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation71
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data69
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation54
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements53
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe42
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture40
Ideological Competition40
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Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption36
Hierarchy and war36
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection36
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma34
Competence and advice32
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan31
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
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial28
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians28
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics28
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy28
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric27
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Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency26
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians25
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies24
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad23
Polarization in police union politics22
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front22
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy22
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?21
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Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma20
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats20
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections20
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure19
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders18
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?18
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India18
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?17
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?17
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models17
The politics of teachers' union endorsements16
Electoral responses to economic crises16
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control16
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era16
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India16
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric16
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India15
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Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem14
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis14
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas13
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia13
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany13
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office13
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Strategic state violence and migration in conflict12
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations12
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico12
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City12
National identity after conquest12
Expertise acquisition in Congress11
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war11
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming10
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates10
Collective procrastination and protest cycles10
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy10
Institutions and Political Restraint10
Can riots represent? A democratic theory10
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion10
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties9
Border Anxiety in International Discourse9
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia9
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration9
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders9
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg8
Political accountability under moral hazard8
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis8
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia8
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries8
Centripetal Representation8
Differentially private survey research8
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation8
Ethnic Visibility7
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Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation7
Measuring electoral democracy with observables7
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers7
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action7
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa7
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Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?7
Persuasion in veto bargaining7
Causal inference with latent outcomes7
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory7
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries7
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects7
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation6
“Restoration” and representation: Legislative consequences of Black disfranchisement in the American South, 1879–19166
Policy feedback and voter turnout: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment6
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement6
Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war6
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents6
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain6
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data6
Making fair comparisons in political theory6
A cause to fight6
States, cities, and border control: Do sub‐state collectives have a right to protect vulnerable people on the move?5
Tempering senses of superiority: The virtue of magnanimity in democracies5
The gendered costs of stigma: How experiences of conflict‐related sexual violence affect civic engagement for women and men5
Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms5
Chinese state media persuades a global audience that the “China model” is superior: Evidence from a 19‐country experiment5
Erratum to The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations5
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Enchanted democracy: Religion and democratic thought in nineteenth‐century Latin America5
Campaign Messages, Polling, and Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence5
Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought5
Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China5
Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization5
Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory5
Roadblocks: How Property Rights Undermine Development in Colombia5
Does Democracy Reduce Ethnic Inequality?5
The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress5
Community interventions in the administration of justice5
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators5
Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture?5
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
Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico4
Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy4
Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior4
Tracing the “true liberalism”: F. A. Hayek as a reader of Tocqueville4
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Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture4
Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options4
Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties4
Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy4
The contestable peoplehood account of democratically legitimate boundaries4
Climate crisis and policy inaction in Indonesia4
From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China4
No Entry in a Pandemic: Public Support for Border Closures4
Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation4
Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications4
Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security4
Playing politics with traffic fines: Sheriff elections and political cycles in traffic fines revenue4
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World3
Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation3
Diplomacy by committee: Assessing resolve and costly signals in group settings3
Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?3
Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade3
Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity3
Phantom Counterfactuals3
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Gaslighting Citizens3
The Effect of Sustained Transparency on Electoral Accountability3
Who Controls the Past: Far‐Sighted Bargaining in International Regimes3
The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences3
Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law3
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Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods: The Evidence from Deforestation3
“Welcome to France.” Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?3
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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
A Meta‐Analytic Assessment of the Effects of Emotions on Political Information Search and Decision‐Making3
The rise of and demand for identity‐oriented media coverage3
Making Global Governance Accountable: Civil Society, States, and the Politics of Reform3
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Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting2
Border fortification and legibility: Evidence from Afghanistan2
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil2
Xs we share: Context similarity, culture, and the diffusion of populism2
How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign–Domestic Threat Dilemma in China2
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Speaking their language?: Multilingualism in party communication across democracies2
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability2
Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most2
Detecting and Deterring Information Search in Online Surveys2
Veto Institutions, Hostage‐Taking, and Tacit Cooperation2
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses2
Victim or Threat? Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks, and Asylum Decisions in France2
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Postwar Czechoslovakia2
The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Critique of Carl Schmitt2
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election2
Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems2
Going into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence2
Causal Effects, Migration, and Legacy Studies2
Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military2
How UN peacekeeping missions enforce peace agreements2
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt2
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion2
Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in Emerging Economies2
Framing Unpopular Foreign Policies2
Evaluating (in)experience in congressional elections2
Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior2
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