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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not Yours to Sell: The Case Against Private Citizenship Markets83
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness42
Announcements25
Public Goods, Expressive Values, and Protest Participation: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in Hong Kong23
Islam, Origin Countries, and Democracy Satisfaction Among Immigrants in Western Europe22
Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behaviors18
Protesting With Feeling in Puerto Rico: Twitter and El Verano Del 1918
Bridges and Walls: How Rising Income Inequality Drives Anti-Immigrant Politics and Republican Realignment18
Racial Attitudes and Views of Disaster17
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions?17
What Forms of Redistribution Do Americans Want? Understanding Preferences for Policy Benefit-Cost Tradeoffs16
Social Imagery and Subjective Ideological Proximity to the Supreme Court: Evidence From Evangelical Christians15
The Democrats Loss of the White Working Class: Another Look at the Evidence15
Does Artificial Intelligence Speak Our Language?: A Gadamerian Assessment of Generative Language Models13
Political Ideology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Labor Markets: How Political Party Members Perceive AI’s Effects in OECD Countries13
The Racial Typification of Election Officials and Trust in Elections12
The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes12
The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation12
Climate Politics in the Primaries: How Primary Voters Shape Electoral Incentives and Climate Policy12
Does Inflammatory Rhetoric Boost Support for Political Violence? Considering the Role of Geographic Context11
When Staff Identity Matters: Black Legislative Staff and Agenda-Setting in Civil Rights Legislation11
Jobs and Punishment: Public Opinion on Leniency for White-Collar Crime10
Countering International Backlash by Discrediting the Messengers: Reputational Chaining and LGBT+ Rights in Bosnia10
Asking Versus Telling: The Supreme Court’s Strategic Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments10
State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion10
Race, Contact Effects, and Effective Lawmaking in Congressional Committee Hearings10
The Political Psychology of Cancel Culture: Value Framing or Group Identity?9
Compliance with Public Health Orders: The Role of Trust, Representation, and Expertise9
Nevertheless, He Persisted: White Men and the Links Between Incumbency and Group Descriptive Representation9
Why the Public Supports the Human Rights of Prisoners and Asylum Seekers: An Experimental Approach9
Are Citizens More Politically Engaged when Candidate Selection is Democratic? Analysis of Seven Parliamentary Election Cycles in Israel (1996–2015)9
The American Dreamers: The Effects of Media Coverage of Immigrants’ Age-at-Arrival9
Supply-Side Anti-Pluralists and Demand-Side Anti-Plutocrats: The Case of 21st Century Populism9
Latino Tú Latino Yo: Group Threat and Group Consciousness in California9
The Heat is On: Does Civil Litigation Affect Policing Practices?9
Communicating the Politics of the Law: Legal and Legislative Rhetoric About High Court Decisions8
The Canary in the Coal Mine: An Intersectional Analysis of Mayoral Leadership and Political Violence in the Aftermath of COVID-198
Congressional Redistricting and Strategic Copartisans: Partisan Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, 1800–18248
Democratization and Regional Development Banks: A Cross-Continental Comparative Analysis8
Descriptive Representation and Innovation in American Legislatures7
International Conflict Involvement, Domestic Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict7
Does the Salience of Partisan Competition Increase Affective Polarization in the United States?7
Constrained but Not Transformed: Civilian-Led Certification Reform and Officer Misconduct7
Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting7
How the Intensity of Preference for Ideological Judges Influences Court Support7
Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility7
Left-Right Social Identity and the Polarization of Political Tolerance7
All Talk, No Action? Politicians’ Agenda Responsiveness to Citizens’ Engagement on Social Media7
Depictions of Partisan Bias at Oral Argument and Public Evaluations of the U.S. Supreme Court7
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
The Democratic Majority and the 2016 American Presidential Election: Feminist Political Behavior Across Multiple Axes of Identity6
Courts and Horizontal Accountability in Hybrid Regimes: Judicial Review and the Quality of Democracy6
Understanding the News Coverage of Gay Candidates: Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 Primary Campaign and the Partisan News Media6
New Lines, New Districts, New Representation: Institutional Impacts of Congressional Redistricting6
Perceptions of Local Political Corruption6
An Ideologue by Any Other Name? Party, Gender, and Race Cues in Foreign Policy Support6
Understanding Latino Political Engagement and Activity on Social Media6
Echo Chambers or Doom Scrolling? Homophily, Intensity, and Exposure to Elite Social Media Messages6
Announcements6
Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment6
Inhabiting Different Worlds: How Partisan Attitudes Shape Americans’ Evaluation of the Black Lives Matter Protests and the January 6 th Insurrection6
Inviting the Populists to the Party: Populist Appeals in Presidential Primaries5
Correcting Myopia: Effect of Information Provision on Support for Preparedness Policy5
Political Network Diversity and Trust in Online Political Content5
Announcements5
Validating Vote-by-Mail Ballots: The Subjective Nature of Signature Verification5
Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions5
Rooted in Racism? Race, Partisanship, Status Threat, and Public Opinion Toward Statehood for Washington, D.C.5
The Problem of Gratitude and the Conditions of Liberty in Machiavelli’s Political Thought5
The Role of State and National Institutional Evaluations in Fostering Collective Accountability Across the U.S. States5
Among the Bodies of Our Children: Using Amici Briefs to Analyze State Motivation in Indigenous Law Cases5
The Unitary Executive Theory in Practice: Bureaucratic Structure as an Obstacle to Executive Unilateralism5
The Rise of the “Democrat Party”: Republican Elites, Partisan Slurs, and Linguistic Polarization5
Political Development and Political Thought5
On the Internet, No One Knows You’re an Activist: Patterns of Participation and Response in an Online, Opt-in Survey Panel5
Anchoring or Expanding? Gender and Judicial Nominations5
Announcements5
Overcoming Resource Competition Among Co-Ethnics: Elites, Endorsements, and Multiracial Support for Urban Distributive Policies5
Organizational Identity Signaling: How Women’s Political Organizations Influence Candidate Diversity5
Authoritarian Opposition? Authoritarian Disposition and Resistance to Public Health Mitigation Strategies During COVID-194
How Do National Governments Shape and Control Cities’ International Cooperation? Meta-governance Analysis of City Diplomacy4
Redistributive Policy Preferences: The Effects of Family Income and Poverty Attributions4
Partisanship, Slavery, and the Demise of the National Road4
Leaks in the Judicial Pipeline: Evidence of a Gender Gap in Perceived Qualifications and Ambition for the Federal Bench4
Expressive Epistemic Injustice: Definition, Measurement, and Deliberative Cure4
Democratizing U.S. Courts: Perceived Representation and Support for Judicial Elections4
A Social Media Platform Model of Supreme Court News4
Ain’t No Fortunate Son: The Political Calculus of Conscription4
Ask and You Shall Receive: The Effects of Negativity and Fundraising Appeals on Facebook4
Corrigendum4
Public Perceptions of Wartime Atrocities: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment4
Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement4
The Public Security Issue Area4
How to Smuggle Contraband and Influence Border Policy4
Electoral Institutions and Identity Based Clientelism in Jordan4
They Know What They Know and It Ain’t Much: Revisiting the Dunning–Kruger Effect and Overconfidence in Political Knowledge4
Engraved in the Heart: How Rousseau’s Citizens are Motivated Toward the Common Good4
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans4
The Racial Gap in Trust in Elections (and How to Close It)4
The Costs of Voting and Voter Confidence4
Announcements4
Issue Responsiveness in Canadian Politics: Are Parties Responsive to the Public Salience of Climate Change in the Question Period?4
The “Return” of the People? Understanding Populism by Exploring Citizens’ Conceptions of Peoplehood in Western Europe4
Confidence in US Elections After the Big Lie4
Costly Commitments in Authoritarian Regime Formation: Evidence From Tunisia4
“Feel My Rage”: Angry Feminist Claims and Affective Mobilization3
Mixed-Member Proportional Representation and the U.S. House of Representatives3
Unity in Diversity? LGBTQ Coalitional Identity and Linked Fate in the US, Canada, and the UK3
Elections and Representation in American Municipal Administration3
Using Candidates’ Tweets to Predict an Election Outcome3
Who Decides? Media, MAGA, Money, and Mentions in the 2022 Republican Primaries3
Authoritarian Youth: Bidirectional Effects Between Authoritarianism, National Identification, and Political Participation Among Czech Youth3
Racism Despite Integration: Diversity for the Sake of Mission Readiness in the U.S. Military3
Sexual Identities and the Role of Marriage in Social Movement Activism3
Using Process Tracing to Investigate Elite Experience Accrual: Explaining Margaret Thatcher’s Support for US Air Strikes Against Libya3
Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation3
Congressional Committees, Electoral Connections, and Legislative Speech3
Announcements3
Checks and Balances, Veto Exceptionalism, and Constitutional Folk Wisdom: Class and Race Power in American Politics3
Native American Political Trust3
Countering “Fake News” Through Public Education and Advertisements: An Experimental Analysis3
Lifetime Appointments, Lasting Reactions: Partisanship and the Enduring Effect of Nominations on Supreme Court Approval3
Life, Liberty, and Litigation: Do Constitutional Rights Impact Climate Litigation Outcome?3
Public Support for State Challenges to National Laws3
Announcements3
The Spread of Symbolic Policies: Juneteenth, Interests, and Representation in the U.S. States3
No Representation Without Compensation: The Effect of Interest Groups on Legislators’ Policy Area Focus3
Location Is Everything: Proximity and the Diffusion of Tribal-State Gaming Compacts3
When Do Men MPs Claim to Represent Women in Plenary Debates—Time-Series Cross-Sectional Evidence from the German States3
Announcements3
Sex, Campaign Contributions, and State Courts of Last Resort3
Are Voters’ Preferences Being Ignored in Governor’s Agendas?3
Election Accomplished: Democracies and the Timing of Peacekeeper Drawdowns3
Do Scandals Matter?3
Race and Allegiance to the U.S. Supreme Court: Withering Institutional Support Among Black Americans in the Post- Dobbs Era3
Silencing Human Rights Defenders Once and for All? Determinants of Human Rights Defenders’ Killings3
The Public’s Constraint of Undemocratic Elites3
The People’s Captain: Understanding Police Officers as an Electoral Brand3
Real or Imagined? American Urban-Rural Differences in Political Values2
The Deaths of Ideas in Congress2
Racial Identities, Linguistic Proficiency, and Public Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence From Two Surveys in Taiwan2
A Bigger Tent? Nonwhite Republican Candidates and Their Uphill Paths to Office2
Who Donates? Gender and Campaign Contributions in Brazil2
The Unemployed and the Restless: Protest Participation Among the Unemployed2
Congressional Constraint? The Review of In Absentia Immigration Removal Orders in Federal Circuit Courts2
Myths About Women in the Political Executive—How Gender Stereotypes Shape the Way MPs Assess the Competences of Ministers2
“Stop the Steal” Sentenced: An Analysis of Judge Appointment Effects on the Sentencing of January 6 Defendants2
Beyond Credit Claiming: Protection and Commiseration Messages in Distributive Politics2
Analyzing Attention to Scandal on Twitter: Elites Sell What Supporters Buy2
Representational Style Across National and Constituency Contexts: Members of Parliament in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom2
Partisan Law Enforcement and Extremist Violence: Evidence from U.S. Sheriffs2
Debating the Populist Pariah: Changing Party Dynamics and Elite Rhetoric in the Swedish Riksdag2
Bureaucratic Bias or Voter-Side Factors? Testing Competing Explanations for Racial Gaps in Vote-By-Mail Ballot Signature Rejections2
Clarifying the Relationship Between Political Consumerism and Political Persuasion Over Time2
A Threat to Democracy? Uncivil Speech and Democracy’s Value2
How Electoral Cycles Shape the Implementation of Public Works Programs: Evidence From India2
Harnessing the Power of Emotions: How Women of Color Use Emotional Appeals in Their Campaign Messages2
Socializing Policy Feedback: The Long-Term Effects of Adolescent Program Participation on Adult Party Identification2
Media Coverage of the Senate Filibuster and Its Effects on Public Opinion2
Candidate Identity and Campaign Priming: Analyzing Voter Support for Pete Buttigieg’s Presidential Run as an Openly Gay Man2
Governing for Growth? Economic Performance and Finance Minister Survival in Democracies and Autocracies2
Judicial Ambition and the Crafting of Law: How Promotion Potential Shapes Appellate Opinions2
Rise of Populism: Identity Threats as an Explanation in Relation With Deprivation and Cultural Fear2
Gendered Policy Leadership in the Judicial Branch2
Toward a Shared Ideological Currency: Ideological Affective Polarization & the Changing Structure of Ideology in the U.S.2
Proximity, Perceived Costs and Benefits, and Public Support for Indian Gaming2
Mall Cop or Robocop? The Political Determinants of Police Militarization in Brazil2
“You Had Better Mention All of Them:” Race and Gender Effects in Election Loss Narratives2
Announcements2
Women Representing Women: Maternal Health Advocacy and the Limits of Gendered Solidarity2
Disaster, Distributive Politics, and the Persistence of Partisan Divides in Climate Policy2
The Traceability of Presidential Policymaking in the Face of Congressional Sanctioning2
Trump Tweets and Democratic Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment2
Competitors in Aid: How International Rivalry Affects Public Support for Aid Under Various Frames2
Examining the Effects of 2SLGBTQI+ Candidates on 2SLGBTQI+ Voter Turnout in Canada2
Suppression by Mobilization: How Information Control Strategies Contain Political Criticism in Autocracies2
When Congress Prevails: Veto Overrides and Legislative Fragmentation in Multiparty Legislatures2
Who’s Got the “Best Shot”? Race-Gender Stereotypes and Primary Elections2
Deceptively Stable? How the Stability of Aggregate Abortion Attitudes Conceals Partisan Induced Shifts2
Women and Local Politics: How Different Offices Affect Female Candidacies2
Is a Polarized Party System a Too Extreme Party System? Understanding Perceptions of Party Extremity in the United States2
Presidential References to Executive Actions in Public Comments on Supreme Court Cases*1
Perceived Exclusionary Disadvantages and Populist Attitudes: Evidence from Comparative and Longitudinal Survey Data in Six European Countries1
Racially Disparate Policy Responses to Mass Shootings1
The Conditional Lawmaking Benefits of Party Faction Membership in Congress1
At the Intersection of Gender and Party: Legislative Freedom1
Rethinking Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Political Research1
Adam Smith on Education as a Means to Political Judgment1
Rousseau and the Development of Identity1
Education, Indoctrination, and Mass Mobilization in Autocracies1
Do Citizens Know About Other States’ Policy Choices?1
Measuring Two-Partyness: An Overview and a New Index with Minimum Data Requirements1
The Evolution of Public Opinion Over Gay Rights in Switzerland1
Globaloney: Extended Party Networks and the Dissemination of Anti-Globalization Insults1
Outside of the Old Boys Club? Gender Differences in Outside Groups’ Advertising Support for U.S. Senate Candidates1
Money and Pathways to Participation: Campaign Contributions and Identity1
The Strategic Value of Compromise: Bipartisanship and Committee Leadership in the U.S. House1
Neighboring Groups and Political Attacks1
Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda on Chinese Social Media After the Ukraine Invasion1
Christian Nationalism is Unbounded by LGB Identity1
Western Political Science Association (WPSA)1
How Do Women and Men Respond to More Women in the Legislature? A Study of Bill Introductions and Effectiveness1
Public Preferences for Reallocating Aid in the Presence of Alternative Donors1
Vote Method and Confidence in Elections1
Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis1
For Whom Does the Message Matter? The Effect of Identity-Based Get-Out-the-Vote Appeals on the Political Participation of Underrepresented Groups1
Values and the Conditional Effect of Ballot Measures on Youth Voter Turnout1
The Increasing Nationalization of Local Elections: The Case of Prosecutors1
Influencing Enforcement: The Application of International Law in Independent Judiciaries—The Case of the Alien Tort Statute1
How Race, Resentment, and Ideology Shape Attitudes About Native American Inherent Rights and Policy Issues1
The Party Replies: Examining Local Party Responsiveness to Prospective Campaign Volunteers1
Rebels With Too Many Causes: Diverse Recruitment Appeals and the Intractability of Civil Conflicts1
Trust in the (Measures of Legitimacy of) Courts1
Does Descriptive Representation Increase Acceptance of Judicial Decisions?1
How You Rate Depends on Who Investigates: Partisan Bias in ABA Ratings of US Courts of Appeals Nominees, 1958–20201
Foreign Aid for Human Rights: A Theoretical Framework and Evidence From 121 Aid-Receiving Countries, 2002–20211
How Men React to Shifts in Gender Representation: Ignored Interests? Good for Society?1
Conspiracy and Antisemitism in Contemporary Political Attitudes1
Partisan (A) Symmetries in Hardball: Mass Level Support of Hardball Equivalent Across Party and Race1
The Effect of the Political Environment on White Women’s Political Ambition1
The Curious Case of the Migrating Seat: Understanding the Role of Senate Norms in Confirming Judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals1
Ideological Sorting Helps Explain the Galvanization of Latino Republicans in Contemporary U.S. Politics: Qualitative Evidence From In-Depth Interviews1
Announcements1
Institutional Friction and Policy Responsiveness: The Puzzle of Coalitional Fragmentation and Executive-Legislative Balance1
Contested Identity and Prejudice Against Co-Ethnic Refugees: Evidence From South Korea1
Announcements1
Fake News as Political Communication: On Fake News, Digital Media and the Struggle for Hegemony in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe1
Judicial Philosophy and the Public’s Support for Courts1
Madame Justice Will Save Our Democracy: Gender Bias and Perceptions of the High Court in Transitional Regimes1
Either with Us or Against Us: Business Power and Campaign Contributions in an Age of Hyper-Partisanship1
The State and the Refugee. Governing Asylum at the Intersection Between Politics and Administration1
Hegel, History, Hostility: The Persistence of War in Hegel’s Political Philosophy1
Foreign Policy Preferences and Vote Choice Under Semi-Presidentialism1
Demanding Invisibility: Examining U.S. Attitudes Toward Immigrant Political Engagement1
Political Preferences Through Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Power-Sharing, Presidential Style: Issue Salience and Portfolio Allocation in Multiparty Presidential Systems1
Guns and Democracy: Anti-System Attitudes, Protest, and Support for Violence Among Pandemic Gun-Buyers1
Sexual Violence Against Men in Civil Conflict1
Listen to Me: Quality of Communication and Intergenerational Political Socialization1
Are Descriptive Representatives More Successful Passing Group-Relevant Legislation? The Case of Native American State Legislators1
Grave Acts: The Relationship between Contextual Exposure to Police Killings and Black Political Participation1
Crossover Voting Rates in Partisan and Nonpartisan Elections: Evidence From Cast Vote Records1
Motivated Reasoning or Cooperative Internationalism? Ideology and Public Responses to International Endorsements1
Institutions of Independence? Judicial Councils and the Strategic Politics of Compliance1
From Exclusion to Utopia: A Comparative Study of Intentional Community Formation1
The Political Morality of Associational Life1
Parties and Coalition Governance in Presidential Democracies1
Is There a Policy-Identity Representation Trade-off?1
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