2026 D. Roderick Kiewiet: 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	29	1219	1105	609	531	69	9399

Overview

D. Roderick Kiewiet is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their recent scholarly contributions focus on education finance and related social issues, as reflected in their publication record.

Kiewiet's recent publication includes the paper titled Public Schools, Private Money: The Persistence of Inequality, published in 2021 in the Journal of education finance. This work explores financial dynamics impacting public education and how inequality endures within this context.

Frequent collaborators in Kiewiet's research include:

Sarah A. Hill
Shelly Arsneault

Kiewiet has published in the following journal venue:

Journal of education finance

Their research contributions engage topics related to public education funding and financial disparities, as evidenced by the thematic focus of their published work. The collaboration pattern indicates a focus on interdisciplinary teamwork in understanding educational finance issues.

Best Publications

Sociotropic Politics: The American Case

Donald R. Kinder;D. Roderick Kiewiet

2020
Citations
Economic Discontent and Political Behavior: The Role of Personal Grievances and Collective Economic Judgments in Congressional Voting

Donald R. Kinder;D. Roderick Kiewiet

1382
Citations
The logic of delegation : congressional parties and the appropriations process

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Mathew D. McCubbins

829
Citations
Constitutional Limitations on Borrowing: An Analysis of State Bonded Indebtedness

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Kristin Szakaty

492
Citations
Political participation of ethnic minorities in the 1980s

Carole J. Uhlaner;Bruce E. Cain;D. Roderick Kiewiet

475
Citations
The Acquisition of Partisanship by Latinos and Asian Americans

Bruce E. Cain;D. Roderick Kiewiet;Carole J. Uhlaner

435
Citations
Macroeconomics and Micropolitics: The Electoral Effects of Economic Issues.

Patrick A. Pierce;D. Roderick Kiewiet

431
Citations
A Retrospective on Retrospective Voting

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Douglas. Rivers

419
Citations
Presidential Influence on Congressional Appropriations Decisions

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Mathew D. McCubbins

360
Citations
Explaining Patterns of Candidate Competition in Congressional Elections

Jeffrey S. Banks;D. Roderick Kiewiet

326
Citations
An Analysis of Congressional Career Decisions, 1947-1986

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Langche Zeng

286
Citations
Policy-Oriented Voting in Response to Economic Issues

D. Roderick Kiewiet

226
Citations
Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy

Elisabeth R. Gerber;Arthur Lupia;Mathew D. McCubbins;D. Roderick Kiewiet

211
Citations
Congressional Appropriations and the Electoral Connection

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Mathew D. McCubbins

191
Citations
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND: SELF-INTEREST, THE PUBLIC INTEREST, AND SOCIOTROPIC VOTING

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Michael S. Lewis-Beck

113
Citations
Appropriations Decisions as a Bilateral Bargaining Game between President and Congress

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Mathew D. McCubbins

109
Citations
Economic retrospective voting and incentives for policymaking

D.Roderick Kiewiet

92
Citations
The nature of economic perceptions in mass publics

Michael Steven Lewis-Beck;Nicholas F. Martini;D. Roderick Kiewiet

91
Citations
Economic Grievances and Political Behavior: The Role of Personal Discontents and Collective Judgments in Congressional Voting

Donald R. Kinder;D. Roderick Kiewiet

88
Citations
State and Local Government Finance: The New Fiscal Ice Age

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Mathew D. McCubbins

82
Citations
A Taxonomy of Protest Voting

R. Michael Alvarez;D. Roderick Kiewiet;Lucas Núñez

75
Citations
Approval Voting: The Case of the 1968 Election

D. Roderick Kiewiet

34
Citations
Legislatures: Comparative Perspectives on Representative Assemblies

Gerhard Loewenberg;Peverill Squire;D. Roderick Kiewiet

30
Citations
Ethnicity and Electoral Choice: Mexican-American Voting Behavior in California 30th Congressional District

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Bruce E. Cain

21
Citations
Rationality and Rationalistic Choice in the California Recall

R. Michael Alvarez;D. Roderick Kiewiet

16
Citations
Domestic Discretionary Appropriations, 1950-1999: Here's the President. Where's the Party?

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Keith Krehbiel

8
Citations
The Impact of State Supreme Court Decisions on Public School Finance

Sarah A. Hill;D. Roderick Kiewiet

7
Citations
The Day After Tomorrow: The Politics of Public Employee Retirement Benefits

D. Roderick Kiewiet

5
Citations
Fraud or Failure? What Incident Reports Reveal about Election Anomalies and Irregularities

D. Roderick Kiewiet;Thad E. Hall;R. Michael Alvarez;Jonathan N. Katz

4
Citations
Bureaucrats and Budgetary Outcomes: Quantitative Analyses

D. Roderick Kiewiet

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathew D. McCubbins Duke University

R. Michael Alvarez California Institute of Technology

Bruce E. Cain Stanford University

Donald R. Kinder University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Charles N. Noussair University of Arizona

Michael S. Lewis-Beck University of Iowa

Jeffrey S. Banks California Institute of Technology

Keith Krehbiel Stanford University

Peverill Squire University of Missouri

Steven S. Smith Washington University in St. Louis

External Links

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