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Hans Keman 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 Hans Keman sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 184 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hans Keman 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 Hans Keman sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 27 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hans Keman is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans various interdisciplinary fields including Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences, emphasizing strategy, management, political science, and international relations.

The scientist's recent publication record includes the paper titled Levels of democraticness and degrees of stateness: viability, trust and legitimacy in 'liberal' democracies, published in 2025 in Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. This contribution reflects a focus on political systems and their functional characteristics.

Hans Keman has authored books, notably a volume titled Transportation and the State released in 2020 by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Their primary research topics include:

  • Transport and Economic Policies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics

Frequent collaborators in Keman's research work consist of:

  • Jaap Woldendorp (13 joint works)
  • Paul Pennings (2 joint works)

Keman's scholarly output has appeared repeatedly in the following venue:

  • Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (1 publication)

Their research areas and subfields include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences
  • Strategy and Management
  • Political Science and International Relations

Best Publications

  • Parties, policies, and democracy

    Hans-Dieter Klingemann;Richard I. Hofferbert;Ian Budge;Hans Keman

  • Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics

    Paul Pennings;Hans Keman;Jan Kleinnijenhuis

  • Party Government in 48 Democracies (1945–1998)

    Jaap Woldendorp;Hans Keman;Ian Budge

  • Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States

    Ian Budge;Hans Keman

  • Party government in 20 democracies: an update (1990–1995)

    Jaap Woldendorp;Hans Keman;Ian Budge

  • Party Government in 48 Democracies (1945-1998): Composition -- Duration -- Personnel

    Jaap Woldendorp;Hans Keman;Ian Budge

  • Comparative Democratic Politics: A Guide to Contemporary Theory and Research

    Hans Keman

  • Parties and Democracy

    Ian Budge;Hans Keman

  • Towards a new methodology of estimating party policy positions

    Paul Pennings;Hans Keman

  • Experts and manifestos: Different sources - same results for comparative research?

    Hans Keman

  • The Dutch Parliamentary Elections in 2002 and 2003: The Rise and Decline of the Fortuyn Movement

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  • Managing Political and Societal Conflict in Democracies: Do Consensus and Corporatism Matter?

    Hans Keman;Paul Pennings

  • Doing research in political science

    Paul Pennings;Hans Keman;Jan Kleinnijenhuis

  • The search for the centre: Pivot parties in West European party systems

    Hans Keman

  • Approaches to the Analysis of Institutions

    Hans Keman

  • Competition and coalescence in European party systems: Social democracy and Christian democracy moving into the 21st century

    Hans Keman;Paul Pennings

  • Politics, Policies and Consequences:* A Cross‐national Analysis of Public Policy‐formation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies (1967–1981)

    Hans Keman

  • Third ways and social democracy: The right way to go?

    Hans Keman

  • Democratic Performance of Parties and Legitimacy in Europe

    Hans Keman

  • Party Government in the New Europe

    Hans Keman;Ferdinand Müller-Rommel

  • Political stability in divided societies: a rational-institutional explanation

    Hans Keman

  • The politics of problem-solving in postwar democracies

    Hans Keman

  • The Polder Model Reviewed: Dutch Corporatism 1965—2000:

    Jaap Woldendorp;Hans Keman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Budge
Ian Budge University of Essex
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Klaus Armingeon
Klaus Armingeon University of Zurich
Kenneth Newton
Kenneth Newton University of Southampton
Stein Kuhnle
Stein Kuhnle University of Bergen
Jan Kleinnijenhuis
Jan Kleinnijenhuis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Barbara Vis
Barbara Vis Utrecht University
Marc Hooghe
Marc Hooghe KU Leuven
Paul Whiteley
Paul Whiteley University of Essex

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