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Benjamin R. Barber 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 Benjamin R. Barber sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 152 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Benjamin R. Barber 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 Benjamin R. Barber sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 27 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Benjamin R. Barber was affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their academic work focused primarily on rhetoric and communication studies, contributing to these fields through various publications.

The scientist's recent papers included:

  • "Reading Byron with Lev Shestov" (2023), published in Studies in Romanticism
  • "The South's Democracy Struggle Reaches New Urgency" (2024), published in Southern Cultures

Benjamin R. Barber published in multiple academic venues, particularly:

  • Studies in Romanticism
  • Southern Cultures

Their book publications were released by Princeton University Press. Two notable titles from 2021 are:

  • A Passion for Democracy
  • The Conquest of Politics

Their scholarly work engaged notably with the subfield of philosophy, reflecting interdisciplinary interests within the humanities.

Key topics addressed in their research included:

  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies

Best Publications

  • Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age

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  • Jihad vs. McWorld

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  • Jihad vs. McWorld

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  • Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Strong Democracy

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  • Strong Democracy

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  • Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy

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  • A. Season of Service: Introducing Service Learning into the Liberal Arts Curriculum

    Benjamin R. Barber;Richard Battistoni

  • Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy

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  • Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order

    G. John Ikenberry;Chalmers Johnson;Niall Ferguson;Benjamin R. Barber

  • The New Telecommunications Technology: Endless Frontier or the End of Democracy?

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Participatory Democracy

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  • Jihad vs. McWorld

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  • Jihad vs. Mcworld: How the Planet Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy

    Francis Fukuyama;Benjamin R. Barber

  • An American Civic Forum: Civil Society Between Market Individuals and the Political Community

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Twenty Foundationalism and Democracy

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  • Which Technology and Which Democracy?

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  • Foundationalism and Democracy

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  • Totalitarianism in perspective : three views

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  • Counter-Ideological Uses of 'Totalitarianism'

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  • Can Democracy Survive Globalization

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Justifying Justice: Problems of Psychology, Measurement, and Politics in Rawls

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • The Nature of Contemporary Political Science: A Roundtable Discussion

    Kristen Monroe;Gabriel Almond;John Gunnell;Ian Shapiro

  • I. How Swiss is Rousseau

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Participation and Swiss Democracy

    Benjamin Barber

  • Switzerland: Progress against the communes

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Conserving Politics: Michael Oakeshott and Political Theory

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Letter from America

    Benjamin Barber

  • 1976 Annual Meeting Program Committee

    Benjamin R. Barber;Frances Fox Piven

  • The State in Capitalist Society: An Analysis of the Western System of Power. By Ralph Miliband. (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1969. Pp. 292. $6.95.)

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • The Community of Rights. By Gewirth Alan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 396p. $39.95 paper.

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Solipsistic Politics: Russell's Empiricist Liberalism

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Letter from America—June 1989

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Letter from America — September 1993 The Rise of Clinton, the Fall of the Democrats, the Scandal of the Media

    Benjamin R. Barber

  • Letter From America: The 1994 Elections—Herbert Hoover Redux?

    Benjamin R. Barber

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth A. Shepsle
Kenneth A. Shepsle Harvard University
Gabriel A. Almond
Gabriel A. Almond Stanford University
Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro Yale University
Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven City University of New York

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