2026 Jeffrey Herbst: 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	28	1320	1199	658	576	101	7305

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Overview

Jeffrey Herbst is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their academic career is associated with this institution, which serves as the primary base for their research activities and scholarly contributions.

There are no recent papers or publications listed for Jeffrey Herbst. Likewise, there are no specified frequent co-authors or frequent publication venues associated with their work in the provided data.

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Best Publications

States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control

Jeffrey Ira Herbst

2126
Citations
States and Power in Africa

Jeffrey Herbst

920
Citations
War and the State in Africa

Jeffrey Herbst

289
Citations
Responding to State Failure in Africa

Jeffrey Herbst

283
Citations
The creation and matintenance of national boundaries in Africa

Jeffrey Herbst

235
Citations
State politics in Zimbabwe

Jeffrey Ira Herbst

221
Citations
The structural adjustment of politics in Africa.

Jeffrey Herbst

214
Citations
Jeffrey Herbst. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. 272 pp. Figures. Maps. Tables. Index. $17.95. Paper.

Guy Martin;Jeffrey Herbst

209
Citations
When states fail : causes and consequences

David Carment;Christopher S Clapham;Nat J Colletta;Jeffrey Ira Herbst

201
Citations
The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991

Jeffrey Ira Herbst

181
Citations
Economic Incentives, Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

Jeffrey Herbst

176
Citations
African Militaries and Rebellion: The Political Economy of Threat and Combat Effectiveness:

Jeffrey Herbst

162
Citations
The Relationship between Political and Economic Reform in Africa

Henry Bienen;Jeffrey Herbst

142
Citations
Somalia and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention

Walter S. Clarke;Jeffrey Herbst

117
Citations
Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective by Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle

Jeffrey Herbst

109
Citations
Learning from Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention

Christopher Clapham;Walter Clarke;Jeffrey Herbst

98
Citations
MIGRATION, THE POLITICS OF PROTEST, AND STATE CONSOLIDATION IN AFRICA

Jeffrey Herbst

63
Citations
Launching democracy in South Africa : the first open election, April 1994

Jeffrey Herbst;R. W. Johnson;Lawrence Schlemmer

61
Citations
Big African states

Christopher S. Clapham;Jeffrey Ira Herbst;Greg Mills

58
Citations
Prospects For Revolution in South Africa

Jeffrey Herbst

36
Citations
Political Liberalization in Africa after Ten Years@@@Democracy and Democratization in Africa: Toward the 21st Century@@@Democracy in Africa: The Hard Road Ahead@@@Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa: Coping with Uncertainty

Jeffrey Herbst;E. Ike Udogu;Marina Otttaway;Jean-Germain Gros

33
Citations
Crafting Cooperation: Crafting regional cooperation in Africa

Unknown

32
Citations
Political Impediments to Economic Rationality: Explaining Zimbabwe's Failure to Reform its Public Sector

Jeffrey Herbst

26
Citations
Africa and the challenge of globalization

Jeffrey Herbst

4
Citations
The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991

Richard Rathbone;Jeffrey Herbst

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Clapham University of Cambridge

Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University

Paul Collier University of Oxford

Robert H. Bates Harvard University

Robert I. Rotberg Harvard University

Nicolas Van De Walle Cornell University

Daniel N. Posner University of California, Los Angeles

Goran Hyden University of Florida

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