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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jan W. van Deth is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany. Their research is primarily situated within the social sciences, focusing largely on political science and international relations with a significant number of contributions in this area.

The main areas of study covered by Jan W. van Deth include:

  • Social Sciences

Subfields of study where their work is concentrated include:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Communication
  • Public Administration
  • Development

The key topics addressed in their research consist of:

  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Political Systems and Governance
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Capital and Networks

Jan W. van Deth has published several papers, with recent examples including:

  • Similar But Different: Constructing Equivalent Protest Measures in Comparative Research, 2021, American Behavioral Scientist
  • Revisiting Norms of Citizenship in Times of Democratic Change, 2021, Politics
  • Index, 2020, Cambridge University Press eBooks

Additionally, their book publications include the title:

  • Foundations of Comparative Politics, 2020, Cambridge University Press

Frequent coauthors in Jan W. van Deth's collaborative research work are:

  • Kenneth Newton
  • Christian Schnaudt
  • Carolin V. Zorell
  • Yannis Theocharis

The venues where Jan W. van Deth commonly publishes their work reflect their research focus and include:

  • Politics
  • American Behavioral Scientist
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Jan W. van Deth was recognized with an award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

Best Publications

  • A Conceptual Map of Political Participation

    Jan W van Deth

  • Using Twitter to mobilize protest action: online mobilization patterns and action repertoires in the Occupy Wall Street, Indignados, and Aganaktismenoi movements

    Yannis Theocharis;Will Lowe;Jan W. van Deth;Gema García-Albacete

  • Continuities in Political Action

    M. Kent Jennings;Jan W. van Deth

  • The impact of values

    Jan W. van Deth;Elinor Scarbrough

  • Measuring social capital: Orthodoxies and continuing controversies

    Jan W. van Deth

  • Continuities in Political Action: A Longitudinal Study of Political Orientations in Three Western Democracies

    M. Kent Jennings;Jan W. van Deth

  • The Handbook of Social Capital

    Dario Castiglione;Jan W. van Deth;Guglielmo Wolleb

  • Citizenship and involvement in European Democracies : A Comparative Analysis

    Jan W. van Deth;José Ramón Montero;Anders Westholm

  • Sozialkapital und Demokratie : zivilgesellschaftliche Ressourcen im Vergleich

    Jan W. van Deth;Oscar W. Gabriel;Sigrid Roßteutscher

  • Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World

    Kenneth Newton;Jan W. van Deth

  • Studying Political Participation : Towards a Theory of Everything?

    Jan W. van Deth

  • Social Capital and European Democracy

    Jan W. van Deth;Marco Maraffi;Kenneth Newton;Paul Whiteley

  • The continuous expansion of citizen participation: a new taxonomy ‡

    Yannis Theocharis;Jan W. van Deth

  • Children and Politics: An Empirical Reassessment of Early Political Socialization

    Jan W. van Deth;Simone Abendschön;Meike Vollmar

  • Interesting but irrelevant: Social capital and the saliency of politics in Western Europe

    Jan W. Van Deth

  • The Concept of Values

    Jan W. van Deth;Elinor Scarbrough

  • Politicisation, economic development and political interest in Europe

    Jan W. Van Deth;Martin Elff

  • Supporting Democracy: Political Participation and Political Attitudes. Exploring Causality Using Panel Data

    Ellen Quintelier;Jan W. Van Deth

  • Die Bundestagswahl 2002

    Frank Brettschneider;Jan van Deth;Edeltraud Roller

  • Private groups and public life : social participation, voluntary associations and political involvement in representative democracies

    Jan W. van Deth

  • Political Participation in a Changing World: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Citizen Engagement

    Yannis Theocharis;Jan W. van Deth

  • Comparative Politics : the Problem of Equivalence

    Jan W. van Deth

  • The Persistence of Materialist and Post-Materialist Value Orientations

    Jan W. Van Deth

  • Political Involvement and Apathy in Europe 1973-1998

    Jan W. van Deth;Martin Elff

  • Norms of Citizenship

    Jan W. van Deth;Hans-Dieter Klingemann

  • Membership of Voluntary Associations

    Jan W. van Deth;Frauke Kreuter

  • Foundations of Comparative Politics

    Kenneth Newton;Jan W. van Deth

  • Equivalence in Comparative Political Research

    Jan W. van Deth

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Newton
Kenneth Newton University of Southampton
William A. Maloney
William A. Maloney Newcastle University
Yannis Theocharis
Yannis Theocharis Technical University of Munich
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck University of Mannheim
M. Kent Jennings
M. Kent Jennings University of California, Santa Barbara
José Ramón Montero
José Ramón Montero Autonomous University of Madrid
Jacques J.A. Thomassen
Jacques J.A. Thomassen University of Twente
Oscar W. Gabriel
Oscar W. Gabriel University of Stuttgart
Ronald Inglehart
Ronald Inglehart University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Frauke Kreuter
Frauke Kreuter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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