Political Research Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Research Quarterly is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Announcements63
Announcements56
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness32
Not Yours to Sell: The Case Against Private Citizenship Markets26
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions?25
Islam, Origin Countries, and Democracy Satisfaction Among Immigrants in Western Europe24
Protesting With Feeling in Puerto Rico: Twitter and El Verano Del 1922
Racial Attitudes and Views of Disaster21
Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behaviors19
Public Goods, Expressive Values, and Protest Participation: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in Hong Kong19
Does Familiarity Breed Esteem? A Field Experiment on Emergent Attitudes Toward Members of Congress18
Race, Contact Effects, and Effective Lawmaking in Congressional Committee Hearings17
The Democrats Loss of the White Working Class: Another Look at the Evidence15
Selling them Short? Differences in News Coverage of Female and Male Candidate Qualifications15
Social Imagery and Subjective Ideological Proximity to the Supreme Court: Evidence From Evangelical Christians14
Asking Versus Telling: The Supreme Court’s Strategic Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments14
The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation13
Does Artificial Intelligence Speak Our Language?: A Gadamerian Assessment of Generative Language Models13
Does Inflammatory Rhetoric Boost Support for Political Violence? Considering the Role of Geographic Context13
What Forms of Redistribution Do Americans Want? Understanding Preferences for Policy Benefit-Cost Tradeoffs13
Detecting Diverse Perspectives: Using Text Analytics to Reveal Sex Differences in Congressional Debate About Defense12
State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion12
The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes12
Mavericks or Loyalists? Popular Ballot Jumpers and Party Discipline in the Flexible-List PR Context11
The Political Psychology of Cancel Culture: Value Framing or Group Identity?11
Latino Tú Latino Yo: Group Threat and Group Consciousness in California11
Subnational Elections and Media Freedom in Autocracies: Diffusion of Local Reputation and Regime Survival11
Supply-Side Anti-Pluralists and Demand-Side Anti-Plutocrats: The Case of 21st Century Populism11
Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum10
Compliance with Public Health Orders: The Role of Trust, Representation, and Expertise10
Countering International Backlash by Discrediting the Messengers: Reputational Chaining and LGBT+ Rights in Bosnia10
Does the Salience of Partisan Competition Increase Affective Polarization in the United States?10
Jobs and Punishment: Public Opinion on Leniency for White-Collar Crime10
Congressional Redistricting and Strategic Copartisans: Partisan Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, 1800–182410
Are Citizens More Politically Engaged when Candidate Selection is Democratic? Analysis of Seven Parliamentary Election Cycles in Israel (1996–2015)9
The Canary in the Coal Mine: An Intersectional Analysis of Mayoral Leadership and Political Violence in the Aftermath of COVID-199
The Heat is On: Does Civil Litigation Affect Policing Practices?9
The American Dreamers: The Effects of Media Coverage of Immigrants’ Age-at-Arrival9
Essential services, public education workers, and the right to strike8
Priming Norms to Combat Affective Polarization8
Why the Public Supports the Human Rights of Prisoners and Asylum Seekers: An Experimental Approach8
Attitudes Towards LGBT Individuals After bostock v. Clayton County: Evidence From a Quasi Experiment8
Left-Right Social Identity and the Polarization of Political Tolerance8
Descriptive Representation and Innovation in American Legislatures8
Constrained but Not Transformed: Civilian-Led Certification Reform and Officer Misconduct8
Nevertheless, He Persisted: White Men and the Links Between Incumbency and Group Descriptive Representation8
Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility8
Is Public Ignorance a Problem? An Epistemic Defense of Really Existing Democracies8
Who Substitutes Service for Politics? Assessing the Roles of Youth and Partisan Alienation in Americans’ Forms of Civic Engagement8
How Wide is the Arc of Racial Solidarity? People of Color and Middle Easterners and North Africans8
Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting7
International Conflict Involvement, Domestic Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict7
Echo Chambers or Doom Scrolling? Homophily, Intensity, and Exposure to Elite Social Media Messages7
Youthfulness and Legislation: Rousseau on the Constituent Moment7
Perceptions of Local Political Corruption7
Announcements7
Courts and Horizontal Accountability in Hybrid Regimes: Judicial Review and the Quality of Democracy7
All of the Above: Lobbying Allied, Undecided, and Opposing Lawmakers in Committee and on the Floor7
How the Intensity of Preference for Ideological Judges Influences Court Support7
All Talk, No Action? Politicians’ Agenda Responsiveness to Citizens’ Engagement on Social Media7
Understanding Latino Political Engagement and Activity on Social Media6
The Education Cyrus Missed6
Correcting Myopia: Effect of Information Provision on Support for Preparedness Policy6
The Rise of the “Democrat Party”: Republican Elites, Partisan Slurs, and Linguistic Polarization6
The Democratic Majority and the 2016 American Presidential Election: Feminist Political Behavior Across Multiple Axes of Identity6
Political Development and Political Thought6
Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions6
Overcoming Resource Competition Among Co-Ethnics: Elites, Endorsements, and Multiracial Support for Urban Distributive Policies6
New Lines, New Districts, New Representation: Institutional Impacts of Congressional Redistricting6
Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment6
Rooted in Racism? Race, Partisanship, Status Threat, and Public Opinion Toward Statehood for Washington, D.C.6
Inviting the Populists to the Party: Populist Appeals in Presidential Primaries6
Understanding the News Coverage of Gay Candidates: Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 Primary Campaign and the Partisan News Media6
Confidence in US Elections After the Big Lie5
Announcements5
Announcements5
The Racial Gap in Trust in Elections (and How to Close It)5
The Role of State and National Institutional Evaluations in Fostering Collective Accountability Across the U.S. States5
Anchoring or Expanding? Gender and Judicial Nominations5
A Social Media Platform Model of Supreme Court News5
Public Perceptions of Wartime Atrocities: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment5
On the Internet, No One Knows You’re an Activist: Patterns of Participation and Response in an Online, Opt-in Survey Panel5
Democratizing U.S. Courts: Perceived Representation and Support for Judicial Elections5
Among the Bodies of Our Children: Using Amici Briefs to Analyze State Motivation in Indigenous Law Cases5
Issue Responsiveness in Canadian Politics: Are Parties Responsive to the Public Salience of Climate Change in the Question Period?5
The Costs of Voting and Voter Confidence5
Political Network Diversity and Trust in Online Political Content5
The Unitary Executive Theory in Practice: Bureaucratic Structure as an Obstacle to Executive Unilateralism5
Viewed from Different Engels? Differences in Reactions to “Socialism” as a Policy Label5
Health and Election Outcomes: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election5
Redistributive Policy Preferences: The Effects of Family Income and Poverty Attributions5
Partisanship, Slavery, and the Demise of the National Road4
Engraved in the Heart: How Rousseau’s Citizens are Motivated Toward the Common Good4
Thoreau’s Dialectic of Dissent and Contemporary Activism4
Media Attention and Deliberation on the Supreme Court4
How to Smuggle Contraband and Influence Border Policy4
Ain’t No Fortunate Son: The Political Calculus of Conscription4
Ask and You Shall Receive: The Effects of Negativity and Fundraising Appeals on Facebook4
The “Return” of the People? Understanding Populism by Exploring Citizens’ Conceptions of Peoplehood in Western Europe4
They Know What They Know and It Ain’t Much: Revisiting the Dunning–Kruger Effect and Overconfidence in Political Knowledge4
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans4
Corrigendum4
Electoral Institutions and Identity Based Clientelism in Jordan4
Expressive Epistemic Injustice: Definition, Measurement, and Deliberative Cure4
Authoritarian Opposition? Authoritarian Disposition and Resistance to Public Health Mitigation Strategies During COVID-194
Announcements4
Using Candidates’ Tweets to Predict an Election Outcome3
Checks and Balances, Veto Exceptionalism, and Constitutional Folk Wisdom: Class and Race Power in American Politics3
Sex, Campaign Contributions, and State Courts of Last Resort3
Shaming in a Shameless World: The Broken Dialectic of the Self3
Racism Despite Integration: Diversity for the Sake of Mission Readiness in the U.S. Military3
Election Accomplished: Democracies and the Timing of Peacekeeper Drawdowns3
Silencing Human Rights Defenders Once and for All? Determinants of Human Rights Defenders’ Killings3
Representational Style Across National and Constituency Contexts: Members of Parliament in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom3
Who Decides? Media, MAGA, Money, and Mentions in the 2022 Republican Primaries3
When Do Men MPs Claim to Represent Women in Plenary Debates—Time-Series Cross-Sectional Evidence from the German States3
Congressional Committees, Electoral Connections, and Legislative Speech3
Public Support for State Challenges to National Laws3
The Spread of Symbolic Policies: Juneteenth, Interests, and Representation in the U.S. States3
Motivated Reasoning and Attitudes Towards Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: Evidence from Five Nominations and an Experiment3
Using Process Tracing to Investigate Elite Experience Accrual: Explaining Margaret Thatcher’s Support for US Air Strikes Against Libya3
Sexual Identities and the Role of Marriage in Social Movement Activism3
Life, Liberty, and Litigation: Do Constitutional Rights Impact Climate Litigation Outcome?3
Guardians of Democracy or Passive Bystanders? A Conjoint Experiment on Elite Transgressions of Democratic Norms3
No Representation Without Compensation: The Effect of Interest Groups on Legislators’ Policy Area Focus3
Countering “Fake News” Through Public Education and Advertisements: An Experimental Analysis3
The People’s Captain: Understanding Police Officers as an Electoral Brand3
“Feel My Rage”: Angry Feminist Claims and Affective Mobilization3
Authoritarian Youth: Bidirectional Effects Between Authoritarianism, National Identification, and Political Participation Among Czech Youth3
Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation3
Announcements3
Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement3
Do Scandals Matter?3
Elections and Representation in American Municipal Administration3
Clarifying the Relationship Between Political Consumerism and Political Persuasion Over Time2
Judicial Ambition and the Crafting of Law: How Promotion Potential Shapes Appellate Opinions2
Bureaucratic Bias or Voter-Side Factors? Testing Competing Explanations for Racial Gaps in Vote-By-Mail Ballot Signature Rejections2
A Bigger Tent? Nonwhite Republican Candidates and Their Uphill Paths to Office2
Who Donates? Gender and Campaign Contributions in Brazil2
More than Mere Access: An Experiment on Moneyed Interests, Information Provision, and Legislative Action in Congress2
Disaster, Distributive Politics, and the Persistence of Partisan Divides in Climate Policy2
When Policymakers are Asked: Why and How Polarization Varies Across States2
Racial Identities, Linguistic Proficiency, and Public Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence From Two Surveys in Taiwan2
Examining the Effects of 2SLGBTQI+ Candidates on 2SLGBTQI+ Voter Turnout in Canada2
Domesticity and Political Participation: At Home with the Jacobin Women2
A Double-Edge Sword? Mass Media and Nonviolent Dissent in Autocracies2
How Electoral Cycles Shape the Implementation of Public Works Programs: Evidence From India2
Authoritarian Institutions and Democratic Lessons2
The Second Sex in the Second District: The Policy Effects of Electing Women to County Government2
Mall Cop or Robocop? The Political Determinants of Police Militarization in Brazil2
Analyzing Attention to Scandal on Twitter: Elites Sell What Supporters Buy2
Women and Local Politics: How Different Offices Affect Female Candidacies2
Harnessing the Power of Emotions: How Women of Color Use Emotional Appeals in Their Campaign Messages2
The Deaths of Ideas in Congress2
Gendered Policy Leadership in the Judicial Branch2
Proximity, Perceived Costs and Benefits, and Public Support for Indian Gaming2
Myths About Women in the Political Executive—How Gender Stereotypes Shape the Way MPs Assess the Competences of Ministers2
Beyond Credit Claiming: Protection and Commiseration Messages in Distributive Politics2
Media Coverage of the Senate Filibuster and Its Effects on Public Opinion2
Is a Polarized Party System a Too Extreme Party System? Understanding Perceptions of Party Extremity in the United States2
Congressional Constraint? The Review of In Absentia Immigration Removal Orders in Federal Circuit Courts2
Announcements2
“You Had Better Mention All of Them:” Race and Gender Effects in Election Loss Narratives2
Socializing Policy Feedback: The Long-Term Effects of Adolescent Program Participation on Adult Party Identification2
The Traceability of Presidential Policymaking in the Face of Congressional Sanctioning2
Trump Tweets and Democratic Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment2
Toward a Shared Ideological Currency: Ideological Affective Polarization & the Changing Structure of Ideology in the U.S.2
Partisan Law Enforcement and Extremist Violence: Evidence from U.S. Sheriffs2
Who’s Got the “Best Shot”? Race-Gender Stereotypes and Primary Elections2
Suppression by Mobilization: How Information Control Strategies Contain Political Criticism in Autocracies2
Candidate Identity and Campaign Priming: Analyzing Voter Support for Pete Buttigieg’s Presidential Run as an Openly Gay Man2
When Congress Prevails: Veto Overrides and Legislative Fragmentation in Multiparty Legislatures2
Rise of Populism: Identity Threats as an Explanation in Relation With Deprivation and Cultural Fear2
Deceptively Stable? How the Stability of Aggregate Abortion Attitudes Conceals Partisan Induced Shifts2
Competitors in Aid: How International Rivalry Affects Public Support for Aid Under Various Frames2
Debating the Populist Pariah: Changing Party Dynamics and Elite Rhetoric in the Swedish Riksdag2
Participatory Governance and Responsiveness: Do Motivational Interventions Increase Engagement with Citizen Input?2
Either with Us or Against Us: Business Power and Campaign Contributions in an Age of Hyper-Partisanship1
Power-Sharing, Presidential Style: Issue Salience and Portfolio Allocation in Multiparty Presidential Systems1
Hegel, History, Hostility: The Persistence of War in Hegel’s Political Philosophy1
The Conditional Lawmaking Benefits of Party Faction Membership in Congress1
Partisan (A) Symmetries in Hardball: Mass Level Support of Hardball Equivalent Across Party and Race1
The Evolution of Public Opinion Over Gay Rights in Switzerland1
Public Preferences for Reallocating Aid in the Presence of Alternative Donors1
The Effect of the Political Environment on White Women’s Political Ambition1
Globaloney: Extended Party Networks and the Dissemination of Anti-Globalization Insults1
Grave Acts: The Relationship between Contextual Exposure to Police Killings and Black Political Participation1
Western Political Science Association (WPSA)1
Fake News as Political Communication: On Fake News, Digital Media and the Struggle for Hegemony in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe1
From Exclusion to Utopia: A Comparative Study of Intentional Community Formation1
Rebels With Too Many Causes: Diverse Recruitment Appeals and the Intractability of Civil Conflicts1
US Sanctions and Foreign Lobbying of the US Government1
Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis1
Vote Method and Confidence in Elections1
Scaling Authoritarian Information Control: How China Adjusts the Level of Online Censorship1
Political Preferences Through Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Values and the Conditional Effect of Ballot Measures on Youth Voter Turnout1
Rethinking Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Political Research1
Institutional Friction and Policy Responsiveness: The Puzzle of Coalitional Fragmentation and Executive-Legislative Balance1
Crossover Voting Rates in Partisan and Nonpartisan Elections: Evidence From Cast Vote Records1
Severability Doctrine and the Exercise of Judicial Review1
The Increasing Nationalization of Local Elections: The Case of Prosecutors1
Announcements1
Foreign Policy Preferences and Vote Choice Under Semi-Presidentialism1
The Curious Case of the Migrating Seat: Understanding the Role of Senate Norms in Confirming Judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals1
Demanding Invisibility: Examining U.S. Attitudes Toward Immigrant Political Engagement1
Asking the Right Questions: A Framework for Developing Gender-Balanced Political Knowledge Batteries1
Are Descriptive Representatives More Successful Passing Group-Relevant Legislation? The Case of Native American State Legislators1
The Desperate Radicalism of Orwell’s 1984: Power, Socialism, and Utopia in Dystopian Times1
Christian Nationalism is Unbounded by LGB Identity1
Perceived Exclusionary Disadvantages and Populist Attitudes: Evidence from Comparative and Longitudinal Survey Data in Six European Countries1
The Impact of Racial Representation on Judicial Legitimacy: White Reactions to Latinos on the Bench1
Online Incivility in the 2020 Congressional Elections1
Does Descriptive Representation Increase Acceptance of Judicial Decisions?1
Influencing Enforcement: The Application of International Law in Independent Judiciaries—The Case of the Alien Tort Statute1
Conspiracy and Antisemitism in Contemporary Political Attitudes1
Racially Disparate Policy Responses to Mass Shootings1
Do Citizens Know About Other States’ Policy Choices?1
In Defense of Intentionally Shaping People’s Choices1
Madame Justice Will Save Our Democracy: Gender Bias and Perceptions of the High Court in Transitional Regimes1
At the Intersection of Gender and Party: Legislative Freedom1
How Race, Resentment, and Ideology Shape Attitudes About Native American Inherent Rights and Policy Issues1
Real or Imagined? American Urban-Rural Differences in Political Values1
Measuring Two-Partyness: An Overview and a New Index with Minimum Data Requirements1
The Party Replies: Examining Local Party Responsiveness to Prospective Campaign Volunteers1
Freedom and the Machine: Technological Criticisms in Adam Smith’s Thought1
Parties and Coalition Governance in Presidential Democracies1
Listen to Me: Quality of Communication and Intergenerational Political Socialization1
How You Rate Depends on Who Investigates: Partisan Bias in ABA Ratings of US Courts of Appeals Nominees, 1958–20201
Outside of the Old Boys Club? Gender Differences in Outside Groups’ Advertising Support for U.S. Senate Candidates1
A Moveable Benefit? Spillover Effects of Quotas on Women’s Numerical Representation1
Guns and Democracy: Anti-System Attitudes, Protest, and Support for Violence Among Pandemic Gun-Buyers1
Sexual Violence Against Men in Civil Conflict1
How Men React to Shifts in Gender Representation: Ignored Interests? Good for Society?1
Rousseau and the Development of Identity1
Judicial Philosophy and the Public’s Support for Courts1
Announcements1
Adam Smith on Education as a Means to Political Judgment1
Neighboring Groups and Political Attacks1
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