2026 Carole Pateman: 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	870	786	460	394	105	18037

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science For in a thought-provoking way challenging established ideas about participation, sex and equality.
1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom Los Angeles
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom Los Angeles
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom Los Angeles

Overview

Carole Pateman is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. The primary area of their research lies within Arts and Humanities, with a focus on Philosophy, Literature and Literary Theory, Clinical Psychology, History, and Political Science and International Relations. Their work addresses a range of topics including Spanish Literature and Culture Studies, Historical and Modern Theater Studies, Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books, Spanish Philosophy and Literature, Political Theory and Democracy, and Philosophical and Cultural Analysis.

Pateman's recent publications include the following papers:

"Ciudadanía: fronteras, círculos y cosmopolitismo" (2020), published in Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez
"Feminismo e Ilustración: resignificación y emancipación" (2020), published in Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez
"Nuevos sujetos, nuevas narrativas" (2025), published in Eikasía Revista de Filosofía
"Heredada, comprada, regalada: la biblioteca 'propia' de Emilia Pardo Bazán" (2024), published in Agora papeles de Filosofía
"Hilvanando violeta: patriarcado e imaginarios en la era global*" (2025), published in Atlánticas Revista Internacional de Estudios Feministas

Frequent collaborators in Pateman's research include Yolanda Martínez Suárez and Concha Varela-Orol.

The most common venues for their publications are:

Agora papeles de Filosofía
Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez
Eikasía Revista de Filosofía
Atlánticas Revista Internacional de Estudios Feministas

Carole Pateman's contributions have been recognized with several awards, including the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2012 for work challenging established ideas about participation, sex, and equality. Pateman also holds fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1996), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (since 1993), and the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

Participation and democratic theory

Carole Pateman

6512
Citations
The Sexual Contract

Carole Pateman

4668
Citations
The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism, and Political Theory

Carole Pateman

1074
Citations
Participatory Democracy Revisited

Carole Pateman

867
Citations
The disorder of women

Carole Pateman

589
Citations
The Contract and Domination

Carole Pateman;Charles Wade Mills

286
Citations
Contract and Domination

Carole Pateman;Charles W. Mills

256
Citations
El contrato sexual

Carole Pateman

247
Citations
Democratizing Citizenship: Some Advantages of a Basic Income

Carole Pateman

243
Citations
Self‐Ownership and Property in the Person: Democratization and a Tale of Two Concepts

Carole Pateman

184
Citations
Political Culture, Political Structure and Political Change

Carole Pateman

166
Citations
Women and Consent

Carole Pateman

160
Citations
The problem of political obligation : a critique of liberal theory

Carole Pateman

153
Citations
‘Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth’: Women and the Origins of Liberalism

Teresa Brennan;Carole Pateman

136
Citations
Feminist Challenges : Social and Political Theory

Carole Pateman;Elizabeth Gross

136
Citations
"The Disorder of Women": Women, Love, and the Sense of Justice

Carole Pateman

133
Citations
Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory

Mary Lyndon Shanley;Carole Pateman

123
Citations
The problem of political obligation

Carole Pateman

104
Citations
‘God Hath Ordained to Man a Helper’: Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right

Carole Pateman

90
Citations
Equality, difference, subordination: the politics of motherhood and women’s citizenship

Carole Pateman

82
Citations
Defending Prostitution: Charges Against Ericsson

Carole Pateman

64
Citations
A Contribution To the Political Theory of Orga Niza Tiona l dEmocra c y

Carole Pateman

61
Citations
Sexual Contract

Carole Pateman

55
Citations
The Problem of Political Obligation: A Critical Analysis of Liberal Theory

Carole Pateman

21
Citations
Apathy and Participation: Mass Politics in Western Societies.@@@Participation and Democratic Theory.@@@The Democratic Citizen: Social Science and Democratic Theory in the Twentieth Century.

John Walton;Giuseppe Di Palma;Carole Pateman;Dennis F. Thompson

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Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Dowding Australian National University

Robert E. Goodin Australian National University

Jacqueline J. Goodnow Macquarie University

Paula England New York University Abu Dhabi

Iris Marion Young University of Chicago

Anne Phillips London School of Economics and Political Science

External Links

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