2026 Helmut Norpoth: 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	32	993	898	513	443	121	5682

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Political Science

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Overview

Helmut Norpoth is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on political science, with specific attention to electoral systems and political participation as well as populism and right-wing movements.

The scientist's recent academic output includes the following papers:

Primary Model Predicts Trump Reelection (2020), published in PS Political Science & Politics
Lost in the New Deal Realignment: GI Joe (2020), published in PS Political Science & Politics
Forecasting Elections with October Surprises (2023), published in Electoral Studies
Replication Data for: Primary Model Predicts Trump Re-election (2020), published in Harvard Dataverse
Gallup1945_1946Vet_men.tab (2020), published in Harvard Dataverse

Frequent publication venues for Norpoth include:

Harvard Dataverse
PS Political Science & Politics
Electoral Studies

The scientist's work covers the subfield of Political Science and International Relations. Key topics addressed in their publications are:

Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Populism, Right-Wing Movements

There is no record of frequent co-authors or book publications associated with Norpoth in the provided data.

Best Publications

The American Voter Revisited

Michael S. Lewis-Beck;Helmut Norpoth;William Jacoby;Herbert Weisberg

1426
Citations
Consumer Demand for Election News: The Horserace Sells

Shanto Iyengar;Helmut Norpoth;Kyu S. Hahn

430
Citations
Economics and Politics: The Calculus of Support

Helmut Norpoth;Michael S Lewis-Beck;Jean-Dominique Lafay

300
Citations
Presidents and the Prospective Voter

Helmut Norpoth

291
Citations
Popular influence on supreme court decisions

Helmut Norpoth;Jeffrey A. Segal;William Mishler;Reginald S. Sheehan

224
Citations
Guns and Butter and Government Popularity in Britain

Helmut Norpoth

165
Citations
Economics, politics, and the cycle of presidential popularity

Helmut Norpoth

141
Citations
Reality Bites: News Exposure and Economic Opinion

H. Brandon Haller;Helmut Norpoth

132
Citations
Let the Good Times Roll: The Economic Expectations of U.S. Voters

H. Brandon Haller;Helmut Norpoth

115
Citations
Macroeconomic Conditions and Fluctuations of Presidential Popularity: The Question of Lagged Effects *

Helmut Norpoth

114
Citations
From Argentina to Zambia: a world-wide test of economic voting

Sam Wilkin;Brandon Haller;Helmut Norpoth

111
Citations
Divided Government and Economic Voting

Helmut Norpoth

104
Citations
WANTED: THE EDUCATION PRESIDENT ISSUE TRESPASSING BY POLITICAL CANDIDATES

Helmut Norpoth;Helmut Norpoth;Bruce Buchanan

102
Citations
Commander-in-chief or chief economist?: The president in the eye of the public

Michael Nickelsburg;Helmut Norpoth

97
Citations
Partisan Dealignment in the American Electorate: Itemizing the Deductions since 1964

Helmut Norpoth;Jerrold G. Rusk

87
Citations
Confidence Regained: Economics, Mrs. Thatcher, and the British Voter

Helmut Norpoth

85
Citations
Realignment and Macropartisanship

Michael F. Meffert;Helmut Norpoth;Anirudh V. S. Ruhil

80
Citations
Mission Accomplished: The Wartime Election of 2004

Helmut Norpoth;Andrew H. Sidman

74
Citations
Of Time and Candidates A Forecast for 1996

Helmut Norpoth

74
Citations
Candidates on Television: The 1972 Electoral Debates in West Germany

Kendall L. Baker;Helmut Norpoth

70
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Gschwend University of Mannheim

Michael S. Lewis-Beck University of Iowa

Shanto Iyengar Stanford University

Alan I. Abramowitz Emory University

Milton Lodge Stony Brook University

James E. Campbell University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Jeffrey A. Segal Stony Brook University

Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin

Robert S. Erikson Columbia University

Thomas M. Holbrook University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

External Links

Wikipedia of Helmut Norpoth Personal website of Helmut Norpoth

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