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How Many Countries for Multilevel Modeling? A Comparison of Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches
American Journal of Political Science
Impact Factor: 3.269 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2014: 4/161 (Political Science)

Irresistible Force? Achieving Carbon Pricing in Australia
Australian Journal of Politics & History
Impact Factor: 0.316 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 38/87 (History); 130/163 (Political Science)

A Cautionary Tale: Council Amalgamation in Tasmania and the Deloitte Access Economics Report
Australian Journal of Public Administration
Impact Factor: 0.667 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 34/47 (Public Administration)

Three decades of populist radical right parties in Western Europe: So what?
European Journal of Political Research
Impact Factor: 2.508 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2014: 7/161 (Political Science)

Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority
Global Policy
Impact Factor: 0.837 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 42/86 (International Relations); 79/163 (Political Science)

What Is Governance?
Governance
Impact Factor: 3.424 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 2/47 (Public Administration); 5/163 (Political Science)

Libya and Syria: R2P and the spectre of the swinging pendulum
International Affairs
Impact Factor: 1.532 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 18/86 (International Relations)

Euroscepticism and the Global Financial Crisis
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
Impact Factor: 1.83 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 12/86 (International Relations); 25/163 (Political Science); 61/344 (Economics)

Do Child Development Accounts Promote Account Holding, Saving, and Asset Accumulation for Children's Future? Evidence from a Statewide Randomized Experiment
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Impact Factor: 2.329 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 5/47 (Public Administration); 34/344 (Economics)

Participatory Democracy? Exploring Peru's Efforts to Engage Civil Society in Local Governance
Latin American Politics and Society
Impact Factor: 0.426 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 38/69 (Area Studies); 70/86 (International Relations); 125/163 (Political Science)

Multidimensional Responsiveness: The Determinants of Legislators' Representational Priorities
Legislative Studies Quarterly
Impact Factor: 0.81 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 80/163 (Political Science)

Troubled Political Transitions: Tunisia, Egypt and Libya
Middle East Policy
Impact Factor: 0.477 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 32/69 (Area Studies); 66/86 (International Relations)

Accounting for internal variation in nationalist mobilization: unofficial referendums for independence in Catalonia (2009-11)
Nations and Nationalism
Impact Factor: 0.48 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 12/15 (Ethnic Studies); 21/87 (History); 106/142 (Sociology); 120/163 (Political Science)

Understanding Multiple and Competing Roles: China's Roles in the International Order
Pacific Focus
Impact Factor: 0.263 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 53/69 (Area Studies); 78/86 (International Relations)

Governing Institutional Complexity: The Ecology of Games Framework
Policy Studies Journal
Impact Factor: 1.765 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 10/47 (Public Administration); 26/163 (Political Science)

How the Economy and Partisanship Shaped the 2012 Presidential and Congressional Elections
Political Science Quarterly
Impact Factor: 0.366 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 129/163 (Political Science)

The Management of Change in Public Organizations: A Literature review
Public Administration
Impact Factor: 1.922
ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 8/47 (Public Administration); 22/163 (Political Science)

Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Public Service Motivation and Job Performance
Public Administration Review
Impact Factor: 2.636 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 4/47 (Public Administration)

Assembling an experimentalist regime: Transnational governance interactions in the forest sector
Regulation & Governance
Impact Factor: 2.724 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 3/47 (Public Administration); 8/163 (Political Science); 10/147 (Law)

Hungry for Information: Public Attitudes Toward Food Nanotechnology and Labeling
Review of Policy Research
Impact Factor: 1.167 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 20/47 (Public Administration); 56/163 (Political Science)

The Effects of Human Interest and Conflict News Frames on the Dynamics of Political Knowledge Gains: Evidence from a Cross-national Study
Scandinavian Political Studies
Impact Factor: 0.632 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 102/163 (Political Science)

Race and Religion: Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes
Social Science Quarterly
Impact Factor: 0.752 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 82/142 (Sociology); 86/163 (Political Science)

Intolerance Toward Immigrants in Switzerland: Diminished Threat Through Social Contacts?
Swiss Political Science Review
Impact Factor: 1.258 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 48/163 (Political Science)

Why Do People Stigmatise the Poor at a Time of Rapidly Increasing Inequality, and What Can Be Done About It?
The Political Quarterly
Impact Factor: 0.449 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 123/163 (Political Science)

* Free access lasts until 31 December 2016. The articles selected are the top cited articles published in each title between 2013- 2015, contributing to the 2016 Impact Factor. All figures© 2016 Thomson Reuters, 2015 Journal Citation Reports