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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bargaining outcomes and success in EU economic governance reforms86
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy56
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy55
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections51
What's in a buzzword? A systematic review of the state of populism research in political science48
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter45
Detecting true relationships in time series data with different orders of integration44
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict44
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation36
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians33
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office31
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea26
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed24
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM24
Can political speech foster tolerance of immigrants?21
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting20
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats20
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?19
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs13
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies13
The policy basis of group sentiments13
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–198512
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?12
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections11
Do voters want domestic politicians to scrutinize the European Union?10
Economic interventions, economic perceptions and political support during the Eurozone crisis9
Beaten ballots: political participation dynamics amidst police interventions – CORRIGENDUM9
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence9
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans8
Trade politics at the checkout lane: ethnocentrism and consumer preferences8
Improved LM test for robust model specification searches in covariance structure analysis: application in political science research8
Thin-skinned leaders: regime legitimation, protest issues, and repression in autocracies7
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization7
Detecting anomalies in data on government violence7
Local elections do not increase local news demand7
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda7
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data7
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election7
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise6
Are rural attitudes just Republican?6
Interactions among simultaneous elections6
Politicians unleashed? Political communication on Twitter and in parliament in Western Europe6
The effect of terrorist attacks on attitudes and its duration6
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis6
Estimating the locations of voters, politicians, policy outcomes, and status quos on a common scale6
The effect of drone strikes on civilian communication: evidence from Yemen6
Last step to the throne: the conflict between rulers and their successors5
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States5
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements5
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States5
After defeat: how governing parties respond to electoral loss5
Does ideology influence hiring in China? evidence from two randomized experiments5
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland5
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem5
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter5
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism5
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation5
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text4
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties4
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?4
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States4
Presidential policymaking, 1877–20204
From principles to practice: methods to increase the transparency of research ethics in violent contexts4
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text4
The variation in firm lobbying by political regime: can it explain trade and currency policy differences?4
Income, education, and policy priorities3
Does mainstream populism work? Populist rhetoric and the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties3
Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly3
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment3
Are voters' views about proportional outcomes shaped by partisan preferences? A survey experiment in the context of a real election3
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India3
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity3
How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration3
How many major US laws delegate to federal agencies? (almost) all of them3
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs3
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment3
Political shocks and asset prices3
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th3
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China3
Hot topics: Denial-of-Service attacks on news websites in autocracies3
Coalition policy in multiparty governments: whose preferences prevail3
Hypothesis testing with error correction models3
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments3
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 19453
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland2
Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures2
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state2
Taking dyads seriously2
Campaign communication and legislative leadership2
The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election2
Misattributed blame? Attitudes toward globalization in the age of automation2
Affective polarization and coalition signals2
Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era2
RAM volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers2
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–20212
Explaining women's political underrepresentation in democracies with high levels of corruption2
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings2
Do citizens vote against incumbents who permit local immigration? Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift2
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation2
RAM volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
Institutionalizing the autocratic penalty away: fiscal rules, autocracy, and sovereign financial market access2
Measuring time preferences in large surveys2
Trading integrity for competence? The public's varying preferences for bureaucratic types across government levels in China2
A Bayesian multifactor spatio-temporal model for estimating time-varying network interdependence2
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France2
A careful consideration of CLARIFY: simulation-induced bias in point estimates of quantities of interest2
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States2
Coup-proofing: latent concept and measurement2
The accountability of politicians in international crises and the nature of audience cost2
Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties2
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records2
RAM volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Assessing the relative influence of party unity on vote choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment1
Opportunistic rebel tactics in civil war: Evidence from Colombia1
Spatial modeling of dyadic geopolitical interactions between moving actors1
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Party-Strategic Measure for Predicting Policy and Politics – CORRIGENDUM1
ecolRxC: Ecological inference estimation of R × C tables using latent structure approaches1
The (in)effectiveness of populist rhetoric: a conjoint experiment of campaign messaging1
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged – ERRATUM1
Social segregation, inter-group contact, and discriminatory policing1
The impact of university attendance on partisanship1
Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties1
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Analyze the attentive and bypass bias: mock vignette checks in survey experiments1
The Supreme Court as an electoral issue: evidence from three studies1
How and when candidate race affects inferences about ideology and group favoritism1
How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models?1
Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy1
Can autocratic power influence the media in democracies? Evidence from China's expulsion of American journalists1
Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance1
Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany1
The making of the boy who cried wolf: fake news and media skepticism1
Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right1
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged1
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China1
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico1
Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach1
When growth is not enough: inequality, economic gains, and executive approval1
Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians1
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism1
When do different systems of government lead to similar power-sharing? The case of government formation1
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities1
How government-controlled media shifts policy attitudes through framing1
K Street on main: legislative turnover and multi-client lobbying1
Criminal fragmentation in Mexico1
How corruption investigations undermine regime support: evidence from China1
The effects of state coercion on voting outcome in protest movements: a causal forest approach1
Challenger entry and electoral accountability1
RAM volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences1
Driving turnout: the effect of car ownership on electoral participation1
RAM volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
What drives perceptions of partisan cooperation?1
Why do majoritarian systems benefit the right? Income groups and vote choice across different electoral systems1
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