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The Journal of Politics
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A · academics’ median2,829.0 · 12%
B · citations per work133.3 · 63%
N · works389 · 97%
P · academics168 · 100%
Formula result0.601
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Works160
Citations27,632 over 149 of 160 works
Citations per counted work185.4
Weighted citations—
Academics53
Departments8
First seen1967
Works placed per year
160 of these 160 works carry a year; an undated work is in no year. Works placed, under these filters.
Departments publishing there 8
| Department | Works |
|---|---|
| Harvard Government | 39 |
| Penn Political Science | 35 |
| Princeton Politics | 26 |
| Yale Political Science | 25 |
| Columbia Political Science | 22 |
| Dartmouth Government | 11 |
| Cornell Government | 6 |
| Brown Political Science | 4 |
A work held by two departments counts once in each, so these add up to more than the works above.
Works placed there 160
| Year | Title | Academics | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform: The Role of Economic Motivations | Donald P. Green | 1,775 |
| 2000 | Misinformation and the Currency of Citizenship. | Jennifer Jerit | 1,640 |
| 2013 | The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government: Institutions, Commitment, and Power-sharing in Dictatorships | Carles Boix · Milan Svolik | 1,408 |
| 2017 | Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effects | Thomas B. Pepinsky | 1,186 |
| 2017 | Political Homophily in Social Relationships: Evidence from Online Dating Behavior | Gregory Alain Huber | 998 |
| 2006 | The Workplace as a Context for Cross-cutting Political Discourse. | Diana C. Mutz | 842 |
| 2009 | Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody’s Voting and So Should You | Alan S. Gerber | 841 |
| 2012 | Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment | Jennifer Jerit | 731 |
| 2018 | Americans, Not Partisans: Can Priming American National Identity Reduce Affective Polarization? | Matthew Levendusky | 720 |
| 1990 | American Identity and the Politics of Ethnic Change | Donald P. Green | 671 |
| 2003 | Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments | Alan S. Gerber · Donald P. Green | 559 |
| 2011 | Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes | Alan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber | 550 |
| 2014 | Moral Support: How Moral Values Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes | Joshua David Kertzer | 533 |
| 2011 | Newspaper Coverage of Political Scandals | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 447 |
| 2009 | A New Partisan Voter | Robert Y. Shapiro | 433 |
| 2013 | Sectoral Economies, Economic Contexts, and Attitudes toward Immigration, | Rafaela Dancygier | 428 |
| 1988 | Preempting Quality Challengers in House Elections | Donald P. Green | 423 |
| 2019 | The Muted Consequences of Correct Information on Immigration | Daniel J. Hopkins | 413 |
| 2022 | Word Embeddings: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research | Arthur Spirling | 395 |
| 2012 | When Backing Down is the Right Decision: Partisanship, New Information, and Audience Costs | Matthew Levendusky · Michael Horowitz | 386 |
| 1996 | Divided Government and the Design of Administrative Procedures: A Formal Model and Empirical Test. | Sharyn O’Halloran | 342 |
| 2006 | Primary Elections and Candidate Strength in Latin America | John Michael Carey | 339 |
| 2009 | Who Files? Developing Country Participation in WTO Adjudication | Christina L. Davis | 335 |
| 2013 | How Words do the Work of Politics: Moral Foundations Theory and the Debate over Stem Cell Research. | Jennifer Jerit | 334 |
| 1995 | Cracks in American Apartheid: The Political Impact of Prejudice among Desegregated Whites | Tali Mendelberg | 330 |
| 2013 | The Foreign Policy Consequences of China's Economic Rise: A Study of China's Commercial Relations with Africa and Latin America, 1992-2006 | Sarah E. Kreps | 324 |
| 2000 | Incumbency and the Probability of Reelection in State Legislative Elections | John Michael Carey | 303 |
| 1995 | Effects of Horse Race Coverage on Campaign Coffers: Strategic Contributing in Presidential Primaries. | Diana C. Mutz | 302 |
| 2004 | Friends, Brokers and Transitivity: Who Talks with Whom in Washington Lobbying? | Daniel Paul Carpenter | 294 |
| 2008 | Do Televised Presidential Ads Increase Voter Turnout? Evidence from a Natural Experiment | Donald P. Green | 290 |
| 1994 | Contextualizing Personal Experience: The Role of Mass Media. | Diana C. Mutz | 256 |
| 1994 | The Mismeasure of Campaign Spending: Evidence from the 1990 U.S. House Elections | Alan S. Gerber · Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere | 219 |
| 2000 | The Effect of a Nonpartisan Get-Out-the-Vote Drive: An Experimental Study of Leafletting | Alan S. Gerber · Donald P. Green | 214 |
| 2019 | How Incivility on Partisan Media (De-)Polarizes the Electorate. | Matthew Levendusky | 214 |
| 2022 | (Mis-)Estimating Affective Polarization. | Matthew Levendusky | 209 |
| 2008 | Electoral Contests, Incumbency Advantages, and Campaign Finance | Adam Meirowitz | 206 |
| 1997 | Mechanisms of Momentum: Does Thinking Make It So? | Diana C. Mutz | 205 |
| 2008 | Measuring District Level Partisanship with Implications for the Analysis of U.S. Elections. | Matthew Levendusky | 195 |
| 2009 | The Diversity Discount: How Increasing Ethnic and Racial Diversity Dampens Support for Tax Increases | Daniel J. Hopkins | 194 |
| 2014 | Religion in the Arab Spring: Between Two Competing Narratives | Amaney A. Jamal | 187 |
| 1994 | The Dynamics of Campaign Fundraising in House Elections | Donald P. Green | 183 |
| 1992 | Who Protests: Self-Interest and White Opposition to Busing | Donald P. Green | 182 |
| 2004 | Residual Votes Attributable to Voting Technologies | Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere | 177 |
| 2017 | The Charmed Life of Superstar Exporters: Survey Evidence on Firms and Trade Policy | Dustin Tingley · Helen V. Milner | 177 |
| 2010 | Democratic Utility of Trust: A Cross-National Analysis | Amaney A. Jamal | 175 |
| 2015 | Sexual Racism: Intimacy as a Matter of Justice | Sonu Bedi | 173 |
| 2017 | Joining the Club: Accession to the GATT/WTO | Christina L. Davis | 171 |
| 2011 | Drafting Support for War: Conscription and Mass Support for Warfare | Matthew Levendusky · Michael Horowitz | 163 |
| 2009 | No More Wilder Effect, Never a Whitman Effect: Why and When Polls Mislead about Black and Female Candidates | Daniel J. Hopkins | 162 |
| 2015 | When Leaders Matter: Rebel Experience and Nuclear Proliferation | Michael Horowitz | 160 |
| 2007 | The Decline of Third-Party Voting in the United States | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 154 |
| 2020 | Do Nonpartisan Programmatic Policies Have Partisan Electoral Effects? Evidence from Two Large Scale Randomized Experiments | Gary King | 154 |
| 2017 | Government Fragmentation and Public Goods Provision | Guy Grossman | 150 |
| 1997 | Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism | Roxanne L. Euben | 145 |
| 2017 | The Effects of Congressional Staff Networks in the U.S. House of Representatives | Brendan Nyhan | 141 |
| 2011 | Does Knowledge of Constitutional Principles Increase Support for Civil Liberties? Results from a Ran- domized Field Experiment | Donald P. Green | 131 |
| 2008 | Distributive Politics and the Law of 1/n | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 128 |
| 2012 | The Influence of Protest Activity on Congressional Behavior: The Scope of Minority Protests in the District | Daniel Gillion | 127 |
| 2010 | Promoting Agency Reputation through Public Advice: Advisory Committee Use in the FDA | Susan L. Moffitt | 127 |
| 2015 | Democratization and Linguistic Complexity: The Effect of Franchise Extension on Parliamentary Discourse, 1832–1915 | Arthur Spirling | 125 |
| 2015 | Coethnic Bias and Wartime Informing | Jason Lyall | 117 |
| 2013 | Making Sense of Isolationism: Foreign Policy Mood as a Multilevel Phenomenon | Joshua David Kertzer | 116 |
| 2009 | Understanding the Knowledge Gap: The Role of Experts and Journalists. | Jennifer Jerit | 115 |
| 2015 | Third-Party Actors and the Success of Democracy: How Electoral Commissions, Courts, and Observers Shape Incentives for Election Manipulation and Post-Election Protest | Milan Svolik | 115 |
| 2018 | Conspiracy and Misperception Belief in the Middle East and North Africa | Brendan Nyhan | 112 |
| 2011 | The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Approach | Alan S. Gerber | 108 |
| 2017 | Incumbency Effects and the Strength of Party Preferences: Evidence from Multiparty Elections in the United Kingdom | Arthur Spirling | 105 |
| 2009 | Processes of Institutional Opinion Leadership. | Diana C. Mutz | 105 |
| 2022 | How the Ultra-Rich Use Media Ownership as a Political Investment. | Guy Grossman | 103 |
| 2020 | Partisan Consumerism: Experimental Tests of Consumer Reactions to Corporate Political Activity | Donald P. Green | 102 |
| 2019 | Elections, Protest, and Trust: A Natural Experiment from Russia. | Timothy M. Frye | 101 |
| 2015 | Renewalist Christianity and the Political Saliency of LGBTs: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. | Guy Grossman | 101 |
| 2017 | Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison from Pennsylvania and Connecticut. | Alan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber | 99 |
| 2017 | Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison | Alan S. Gerber | 92 |
| 2020 | The Welfare State with Private Alternatives: The Transformation of Popular Support for Social Insurance | Torben Iversen | 89 |
| 2021 | Do Partisan Types Stop at the Water’s Edge? | Joshua David Kertzer | 87 |
| 2015 | A Gubernatorial Helping Hand? How Governors Affect Presidential Elections | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 84 |
| 2008 | On the Evolutionary Origins of Prospect Theoretic Preferences | ROSE McDERMOTT | 79 |
| 2014 | Investigating the President: Committee Probes and Presidential Approval, 1953-2006 | Douglas L. Kriner | 78 |
| 2016 | Newspaper Market Structure and Behavior: Partisan Coverage of Political Scandals in the U.S. from 1870 to 1910 | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 76 |
| 2023 | Locked Down, Lashing Out: COVID-19 Effects on Asian Hate Crimes in Italy. | Guy Grossman | 72 |
| 2012 | Was the South Pivotal? Situated Partisanship and Policy Coalitions during the New Deal and Fair Deal | Ira I. Katznelson | 69 |
| 2017 | Regulation and Self-Regulation of a Complex Industry. | Nolan McCarty | 68 |
| 2009 | Distributive Politics with Primaries | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 66 |
| 2021 | Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination | Gregory Alain Huber | 66 |
| 2020 | Information Technology and Political Engagement: Mixed Evidence from Uganda | Guy Grossman | 66 |
| 2015 | Assessing the External Validity of Election RD Estimates: An Investigation of the Incumbency Advantage | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 60 |
| 1980 | Presidential Performance the Economy, and the Public's Evaluation of Economic Conditions | Robert Y. Shapiro | 56 |
| 2009 | Enforcement and Compliance in an Uncertain World: An Experimental Investigation | Gregory Alain Huber | 55 |
| 2019 | Past Place, Present Prejudice: The Impact of Adolescent Racial Content on White Racial Attitudes | Daniel J. Hopkins | 55 |
| 2023 | The Surprising Stability of Asian Americans’ and Latinos’ Partisan Identities in the Early Trump Era | Daniel J. Hopkins | 54 |
| 2022 | Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint? | Donald P. Green | 51 |
| 2019 | A Signaling Theory of Distributive Policy Choice: Evidence From Senegal | Guy Grossman | 48 |
| 2023 | Democratic Reputations in Crises and War. | Joshua David Kertzer | 47 |
| 2019 | What makes Foreign Policy Teams Tick: Explaining Variation in Group Performance At Geopolitical Forecasting | Dustin Tingley · Michael Horowitz | 45 |
| 2009 | Presidential Vetoes in the Early Republic: Changing Constitutional Norms or Electoral Reform. | Nolan McCarty | 45 |
| 2022 | Leadership Targeting and Militant Alliance Breakdown | Michael Horowitz | 45 |
| 2007 | Run Boris Run: Strategic voting in elections | Adam Meirowitz | 43 |
| 2020 | Does Police Repression Spur Everyday Cooperation? Evidence from Urban India. | TARIQ THACHIL | 43 |
| 2025 | What Good is a Regression? Inference to the Best Explanation and the Practice of Political Science Research | Arthur Spirling | 40 |
| 1990 | Measuring the Consequences of Delegate Selection Rules in Presidential Nominations, | Gary King · Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere | 39 |
| 2011 | Citizens’ Policy Confidence and Electoral Punishment: A Neglected Dimension of Electoral Accountability | Alan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber | 39 |
| 2020 | From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s | Carles Boix | 39 |
| 2023 | Irrelevant Events and Voting Behavior: Replications Using Principles from Open Science | Gregory Alain Huber | 38 |
| 2022 | Owning It: Accountability and Citizens’ Ownership over Aid, Oil and Taxes. | Helen V. Milner | 37 |
| 2022 | Jailed While Presumed Innocent | Tali Mendelberg | 35 |
| 1996 | African Americans’ Congressional Careers and the Democratic House Delegation | Alan S. Gerber | 33 |
| 2018 | The Kurds, the Four Wolves & the Great Powers | Brendan O'Leary | 30 |
| 2016 | Aristotle and the Judgment of the Many: Equality, not Collective Quality. | Melissa Schwartzberg | 28 |
| 1967 | Presidential Assassination: The Dynamics of Political Socialization | Paul E. Peterson | 26 |
| 2017 | Are Voting Norms Conditional? How Electoral Context and Peer Behavior Shape the Social Returns to Voting | Alan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber | 26 |
| 2023 | Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens. | Helen V. Milner | 26 |
| 2007 | Legislating Without Constraints: The Impact of Constituency Preferences on Policy Representation in Majority-Minority Districts | Claudine Gay | 25 |
| 2021 | Learning from Biased Research Designs | Thomas B. Pepinsky | 25 |
| 2025 | Unraveling a ‘Cancel Culture’ Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive Speech | Matthew Levendusky | 24 |
| 2018 | Primary Elections and the Provision of Public Goods | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 23 |
| 2013 | U.S. Senate Elections before the 17th Amendment: Political Party Cohesion and Conflict 1871– 1913. | Wendy J. Schiller | 21 |
| 2023 | The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames | Tali Mendelberg | 20 |
| 2018 | Do Gender Enclaves Remediate Social Inequality? | Tali Mendelberg | 19 |
| 2016 | Against Impartiality. | Ian Shapiro | 18 |
| 2021 | Offsetting Policy Feedback Effects: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act | Daniel J. Hopkins | 18 |
| 2009 | Limited War and American Political Engagement | Douglas L. Kriner | 15 |
| 2022 | How Voters Use Contextual Information to Reward and Punish: Credit Claiming, Legislative Performance, and Democratic Accountability | Alan S. Gerber · Eric M. Patashnik | 13 |
| 2021 | National Penalties Reversed: The Local Politics of Citizenship and Politician Responsiveness to Immigrants. | Rafaela Dancygier | 13 |
| 2023 | The Effects of Independent Local Radio on Tanzanians’ Interest in Politics: Evidence from a Planned Natural Experiment | Donald P. Green | 13 |
| 2025 | Once We Too Were Strangers: Can a Heritage of Displacement be Leveraged to Build Support for Present-Day Refugees? | Nicholas Sambanis | 11 |
| 2018 | Pivotal Politics, Political Polarization, and Policy Predictability. | Nolan McCarty | 11 |
| 2025 | Resilient Democracies | Carles Boix | 10 |
| 2022 | The Growth of Campaign Advertising in the U.S., 1880 to 1930 | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 9 |
| 2021 | Dyadic Representation in the South and Non-South: The Case of Prohibition | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 9 |
| 2023 | Estimation and Inference on Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects | Dustin Tingley | 8 |
| 2023 | How Should We Think about Replicating Observational Studies? A Reply to Fowler and Montagnes | Gregory Alain Huber | 8 |
| 2025 | Donors and Dollars: Comparing the Policy Views of Donors and the Affluent | Gregory Alain Huber | 8 |
| 2008 | Response to Franz, Freedman, Goldstein, and Ridout | Donald P. Green | 8 |
| 2022 | Officially Mobilizing: Repeated Reminders and Feedback from Local Officials Increase Turnout | Daniel J. Hopkins | 8 |
| 2022 | The Popular Origins of Legislative Jurisdictions: Petitions and Standing Committee Formation in Colonial Virginia and the Early U.S. House | Daniel Paul Carpenter | 7 |
| 2025 | Is Clientelism (Only) for the Poor? Insights on Class and Clientelism from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon | Melani Cammett | 5 |
| 1967 | Presidential assassination: A case in the dynamics of political socialization | Paul E. Peterson | 5 |
| 2025 | Special Interest Trade-Offs: Campaign Finance Reforms and Religious Influence in Politics in Brazil. | Melani Cammett | 4 |
| 2025 | The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV News Viewership | James M. Snyder, Jr. | 4 |
| 2024 | The Effects of Racial Diversity in Citizen Decision-Making Bodies | Tali Mendelberg | 4 |
| 2021 | Campaign Donations, Judicial Recusal, and Disclosure: A Field Experiment | Donald P. Green | 4 |
| 2026 | The politics of disaster prevention | Tali Mendelberg | 3 |
| 2024 | Military Attitudes on the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Evidence from the Pacific Theater. | Michael Horowitz | 3 |
| 2025 | Placebo-Augmented PICA Design (PICA-2): Assessing the Influence of Foreign Propaganda | Donald P. Green | 2 |
| 1980 | Economic Perception and Political Behavior: Reply to Professor Kenski | Robert Y. Shapiro | 2 |
| 2000 | I, the final chapter of Voting, Berelson, Lazarsfeld, and McPhee (1954) make a statement that is among the most influential and widely quoted in scholarly works on American … | Jennifer Jerit | 1 |
| 2026 | Social Density, Clientelism, and Community Benefits: Evidence from Urban India. | Erik Wibbels | 1 |
| 2026 | The Church as Arbiter. A Divided Right in in Interwar France | Carles Boix | 0 |
| 1994 | Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China.Gordon WhiteChina's Transition from Socialism: Statist Legacies and Marketing Reforms.Dorothy J. Solinger | Elizabeth J. Perry | — |
| 1998 | Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements. Doug McAdam , John D. McCarthy , Mayer N. ZaldSocial Movements, Political Violence, and the State: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Germany. Donatella della PortaWhy Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage. Lee Ann Banaszak | Elizabeth J. Perry | — |
| 1994 | Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China. | Elizabeth J. Perry | — |
| 1998 | Social movements, political violence, and the state: A comparative analysis of Italy, and Germany. | Elizabeth J. Perry | — |
| 1998 | Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements | Elizabeth J. Perry | — |
| 1998 | Banaszak, Lee Ann. Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage | Elizabeth J. Perry | — |
| 1998 | Why movements succeed or fail: Opportunity culture, and the struggle for woman suffrage. | Elizabeth J. Perry | — |
| 2000 | O, the past several decades, turnout in US presidential elections has fallen | Alan S. Gerber · Donald P. Green | — |
| 2026 | Differently Divisive: Sexism, Racial Resentment, and Support for Candidates with Incongruent Views | Rafaela Dancygier | — |
| 2015 | Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of U.S. Foreign Relations. By Linda L. Fowler. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. | Douglas L. Kriner | — |
| 2016 | The Dictator's Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes | Michael Horowitz | — |
Citations as counted, before any journal weight: 149 of these 160 works carry a count, and a work with no count is unknown, never a zero.