2026 Dirk Berg-Schlosser: 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	28	1375	1252	75	71	99	3964

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Current World Ranking

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Political Science

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3964

Overview

Dirk Berg-Schlosser is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a focus on political science, international relations, sociology, and development.

The scientist's recent publications include:

Comparative Area Studies: Epistemological and Methodological Foundations and a Practical Application (2020, Vestnik RUDN International Relations)
Comparing regime types - 'most similar' cases in East Asia (2023, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics)

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

Ursula Hoffmann-Lange
Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Ursula van Beek

Their work is commonly published in venues such as:

Vestnik RUDN International Relations
Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

Berg-Schlosser's main fields of study focus on social sciences, with a significant concentration in sociology and political science as well as international relations and development.

Subfields of study include:

Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Development

The main topics addressed in their research are:

Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Political Conflict and Governance
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Social Policy and Reform Studies
International Development and Aid
Religion and Society Interactions

Best Publications

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) As an Approach

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Gisèle De Meur;Charles Ragin;Benoît Rihoux

791
Citations
Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Gisèle De Meur

395
Citations
International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Bertrand Badie;Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Leonardo Morlino;Nathaniel Beck

234
Citations
Multi-Value QCA (mvQCA)

Lasse Cronqvist;Dirk Berg-Schlosser

224
Citations
Conditions of Democracy in Interwar Europe: A Boolean Test of Major Hypotheses

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Gisele De Meur

173
Citations
Political Methodology: Qualitative Methods

Charles C. Ragin;Dirk Berg‐Schlosser;Gisèle de Meur

163
Citations
Politische Kultur in Deutschland

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Jakob Schissler

155
Citations
The quality of democracies in Europe as measured by current indicators of democratization and good governance

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

137
Citations
Comparing political systems: Establishing similarities and dissimilarities

Giséle De Meur;Dirk Berg-Schlosser

124
Citations
Authoritarianism and democracy in Europe, 1919-39 : comparative analyses

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Jeremy Mitchell

108
Citations
African Political Systems Typology and Performance

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

90
Citations
Political Stability and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Christopher Leo;Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Rainer Siegler

89
Citations
Political culture in Germany

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Ralf Rytlewski

82
Citations
Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Democracy in Interwar Europe: Systematic Matching and Contrasting of Cases for “Small N” Analysis

Gisèle De Meur;Dirk Berg-Schlosser

77
Citations
Mixed Methods in Comparative Politics: Principles and Applications

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

76
Citations
Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Jeremy Mitchell

74
Citations
Poverty and democracy : self-help and political participation in Third World cities

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Norbert Kersting

64
Citations
Comment on Welzel, Inglehart & Klingemann's ‘The theory of human development: A cross‐cultural analysis’

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

51
Citations
The Sage handbook of political science

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Bertrand Badie;Leonardo Morlino

34
Citations
Determinants of democratic successes and failures in Africa

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

29
Citations
Mixed Methods in Comparative Politics

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

25
Citations
Conditions of democracy in Europe, 1919-39 : systematic case studies

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Jeremy Mitchell

25
Citations
Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

22
Citations
Democratization: The State of the Art

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

18
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles C. Ragin University of California, Irvine

Leonardo Morlino Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

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