2026 Jonas Pontusson: 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	39	527	478	12	12	129	10784

Overview

Jonas Pontusson is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. The research focus encompasses the social sciences, with a particular emphasis on political science and international relations, public administration, sociology and political science, gender studies, and strategy and management.

Their scholarly contributions cover several main research topics, including:

Social Policy and Reform Studies
Labor Movements and Unions
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Gender Politics and Representation
Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Frequent collaborators in research include:

Line Rennwald
Lucio Baccaro
Noam Lupu
Wouter Schakel

Jonas Pontusson has contributed to a number of journals and publication venues. The most frequent ones are:

Harvard Dataverse
Perspectives on Politics
West European Politics
European Journal of Political Research
World Politics

Recent academic papers include:

"Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution," 2022, West European Politics
"Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class," 2022, European Journal of Political Research
"Paper Stones Revisited: Class Voting, Unionization and the Electoral Decline of the Mainstream Left," 2020, Perspectives on Politics
"Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974-2016," 2022, West European Politics
"Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe," 2023, Journal of European Public Policy

In addition to journal articles, Jonas Pontusson has published books with notable academic presses:

"The Limits of Social Democracy," 2020, Cornell University Press eBooks
"Making Capitalism Work," 2020, New York University Press eBooks

Best Publications

Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited: Entitlement Cuts, Public Sector Restructuring, and Inegalitarian Trends in Advanced Capitalist Societies

Richard Clayton;Jonas Pontusson

886
Citations
Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs Liberal America

Jonas Pontusson

817
Citations
Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

Lane Kenworthy;Jonas Pontusson

783
Citations
Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

Lane Kenworthy;Jonas Pontusson

783
Citations
Rethinking Comparative Political Economy The Growth Model Perspective

Lucio Baccaro;Jonas Pontusson

734
Citations
Wage Inequality and Varieties of Capitalism

David Rueda;Jonas Pontusson

680
Citations
The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution

Noam Lupu

617
Citations
Workers, worries and welfare states: Social protection and job insecurity in 15 OECD countries

Christopher J. Anderson;Jonas G. Pontusson

577
Citations
Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions The Swedish Employer Offensive in Comparative Perspective

Jonas Pontusson;Peter Swenson

458
Citations
The Politics of Inequality: Voter Mobilization and Left Parties in Advanced Industrial States

Jonas Pontusson;David Rueda

311
Citations
From Comparative Public Policy to Political Economy: Putting Political Institutions in their Place and Taking Interests Seriously

Jonas Pontusson

306
Citations
Comparative Political Economy of Wage Distribution: The Role of Partisanship and Labour Market Institutions

Jonas Pontusson;David Rueda;Christopher R. Way

302
Citations
Unionization, Inequality and Redistribution

Jonas Pontusson

225
Citations
The Limits of Social Democracy: Investment Politics in Sweden

Jonas Pontusson

216
Citations
How (and Why) Is This Time Different? The Politics of Economic Crisis in Western Europe and the United States

Jonas Pontusson;Damian Raess

214
Citations
Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism

Jonas Pontusson

206
Citations
At the End of the Third Road: Swedish Social Democracy in Crisis:

Jonas Pontusson

205
Citations
Globalization, labour power and partisan politics revisited

Hyeok Yong Kwon;Jonas Pontusson

144
Citations
Organized industrial relations in Europe : what future?

Jonas Pontusson;Colin Crouch;Franz Traxler

124
Citations
Solidaristic Unionism and Support for Redistribution in Contemporary Europe

Nadja Mosimann;Jonas Pontusson

114
Citations
Unions, Employers and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies

Torben Iversen;Jonas Pontusson;David W. Soskice

108
Citations
The limits of social democracy

Jonas Pontusson

71
Citations
The Political Economy of Inequality and Redistribution

Nolan McCarty;Jonas Pontusson

67
Citations
Macroeconomic conditions, inequality shocks and the politics of redistribution, 1990–2013

Jonas Pontusson;David Weisstanner

60
Citations
Between Neo-Liberalism and the German Model: Swedish Capitalism in Transition

Jonas Pontusson

56
Citations
Working-Class Strength by Institutional Design? Unionization, Partisan Politics, and Unemployment Insurance Systems, 1870 to 2010:

Magnus Bergli Rasmussen;Jonas Pontusson

54
Citations
New approaches to political economy

Bruno Amable;Aidan Regan;Sabina Avdagic;Lucio Baccaro

54
Citations
Whose Interests do Unions Represent? Unionization by Income in Western Europe

Michael Becher;Jonas Pontusson

43
Citations
Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America

Stanley Hoffmann;Jonas Pontusson

10
Citations
Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht

Jonas Pontusson

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucio Baccaro Max Planck Society

David Rueda University of Oxford

Torben Iversen Harvard University

David Soskice London School of Economics and Political Science

Lane Kenworthy University of California, San Diego

Nolan McCarty Princeton University

Colin Crouch University of Warwick

Christopher J. Anderson London School of Economics and Political Science

Frances Fox Piven City University of New York

Nancy Bermeo University of Oxford

External Links

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