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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Racial Attitudes and Views of Disaster43
Not Yours to Sell: The Case Against Private Citizenship Markets41
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness38
Unintended Institutional Interactions: Presidential Coattails and Gender Parity Quotas28
Announcements21
Strategic Lobbying and the Pressure to Compromise Member Interests20
Announcements17
Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behaviors17
Public Goods, Expressive Values, and Protest Participation: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in Hong Kong17
Protesting With Feeling in Puerto Rico: Twitter and El Verano Del 1916
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions?16
Race and Resources in Brazilian Mayoral Elections15
Does Familiarity Breed Esteem? A Field Experiment on Emergent Attitudes Toward Members of Congress15
The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes14
The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation14
Does Artificial Intelligence Speak Our Language?: A Gadamerian Assessment of Generative Language Models13
Selling them Short? Differences in News Coverage of Female and Male Candidate Qualifications13
Detecting Diverse Perspectives: Using Text Analytics to Reveal Sex Differences in Congressional Debate About Defense13
Asking Versus Telling: The Supreme Court’s Strategic Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments12
The Democrats Loss of the White Working Class: Another Look at the Evidence12
Social Imagery and Subjective Ideological Proximity to the Supreme Court: Evidence From Evangelical Christians12
What Forms of Redistribution Do Americans Want? Understanding Preferences for Policy Benefit-Cost Tradeoffs11
Sanctuary in a Trumpist Context: Creating Spaces of Democratic Exception11
Race, Contact Effects, and Effective Lawmaking in Congressional Committee Hearings11
Uncertainty, Profit, and the Limits of Markets11
The Political Psychology of Cancel Culture: Value Framing or Group Identity?10
Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum10
Countering International Backlash by Discrediting the Messengers: Reputational Chaining and LGBT+ Rights in Bosnia10
Mavericks or Loyalists? Popular Ballot Jumpers and Party Discipline in the Flexible-List PR Context10
Latino Tú Latino Yo: Group Threat and Group Consciousness in California10
Jobs and Punishment: Public Opinion on Leniency for White-Collar Crime9
Subnational Elections and Media Freedom in Autocracies: Diffusion of Local Reputation and Regime Survival9
Warrior candidates: Do voters value combat experience in postwar elections?9
Supply-Side Anti-Pluralists and Demand-Side Anti-Plutocrats: The Case of 21st Century Populism8
State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion8
Congressional Redistricting and Strategic Copartisans: Partisan Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, 1800–18248
Are Citizens More Politically Engaged when Candidate Selection is Democratic? Analysis of Seven Parliamentary Election Cycles in Israel (1996–2015)8
Compliance with Public Health Orders: The Role of Trust, Representation, and Expertise8
Nevertheless, He Persisted: White Men and the Links Between Incumbency and Group Descriptive Representation8
Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility7
Descriptive Representation and Innovation in American Legislatures7
The Heat is On: Does Civil Litigation Affect Policing Practices?7
Catching My Anger: How Political Elites Create Angrier Citizens7
Essential services, public education workers, and the right to strike7
Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting7
How Wide is the Arc of Racial Solidarity? People of Color and Middle Easterners and North Africans7
The American Dreamers: The Effects of Media Coverage of Immigrants’ Age-at-Arrival7
Who Substitutes Service for Politics? Assessing the Roles of Youth and Partisan Alienation in Americans’ Forms of Civic Engagement7
Is Public Ignorance a Problem? An Epistemic Defense of Really Existing Democracies7
Why the Public Supports the Human Rights of Prisoners and Asylum Seekers: An Experimental Approach7
The Face of the Party: Party Leadership Selection, and the Role of Family and Faith7
Does the Salience of Partisan Competition Increase Affective Polarization in the United States?7
Left-Right Social Identity and the Polarization of Political Tolerance6
Media Discrimination and Gender Differences in Political Ambition in a Laboratory Experiment6
Perceptions of Local Political Corruption6
All of the Above: Lobbying Allied, Undecided, and Opposing Lawmakers in Committee and on the Floor6
Priming Norms to Combat Affective Polarization6
Youthfulness and Legislation: Rousseau on the Constituent Moment6
Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment6
Attitudes Towards LGBT Individuals After bostock v. Clayton County: Evidence From a Quasi Experiment6
Announcements6
Understanding Latino Political Engagement and Activity on Social Media6
International Conflict Involvement, Domestic Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict5
The Democratic Majority and the 2016 American Presidential Election: Feminist Political Behavior Across Multiple Axes of Identity5
Echo Chambers or Doom Scrolling? Homophily, Intensity, and Exposure to Elite Social Media Messages5
Inviting the Populists to the Party: Populist Appeals in Presidential Primaries5
All Talk, No Action? Politicians’ Agenda Responsiveness to Citizens’ Engagement on Social Media5
Correcting Myopia: Effect of Information Provision on Support for Preparedness Policy5
The Education Cyrus Missed5
Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions5
How the Intensity of Preference for Ideological Judges Influences Court Support5
Amusing Ourselves to Loyalty? Entertainment, Propaganda, and Regime Resilience in China5
Rooted in Racism? Race, Partisanship, Status Threat, and Public Opinion Toward Statehood for Washington, D.C.5
The Rise of the “Democrat Party”: Republican Elites, Partisan Slurs, and Linguistic Polarization5
Ask and You Shall Receive: The Effects of Negativity and Fundraising Appeals on Facebook4
Announcements4
Public Perceptions of Wartime Atrocities: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment4
Dilemmas of Distrust: Conspiracy Beliefs, Elite Rhetoric, and Motivated Reasoning4
Legislative Diversity and the Rise of Women Lobbyists4
The Costs of Voting and Voter Confidence4
Viewed from Different Engels? Differences in Reactions to “Socialism” as a Policy Label4
On the Internet, No One Knows You’re an Activist: Patterns of Participation and Response in an Online, Opt-in Survey Panel4
Announcements4
Does Local Autonomy Breed Leviathans? An Empirical Examination of All Cities in the United States4
Political Development and Political Thought4
The Role of State and National Institutional Evaluations in Fostering Collective Accountability Across the U.S. States4
Confidence in US Elections After the Big Lie4
Political Network Diversity and Trust in Online Political Content4
Engraved in the Heart: How Rousseau’s Citizens are Motivated Toward the Common Good4
Health and Election Outcomes: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election4
Redistributive Policy Preferences: The Effects of Family Income and Poverty Attributions4
Issue Responsiveness in Canadian Politics: Are Parties Responsive to the Public Salience of Climate Change in the Question Period?4
Overcoming Resource Competition Among Co-Ethnics: Elites, Endorsements, and Multiracial Support for Urban Distributive Policies4
Democratizing U.S. Courts: Perceived Representation and Support for Judicial Elections4
From Public Participation to Constitutional Legitimacy: Evidence from Tunisia4
Anchoring or Expanding? Gender and Judicial Nominations4
Partisanship, Slavery, and the Demise of the National Road3
Going Feminine: Identifying How and When Female Candidates Emphasize Feminine and Masculine Traits on the Campaign Trail3
Ain’t No Fortunate Son: The Political Calculus of Conscription3
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans3
Shaming in a Shameless World: The Broken Dialectic of the Self3
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
The Authoritarian Predisposition and American Public Support for Social Security3
Announcements3
Authoritarian Opposition? Authoritarian Disposition and Resistance to Public Health Mitigation Strategies During COVID-193
Electoral Institutions and Identity Based Clientelism in Jordan3
Decision-Making in U.S. Foreign Policy Crises: Presidential Leadership and Outcomes3
The “Return” of the People? Understanding Populism by Exploring Citizens’ Conceptions of Peoplehood in Western Europe3
Who Decides? Media, MAGA, Money, and Mentions in the 2022 Republican Primaries3
Election Accomplished: Democracies and the Timing of Peacekeeper Drawdowns3
Racism Despite Integration: Diversity for the Sake of Mission Readiness in the U.S. Military3
Thoreau’s Dialectic of Dissent and Contemporary Activism3
Expressive Epistemic Injustice: Definition, Measurement, and Deliberative Cure3
Media Attention and Deliberation on the Supreme Court3
A Social Media Platform Model of Supreme Court News3
Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement3
Public Support for State Challenges to National Laws3
Do Scandals Matter?3
Silencing Human Rights Defenders Once and for All? Determinants of Human Rights Defenders’ Killings3
Announcements3
Dostoyevsky and the Defense of Compassion2
Women’s Representation and Implications for Fairness, Trust, and Performance in Local Government: A Survey Experiment in Sri Lanka2
Myths About Women in the Political Executive—How Gender Stereotypes Shape the Way MPs Assess the Competences of Ministers2
“Feel My Rage”: Angry Feminist Claims and Affective Mobilization2
When Do Men MPs Claim to Represent Women in Plenary Debates—Time-Series Cross-Sectional Evidence from the German States2
Sex, Campaign Contributions, and State Courts of Last Resort2
Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation2
Rise of Populism: Identity Threats as an Explanation in Relation With Deprivation and Cultural Fear2
When Policymakers are Asked: Why and How Polarization Varies Across States2
A Bigger Tent? Nonwhite Republican Candidates and Their Uphill Paths to Office2
Competitors in Aid: How International Rivalry Affects Public Support for Aid Under Various Frames2
Media Coverage of the Senate Filibuster and Its Effects on Public Opinion2
Domesticity and Political Participation: At Home with the Jacobin Women2
Congressional Committees, Electoral Connections, and Legislative Speech2
No Representation Without Compensation: The Effect of Interest Groups on Legislators’ Policy Area Focus2
Sexual Identities and the Role of Marriage in Social Movement Activism2
Using Candidates’ Tweets to Predict an Election Outcome2
When Congress Prevails: Veto Overrides and Legislative Fragmentation in Multiparty Legislatures2
Representational Style Across National and Constituency Contexts: Members of Parliament in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom2
Harnessing the Power of Emotions: How Women of Color Use Emotional Appeals in Their Campaign Messages2
Suppression by Mobilization: How Information Control Strategies Contain Political Criticism in Autocracies2
Deceptively Stable? How the Stability of Aggregate Abortion Attitudes Conceals Partisan Induced Shifts2
Does the Public Hold Governors Accountable for Policy Outcomes?2
A Double-Edge Sword? Mass Media and Nonviolent Dissent in Autocracies2
Let’s Work Together: Bill Success via Women’s Cosponsorship in U.S. State Legislatures2
Checks and Balances, Veto Exceptionalism, and Constitutional Folk Wisdom: Class and Race Power in American Politics2
The People’s Captain: Understanding Police Officers as an Electoral Brand2
Guardians of Democracy or Passive Bystanders? A Conjoint Experiment on Elite Transgressions of Democratic Norms2
Countering “Fake News” Through Public Education and Advertisements: An Experimental Analysis2
Why Do Election Results Change after Election Day? The “Blue Shift” in California Elections2
Toward a Shared Ideological Currency: Ideological Affective Polarization & the Changing Structure of Ideology in the U.S.2
The Traceability of Presidential Policymaking in the Face of Congressional Sanctioning2
More than Mere Access: An Experiment on Moneyed Interests, Information Provision, and Legislative Action in Congress2
Announcements1
Islamic Constitutions and Democracy1
Partisan Law Enforcement and Extremist Violence: Evidence from U.S. Sheriffs1
Deservingness Heuristics and Policy Attitudes toward the Elderly in an Aging Society: Evidence from Japan1
Candidate Identity and Campaign Priming: Analyzing Voter Support for Pete Buttigieg’s Presidential Run as an Openly Gay Man1
Respectability Politics and Straight Support for LGB Rights1
Women and Local Politics: How Different Offices Affect Female Candidacies1
Are Descriptive Representatives More Successful Passing Group-Relevant Legislation? The Case of Native American State Legislators1
Congressional Constraint? The Review of In Absentia Immigration Removal Orders in Federal Circuit Courts1
Western Political Science Association (WPSA)1
Does Lobbying Affect Bill Advancement? Evidence from Three State Legislatures1
Sexual Violence Against Men in Civil Conflict1
Influencing Enforcement: The Application of International Law in Independent Judiciaries—The Case of the Alien Tort Statute1
Scaling Authoritarian Information Control: How China Adjusts the Level of Online Censorship1
Crossover Voting Rates in Partisan and Nonpartisan Elections: Evidence From Cast Vote Records1
At the Intersection of Gender and Party: Legislative Freedom1
The Second Sex in the Second District: The Policy Effects of Electing Women to County Government1
Parties and Coalition Governance in Presidential Democracies1
Announcements1
A Moveable Benefit? Spillover Effects of Quotas on Women’s Numerical Representation1
Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis1
“You Had Better Mention All of Them:” Race and Gender Effects in Election Loss Narratives1
Either with Us or Against Us: Business Power and Campaign Contributions in an Age of Hyper-Partisanship1
The Contingent Effects of Sexism in Primary Elections1
Trump Tweets and Democratic Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment1
Racial Identities, Linguistic Proficiency, and Public Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence From Two Surveys in Taiwan1
Online Incivility in the 2020 Congressional Elections1
Socializing Policy Feedback: The Long-Term Effects of Adolescent Program Participation on Adult Party Identification1
Globaloney: Extended Party Networks and the Dissemination of Anti-Globalization Insults1
Analyzing Attention to Scandal on Twitter: Elites Sell What Supporters Buy1
Christian Nationalism is Unbounded by LGB Identity1
In Defense of Intentionally Shaping People’s Choices1
The Impact of Racial Representation on Judicial Legitimacy: White Reactions to Latinos on the Bench1
Announcements1
Sore Losers: Does Terrorism and Approval of Terrorism Increase in Democracies When Election Losers Refuse to Accept Election Results?1
Mall Cop or Robocop? The Political Determinants of Police Militarization in Brazil1
Judicial Philosophy and the Public’s Support for Courts1
Debating the Populist Pariah: Changing Party Dynamics and Elite Rhetoric in the Swedish Riksdag1
The Attorneys’ Gender: Exploring Counsel Success before the U.S. Supreme Court1
Institutional Friction and Policy Responsiveness: The Puzzle of Coalitional Fragmentation and Executive-Legislative Balance1
Real or Imagined? American Urban-Rural Differences in Political Values1
US Sanctions and Foreign Lobbying of the US Government1
Severability Doctrine and the Exercise of Judicial Review1
Participatory Governance and Responsiveness: Do Motivational Interventions Increase Engagement with Citizen Input?1
How Electoral Cycles Shape the Implementation of Public Works Programs: Evidence From India1
The Deaths of Ideas in Congress1
Proximity, Perceived Costs and Benefits, and Public Support for Indian Gaming1
Identity in Campaign Finance and Elections: The Impact of Gender and Race on Money Raised in 2010–2018 U.S. House Elections1
Is a Polarized Party System a Too Extreme Party System? Understanding Perceptions of Party Extremity in the United States1
How You Rate Depends on Who Investigates: Partisan Bias in ABA Ratings of US Courts of Appeals Nominees, 1958–20201
Adam Smith on Education as a Means to Political Judgment1
Political Crisis in Central Government and Bureaucrats’ Responses in Provincial Government: The Impact of Governors’ Characteristics1
Are Political Attacks a Laughing Matter? Three Experiments on Political Humor and the Effectiveness of Negative Campaigning1
Marginalization as a Structural Constraint: How Group Position Shapes Out-Group Hostility1
Partisan (A) Symmetries in Hardball: Mass Level Support of Hardball Equivalent Across Party and Race1
Hegel, History, Hostility: The Persistence of War in Hegel’s Political Philosophy1
Authoritarian Institutions and Democratic Lessons1
Racially Disparate Policy Responses to Mass Shootings1
Clarifying the Relationship Between Political Consumerism and Political Persuasion Over Time1
Do Citizens Know About Other States’ Policy Choices?1
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