American Journal of Political Science

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Political Science is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society224
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture178
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation109
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences89
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements87
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe85
Ideological Competition84
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide60
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change59
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation50
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data46
Competence and advice38
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection38
Unpacking gendered co‐participation in political violence: Women perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda37
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Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption36
Hierarchy and war32
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma32
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. 82–31
Issue Information31
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan31
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial28
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics27
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy27
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians26
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric24
Issue Information24
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency23
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians22
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front21
Polarization in police union politics21
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad20
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies20
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy20
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?19
Issue Information19
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders18
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era18
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India18
Electoral responses to economic crises18
The politics of teachers' union endorsements18
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control16
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?16
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India16
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections16
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models16
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma15
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure14
The effect of real‐news party cues14
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats14
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?14
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?14
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric13
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Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India13
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem12
Issue Information12
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City12
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Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office11
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico11
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia11
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis11
National identity after conquest10
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict10
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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
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations10
Expertise acquisition in Congress10
Can riots represent? A democratic theory9
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war9
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates9
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy9
Classification algorithms and social outcomes9
Border Anxiety in International Discourse8
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming8
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders8
Collective procrastination and protest cycles8
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration8
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties8
Differentially private survey research8
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion8
Centripetal Representation8
Persuasion in veto bargaining8
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action7
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg7
Ethnic Visibility7
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory7
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries7
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation7
Causal inference with latent outcomes7
Political accountability under moral hazard7
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia7
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