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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics	American Political Science Review	2000	5,129
2	What To Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data	American Political Science Review	1995	4,876
3	Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy	American Political Science Review	1959	4,787
4	Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War	American Political Science Review	2003	4,754
5	Two Faces of Power	American Political Science Review	1962	2,739
6	Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development	American Political Science Review	1993	2,687
7	The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life	American Political Science Review	1983	2,343
8	A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997	American Political Science Review	1998	2,291
9	Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics	American Political Science Review	1970	1,996
10	Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation	American Political Science Review	1995	1,967
11	Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method	American Political Science Review	1971	1,864
12	Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy	American Political Science Review	1977	1,806
13	A Theory of the Calculus of Voting	American Political Science Review	1968	1,785
14	Constituency Influence in Congress	American Political Science Review	1963	1,740
15	Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy	American Political Science Review	1993	1,730
16	A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System	American Political Science Review	1954	1,679
17	Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible	American Political Science Review	1992	1,664
18	The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis	American Political Science Review	1978	1,662
19	Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes	American Political Science Review	1994	1,647
20	What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for?	American Political Science Review	2004	1,608
21	Bargaining in Legislatures	American Political Science Review	1989	1,529
22	Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy	American Political Science Review	1977	1,466
23	The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics	American Political Science Review	1991	1,465
24	Spatial Models of Party Competition	American Political Science Review	1963	1,414
25	Short-Term Fluctuations in U.S. Voting Behavior, 1896–1964	American Political Science Review	1971	1,380
26	How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression	American Political Science Review	2013	1,375
27	Shortcuts Versus Encyclopedias: Information and Voting Behavior in California Insurance Reform Elections	American Political Science Review	1994	1,365
28	Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data: An Alternative Algorithm for Multiple Imputation	American Political Science Review	2001	1,360
29	The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of the Law	American Political Science Review	1997	1,331
30	Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1996	American Political Science Review	1997	1,321
31	Effects of Public Opinion on Policy	American Political Science Review	1983	1,307
32	The Diffusion of Innovations among the American States	American Political Science Review	1969	1,297
33	The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational Change in Post-Industrial Societies	American Political Science Review	1971	1,293
34	Dynamic Representation	American Political Science Review	1995	1,268
35	The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry	American Political Science Review	1961	1,250
36	The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy	American Political Science Review	2004	1,238
37	The Diffusion of Innovations among the American States	American Political Science Review	1969	1,236
38	Explaining Interethnic Cooperation	American Political Science Review	1996	1,216
39	State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations: An Event History Analysis	American Political Science Review	1990	1,203
40	Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816–1992	American Political Science Review	2001	1,170
41	Rethinking Representation	American Political Science Review	2003	1,167
42	Normative and Structural Causes of Democratic Peace, 1946–1986	American Political Science Review	1993	1,155
43	The Correlates of Change in International Financial Regulation	American Political Science Review	1997	1,149
44	An Evolutionary Approach to Norms	American Political Science Review	1986	1,127
45	Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics	American Political Science Review	2005	1,107
46	Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science	American Political Science Review	1985	1,102
47	Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States	American Political Science Review	2004	1,102
48	Perverse Accountability: A Formal Model of Machine Politics with Evidence from Argentina	American Political Science Review	2005	1,102
49	Political Issues and Trust in Government: 1964–1970	American Political Science Review	1974	1,097
50	The Truly Disadvantaged. The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. By William Julius Wilson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 254p. $19.95.	American Political Science Review	1988	1,073

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