| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Measuring State Legislative Professionalism: The Squire Index Revisited | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2007 | 456 |
| 2 | Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the U.S. States: A Re-appraisal | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2010 | 334 |
| 3 | Estimating the Impact of State Policies and Institutions with Mixed-Level Data | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2007 | 314 |
| 4 | Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2007 | 159 |
| 5 | The Measurement of the Partisan Balance of State Government | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2003 | 148 |
| 6 | Measuring Public Corruption in the American States: A Survey of State House Reporters | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2003 | 133 |
| 7 | Policy Diffusion as a Geographical Expansion of the Scope of Political Conflict: Same-Sex Marriage Bans in the 1990s | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2001 | 130 |
| 8 | Enhancing Civic Engagement: The Effect of Direct Democracy on Political Participation and Knowledge | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2003 | 127 |
| 9 | The Politics of Need: Examining Governors' Decisions to Oppose the “Obamacare” Medicaid Expansion | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2014 | 121 |
| 10 | State Policy Innovativeness Revisited | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2012 | 120 |
| 11 | Beyond Logit and Probit: Cox Duration Models of Single, Repeating, and Competing Events for State Policy Adoption | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2005 | 117 |
| 12 | Measuring the Effect of Direct Democracy on State Policy: Not All Initiatives Are Created Equal | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2004 | 116 |
| 13 | A Squire Index Update | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2017 | 110 |
| 14 | Making the National Local: Specifying the Conditions for National Government Influence on State Policymaking | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2004 | 108 |
| 15 | Fiscal Transparency, Gubernatorial Approval, and the Scale of Government: Evidence from the States | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2002 | 107 |
| 16 | Four Ways We Can Improve Policy Diffusion Research | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2016 | 104 |
| 17 | Should We Measure Professionalism with an Index? A Note on Theory and Practice in State Legislative Professionalism Research | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2014 | 96 |
| 18 | Using National Surveys to Measure Dynamic U.S. State Public Opinion: A Guideline for Scholars and an Application | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2011 | 94 |
| 19 | Direct Democracy and the Link between Public Opinion and State Abortion Policy | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2002 | 93 |
| 20 | Public Opinion in the U.S. States: 1956 to 2010 | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2013 | 92 |
| 21 | Duration Dependence, Functional Form, and Corrected Standard Errors: Improving EHA Models of State Policy Diffusion | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2004 | 88 |
| 22 | For Whom the TEL Tolls: Can State Tax and Expenditure Limits Effectively Reduce Spending? | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2008 | 87 |
| 23 | Gender, Ethnicity, and Ballot Information: Ballot Cues in Low-Information Elections | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2006 | 84 |
| 24 | Size Doesn't Matter: In Defense of Single-State Studies | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2002 | 83 |
| 25 | Politics and Morality in State Abortion Policy | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2015 | 79 |
| 26 | Anti-Immigrant Anxieties in State Policy: The Great Recession and Punitive Immigration Policy in the American States, 2005–2012 | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2016 | 79 |
| 27 | Measuring State Public Opinion with the Senate National Election Study | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2001 | 78 |
| 28 | Immigrants across the U.S. Federal Laboratory: Explaining State-Level Innovation in Immigration Policy | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2011 | 74 |
| 29 | How Postregistration Laws Affect the Turnout of Citizens Registered to Vote | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2005 | 71 |
| 30 | The Measurement and Stability of State Citizen Ideology | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2007 | 70 |
| 31 | Who Makes Voting Convenient? Explaining the Adoption of Early and No-Excuse Absentee Voting in the American States | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2015 | 70 |
| 32 | Elite Interviews and State Politics Research | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2002 | 68 |
| 33 | A Bootstrap Method for Conducting Statistical Inference with Clustered Data | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2011 | 68 |
| 34 | From the Schoolhouse to the Statehouse: Teacher Union Political Activism and U.S. State Education Reform Policy | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2011 | 67 |
| 35 | Effectiveness, Implementation, and Policy Diffusion: Or “Can We Make That Work for Us?” | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2016 | 67 |
| 36 | Descriptive Representation, Legislative Leadership, and Direct Democracy: Latino Influence on English Only Laws in the States, 1984-2002 | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2005 | 65 |
| 37 | Chief Executive Success in the Legislative Arena | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2003 | 63 |
| 38 | A Comparative Analysis of Redistricting Institutions in the United States, 2001-02 | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2004 | 62 |
| 39 | Old versus New: The Comparative Efficiency of Mail and Internet Surveys of State Legislators | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2013 | 62 |
| 40 | Interest Group Influence in Policy Diffusion Networks | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2015 | 62 |
| 41 | U.S. State and Local Public Policies in 2006: A New Database | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2008 | 61 |
| 42 | Using Google Search Data for State Politics Research: An Empirical Validity Test Using Roll-Off Data | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2012 | 60 |
| 43 | Voter Registration Requirements, Voter Turnout, and Welfare Eligibility Policy: Class Bias Matters | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2005 | 59 |
| 44 | Content and Complexity in Policy Reinvention and Diffusion: Gay and Transgender-Inclusive Laws against Discrimination | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2012 | 59 |
| 45 | The Impact of Social Diversity and Racial Attitudes on Social Welfare Policy | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2001 | 58 |
| 46 | Approaches to Modeling the Adoption and Diffusion of Policies with Multiple Components | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2009 | 55 |
| 47 | What Price Justice(s)? Understanding Campaign Spending in State Supreme Court Elections | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2005 | 54 |
| 48 | Organized Labor's Check on Rising Economic Inequality in the U.S. States | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2018 | 54 |
| 49 | Immigration Crackdown in the American Workplace: Explaining Variation in E-Verify Policy Adoption Across the U.S. States | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2012 | 53 |
| 50 | Explaining Judicial Diversity: The Differential Ability of Women and Minorities to Attain Seats on State Supreme and Appellate Courts | State Politics and Policy Quarterly | 2003 | 51 |
