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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy77
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections63
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy61
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter57
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea39
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation33
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office29
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict25
Affective polarization and democratic erosion: evidence from a context of weak partisanship22
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes19
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians19
Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM15
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM15
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies15
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed15
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?14
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs13
The policy basis of group sentiments13
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats12
The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment11
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?11
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting11
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–198511
Legislative reciprocity: Using a proposal lottery to identify causal effects10
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections10
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence10
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data10
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans9
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
Energy transition, financial markets and EU interventionism: lessons from the Ukraine crisis8
Interactions among simultaneous elections8
Inequality, information, and income tax policy preferences in Austria and Germany8
Local elections do not increase local news demand8
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization8
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election8
Are rural attitudes just Republican?8
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda8
How voters respond to economic shocks from abroad7
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis7
Re-examining the effects of Western sanctions on democracy and human rights in the 21 st century7
The effect of terrorist attacks on attitudes and its duration7
Modeling issue competence over time: a Bayesian framework for estimating dynamic issue ownership7
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes7
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise7
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter6
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism6
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States6
Does ideology influence hiring in China? evidence from two randomized experiments6
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland6
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem6
What traits do citizens value in leaders during war? Experimental and panel-based evidence from Ukraine in 20226
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation6
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text6
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States5
Participatory unilateralism: understanding Congress’s role in presidential unilateral policymaking5
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States5
What can dual citizens teach us about political engagement?5
Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan5
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th4
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
The variation in firm lobbying by political regime: can it explain trade and currency policy differences?4
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 19454
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements4
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?4
Conceptualizing and measuring early campaign fundraising in congressional elections4
Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias4
Presidential policymaking, 1877–20204
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties4
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
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity4
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India4
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China4
The non-linearity between populist attitudes and ideological extremism4
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text4
Income, education, and policy priorities4
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment3
Affective polarization and coalition signals3
Polarization but not populism strengthens the association between presidential election results and emotions3
Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly3
Coup-proofing: latent concept and measurement3
Coalition policy in multiparty governments: whose preferences prevail3
The effects of forced versus selective exposure to propaganda in China3
Does mainstream populism work? Populist rhetoric and the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties3
Institutionalizing the autocratic penalty away: fiscal rules, autocracy, and sovereign financial market access3
Trading integrity for competence? The public's varying preferences for bureaucratic types across government levels in China3
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment3
Measuring time preferences in large surveys3
The accountability of politicians in international crises and the nature of audience cost3
What moves (spending) mood? The nature and origins of parallel public preferences3
Laboratories of democratic renewal: explaining substantial improvement in the quality of democracy in the American States3
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties3
Do citizens vote against incumbents who permit local immigration? Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift3
A matching theory perspective on legislative organization: assignment of committees3
How social desirability bias impacts the expression of emotions3
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs3
Explaining women's political underrepresentation in democracies with high levels of corruption2
Spatial modeling of dyadic geopolitical interactions between moving actors2
Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly?2
Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach2
Promoting democracy in the context of terrorism: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso2
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state2
Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–20212
Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records2
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic2
How strong are international standards in practice? Evidence from cryptocurrency transactions2
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 logged – ERRATUM2
Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy2
The impact of university attendance on partisanship2
Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance2
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico2
Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties2
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France2
The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election2
Campaign communication and legislative leadership2
Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era2
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States2
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland2
The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences2
ecolRxC: Ecological inference estimation of R × C tables using latent structure approaches2
Public and expert preferences in survey experiments in foreign policy: evidence from parallel conjoint analyses2
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China2
A Bayesian multifactor spatio-temporal model for estimating time-varying network interdependence2
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in central and Eastern Europe – ERRATUM2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged2
Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures2
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers2
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation2
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings2
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Estimating the effect of intergroup contact over years: evidence from a youth program in Israel1
What drives perceptions of partisan cooperation?1
Understanding the impact of the 2018 voter ID pilots on turnout at the London local elections: A synthetic difference-in-difference approach1
The direct cost to voters of polling site closures and consolidation1
How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models?1
Can autocratic power influence the media in democracies? Evidence from China's expulsion of American journalists1
A racial reckoning? racial attitudes in the wake of the murder of George Floyd1
The (in)effectiveness of populist rhetoric: a conjoint experiment of campaign messaging1
Challenger entry and electoral accountability1
The making of the boy who cried wolf: fake news and media skepticism1
Measurement error when surveying issue positions: a MultiTrait MultiError approach1
Opportunistic rebel tactics in civil war: Evidence from Colombia1
Facial finetuning: using pretrained image classification models to predict politicians’ success1
Female mayors and violence against women: evidence from Mexico1
Bayesian reasoning for qualitative replication analysis: Examples from climate politics1
Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians1
Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right1
Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany1
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism1
Analyze the attentive and bypass bias: mock vignette checks in survey experiments1
Coalition inclusion probabilities: a party-strategic measure for predicting policy and politics1
When do different systems of government lead to similar power-sharing? The case of government formation1
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Assessing the relative influence of party unity on vote choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment1
How and when candidate race affects inferences about ideology and group favoritism1
A foot out the door: what drives bureaucratic exit into lobbying careers?1
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants? – ADDENDUM1
The distribution of hate speech and its implications for content moderation1
Belief in territorial indivisibility and public preferences for dispute resolution1
Fiscal opportunity coupled with political willingness? Unpacking the effects of TELs and partisan governments on income inequality in the American states, 1986–20201
K Street on main: legislative turnover and multi-client lobbying1
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Party-Strategic Measure for Predicting Policy and Politics – CORRIGENDUM1
Why do majoritarian systems benefit the right? Income groups and vote choice across different electoral systems1
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities1
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe1
Criminal fragmentation in Mexico1
Red lines versus negotiables: how exposure to wartime violence influences support for peace settlements in Ukraine1
Social segregation, inter-group contact, and discriminatory policing1
Explaining support for redistribution: social insurance systems and fairness1
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