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39
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10784
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Jonas Pontusson publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jonas Pontusson sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 129 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Jonas Pontusson D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jonas Pontusson sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

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

  • Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs Liberal America

    Jonas Pontusson

  • Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

    Lane Kenworthy;Jonas Pontusson

  • Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

    Lane Kenworthy;Jonas Pontusson

  • Rethinking Comparative Political Economy The Growth Model Perspective

    Lucio Baccaro;Jonas Pontusson

  • Wage Inequality and Varieties of Capitalism

    David Rueda;Jonas Pontusson

  • The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution

    Noam Lupu

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

    Christopher J. Anderson;Jonas G. Pontusson

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

    Jonas Pontusson;Peter Swenson

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

    Jonas Pontusson;David Rueda

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

    Jonas Pontusson

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

    Jonas Pontusson;David Rueda;Christopher R. Way

  • Unionization, Inequality and Redistribution

    Jonas Pontusson

  • The Limits of Social Democracy: Investment Politics in Sweden

    Jonas Pontusson

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

    Jonas Pontusson;Damian Raess

  • Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism

    Jonas Pontusson

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

    Jonas Pontusson

  • Globalization, labour power and partisan politics revisited

    Hyeok Yong Kwon;Jonas Pontusson

  • Organized industrial relations in Europe : what future?

    Jonas Pontusson;Colin Crouch;Franz Traxler

  • Solidaristic Unionism and Support for Redistribution in Contemporary Europe

    Nadja Mosimann;Jonas Pontusson

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

    Torben Iversen;Jonas Pontusson;David W. Soskice

  • The limits of social democracy

    Jonas Pontusson

  • The Political Economy of Inequality and Redistribution

    Nolan McCarty;Jonas Pontusson

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

    Jonas Pontusson;David Weisstanner

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

    Jonas Pontusson

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

    Magnus Bergli Rasmussen;Jonas Pontusson

  • New approaches to political economy

    Bruno Amable;Aidan Regan;Sabina Avdagic;Lucio Baccaro

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

    Michael Becher;Jonas Pontusson

  • Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America

    Stanley Hoffmann;Jonas Pontusson

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

    Jonas Pontusson

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucio Baccaro
Lucio Baccaro Max Planck Society
David Rueda
David Rueda University of Oxford
Torben Iversen
Torben Iversen Harvard University
David Soskice
David Soskice London School of Economics and Political Science
Lane Kenworthy
Lane Kenworthy University of California, San Diego
Nolan McCarty
Nolan McCarty Princeton University
Colin Crouch
Colin Crouch University of Warwick
Christopher J. Anderson
Christopher J. Anderson London School of Economics and Political Science
Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven City University of New York
Nancy Bermeo
Nancy Bermeo University of Oxford

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