| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs | American Journal of Political Science | 2006 | 2,710 |
| 2 | Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation | American Journal of Political Science | 2000 | 2,429 |
| 3 | Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms | American Journal of Political Science | 1984 | 2,039 |
| 4 | Taking Time Seriously: Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable | American Journal of Political Science | 1998 | 1,851 |
| 5 | Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study | American Journal of Political Science | 1996 | 1,801 |
| 6 | Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital | American Journal of Political Science | 1997 | 1,644 |
| 7 | A Cross-National Analysis of Economic Voting: Taking Account of the Political Context | American Journal of Political Science | 1993 | 1,554 |
| 8 | Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method | American Journal of Political Science | 2015 | 1,359 |
| 9 | The New Economics of Organization | American Journal of Political Science | 1984 | 1,343 |
| 10 | Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-93 | American Journal of Political Science | 1998 | 1,278 |
| 11 | Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization | American Journal of Political Science | 2015 | 1,180 |
| 12 | Institutional Arrangements and Equilibrium in Multidimensional Voting Models | American Journal of Political Science | 1979 | 1,135 |
| 13 | Modeling Multilevel Data Structures | American Journal of Political Science | 2002 | 1,087 |
| 14 | A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties | American Journal of Political Science | 1990 | 1,080 |
| 15 | Structural Topic Models for Open‐Ended Survey Responses | American Journal of Political Science | 2014 | 1,060 |
| 16 | A Simple Theory of the Survey Response: Answering Questions versus Revealing Preferences | American Journal of Political Science | 1992 | 1,051 |
| 17 | Gender Stereotypes and the Perception of Male and Female Candidates | American Journal of Political Science | 1993 | 906 |
| 18 | Policy Entrepreneurs and the Diffusion of Innovation | American Journal of Political Science | 1997 | 889 |
| 19 | In Defense of Multiplicative Terms in Multiple Regression Equations | American Journal of Political Science | 1982 | 886 |
| 20 | Economic Discontent and Political Behavior: The Role of Personal Grievances and Collective Economic Judgments in Congressional Voting | American Journal of Political Science | 1979 | 881 |
| 21 | Rational Choice and Turnout | American Journal of Political Science | 1993 | 869 |
| 22 | What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat | American Journal of Political Science | 2008 | 867 |
| 23 | Advantages and Disadvantages of Cognitive Heuristics in Political Decision Making | American Journal of Political Science | 2001 | 866 |
| 24 | Uninformed Votes: Information Effects in Presidential Elections | American Journal of Political Science | 1996 | 861 |
| 25 | The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion | American Journal of Political Science | 2008 | 845 |
| 26 | The Consequences of Cross-Cutting Networks for Political Participation | American Journal of Political Science | 2002 | 843 |
| 27 | Corruption, Political Allegiances, and Attitudes Toward Government in Contemporary Democracies | American Journal of Political Science | 2003 | 835 |
| 28 | Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996 | American Journal of Political Science | 2000 | 832 |
| 29 | Structure and Consistency in Public Opinion: the Role of Core Beliefs and Values | American Journal of Political Science | 1988 | 814 |
| 30 | The Public as Thermostat: Dynamics of Preferences for Spending | American Journal of Political Science | 1995 | 810 |
| 31 | Taking Time Seriously | American Journal of Political Science | 2008 | 747 |
| 32 | “I Disrespectfully Agree”: The Differential Effects of Partisan Sorting on Social and Issue Polarization | American Journal of Political Science | 2015 | 730 |
| 33 | Regression in Space and Time: A Statistical Essay | American Journal of Political Science | 1985 | 723 |
| 34 | Measuring Political Sophistication | American Journal of Political Science | 1987 | 714 |
| 35 | A Spatial Model for Legislative Roll Call Analysis | American Journal of Political Science | 1985 | 709 |
| 36 | Threat, Anxiety, and Support of Antiterrorism Policies | American Journal of Political Science | 2005 | 695 |
| 37 | Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public | American Journal of Political Science | 2000 | 692 |
| 38 | The Role of Partisan Stereotypes in Information Processing about Political Candidates | American Journal of Political Science | 1993 | 662 |
| 39 | News vs. Entertainment: How Increasing Media Choice Widens Gaps in Political Knowledge and Turnout | American Journal of Political Science | 2005 | 657 |
| 40 | Framing and Deliberation: How Citizens' Conversations Limit Elite Influence | American Journal of Political Science | 2003 | 647 |
| 41 | Is Democracy Good for the Poor? | American Journal of Political Science | 2006 | 641 |
| 42 | What to Do about Missing Values in Time‐Series Cross‐Section Data | American Journal of Political Science | 2010 | 638 |
| 43 | Striking a Responsive Chord: How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions | American Journal of Political Science | 2005 | 631 |
| 44 | Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies | American Journal of Political Science | 2007 | 629 |
| 45 | Patterns of Congressional Voting | American Journal of Political Science | 1991 | 626 |
| 46 | Candidate Positioning in U.S. House Elections | American Journal of Political Science | 2001 | 612 |
| 47 | Centripetal and Centrifugal Incentives in Electoral Systems | American Journal of Political Science | 1990 | 610 |
| 48 | The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Countries: Increasing FDI through International Trade Agreements? | American Journal of Political Science | 2008 | 604 |
| 49 | Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies | American Journal of Political Science | 2004 | 601 |
| 50 | A Global Model for Forecasting Political Instability | American Journal of Political Science | 2010 | 594 |
