Gretchen Helmke

Gretchen Helmke publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gretchen Helmke sits on this spectrum.

Gretchen Helmke D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gretchen Helmke sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A RESEARCH AGENDA

  Gretchen Helmke;Steven Levitsky

  4169
  Citations

• The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina Under Dictatorship and Democracy

  Gretchen Helmke

  537
  Citations

• Informal Institutions and Democracy

  Unknown

  366
  Citations

• Regimes and the Rule of Law: Judicial Independence in Comparative Perspective

  Gretchen Helmke;Frances Rosenbluth

  272
  Citations

• Courts under Constraints

  Unknown

  265
  Citations

• Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda

  Unknown

  255
  Citations

• Courts in Latin America

  Gretchen Helmke;Julio Rios-Figueroa

  225
  Citations

• Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump Presidency

  John M. Carey;Gretchen Helmke;Brendan Nyhan;Mitchell Sanders

  89
  Citations

• The Origins of Institutional Crises in Latin America

  Gretchen Helmke

  84
  Citations

• The comparative study of split-ticket voting

  Barry C. Burden;Gretchen Helmke

  75
  Citations

• Who will defend democracy? Evaluating tradeoffs in candidate support among partisan donors and voters

  John Carey;Katherine Clayton;Gretchen Helmke;Brendan Nyhan

  74
  Citations

• Institutions on the Edge: The Origins and Consequences of Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America

  Gretchen Helmke

  74
  Citations

• Inequality under Democracy: Explaining the Left Decade in Latin America

  Alexandre Debs;Gretchen Helmke

  69
  Citations

• Checks and Balances by Other Means: Strategic Defection and Argentina's Supreme Court in the 1990s

  Gretchen Helmke

  45
  Citations

• Courts in Latin America: The Puzzling Judicial Politics of Latin America

  Unknown

  31
  Citations

• Who Will Defend Democracy? Evaluating Tradeoffs in Candidate Support Among Partisan Donors and Voters

  Unknown

  30
  Citations

• Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting

  Gretchen Helmke;Mary Kroeger;Jack Paine

  25
  Citations

• Modeling Motivations: A Method for Inferring Judicial Goals from Behavior

  Gretchen Helmke;Mitchell S. Sanders

  17
  Citations

• Endogenous Institutions: The Origins of Compulsory Voting Laws

  Bonnie M Meguid;Gretchen Helmke

  15
  Citations

• Institutions on the Edge

  Gretchen Helmke

  14
  Citations