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73
Citations
19394
World Ranking
44
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Charles E. Merriam Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Bernard Grofman is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, in the United States. Their research focuses on social sciences, particularly within political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, gender studies, and statistics and probability.

Their scholarly work primarily addresses topics related to electoral systems and political participation, game theory and voting systems, populism and right-wing movements, media influence and politics, legal and constitutional studies, fiscal policies and political economy, and social policy and reform studies.

Grofman has published extensively across various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social Science Quarterly
  • PS Political Science & Politics
  • Party Politics
  • Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Grofman explore various aspects of political systems and democratic processes. Some of these works are:

  • "Identifying the 'Downsian Ceiling': When Does Polarization Make Appealing to One's Base More Attractive than Moderating to the Center" (2022), published in the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy
  • "Legal, Political Science, and Economics Approaches to Measuring Malapportionment: The U.S. House, Senate, and Electoral College 1790-2010" (2020), published in Social Science Quarterly
  • "Who Creates a Google Scholar Profile?" (2020), published in PS Political Science & Politics
  • "Prospects for Democratic Breakdown in the United States: Bringing the States Back In" (2022), published in Perspectives on Politics
  • "How proportional are electoral systems? A universal measure of electoral rules" (2023), published in Electoral Studies

Grofman has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Jonathan Cervas
  • Daniel Bochsler
  • Miriam Hänni
  • Keena Lipsitz
  • Chandler Davidson

Their contributions to the field have been recognized through awards such as the Charles E. Merriam Award from the American Political Science Association in 2017 and election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Best Publications

  • A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors

    James F. Adams;Samuel Merrill;Bernard Grofman

  • A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models

    Samuel Iii Merrill;Bernard Grofman

  • Thirteen theorems in search of the truth

    Bernard Grofman;Bernard Grofman;Guiller Mo Owen;Guiller Mo Owen;Scott L. Feld;Scott L. Feld

  • A Unified Theory of Party Competition

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  • Modeling Negative Campaigning

    Stergios Skaperdas;Bernard Grofman

  • ROUSSEAU'S GENERAL WILL: A CONDORCETIAN PERSPECTIVE

    Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

  • DOWNS AND TWO-PARTY CONVERGENCE

    Bernard Grofman

  • Optimizing group judgmental accuracy in the presence of interdependencies

    Lloyd Shapley;Bernard Grofman

  • The Committee Assignment Process and the Conditional Nature of Committee Bias

    Richard L. Hall;Bernard Grofman

  • Minority Representation and the Quest for Voting Equality

    Bernard Grofman;Lisa Handley;Richard G. Niemi

  • Measuring Compactness and the Role of a Compactness Standard in a Test for Partisan and Racial Gerrymandering

    Richard G. Niemi;Bernard Grofman;Carl Carlucci;Thomas Hofeller

  • The Neglected Role of the Status Quo in Models of Issue Voting

    Bernard Grofman

  • A unified theory of party competition

    James F. Adams;Samuel Merrill Iii;Bernard Grofman

  • An Introduction to Crisp Set QCA, with a Comparison to Binary Logistic Regression

    Bernard Grofman;Carsten Q. Schneider

  • Rethinking Duverger's Law: Predicting the Effective Number of Parties in Plurality and PR Systems – Parties Minus Issues Equals One

    Rein Taagepera;Bernard Grofman

  • Information Pooling and Group Decision Making

    Bernard Grofman

  • The Future of Partisan Symmetry as a Judicial Test for Partisan Gerrymandering after LULAC v. Perry

    Bernard Grofman;Gary King

  • Information, participation, and choice : an economic theory of democracy in perspective

    Bernard Grofman

  • Democratic Theory and the Public Interest: Condorcet and Rousseau Revisited.

    David M. Estlund;Jeremy Waldron;Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

  • Choosing an Electoral System: Issues and Alternatives

    Arend Lijphart;Bernard Grofman

  • Drawing Effective Miority Districts: A Conceptual Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

    Bernard Grofman;Lisa Handley;David Lublin

  • Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990.

    Charles M. Payne;Chandler Davidson;Bernard Grofman

  • The Strange Case of Relative Gratification and Potential for Political Violence: The V-Curve Hypothesis*

    Bernard N. Grofman;Edward N. Muller

  • An Integrated Perspective on the Three Potential Sources of Partisan Bias: Malapportionment, Turnout Differences, and the Geographic Distribution of Party Vote Shares

    Bernard Grofman;William Koetzle;Thomas L. Brunell

  • Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the Single Non-Transferable Vote: The Comparative Study of an Embedded Institution

    Bernard Norman Grofman;Sung-Chull Lee;Edwin Winckler;Brian Woodall

  • The Federalist Papers and the new institutionalism

    Bernard Grofman;Donald Wittman

  • A Unified Theory of Voting: Frontmatter

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Frequent Co-Authors

Scott L. Feld
Scott L. Feld Purdue University West Lafayette
Thomas L. Brunell
Thomas L. Brunell The University of Texas at Dallas
Guillermo Owen
Guillermo Owen Naval Postgraduate School
Amihai Glazer
Amihai Glazer University of California, Irvine
Richard G. Niemi
Richard G. Niemi University of Rochester
James Adams
James Adams University of California, Davis
Shaun Bowler
Shaun Bowler University of California, Riverside
Rein Taagepera
Rein Taagepera University of California, Irvine
Arend Lijphart
Arend Lijphart University of California, San Diego
André Blais
André Blais University of Montreal

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