2026 Barry C. Burden: 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	33	910	822	477	410	125	5880

Barry C. Burden publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry C. Burden sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 333+

This scientist: 125 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Barry C. Burden D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry C. Burden sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Barry C. Burden is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Communication, and Strategy and Management.

Their work covers a range of topics related to political behavior and representation, including:

Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Social Media and Politics
Gender Politics and Representation
Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Media Influence and Politics
Public Policy and Administration Research
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Barry C. Burden has published extensively in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

Harvard Dataverse
American Politics Research
Political Behavior
UNC Libraries
The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Notable recent publications include:

"Health, Wealth, and Voting Trajectories in Later Life," 2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series B
"Education, Early Life, and Political Participation: New Evidence from a Sibling Model," 2020, Research & Politics
"Explaining Uncontested Seats in Congress and State Legislatures," 2020, American Politics Research
"Ignorance is Bliss? Age, Misinformation, and Support for Women's Representation," 2020, Public Opinion Quarterly
"Evaluating Legislative Districts Using Measures of Partisan Bias and Simulations," 2020, SAGE Open

The researcher has frequently collaborated with several scholars including:

Pamela Herd
Donald P. Moynihan
Bradley M. Jones
Laurel Harbridge-Yong
Timothy J. Ryan

Best Publications

The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending

Christopher R. Berry;Barry C. Burden;William G. Howell

506
Citations
Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout: The Unanticipated Consequences of Election Reform

Barry C. Burden;David T. Canon;Kenneth R. Mayer;Donald P. Moynihan

417
Citations
Candidate Positioning in US Congressional Elections

Barry C. Burden

417
Citations
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies: Evidence from Election Administration

Barry C. Burden;David T. Canon;Kenneth R. Mayer;Donald P. Moynihan

409
Citations
Personal Roots of Representation

Barry C. Burden

408
Citations
Party politics in America

Marjorie Randon Hershey;John Herbert Aldrich

323
Citations
Voter Turnout and the National Election Studies

Barry C. Burden

320
Citations
A New Approach to the Study of Ticket Splitting

Barry C. Burden;David C. Kimball

279
Citations
Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government

Barry C. Burden;David C. Kimball

197
Citations
The Vote-Stealing and Turnout Effects of Ross Perot in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election

Dean Lacy;Barry C. Burden

171
Citations
The dynamic effects of education on voter turnout

Barry C. Burden

159
Citations
Economic Discontent as a Mobilizer: Unemployment and Voter Turnout

Barry C. Burden;Amber Wichowsky

149
Citations
After Enactment: The Lives and Deaths of Federal Programs

Christopher R. Berry;Barry C. Burden;William G. Howell

145
Citations
How Different Forms of Health Matter to Political Participation.

Barry C. Burden;Jason M. Fletcher;Pamela Herd;Bradley M. Jones

132
Citations
Affect and Cognition in Party Identification

Barry C. Burden;Casey A. Klofstad

105
Citations
Measuring the Ideologies of U. S. Senators: The Song Remains the Same

Barry C. Burden;Gregory A. Caldeira;Tim Groseclose

100
Citations
Why Americans Split Their Tickets

Unknown

98
Citations
Deterministic and Probabilistic Voting Models

Barry C. Burden

87
Citations
The Contingent Effects of Candidate Sex on Voter Choice

Yoshikuni Ono;Barry C. Burden

84
Citations
Election Administration and the Pure Effect of Voter Registration on Turnout

Barry C. Burden;Jacob R. Neiheisel

82
Citations
An Alternative Account of the 2004 Presidential Election

Barry C. Burden

81
Citations
Budget Rhetoric in Presidential Campaigns from 1952 to 2000

Barry C. Burden;Joseph Neal Rice Sanberg

78
Citations
Reassessing Public Support for a Female President

Barry C. Burden;Yoshikuni Ono;Masahiro Yamada

67
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald P. Moynihan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

David C. Kimball University of Missouri–St. Louis

Christopher R. Berry University of Chicago

William G. Howell Johns Hopkins University

Costas Panagopoulos Northeastern University

Robert M. Stein Rice University

Stephen Ansolabehere Harvard University

R. Michael Alvarez California Institute of Technology

Gregory A. Caldeira The Ohio State University

Jason M. Fletcher University of Wisconsin–Madison

External Links

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