2026 John D. Huber: 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	961	870	497	428	85	11546

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

John D. Huber is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, demography, and economics. Their work extensively addresses the interactions between religion and society, culture, economy, and development studies, as well as areas related to fiscal policy, local government finance, corruption, and American constitutional law and politics.

Huber has published papers in several venues, including:

Harvard Dataverse
The Journal of Politics
Comparative Political Studies
SSRN Electronic Journal

The recent scholarly output includes studies on electoral politics, the civil service system, and economic security. Notable publications authored by Huber are:

"Civil Service and Patronage in Bureaucracies," 2020, The Journal of Politics
"The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages," 2023, Comparative Political Studies
"Replication Data for The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious belief, religious practice, and the strength of religious voting cleavages," 2023, Harvard Dataverse
"Economic Security and the Strength of Religious Cleavages," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
"Replication Data for: 'Civil Service and Patronage in Bureaucracies' by John Huber and Michael Ting," 2020, Harvard Dataverse

Frequent collaborators include Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, with whom Huber has coauthored multiple works. Other coauthors comprise Michael M. Ting, Andy Gelman, Lucy Goodhart, and Guy Grossman.

Their primary fields and subfields of study encompass:

Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Demography
Economics and Econometrics

Main research topics associated with their work are:

Religion and Society Interactions
Religion, Society, and Development
Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
Local Government Finance and Decentralization
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Corruption and Economic Development
American Constitutional Law and Politics

Huber has received recognition from professional organizations, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013 and receiving the Heinz I. Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association in 1993.

Best Publications

Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy

John D. Huber;Charles R. Shipan

1989
Citations
Expert interpretations of party space and party locations in 42 societies

John Huber;Ronald Inglehart

1495
Citations
Congruence between Citizens and Policymakers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy

John D. Huber;G. Bingham Powell

824
Citations
Putting Parties in Their Place: Inferring Party Left-Right Ideological Positions from Party Manifestos Data

Matthew J. Gabel;John D. Huber

758
Citations
The Vote of Confidence in Parliamentary Democracies

John D. Huber

601
Citations
Rationalizing Parliament: Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France

John D. Huber

600
Citations
Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision

Kate Baldwin;John D. Huber

561
Citations
Bureaucratic Capacity, Delegation, and Political Reform

John D. Huber;Nolan McCARTY

469
Citations
Legislatures and statutory control of bureaucracy

John D. Huber;Charles R. Shipan;Madelaine Pfahler

450
Citations
Values and partisanship in left-right orientations: measuring ideology

John D. Huber

368
Citations
Replacing Cabinet Ministers: Patterns of Ministerial Stability in Parliamentary Democracies

John D. Huber;Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo

321
Citations
The Costs of Control: Legislators, Agencies, and Transaction Costs

John D. Huber;Charles R. Shipan

259
Citations
Institutional Context, Cognitive Resources and Party Attachments Across Democracies

John D. Huber;Georgia Kernell;Eduardo L. Leoni

243
Citations
Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy

John D. Huber;Charles R. Shipan

199
Citations
Restrictive Legislative Procedures in France and the United States.

John D. Huber

193
Citations
Rationalizing Parliament: Index

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193
Citations
Measuring Ethnic Voting: Do Proportional Electoral Laws Politicize Ethnicity?

John D. Huber

191
Citations
Delegation to civil servants in parliamentary democracies

John D. Huber

174
Citations
Procedural Choice and the House Committee on Rules

Douglas Dion;John D. Huber

168
Citations
Ethnic Inequality and the Ethnification of Political Parties: Evidence from India

John D. Huber;Pavithra Suryanarayan

147
Citations
How Does Cabinet Instability Affect Political Performance? Portfolio Volatility and Health Care Cost Containment in Parliamentary Democracies

John D. Huber

147
Citations
Institutions and Strategy in Parliamentary Democracy: A Review Article@@@Rationalizing Parliament: Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France@@@Making and Breaking Governments: Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies

Kaare Strom;John D. Huber;Michael Laver;Kenneth A. Shepsle

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles R. Shipan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

James L. Leighton Columbia University

Nolan McCarty Princeton University

Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego

Kenneth A. Shepsle Harvard University

Michael Laver New York University

G. Bingham Powell University of Rochester

Ronald Inglehart University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Matthew Gabel Washington University in St. Louis

Arthur Lupia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Personal website of John D. Huber

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