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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
68
Citations
127108
World Ranking
58
National Ranking
34

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Francis Fukuyama is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans various areas within the social sciences, particularly focusing on political science, public administration, and law. Their main fields of study include Social Sciences with an emphasis on the subfields of Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Law, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several core topics such as:

  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Corruption and Economic Development
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Freedom of Expression and Defamation

Frequent co-authors with whom Francis Fukuyama has collaborated include Katherine Bersch, Daniel Rogger, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Dinsha Mistree, and Kerenssa Kay.

Publications appear regularly in specific venues, with a notable number of papers published in:

  • Commentaire
  • Journal of democracy
  • Public Administration Review
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Annual Review of Political Science

Recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Francis Fukuyama include:

  • 30 Years of World Politics: What Has Changed? (2020), Journal of democracy
  • In Defense of the deep state (2023), Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
  • Making the Internet Safe for Democracy (2021), Journal of democracy

Additional notable papers involving Fukuyama or related collaborators are:

  • Responding to COVID-19 through Surveys of Public Servants (2020), Public Administration Review
  • Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy (2022), Annual Review of Political Science

In terms of book publications, Francis Fukuyama's work has appeared under various presses including Cambridge University Press, Franz Steiner Verlag, World Bank (through multiple formats), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Key book titles include:

  • Social Media and Democracy (2020), Cambridge University Press
  • Die Krise des demokratischen Rechtsstaats im 21. Jahrhundert (2020), Franz Steiner Verlag
  • The Global Survey of Public Servants: A Foundation for Research on Public Servants around the World (2023), World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
  • 11 septembre 2001 - Avant, Pendant, Après (2021), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Best Publications

  • The End of History and the Last Man

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Trust: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

    Francis Fukuyama;James C. Scott

  • Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Social capital, civil society and development

    Francis Fukuyama

  • The End of History

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Social Capital and the Global Economy

    Francis Fukuyama

  • State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    Francis Fukuyama

  • The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order

    Francis Fukuyama

  • The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

    Francis Fukuyama

  • What Is Governance

    Francis Fukuyama

  • La fin de l'histoire et le dernier homme

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

    G. John Ikenberry;Francis Fukuyama

  • America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

    Francis Fukuyama;John H. Holland

  • Social Capital and Civil Society

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Social Capital and Development: The Coming Agenda

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Confucianism and Democracy

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Our Posthuman Future

    G. John Ikenberry;Francis Fukuyama

  • The Imperative of State-Building

    Francis Fukuyama

  • The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan

    Francis Fukuyama;Ian Buruma

  • Women and the Evolution of World Politics

    Francis Fukuyama

  • I. The Primacy of Culture

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Why Is Democracy Performing So Poorly

    Francis Fukuyama

  • Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition

    Francis Fukuyama

  • The End of History and the Last Man

    Andrew J. Pierre;Francis Fukuyama

  • FACING THE PERILS OF PRESIDENTIALISM

    Bjoern Dressel;Francis Fukuyama;Boo-Seung Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond Stanford University
Nancy Birdsall
Nancy Birdsall Center for Global Development
Marc F. Plattner
Marc F. Plattner National Endowment for Democracy
G. John Ikenberry
G. John Ikenberry Princeton University
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen Harvard University
John C. Polanyi
John C. Polanyi University of Toronto
Muhammad Sahimi
Muhammad Sahimi University of Southern California
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell Boston University
Gerald M. Edelman
Gerald M. Edelman Neurosciences Institute

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