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2026
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Law and Political Science
Norway
2022

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Political Science

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42
Citations
7765
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436
National Ranking
7

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Citations
7227
World Ranking
2417
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Benny Geys is affiliated with BI Norwegian Business School in Norway and has contributed to the social sciences primarily through political science and related subfields. Their research spans several interconnected disciplines, including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, public administration, and strategy and management.

The scientist's work focuses on a variety of topics within political and social sciences. Key areas of study include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization

Several academic journals and venues have featured their publications, with frequent appearances in:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Public Administration Review
  • Electoral Studies
  • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  • Harvard Dataverse

Benny Geys has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including:

  • Rune J. Sørensen
  • Zuzana Murdoch
  • Nanna Lauritz Schönhage
  • Sara Connolly
  • Hussein Kassim

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Benny Geys include:

  • "Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?" (2022), Electoral Studies
  • "Popular Support for Environmental Protection: A Life-Cycle Perspective" (2020), British Journal of Political Science

Other notable papers in their field, although not authored by Geys, are also relevant in the context of their research interests, such as:

  • "Abandon ship? Party brands and politicians' responses to a political scandal" (2020), Journal of Public Economics
  • "It's about time! Temporal dynamics and longitudinal research designs in public administration" (2023), Public Administration Review
  • "Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay" (2020), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Best Publications

  • Explaining voter turnout: A review of aggregate-level research

    Benny Geys

  • Explaining voter turnout: A meta-analysis of national and subnational elections

    João Cancela;Benny Geys

  • Toward an Empirical Characterization of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

  • ‘Rational’ Theories of Voter Turnout: A Review:

    Benny Geys

  • Government Weakness and Local Public Debt Development in Flemish Municipalities

    John Ashworth;Benny Geys;Bruno Heyndels

  • Looking across Borders: A Test of Spatial Policy Interdependence using Local Government Efficiency Ratings

    Benny Geys

  • Institutional performance and social capital. An application to the local government level.

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

  • Evaluating efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries

    Kristof De Witte;Kristof De Witte;Benny Geys

  • Community Heterogeneity: A Burden for the Creation of Social Capital?†

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

  • Value for money? German local government efficiency in a comparative perspective

    Alexander Kalb;Benny Geys;Friedrich Heinemann

  • Interpersonal trust and welfare state support

    Gianmarco Daniele;Benny Geys

  • Measuring local government technical(in)efficiency: an application and comparison of FDH, DEA and econometric approaches

    Benny Geys;Wim Moesen

  • Organised Crime, Institutions and Political Quality: Empirical Evidence from Italian Municipalities

    Gianmarco Daniele;Benny Geys

  • Measuring the ‘Bridging’ versus ‘Bonding’ Nature of Social Networks: A Proposal for Integrating Existing Measures:

    Benny Geys;Zuzana Murdoch

  • Determinants of tax innovation: The case of environmental taxes in Flemish municipalities

    John Ashworth;Benny Geys;Bruno Heyndels

  • Exploring sources of local government technical inefficiency: evidence from Flemish municipalities

    Benny Geys;Wim Moesen

  • Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from local public libraries

    Kristof De Witte;Kristof De Witte;Benny Geys;Benny Geys

  • The impact of ‘central places’ on spatial spending patterns: evidence from Flemish local government cultural expenditures

    Kristien Werck;Bruno Heyndels;Benny Geys

  • Political fragmentation and projected tax revenues: evidence from Flemish municipalities

    Stijn Goeminne;Benny Geys;Carine Smolders

  • Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Sub-National Government Fiscal Discipline: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

    Zareh Asatryan;Lars P. Feld;Benny Geys

  • Moonlighting Politicians: A Survey and Research Agenda

    Benny Geys;Karsten Mause

  • Participation in Bridging and Bonding Associations and Civic Attitudes: Evidence from Flanders

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

  • Public support for European fiscal integration in times of crisis

    Gianmarco Daniele;Benny Geys

  • Everyone likes a winner: An empirical test of the effect of electoral closeness on turnout in a context of expressive voting

    John Ashworth;Benny Geys;Bruno Heyndels

  • Taxation and presidential approval: separate effects from tax burden and tax structure turbulence

    Benny Geys;Jan Vermeir

  • Competition in the political arena and local government performance

    John Ashworth;Benny Geys;Bruno Heyndels;Fanny Wille

  • Influence of 'Cognitive Sophistication' on Ballot Layout Effects

    Benny Geys;Bruno Heyndels

  • Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts

    Vitezslav Titl;Vitezslav Titl;Benny Geys

  • Towards an empirical characterization of bridging and bonding social capital [Zur empirischen Charakterisierung von heterogenen (bridging) und homogenen (bonding) Arten des Sozialkapitals]

    Hilde Coffé;Benny Geys

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilde Coffé
Hilde Coffé University of Bath
Kai A. Konrad
Kai A. Konrad Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
Jarle Trondal
Jarle Trondal University of Agder
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut
Hussein Kassim
Hussein Kassim University of East Anglia
Bertjan Doosje
Bertjan Doosje University of Amsterdam

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