2026 Jane Mansbridge: 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	43	393	350	221	186	137	19428

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science For “having shaped our understanding of democracy in its direct and representative forms, with incisiveness, deep commitment and feminist theory
2011 - James Madison Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jane Mansbridge is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a significant focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, gender studies, social psychology, and safety research.

The main topics covered in their work include political philosophy and ethics, gender politics and representation, electoral systems and political participation, social policy and reform studies, political theory and influence, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, and the study of Foucault, power, and ethics.

Jane Mansbridge has contributed to various academic venues, frequently publishing in the following:

Journal of Deliberative Democracy
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
Politics & Gender
Contemporary Political Theory
International Political Science Review

Some of their recent papers include:

A Citizen-Centered Theory, 2020, Journal of Deliberative Democracy
"A Contingent 'Yes'" Revisited, 2023, Politics & Gender
The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture, 2023, Contemporary Political Theory
Everyday Activism, 2022, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
'Representing and Being Represented in Turn' - A Symposium on Hélène Landemore's "Open Democracy", 2021, Journal of Deliberative Democracy

Frequent co-authors with whom Jane Mansbridge has collaborated include:

Simone Chambers
Carol C. Gould
James Bohman
Thomas Christiano
Archon Fung

Throughout their career, Jane Mansbridge has been recognized with several awards, including:

Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2018), awarded for contributions to understanding democracy in its direct and representative forms, incorporating feminist theory
James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association (2011)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)

Best Publications

Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes"

Jane Mansbridge

3403
Citations
Beyond Adversary Democracy

Jane J. Mansbridge

3371
Citations
Rethinking Representation

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1465
Citations
A systemic approach to deliberative democracy

Jane J. Mansbridge;James Bohman;Simone Chambers;Thomas Christiano

1151
Citations
The Place of Self‐Interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy*

Jane Mansbridge;James Bohman;Simone Chambers;David Estlund

1150
Citations
Beyond self-interest

Jane J. Mansbridge

981
Citations
Deliberative Systems: Deliberative democracy at the large scale

John Richard Parkinson;Jane Mansbridge

942
Citations
Everyday Talk in the Deliberative System

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563
Citations
Why We Lost the ERA

Jane J. Mansbridge

554
Citations
Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy

André Bächtiger;Jane Mansbridge;John Dryzek;Mark Warren

546
Citations
Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest

Jane J. Mansbridge;Aldon Morris

516
Citations
Using Power/Fighting Power:: The Polity

Jane Mansbridge

452
Citations
The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation.

John S. Dryzek;André Bächtiger;Simone Chambers;Joshua Cohen

422
Citations
Norms of Deliberation: An Inductive study

Jane Mansbridge;Janette Hartz-Karp;Matthew Amengual;John W. Gastil

352
Citations
Clarifying the Concept of Representation

Jane Mansbridge

347
Citations
A Deliberative Theory of Interest Representation

Jane J. Mansbridge

310
Citations
Deliberative Systems: List of Contributors

John Parkinson;Jane Mansbridge

300
Citations
Quota Problems: Combating the Dangers of Essentialism

Jane Mansbridge

199
Citations
The role of the state in governing the commons

Jane Mansbridge

198
Citations
Toward a Theory of Backlash: Dynamic Resistance and the Central Role of Power

Jane Mansbridge;Shauna L. Shames

194
Citations
Three Using Power/Fighting Power: The Polity

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184
Citations
Race Trumps Gender: The Thomas Nomination in the Black Community*

Jane Mansbridge;Katherine Tate

121
Citations
Myth and Reality: The ERA and the Gender Gap in the 1980 Election

Jane J. Mansbridge

116
Citations
Time, Emotion, and Inequality: Three Problems of Participatory Groups:

Jane J. Mansbridge

109
Citations
Populism and Democratic Theory

Jane Mansbridge;Stephen Macedo

101
Citations
Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women

Jane Mansbridge

52
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Archon Fung Harvard University

Andreas Follesdal University of Oslo

Mark E. Warren University of British Columbia

John Gastil Pennsylvania State University

Dennis F. Thompson Harvard University

John S. Dryzek University of Canberra

Graham Smith University of Westminster

André Bächtiger University of Stuttgart

Iris Marion Young University of Chicago

Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

External Links

Personal website of Jane Mansbridge

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