2026 Andreas Follesdal: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	31	1053	950	19	16	282	7714

Overview

Andreas Follesdal is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and specializes in Social Sciences with a strong focus on Political Science and International Relations, Law, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, and Philosophy.

The primary topics of their research include:

International Law and Human Rights
Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Political Philosophy and Ethics
International Arbitration and Investment Law
Ombudsman and Human Rights
Reformed Theology and Governance
Human Rights and Development

Their recent scholarly publications are as follows:

"Survey Article: The Legitimacy of International Courts," 2020, Journal of Political Philosophy
"How many women judges are enough on international courts?", 2021, Journal of Social Philosophy
"The European Convention on Human Rights and other parts of international law," 2020, The International Journal of Human Rights
"International human rights courts and the (international) rule of law: Part of the solution, part of the problem, or both?", 2021, Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo)
"A just yet unequal European Union: a defense of moderate economic inequality," 2021, Review of Social Economy

Publishing venues where the scientist frequently contributes include:

Moral Philosophy and Politics
Journal of Social Philosophy
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Journal of Political Philosophy
The International Journal of Human Rights

Their collaboration network features repeated work with the following co-authors:

Lukas H. Meyer
Mark Peacock
Michael Schefczyk
Elizabeth Anderson
Arthur Isak Applbaum

Andreas Follesdal's book publications include:

Subsidiarity, published by Cambridge University Press (2025)
Tener Demasiado, published by Open Book Publishers (2024)

Best Publications

Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik

Andreas Follesdal;Simon Hix

2534
Citations
The Place of Self‐Interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy*

Jane Mansbridge;James Bohman;Simone Chambers;David Estlund

1150
Citations
Politics, Products, and Markets: Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present

Michele Micheletti;Andreas Follesdal;Dietlind Stolle

863
Citations
Survey Article: Subsidiarity*

Andreas Føllesdal

265
Citations
Real world justice : grounds, principles, human rights, and social institutions

Andreas Føllesdal;Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge

128
Citations
Survey Article: The Legitimacy Deficits of the European Union*

Andreas Føllesdal

116
Citations
Democracy and the European Union

Andreas Føllesdal;Peter Koslowski

108
Citations
Shopping for Human Rights. An Introduction to the Special Issue

Michele Micheletti;Andreas Follesdal

100
Citations
Union Citizenship: Unpacking the Beast of Burden

Andreas Follesdal

91
Citations
Legitimacy Theories of the European Union

Andreas Føllesdal

88
Citations
Informal governance in the European Union: an introduction

Thomas Christiansen;Andreas Føllesdal;Simona Piattoni

83
Citations
Political Consumerism: Its Motivations, Power, and Conditions in the Nordic Countries and Elsewhere

Magnus Boström;Andreas Föllesdal;Mikael Klintman;Michele Micheletti

77
Citations
Federal Inequality Among Equals: A Contractualist Defense

Andreas Føllesdal

71
Citations
The Future Soul of Europe: Nationalism or Just Patriotism? A Critique of David Miller's Defence of Nationality

Andreas Føllesdal

69
Citations
Legitimacy and international courts

Harlan G Cohen;Nienke Grossman;Andreas Follesdal;Geir Ulfstein

40
Citations
Subsidiarity and Democratic Deliberation

Andreas Follesdal

31
Citations
Constituting Europe : the European Court of Human Rights in a national, European and global context

Andreas Føllesdal;Birgit Peters;Geir Ulfstein

30
Citations
Political theory and the European constitution

Lynn Dobson;Andreas Føllesdal

29
Citations
The Legitimacy Deficits of the European Union

Andreas Follesdal

28
Citations
The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Review: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights

Andreas Follesdal

20
Citations
Shopping for Human Rights

Michele Micheletti;Andreas Follesdal

19
Citations
Multilevel Regulation and the EU

Andreas Follesdal;Jan Wouters;Ramses A. Wessel

14
Citations
Exporting the margin of appreciation: Lessons for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Andreas Follesdal

13
Citations
The legitimacy of international human rights regimes : legal, political and philosophical perspectives

Andreas Føllesdal;Johan Karlsson Schaffer;Geir Ulfstein

8
Citations
The Political Theory of the White Paper on Governance: Hidden and Fascinating

Andreas Follesdal

6
Citations
1. Informal governance in the European Union: an introduction

Thomas Christiansen;Andreas Føllesdal;Simona Piattoni

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Wouters KU Leuven

Jane Mansbridge Harvard University

Oran R. Young University of California, Santa Barbara

Thomas Pogge Yale University

Simon Hix European University Institute

Archon Fung Harvard University

Thomas Christiansen Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

Dietlind Stolle McGill University

Albert Weale University College London

Richard Bellamy University College London

External Links

Personal website of Andreas Follesdal

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