2026 Crawford Young: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	35	765	404	124	5331

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Political Science

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Overview

Crawford Young was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research contributions centered primarily within the Arts and Humanities, with a particular focus on Language and Linguistics.

The main areas of study encompassed linguistics and language evolution, covering two publications in this topic. This indicates a focus on the mechanisms, history, and development of languages as well as their evolutionary aspects.

Arts and Humanities
Language and Linguistics

Linguistics and language evolution

Best Publications

The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective

Crawford Young

946
Citations
The politics of cultural pluralism

Crawford Young

729
Citations
The rise and decline of the Zairian state

Crawford Young;Thomas Edwin Turner

299
Citations
The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics

Crawford Young

277
Citations
Ideology and development in Africa

John W. Sewell;Crawford Young

181
Citations
Politics in the Congo: Decolonization and Independence

Richard L. Sklar;Crawford Young

180
Citations
Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda: AK-47 as change agent

Mustafa K Mirzeler;Crawford Young

129
Citations
Beyond state crisis? : postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia in comparative perspective

Mark R. Beissinger;Crawford Young

84
Citations
The rising tide of cultural pluralism : the nation-state at bay?

Crawford Young

80
Citations
The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker;Crawford Young;Thomas Turner

74
Citations
Patterns of Social Conflict: State, Class, and Ethnicity

Crawford Young

72
Citations
The Temple of Ethnicity

Crawford Young

72
Citations
Issues of political development

Charles W. Anderson;Fred R. Von der Mehden;Crawford Young

69
Citations
Zaïre: The Unending Crisis

Crawford Young

65
Citations
Africa: An Interim Balance Sheet

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62
Citations
Zaire: the Shattered Illusion of the Integral State

Crawford Young

60
Citations
Area studies and social science : strategies for understanding Middle East politics

Crawford Young;Mark Tessler;Jodie Nachtwey;Anne Banda

58
Citations
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010

Crawford Young

55
Citations
The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective.

Kinuthia Macharia;Crawford Young

20
Citations
The Politics of Cultural Pluralism.

Aidan Southall;Crawford Young

19
Citations
Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant

Crawford Young;Robert H. Jackson;Carl G. Rosberg

15
Citations
The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation State at Bay?

Haggai Erlich;Crawford Young

5
Citations
Ideology and Development in Africa

René Lemarchand;Crawford Young

2
Citations
The Politics of Cultural Pluralism.

Robert Melson;Crawford Young

1
Citations
Politics in Congo

Crawford Young

1
Citations
The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and U. S. Policy in the Congo Crisis

Crawford Young;David N. Gibbs

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles W. Anderson Michigan State University

Robert Jackson Boston University

I. William Zartman Johns Hopkins University

Gail M. Gerhart Columbia University

Mark Tessler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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