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Jonathan Rodden is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to social sciences research with a focus on political science and related fields. Their work spans 35 publications in social sciences, particularly covering political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, communication, and health.

The scientist's research topics include electoral systems and political participation, populism and right-wing movements, gun ownership and violence research, suicide and self-harm studies, migration and integration, social media and politics, and fiscal policies and political economy.

Jonathan Rodden has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, most notably Nicholas Eubank, Guy Grossman, Melina Platas, Claudia Engel, and Marco Tabellini.

Publications by Rodden have appeared across prominent venues, with multiple papers published in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other significant outlets include Comparative Political Studies, Harvard Dataverse, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Selected recent papers by Jonathan Rodden include:

  • Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Homicide Deaths Among Adult Cohabitants of Handgun Owners in California, 2004 to 2016, 2022, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • The Great Global Divider? A Comparison of Urban-Rural Partisan Polarization in Western Democracies, 2024, Comparative Political Studies
  • Partisan Dislocation: A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering, 2021, Political Analysis
  • Viral Voting: Social Networks and Political Participation, 2021, Quarterly Journal of Political Science

Best Publications

  • The Dilemma of Fiscal Federalism: Grants and Fiscal Performance around the World

    Jonathan Rodden

  • "The Strength of Issues: Using Multiple Measures to Gauge Preference Stability, Ideological Constraint, and Issue Voting"

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Jonathan Rodden;James M. Snyder

  • Comparative Federalism and Decentralization: On Meaning and Measurement

    Jonathan Rodden

  • Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism

    Jonathan A. Rodden

  • Reviving Leviathan: Fiscal Federalism and the Growth of Government

    Jonathan Rodden

  • Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography and Electoral Bias in Legislatures

    Jowei Chen;Jonathan Rodden

  • Beyond the Fiction of Federalism: Macroeconomic Management in Multitiered Systems

    Jonathan Rodden;Erik Wibbels

  • The Geographic Distribution of Political Preferences

    Jonathan Rodden

  • Does Federalism Preserve Markets

    Jonathan Rodden;Susan Rose-Ackerman

  • How Should We Measure District-Level Public Opinion on Individual Issues?

    Christopher Warshaw;Jonathan Rodden

  • Strength in Numbers?: Representation and Redistribution in the European Union

    Jonathan Rodden

  • Purple America

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  • Federalismo e descentralização em perspectiva comparada: sobre significados e medidas

    Jonathan Rodden

  • Does Religion Distract the Poor? Income and Issue Voting Around the World

    Ana L. De La O;Jonathan A. Rodden

  • Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California

    David M. Studdert;Yifan Zhang;Sonja A. Swanson;Lea Prince

  • Why Has US Policy Uncertainty Risen since 1960

    Scott R Baker;Nicholas Bloom;Brandice Canes-Wrone;Steven J Davis

  • Economic Geography and Economic Voting: Evidence from the US States

    Michael Ebeid;Jonathan Rodden

  • FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SEVEN FEDERATIONS

    Jonathan Rodden;Erik Wibbels

  • Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide

    Jonathan A. Rodden

  • Política distributiva na Federação: estratégias eleitorais, barganhas legislativas e coalizões de governo

    Marta Arretche;Jonathan Rodden

  • Dual accountability and the nationalization of party competition: Evidence from four federations

    Jonathan Rodden;Erik Wibbels

  • Hamilton's Paradox

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  • Handgun Acquisitions in California After Two Mass Shootings

    David M. Studdert;Yifan Zhang;Jonathan A. Rodden;Rob J. Hyndman

  • Crowdsourcing accountability: ICT for service delivery

    Guy Grossman;Melina R. Platas;Jonathan Rodden

  • Representation and redistribution in federations

    Tiberiu Dragu;Jonathan Rodden

  • The Achilles Heel of Plurality Systems: Geography and Representation in Multiparty Democracies

    Ernesto Calvo;Jonathan Rodden

  • Legislative Bargaining and Distributive Politics in Brazil: An Empirical Approach

    Jonathan Rodden;Marta Arretche

  • Representation and regional redistribution in federations

    Tiberiu Dragu;Jonathan Rodden

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Hoover Institution
Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom Stanford University
Guy Grossman
Guy Grossman University of Pennsylvania
Erik Wibbels
Erik Wibbels Duke University
Brandice Canes-Wrone
Brandice Canes-Wrone Stanford University
David M. Studdert
David M. Studdert Stanford University
Garen J. Wintemute
Garen J. Wintemute University of California, Davis
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University
Stephen Ansolabehere
Stephen Ansolabehere Harvard University
Sonja A. Swanson
Sonja A. Swanson Erasmus University Rotterdam

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