2026 Christopher Wlezien: 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	52	201	177	122	103	187	14293

Christopher Wlezien 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 Christopher Wlezien sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 333+

This scientist: 187 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher Wlezien 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 Christopher Wlezien sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award

Overview

Christopher Wlezien is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research concentrates primarily within the social sciences, with specific focus areas including political science and international relations, communication, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and strategy and management.

Wlezien's work covers a variety of topics related to electoral systems and political participation, social media and politics, media influence and politics, media studies and communication, fiscal policies and political economy, political influence and corporate strategies, and computational and text analysis methods.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wlezien include:

Issue Salience and Political Decisions (2020), published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Elite Interactions and Voters' Perceptions of Parties' Policy Positions (2020), published in American Journal of Political Science
Election forecasting: Too far out? (2020), published in International Journal of Forecasting
Information, incentives, and goals in election forecasts (2020), published in Judgment and Decision Making
Dictionaries, Supervised Learning, and Media Coverage of Public Policy (2020), published in Political Communication

Wlezien frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

James Adams
Simon Weschle
Stuart Soroka
Will Jennings
Robert S. Erikson

Their publications have appeared in several venues, with the most frequent being:

Harvard Dataverse
Political Science Research and Methods
PS Political Science & Politics
American Journal of Political Science
International Journal of Forecasting

Wlezien has also contributed to book literature, with publications including:

Information and Democracy (2022), Cambridge University Press
On collective representation (2022), Edward Elgar Publishing

Best Publications

The Public as Thermostat: Dynamics of Preferences for Spending

Christopher Wlezien

1379
Citations
Degrees of democracy

Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

1161
Citations
Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy

Stuart Neil Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

1131
Citations
On the salience of political issues: The problem with ‘most important problem’ ☆

Christopher Wlezien

739
Citations
Public Opinion and Public Policy

Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

616
Citations
Patterns of Representation: Dynamics of Public Preferences and Policy

Christopher Wlezien

521
Citations
A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis

Bryan Davidson Jones;Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christopher Wlezien

418
Citations
Economic Perceptions and Vote Choice: Disentangling the Endogeneity

Christopher Wlezien;Mark Franklin;Daniel Twiggs

411
Citations
Opinion–Policy Dynamics: Public Preferences and Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom

Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

408
Citations
Dynamics of Representation: The Case of US Spending on Defence

Christopher Wlezien

333
Citations
The Responsive Public: Issue Salience, Policy Change, and Preferences for European Unification

Mark N. Franklin;Christopher Wlezien

281
Citations
On the limits to inequality in representation

Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

276
Citations
Political Institutions and the Opinion–Policy Link

Christopher Wlezien;Stuart N. Soroka

275
Citations
Opinion Representation and Policy Feedback: Canada in Comparative Perspective

Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

275
Citations
It's (change in) the (future) economy, stupid: : economic indicators, the media, and public opinion

Stuart N. Soroka;Dominik A. Stecula;Christopher Wlezien

254
Citations
The Timeline of Presidential Election Campaigns

Christopher Wlezien;Robert S. Erikson

242
Citations
Performance pressure: Patterns of partisanship and the economic vote

Mark Andreas Kayser;Christopher Wlezien

232
Citations
The Timeline of Presidential Elections: How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter

Robert S. Erikson;Christopher Wlezien

223
Citations
Attitudes toward Europe and referendum votes: A response to Siune and Svensson

Mark Franklin;Michael Marsh;Christopher Wlezien

214
Citations
An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States

Courtney Kennedy;Mark Blumenthal;Scott Clement;Joshua D. Clinton

200
Citations
The impact of legal constraints on voter registration, turnout, and the composition of the American electorate

Glenn E. Mitchell;Christopher Wlezien

200
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles

Robert S. Erikson Columbia University

Will Jennings University of Southampton

Robert Ford University of Manchester

Pippa Norris Harvard University

Bryan D. Jones The University of Texas at Austin

Rachel Gibson University of Manchester

Michael S. Lewis-Beck University of Iowa

Arthur H. Miller University of Iowa

James Adams University of California, Davis

External Links

Personal website of Christopher Wlezien

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