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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
51
Citations
16656
World Ranking
214
National Ranking
26

Ian Budge 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 Ian Budge sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 272 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ian Budge 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 Ian Budge sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 73 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Ian Budge is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their recent work spans multiple facets of political science and closely related fields.

Their published papers include:

  • Delivering Democracy: Policy Voting or Government Alternation? (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Studying the Supply and Demand for Public Goods: Shared Working Assumptions of Representational Research on Democracy (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Book Review: Research Handbook on Political Partisanship (2022, Party Politics)
  • In Memoriam: Jean Blondel (2023, Political Science Today)
  • Specifying and Contextualising Predictive Theories of Democratic Policy Representation (2024, Political Studies Review)

Frequent co-authorship includes collaboration with Michael D. McDonald.

Their work has appeared in these publication venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Party Politics
  • Political Science Today
  • Political Studies Review

Ian Budge's research falls under several subfields of study, including:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • History
  • Strategy and Management

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Policy Transfer and Learning

Best Publications

  • Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998

    Ian Budge;Hans-Dieter Klingemann;Andrea Volkens;Judith Bara

  • Parties, policies, and democracy

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

  • Ideology, strategy and party change : spatial analyses of post-war election programmes in 19 democracies

    Ian Budge;David Robertson;Derek Hearl

  • Explaining and Predicting Elections: Issue Effects and Party Strategies in Twenty-Three Democracies

    John R. Petrocik;Ian Budge;Dennis J. Farlie

  • Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate

    Michael D. McDonald;Ian Budge

  • A New Spatial Theory of Party Competition: Uncertainty, Ideology and Policy Equilibria Viewed Comparatively and Temporally

    Ian Budge

  • Party identification and beyond: Representations of voting and party competition

    Ian Budge;Ivor Crewe;Dennis Farlie

  • The new challenge of direct democracy

    Ian Budge

  • Constraints on cabinet formation in parliamentary democracies

    Kaare Strom;Ian Budge;Michael J. Laver

  • Party Policy and Government Coalitions

    Michael Laver;Ian Budge

  • Elections, Parties, Democracy

    Michael D. McDonald;Ian Budge

  • 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

  • Mandates and Policy Outputs: U.S. Party Platforms and Federal Expenditures

    Ian Budge;Richard I. Hofferbert

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

    Jaap Woldendorp;Hans Keman;Ian Budge

  • Office Seeking and Policy Pursuit In Coalition Theory

    Ian Budge;Michael Laver

  • Expert judgements of party policy positions: Uses and limitations in political research

    Ian Budge

  • What are elections for? conferring the median mandate

    Michael D. McDONALD;Silvia M. Mendes;Ian Budge

  • Ideology, Party Factionalism and Policy Change: An integrated dynamic theory

    Ian Budge;Lawrence Ezrow;Michael D. McDonald

  • Party competition : selective emphasis or direct confrontation? : an alternative view with data

    Ian Budge;Dennis Farlie

  • Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts: Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts

    Andrea Volkens;Judith Bara;Ian Budge;Michael D. McDonald

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

    Jaap Woldendorp;Hans Keman;Ian Budge

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Keman
Hans Keman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kenneth Newton
Kenneth Newton University of Southampton
Klaus Armingeon
Klaus Armingeon University of Zurich
Michael Laver
Michael Laver New York University
Sarah Birch
Sarah Birch King's College London
Ivor Crewe
Ivor Crewe University of Oxford
Christopher J. Anderson
Christopher J. Anderson London School of Economics and Political Science
Kaare Strøm
Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego
James E. Alt
James E. Alt Harvard University
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University

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