Political Analysis has been confirmed as the top-cited journal in political science, according to the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012). The journal has been ranked 1/148 journals with a 5-year impact factor of 5.402.

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• Democratic Compromise: A Latent Variable Analysis of Ten Measures of Regime Type. Daniel Pemstein, Stephen A. Meserve, and James Melton Volume 18, Issue 4 Fall 2010
• Back to the Future: Modeling Time Dependence in Binary Data. David B. Carter and Curtis S. Signorino Volume 18, Issue 3 Summer 2010

• Understanding Off-the-Books Politics: Conducting Inference on the Determinants of Sensitive Behavior with Randomized Response Surveys. Daniel W. Gingerich Volume 18, Issue 3 Summer 2010
• Endogeneity in Probit Response Models. David A. Freedman and Jasjeet S. Sekhon Volume 18, Issue 2 Spring 2010
• Bayesian Model Averaging: Theoretical Developments and Practical Applications. Jacob M. Montgomery and Brendan Nyhan Volume 18, Issue 2 Spring 2010
• A Bayesian Hierarchical Topic Model for Political Texts: Measuring Expressed Agendas in Senate Press Releases. Justin Grimmer Volume 18, Issue 1 Winter 2010