2026 Grigore Pop-Eleches: 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	26	1529	1399	763	675	78	3374

Grigore Pop-Eleches 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 Grigore Pop-Eleches sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 333+

This scientist: 78 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Grigore Pop-Eleches 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 Grigore Pop-Eleches sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 26 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Grigore Pop-Eleches is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research broadly spans the field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Communication.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Political Conflict and Governance
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Religion and Society Interactions
Politics and Society in Latin America
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Corruption and Economic Development

Among their recent publications are:

Dictators and Their Subjects: Authoritarian Attitudinal Effects and Legacies, 2020, Comparative Political Studies
Censorship and the Impact of Repression on Dissent, 2021, American Journal of Political Science
Protest Participation and Attitude Change: Evidence from Ukraine's Euromaidan Revolution, 2021, The Journal of Politics
The Partisan Divide in Social Distancing, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
The microdynamics of spatial polarization: A model and an application to survey data from Ukraine, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors working with Pop-Eleches include:

Graeme B. Robertson
Keena Lipsitz
Mircea Comșa
Florin Feșnic
Andrei Gheorghiţă

The venues where their work is often published include:

Harvard Dataverse
The Journal of Politics
World Politics
Comparative Political Studies
Perspectives on Politics

Pop-Eleches has also contributed to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press. This includes the book titled The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies published in 2021.

Best Publications

Throwing Out the Bums: Protest Voting and Unorthodox Parties after Communism

Grigore Pop-Eleches

378
Citations
Historical Legacies and Post‐Communist Regime Change

Grigore Pop-Eleches

365
Citations
Why No Backsliding? The European Union's Impact on Democracy and Governance Before and After Accession

Philip Levitz;Grigore Pop-Eleches

268
Citations
From economic crisis to reform

Grigore Pop-Eleches

250
Citations
From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe

Grigore Pop-Eleches

224
Citations
Disenchanted or Discerning: Voter Turnout in Post-Communist Countries

Alexander C. Pacek;Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

212
Citations
Communist socialization and post-communist economic and political attitudes

Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

191
Citations
A party for all seasons: Electoral adaptation of Romanian Communist successor parties

Grigore Pop-Eleches

141
Citations
Associated with the Past?: Communist Legacies and Civic Participation in Post-Communist Countries

Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

134
Citations
Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes

Grigore Pop-Eleches;Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker;Joshua A. Tucker

131
Citations
Between Historical Legacies and the Promise of Western Integration: Democratic Conditionality after Communism

Grigore Pop-Eleches

127
Citations
Targeted government spending and political preferences

Cristian Pop-Eleches;Grigore Pop-Eleches

124
Citations
Communism's Shadow: Postcommunist Legacies, Values, and Behavior

Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

84
Citations
Identity and political preferences in Ukraine – before and after the Euromaidan

Grigore Pop-Eleches;Graeme B. Robertson

74
Citations
Monitoring, Money and Migrants: Countering Post-Accession Backsliding in Bulgaria and Romania

Philip Levitz;Grigore Pop-Eleches

72
Citations
Dictators and Their Subjects: Authoritarian Attitudinal Effects and Legacies:

Anja Neundorf;Grigore Pop-Eleches

51
Citations
After the Party: Legacies and Left-Right Distinctions in Post-Communist Countries

Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

48
Citations
Communist Legacies and Left-Authoritarianism:

Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

42
Citations
Public Goods or Political Pandering: Evidence from IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe

Grigore Pop-Eleches

39
Citations
Romania's Politics of Dejection

Grigore Pop-Eleches

22
Citations
Crisis in the Eye of the Beholder: Economic Crisis and Partisan Politics in Latin American and East European International Monetary Fund Programs

Grigore Pop-Eleches

20
Citations
Information, elections, and political change

Grigore Pop-Eleches;Graeme B. Robertson

19
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Tucker New York University

Lucan A. Way University of Toronto

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