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American Journal of Political Science
Published on behalf of the Midwest Political Science Association
Edited by:
Marianne C. Stewart
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 3/99 Political Science
Impact Factor: 2.397
The American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) publishes research in all major areas of political science including American politics, public policy, international relations, comparative politics, political methodology, and political theory. Founded in 1956, the AJPS publishes articles that make outstanding contributions to scholarly knowledge about notable theoretical concerns, puzzles or controversies in any subfield of political science.
TopNews and Announcements
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TopHighlights
The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion
Brandice Canes-Wrone and Kenneth W. Shotts The Impact of Income on the Taste for Revolt
Robert MacCulloch The Government Agenda in Parliamentary Democracies
Lanny Martin Executive Authority, the Personal Vote, and Budget Discipline in Latin American and Caribbean Countries
Mark Hallerberg and Patrik Marier The Political (and Economic) Origins of Consumer Confidence
Suzanna DeBoef and Paul M. Kellstedt
Testing Accounts of Legislative Strategic Voting: The Compromise of 1790
Joshua D. Clinton and Adam Meirowitz
TopEndorsements
'Political science is undergoing a silent revolution in which rigorous theoretical reasoning and advanced empirical research are for the first time successfully brought together. AJPS has been the primary witness and animator of this paradigmatic shift. It publishes landmark articles that are must reading for scholars of any substantive interest, methodological orientation or meta-theoretical conviction. Modern but never faddish, AJPS will continue to be the most professional general journal in the discipline.'
Professor Gerald Schneider, University of Konstanz, Germany, and Editor, European Union Politics
'The American Journal of Political Science has been, and remains, one of the top two or three journals in political science. If you don't read it you miss out on some of the major empirical advances in the discipline.'
Professor Keith Dowding, London School of Economics
'As one of the few top general political science journals, the AJPS is required reading to stay abreast of new developments in the discipline. Many new theoretical insights, methodological advances, and new empirical results, irrespective of their subfields, first appear in the AJPS. To keep up with the developments in political science, there is no way around this journal.'
Professor Simon Hug, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland
'The American Journal of Political Science is one of the leading journals in the discipline. It combines a wide range of articles that are both substantively important and methodologically sophisticated on the entire spectrum of topics in political science. In recent years, a number of leading articles in international politics were prominently published by AJPS. I cannot imagine advanced research in international politics that would not consult the AJPS articles, or consider it as a prominent publication outlet.'
Dr Zeev Maoz, University of California - Davis
