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October 2019

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1
Altmetric Attention Score: 768
How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization
American Political Science Review | Political Science 2019-10-31
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 259
Does money have a conservative bias? Estimating the causal impact of Citizens United on state legislative preferences
Public Choice | Political Science 2019-10-09
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 174
Cows, Charcoal, and Cocaine: Al-Shabaab’s Criminal Activities in the Horn of Africa
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism | Political Science 2019-10-17
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 152
Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign
Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-26
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 151
The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Voter Participation: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Quarterly Journal of Political Science | Political Science 2019-10-10
6
Altmetric Attention Score: 133
Do People Really Become More Conservative as They Age?
Journal of Politics | Political Science 2019-10-17
7
Altmetric Attention Score: 120
US ballistic missile defenses, 2019
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Political Science 2019-10-24
8
Altmetric Attention Score: 119
Dangerous Confidence? Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation
International Security | Political Science 2019-10-28
9
Altmetric Attention Score: 110
Mapping blue helmets: Introducing the Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations (Geo-PKO) dataset
Journal of Peace Research | Political Science 2019-10-22
10
Altmetric Attention Score: 103
Fact-Checking: A Meta-Analysis of What Works and for Whom
Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-24
11
Altmetric Attention Score: 97
Between the devil and the DUP: the Democratic Unionist Party and the politics of Brexit
British Politics | Political Science 2019-10-11
12
Altmetric Attention Score: 87
The end of military-techno Pax Americana? Washington’s strategic responses to Chinese AI-enabled military technology
Pacific Review | Political Science Area Studies 2019-10-21
13
Altmetric Attention Score: 82
Where does ethnic concentration matter for populist radical right support? An analysis of geographical scale and the halo effect
Political Geography | Political Science Geography 2019-10-25
14
Altmetric Attention Score: 81
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia
International Studies Perspectives | Political Science 2019-10-10
15
Altmetric Attention Score: 79
Progressive Politics in a Changing World: Challenging the Fallacies of Blue Labour
Political Quarterly | Political Science 2019-10-12
16
Altmetric Attention Score: 77
Populism as a Problem of Social Integration
Comparative Political Studies | Political Science 2019-10-17
17
Altmetric Attention Score: 76
Populism as Plebeian Politics: Inequality, Domination, and Popular Empowerment
Journal of Political Philosophy | Political Science 2019-10-17
18
Altmetric Attention Score: 68
Food Sharing Initiatives and Food Democracy: Practice and Policy in Three European Cities
Politics and Governance | Political Science 2019-10-28
19
Altmetric Attention Score: 67
How an Islamist party managed to legitimate its authoritarianization in the eyes of the secularist opposition: the case of Turkey
Democratization | Political Science 2019-10-28
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 67
The European lavender vote: Sexuality, ideology and vote choice in Western Europe
European Journal of Political Research | Political Science 2019-10-18
21
Altmetric Attention Score: 66
‘#Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees
Review of International Studies | Political Science 2019-10-25
22
Altmetric Attention Score: 65
Gendered Nationalism and the 2016 US Presidential Election: How Party, Class, and Beliefs about Masculinity Shaped Voting Behavior
Politics & Gender | Political Science 2019-10-23
23
Altmetric Attention Score: 62
The Motivations and Dynamics of Zimbabwe’s 2017 Military Coup
African Affairs | Political Science Area Studies 2019-10-30
24
Altmetric Attention Score: 57
Coordinating a Multi-Platform Disinformation Campaign: Internet Research Agency Activity on Three U.S. Social Media Platforms, 2015 to 2017
Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-14
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 57
The Politics of Crackdowns on Africa's Informal Vendors
Comparative Politics | Political Science 2019-10-01
26
Altmetric Attention Score: 56
Contested public attributions of cyber incidents and the role of academia
Contemporary Security Policy | Political Science 2019-10-12
27
Altmetric Attention Score: 54
The Domestic Politics of Nuclear Choices—A Review Essay
International Security | Political Science 2019-10-28
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 54
Elites, masses, and democratic decline in Indonesia
Democratization | Political Science 2019-10-28
29
Altmetric Attention Score: 53
Hidden in Plain Sight: Unpaid Household Services and the Politics of GDP Measurement
New Political Economy | Political Science 2019-10-24
30
Altmetric Attention Score: 49
Strategic Candidate Entry and Congressional Elections in the Era of Fox News
American Journal of Political Science | Political Science 2019-10-11
31
Altmetric Attention Score: 48
Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Extortion in Mexico’s Drug War
Comparative Political Studies | Political Science 2019-10-30
32
Altmetric Attention Score: 46
Home, Again: Refugee Return and Post-Conflict Violence in Burundi
International Security | Political Science 2019-10-28
33
Altmetric Attention Score: 45
Patterns of Regime Breakdown Since the French Revolution
Comparative Political Studies | Political Science 2019-10-17
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 45
Cultivating Clients: Reputation, Responsiveness, and Ethnic Indifference in India's Slums
American Journal of Political Science | Political Science 2019-10-15
35
Altmetric Attention Score: 42
Personal and Political Emotions in the Mind of the Diplomat
Political Psychology | Political Science 2019-10-14
36
Altmetric Attention Score: 41
How an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Political Science 2019-10-28
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 41
Trust, regulation, and redistribution why some governments overregulate and under‐redistribute
Regulation & Governance | Political Science Law 2019-10-18
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Altmetric Attention Score: 40
Strength from the Shadows? How Shadow Economies Affect Terrorist Activities
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism | Political Science 2019-10-21
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 40
Thinking politically about corruption as problem‐solving: A reply to Persson, Rothstein, and Teorell
Governance | Political Science 2019-10-24
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 40
‘What do we have to lose?’: Local economic decline, prospect theory, and support for Brexit
Electoral Studies | Political Science 2019-10-26
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 40
The determinants of democracy: a sensitivity analysis
Public Choice | Political Science 2019-10-26
42
Altmetric Attention Score: 38
What Do Closed Source Data Tell Us About Lone Actor Terrorist Behavior? A Research Note
Terrorism and Political Violence | Political Science 2019-10-11
43
Altmetric Attention Score: 37
Glass Cliffs or Partisan Pressure? Examining Gender and Party Leader Tenures and Exits
Political Studies | Political Science 2019-10-21
44
Altmetric Attention Score: 36
If I'll win it, I want it: The role of instrumental considerations in explaining public support for referendums
European Journal of Political Research | Political Science 2019-10-15
45
Altmetric Attention Score: 34
The globalisation divide in the public mind: belief systems on globalisation and their electoral consequences
Journal of European Public Policy | Political Science 2019-10-14
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 34
Book Review: Clarence Thomas and the End(s) of Black Nationalism: The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, by Corey Robin
Political Theory | Political Science 2019-10-17
47
Altmetric Attention Score: 33
A Call to Contextualize Public Opinion-Based Research in Political Communication
Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-11
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 33
Constitutional Protection of Children’s Rights: Visibility, Agency and Enforceability
Human Rights Law Review | Political Science Law 2019-10-14
49
Altmetric Attention Score: 31
Voters Punish Politicians with Depression
British Journal of Political Science | Political Science 2019-10-04
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 31
Legislative Term Limits and Polarization
Journal of Politics | Political Science 2019-10-11