Most cited papers in Judicial and Constitutional Studies
What are the most cited papers in Judicial and Constitutional Studies?
The most cited paper in Judicial and Constitutional Studies is "Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda" (Gretchen Helmke, Steven Levitsky, 2004), with 3,164 citations. Next come "Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds" (2,423) and "Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control" (2,277).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 352 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda Gretchen Helmke, Steven Levitsky · Perspectives on Politics | Dec 2004 | 3,164 |
| 2 | Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds Wendy Nelson Espeland, Michael Sauder · American Journal of Sociology | Jul 2007 | 2,423 |
| 3 | Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control Mathew D. McCubbins, ROGER G. NOLL, Barry R. Weingast · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization | 1987 | 2,277 |
| 4 | A Theory of the Calculus of Voting William H. Riker, Peter C. Ordeshook · American Political Science Review | Mar 1968 | 1,939 |
| 5 | Corruption and Political Development: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Joseph S. Nye · American Political Science Review | Jun 1967 | 1,726 |
| 6 | The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic Delegation in Postwar Europe Andrew M. Moravcsik · International Organization | 2000 | 1,445 |
| 7 | Separation of Powers and Political Accountability Tomas Persson, Gérard Roland, Guido Tabellini · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1997 | 1,218 |
| 8 | Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953–1999 Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn · Political Analysis | 2002 | 1,187 |
| 9 | Social Norms and Social Roles Cass Robert Sunstein · Columbia Law Review | May 1996 | 1,183 |
| 10 | ‘Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies' Antonino Palumbo, Richard Bellamy | 2 Mar 2017 | 1,009 |
| 11 | Human Dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights Christopher McCrudden · European Journal of International Law | Sep 2008 | 979 |
| 12 | The Two Faces of Issue Voting Edward G. Carmines, James A. Stimson · American Political Science Review | Mar 1980 | 974 |
| 13 | Why do People Comply with the Law?: Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, Michael Hough et al. · The British Journal of Criminology | 9 Jul 2012 | 891 |
| 14 | Predicting judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights: a Natural Language Processing perspective Nikolaos Aletras, Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro et al. · PeerJ Computer Science | 24 Oct 2016 | 814 |
| 15 | State Agent or Citizen Agent: Two Narratives of Discretion Steven Maynard‐Moody, Michael Musheno · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Apr 2000 | 809 |
| 16 | Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism Alfred Stepan, Cindy Skach · World Politics | Oct 1993 | 807 |
| 17 | Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies Kaare W. Strøm · European Journal of Political Research | May 2000 | 771 |
| 18 | The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures Boris Shor, Nolan M. McCarty · American Political Science Review | 26 Jul 2011 | 770 |
| 19 | Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Jeffrey A. Segal, Albert D. Cover · American Political Science Review | Jun 1989 | 753 |
| 20 | AFTER LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS Susan S. Silbey · Annual Review of Law and Social Science | 19 Aug 2005 | 728 |
| 21 | Principal-Agent Models: An Expansion? Richard W. Waterman, Kenneth J. Meier · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Apr 1998 | 711 |
| 22 | From Intergovernmental Bargaining to Deliberative Political Processes: The Constitutionalisation of Comitology Christian Joerges, Jürgen Neyer · European Law Journal | Sep 1997 | 710 |
| 23 | On the Legitimacy of National High Courts James L. Gibson, Gregory A. Caldeira, Vanessa A. Baird · American Political Science Review | Jun 1998 | 706 |
| 24 | The Economic Vote: How Political and Economic Institutions Condition Election Results Raymond M Duch, Randolph T. Stevenson | 17 Mar 2008 | 702 |
| 25 | DOES PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY WORK? AN ASSESSMENT TOOL Mark Bovens, Thomas Schillemans, Paul ‘t Hart · Public Administration | Mar 2008 | 659 |
| 26 | Legal Origins Edward L. Glaeser, Andrei Shleifer · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 2002 | 655 |
| 27 | The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner · The Journal of Law and Economics | Dec 1975 | 648 |
| 28 | Measuring State Legislative Professionalism: The Squire Index Revisited Peverill Squire · State Politics & Policy Quarterly | 2007 | 647 |
| 29 | Hard and Soft Law in International Governance Kenneth Wayne Abbott, Duncan Snidal · International Organization | 2000 | 644 |
| 30 | A CASE FOR PROCEDURAL JUSTICE CLIMATE: DEVELOPMENT AND TEST OF A MULTILEVEL MODEL. Stefanie E. Naumann, Nathan James Bennett · Academy of Management Journal | Oct 2000 | 641 |
| 31 | Accountability in the Regulatory State Colin Scott · Journal of Law and Society | Mar 2000 | 629 |
| 32 | The Virginia Journal of International Law (A) Elliott N. Weiss, Britton Taubenfeld · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2020 | 621 |
| 33 | Feminist Approaches to International Law Hilary Charlesworth, Christine M. Chinkin, Shelley Wright · American Journal of International Law | Oct 1991 | 620 |
| 34 | Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging Christina L. Boyd, Lee Epstein, Andrew D. Martin · American Journal of Political Science | Apr 2010 | 613 |
| 35 | Understanding Legal Pluralism: Past to Present, Local to global† Brian Ζ. Tamanaha | 5 Jul 2017 | 605 |
| 36 | What happens when transparency meets blame-avoidance? Christopher Hood · Public Management Review | Jun 2007 | 575 |
| 37 | Deliberation and Constitution Making Jon Elster · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 28 Mar 1998 | 571 |
| 38 | Leapfrog Representation and Extremism: A Study of American Voters and Their Members in Congress Joseph Bafumi, Michael C. Herron · American Political Science Review | Aug 2010 | 570 |
| 39 | What Does Corruption Mean in a Democracy? Mark E. Warren · American Journal of Political Science | 3 Mar 2004 | 532 |
| 40 | Citizens' Juries and Deliberative Democracy Graham R. Smith, Corinne Wales · Political Studies | Mar 2000 | 523 |
| 41 | Political Consequences of the Carceral State Vesla Mae Weaver, Amy E. Lerman · American Political Science Review | Nov 2010 | 510 |
| 42 | Constitutional Democracy Jürgen Habermas · Political Theory | Dec 2001 | 510 |
| 43 | A New Standard of News Quality: Burglar Alarms for the Monitorial Citizen John R. Zaller · Political Communication | Apr 2003 | 502 |
| 44 | Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes, by Giovanni Sartori Peter C. Ordeshook · Political Science Quarterly | 1995 | 497 |
| 45 | It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism Gerald M. Pomper · Political Science Quarterly | 2013 | 496 |
| 46 | Legal Culture and Transformative Constitutionalism Karl E. Klare · South African Journal on Human Rights | 1998 | 495 |
| 47 | CUMULATIVE DISADVANTAGE: EXAMINING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITY IN PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING Besiki Luka Kutateladze, Nancy Rita Andiloro, Brian David Johnson et al. · Criminology | Aug 2014 | 486 |
| 48 | Practical Principles, Moral Truth, and Ultimate Ends Germain G. Grisez, Joseph J. Boyle, JOHN M. FINNIS · The American Journal of Jurisprudence | 1987 | 482 |
| 49 | Proportionality Balancing and Global Constitutionalism Alec Stone Sweet, Jud Mathews · bepress Legal Repository | 2008 | 477 |
| 50 | The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, 1945–85 Arend Lijphart · American Political Science Review | Jun 1990 | 474 |
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