Political Science Research and Methods

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Science Research and Methods 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy72
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy61
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections57
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter54
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea46
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation37
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office29
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes26
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict25
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM17
Affective polarization and democratic erosion: evidence from a context of weak partisanship17
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians17
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting15
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed14
The policy basis of group sentiments13
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?13
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs12
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies12
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats12
Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM11
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections10
The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment10
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?10
Beaten ballots: political participation dynamics amidst police interventions – CORRIGENDUM10
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–198510
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence9
Legislative reciprocity: Using a proposal lottery to identify causal effects9
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data9
Improved LM test for robust model specification searches in covariance structure analysis: application in political science research9
Economic interventions, economic perceptions and political support during the Eurozone crisis9
Trade politics at the checkout lane: ethnocentrism and consumer preferences9
Interactions among simultaneous elections8
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization8
Local elections do not increase local news demand8
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans8
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise8
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election7
Inequality, information, and income tax policy preferences in Austria and Germany7
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda7
The effect of terrorist attacks on attitudes and its duration7
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis6
Are rural attitudes just Republican?6
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland6
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem6
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States6
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes6
After defeat: how governing parties respond to electoral loss6
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism6
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text6
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter6
What traits do citizens value in leaders during war? Experimental and panel-based evidence from Ukraine in 20226
Does ideology influence hiring in China? evidence from two randomized experiments6
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties6
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States6
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements5
Conceptualizing and measuring early campaign fundraising in congressional elections5
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States5
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation5
Presidential policymaking, 1877–20205
The non-linearity between populist attitudes and ideological extremism5
Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan5
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China5
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 19455
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text5
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th4
When hearts meet minds: complementary effects of perspective-getting and information on refugee inclusion – ERRATUM4
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments4
Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias4
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity4
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India4
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?4
Income, education, and policy priorities4
The variation in firm lobbying by political regime: can it explain trade and currency policy differences?4
How social desirability bias impacts the expression of emotions3
A matching theory perspective on legislative organization: assignment of committees3
Coalition policy in multiparty governments: whose preferences prevail3
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs3
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment3
The effects of forced versus selective exposure to propaganda in China3
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings3
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment3
How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration3
Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly3
Affective polarization and coalition signals3
The accountability of politicians in international crises and the nature of audience cost3
Measuring time preferences in large surveys3
Polarization but not populism strengthens the association between presidential election results and emotions3
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties3
Institutionalizing the autocratic penalty away: fiscal rules, autocracy, and sovereign financial market access3
What moves (spending) mood? The nature and origins of parallel public preferences3
Does mainstream populism work? Populist rhetoric and the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties3
Hot topics: Denial-of-Service attacks on news websites in autocracies3
Laboratories of democratic renewal: explaining substantial improvement in the quality of democracy in the American States3
Campaign communication and legislative leadership3
Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties2
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico2
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers2
RAM volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Coup-proofing: latent concept and measurement2
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–20212
Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged2
Driving turnout: the effect of car ownership on electoral participation2
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged – ERRATUM2
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records2
Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era2
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States2
Do citizens vote against incumbents who permit local immigration? Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift2
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation2
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France2
RAM volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland2
A careful consideration of CLARIFY: simulation-induced bias in point estimates of quantities of interest2
The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences2
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in central and Eastern Europe – ERRATUM2
The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election2
Taking dyads seriously2
How strong are international standards in practice? Evidence from cryptocurrency transactions2
Trading integrity for competence? The public's varying preferences for bureaucratic types across government levels in China2
Explaining women's political underrepresentation in democracies with high levels of corruption2
Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures2
A Bayesian multifactor spatio-temporal model for estimating time-varying network interdependence2
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China2
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities1
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Party-Strategic Measure for Predicting Policy and Politics – CORRIGENDUM1
Spatial modeling of dyadic geopolitical interactions between moving actors1
The impact of university attendance on partisanship1
Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly?1
The effects of state coercion on voting outcome in protest movements: a causal forest approach1
The (in)effectiveness of populist rhetoric: a conjoint experiment of campaign messaging1
Female mayors and violence against women: evidence from Mexico1
A racial reckoning? racial attitudes in the wake of the murder of George Floyd1
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism1
Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany1
Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy1
Social segregation, inter-group contact, and discriminatory policing1
Criminal fragmentation in Mexico1
Can autocratic power influence the media in democracies? Evidence from China's expulsion of American journalists1
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe1
The making of the boy who cried wolf: fake news and media skepticism1
Public and expert preferences in survey experiments in foreign policy: evidence from parallel conjoint analyses1
Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right1
Measurement error when surveying issue positions: a MultiTrait MultiError approach1
Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians1
Opportunistic rebel tactics in civil war: Evidence from Colombia1
How and when candidate race affects inferences about ideology and group favoritism1
K Street on main: legislative turnover and multi-client lobbying1
Challenger entry and electoral accountability1
How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models?1
Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance1
Why do majoritarian systems benefit the right? Income groups and vote choice across different electoral systems1
Assessing the relative influence of party unity on vote choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment1
When do different systems of government lead to similar power-sharing? The case of government formation1
Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach1
ecolRxC: Ecological inference estimation of R × C tables using latent structure approaches1
Analyze the attentive and bypass bias: mock vignette checks in survey experiments1
The direct cost to voters of polling site closures and consolidation1
Fiscal opportunity coupled with political willingness? Unpacking the effects of TELs and partisan governments on income inequality in the American states, 1986–20201
Understanding the impact of the 2018 voter ID pilots on turnout at the London local elections: A synthetic difference-in-difference approach1
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