Political Science Research and Methods

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Science Research and Methods is 2. 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
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy101
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections53
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy36
Benchmarking in public updating of economic perceptions29
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation29
Measuring inter-party communication: a transformer-based approach26
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes23
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach21
How descriptive over- and under-representation impacts citizens’ evaluations of decision-making across policy domains21
Validating open-source machine translation for quantitative text analysis18
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea17
Dynamic persuasion: decay and accumulation of partisan media persuasion16
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict15
Local taxes and economic voting: evidence from city ballot measures15
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office14
Affective polarization and democratic erosion: evidence from a context of weak partisanship14
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians14
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM13
The policy basis of group sentiments12
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed12
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs11
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats11
Improving studies of sensitive topics using prior evidence: an informative Bayesian approach for list experiments11
Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM11
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies11
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?11
The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment10
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections10
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?10
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–198510
Legislative reciprocity: Using a proposal lottery to identify causal effects9
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence9
Improved LM test for robust model specification searches in covariance structure analysis: application in political science research9
Trade politics at the checkout lane: ethnocentrism and consumer preferences9
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data8
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda8
Do party leaders influence roll-call voting in congress?8
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization8
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans8
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election7
Energy transition, financial markets and EU interventionism: lessons from the Ukraine crisis7
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes7
Modeling issue competence over time: a Bayesian framework for estimating dynamic issue ownership7
Local elections do not increase local news demand7
Are rural attitudes just Republican?7
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis7
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise7
Interactions among simultaneous elections7
Inequality, information, and income tax policy preferences in Austria and Germany7
How voters respond to economic shocks from abroad7
What can dual citizens teach us about political engagement?6
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States6
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem6
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism6
What traits do citizens value in leaders during war? Experimental and panel-based evidence from Ukraine in 20226
Participatory unilateralism: understanding Congress’s role in presidential unilateral policymaking6
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text6
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties6
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland6
Re-examining the effects of Western sanctions on democracy and human rights in the 21 st century6
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements6
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation6
Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan6
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States6
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 19455
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China5
Analyzing the impact of events through surveys: formalizing biases and introducing the dual randomized survey design5
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States5
When hearts meet minds: complementary effects of perspective-getting and information on refugee inclusion – ERRATUM5
Presidential policymaking, 1877–20205
The non-linearity between populist attitudes and ideological extremism5
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity5
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India5
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text5
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th5
Conceptualizing and measuring early campaign fundraising in congressional elections5
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?5
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments5
From foe to friend? Government–opposition conflict and the appointment of cabinet ministers4
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs4
Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias4
Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly4
The effects of forced versus selective exposure to propaganda in China4
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment4
Propaganda to a cynical audience4
Laboratories of democratic renewal: explaining substantial improvement in the quality of democracy in the American States4
Income, education, and policy priorities4
The accountability of politicians in international crises and the nature of audience cost4
How social desirability bias impacts the expression of emotions4
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment4
Navigating the mismeasurement of intermediary variables in message-based experiments4
What moves (spending) mood? The nature and origins of parallel public preferences4
The shadow of social desirability bias: evidence from reassessing the sources of political trust in China4
A matching theory perspective on legislative organization: assignment of committees4
Institutionalizing the autocratic penalty away: fiscal rules, autocracy, and sovereign financial market access4
What electability means to voters and how it affects their decisions3
How strong are international standards in practice? Evidence from cryptocurrency transactions3
Trading integrity for competence? The public's varying preferences for bureaucratic types across government levels in China3
Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine3
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach – CORRIGENDUM3
Campaign communication and legislative leadership3
Does mainstream populism work? Populist rhetoric and the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties3
Polarization but not populism strengthens the association between presidential election results and emotions3
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings3
Does far-right legislative entry affect minority candidate diversity?3
Measuring party loyalty3
Coup-proofing: latent concept and measurement3
Coalition policy in multiparty governments: whose preferences prevail3
Affective polarization and coalition signals3
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States3
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation3
Partners in government: politicians’ gender preferences in coalition formation3
The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election3
Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era3
Measuring time preferences in large surveys3
A careful consideration of CLARIFY: simulation-induced bias in point estimates of quantities of interest2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged2
Measuring interethnic marriage in Africa2
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities2
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Party-Strategic Measure for Predicting Policy and Politics – CORRIGENDUM2
Public and expert preferences in survey experiments in foreign policy: evidence from parallel conjoint analyses2
Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy2
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico2
Beyond the mean: how thinking about the distribution of public opinions reduces politicians’ perceptual errors2
The (in)effectiveness of populist rhetoric: a conjoint experiment of campaign messaging2
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China2
Criminal fragmentation in Mexico2
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state2
Assessing the relative influence of party unity on vote choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment2
The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences2
Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures2
The impact of university attendance on partisanship2
Challenger entry and electoral accountability2
Social segregation, inter-group contact, and discriminatory policing2
Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany2
Analyze the attentive and bypass bias: mock vignette checks in survey experiments2
Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach2
Red lines versus negotiables: how exposure to wartime violence influences support for peace settlements in Ukraine2
Political lotteries and roll-call voting in the Belgian parliament during democratization2
Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties2
The making of the boy who cried wolf: fake news and media skepticism2
A Bayesian multifactor spatio-temporal model for estimating time-varying network interdependence2
Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance2
When can individual partisanship be tempered? Mass behavior and attitudes across the COVID-19 pandemic2
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe2
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in central and Eastern Europe – ERRATUM2
Explaining women's political underrepresentation in democracies with high levels of corruption2
Conditional relationships in dynamic models2
Rebels in the house: Do anti-elitist parties vote differently?2
How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models?2
Can autocratic power influence the media in democracies? Evidence from China's expulsion of American journalists2
Measurement error when surveying issue positions: a MultiTrait MultiError approach2
Voting for gender balancing? The effect of a multiple-vote system on women’s representation2
Promoting democracy in the context of terrorism: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso2
Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right2
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland2
Strong state, weak enforcement: bureaucratic forbearance of China’s social insurance policies2
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–20212
Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly?2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged – ERRATUM2
ecolRxC: Ecological inference estimation of R × C tables using latent structure approaches2
Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records2
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