2026 Benjamin I. Page: 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	44	359	320	207	175	154	20724

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Benjamin I. Page is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Physics and Astronomy as well as Economics, Econometrics, and Finance.

Their research includes topics such as:

Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Innovation Policy and R&D
Populism, Right-Wing Movements

Benjamin I. Page's publication record reflects this interdisciplinary scope, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

Perspectives on Politics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of The 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - PoS(LATTICE2021)
International Journal of Political Economy
Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Benjamin I. Page are:

The Roots of Right-Wing Populism: Donald Trump in 2016 (2020), published in International Journal of Political Economy
The wealthy as a barrier to tax reform (2023), published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Spectral reconstruction in NRQCD via the Backus-Gilbert method (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
Response to Erik J. Engstrom and Robert Huckfeldt's Review of Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do about It (2021), published in Perspectives on Politics
Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American Populism since the New Deal. By Erik J. Engstrom and Robert Huckfeldt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 199p. $110.00 cloth. (2021), published in Perspectives on Politics

Their frequent collaborators include:

Gert Aarts
Chris Allton
Benjamin Jäger
Sinéad M. Ryan
Jon-Ivar Skullerud

Benjamin I. Page has been recognized with awards such as the Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association (2007) and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Best Publications

The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences

Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro

4376
Citations
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

Martin Gilens;Benjamin I. Page

3038
Citations
Effects of Public Opinion on Policy

Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro;Robert Y. Shapiro

2770
Citations
Who Deliberates?: Mass Media in Modern Democracy

Benjamin I. Page

988
Citations
Reciprocal Effects of Policy Preferences, Party Loyalties and the Vote

Benjamin I. Page;Calvin C. Jones

845
Citations
What moves public opinion

Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro;Glenn R. Dempsey

822
Citations
Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans

Benjamin I. Page;Larry M. Bartels;Jason Seawright

660
Citations
Policy voting and the electoral process: The vietnam war issue

Benjamin I. Page;Richard A. Brody

477
Citations
Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy

Lawrence R. Jacobs;Benjamin I. Page

466
Citations
The Theory of Political Ambiguity.

Benjamin I. Page

437
Citations
The Mass Media as Political Actors

Benjamin I. Page

387
Citations
Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality

Benjamin I. Page;Lawrence R. Jacobs

357
Citations
Foreign Policy and the Rational Public

Robert Y. Shapiro;Benjamin I. Page

342
Citations
Comment: The Assessment of Policy Voting *

Richard A. Brody;Benjamin I. Page

309
Citations
Oligarchy in the United States

Jeffrey A. Winters;Benjamin I. Page

307
Citations
The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get

Benjamin I. Page;Marshall M. Bouton

295
Citations
Choices and echoes in Presidential elections

Benjamin Page

293
Citations
Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It

Benjamin I. Page;Martin Gilens

209
Citations
Constituency, Party, and Representation in Congress

Benjamin I. Page;Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro;Paul W. Gronke;Robert M. Rosenberg

208
Citations
Foreign Policy Gaps between Citizens and Leaders

Benjamin I. Page;Jason Barabas

173
Citations
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average

Citizens Gilens;Benjamin I. Page

17
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Y. Shapiro Columbia University

Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota

Fay Lomax Cook Northwestern University

Richard A. Brody Stanford University

Larry M. Bartels Vanderbilt University

Alan J. Auerbach University of California, Berkeley

Morris P. Fiorina Stanford University

Sidney Verba Harvard University

Kay Lehman Schlozman Boston College

Jeff Manza New York University

External Links

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