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2023

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Citations
14293
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201
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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

  • Degrees of democracy

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy

    Stuart Neil Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

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

    Christopher Wlezien

  • Public Opinion and Public Policy

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Patterns of Representation: Dynamics of Public Preferences and Policy

    Christopher Wlezien

  • A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis

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

  • Economic Perceptions and Vote Choice: Disentangling the Endogeneity

    Christopher Wlezien;Mark Franklin;Daniel Twiggs

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

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Dynamics of Representation: The Case of US Spending on Defence

    Christopher Wlezien

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

    Mark N. Franklin;Christopher Wlezien

  • On the limits to inequality in representation

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Political Institutions and the Opinion–Policy Link

    Christopher Wlezien;Stuart N. Soroka

  • Opinion Representation and Policy Feedback: Canada in Comparative Perspective

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

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

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

  • The Timeline of Presidential Election Campaigns

    Christopher Wlezien;Robert S. Erikson

  • Performance pressure: Patterns of partisanship and the economic vote

    Mark Andreas Kayser;Christopher Wlezien

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

    Robert S. Erikson;Christopher Wlezien

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

    Mark Franklin;Michael Marsh;Christopher Wlezien

  • An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States

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

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

    Glenn E. Mitchell;Christopher Wlezien

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Robert S. Erikson
Robert S. Erikson Columbia University
Will Jennings
Will Jennings University of Southampton
Robert Ford
Robert Ford University of Manchester
Pippa Norris
Pippa Norris Harvard University
Bryan D. Jones
Bryan D. Jones The University of Texas at Austin
Rachel Gibson
Rachel Gibson University of Manchester
Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Michael S. Lewis-Beck University of Iowa
Arthur H. Miller
Arthur H. Miller University of Iowa
James Adams
James Adams University of California, Davis

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