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José Antonio Cheibub

José Antonio Cheibub

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
34
Citations
20406
World Ranking
785
National Ranking
414

José Antonio Cheibub 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 José Antonio Cheibub sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 83 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

José Antonio Cheibub 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 José Antonio Cheibub sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

José Antonio Cheibub is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their work primarily spans the social sciences, with a specific focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, law, economics and econometrics, and demography.

Their research addresses multiple topics within political science and governance, including:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

José Antonio Cheibub has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • "Rights and Deaths: Government Reactions to the Pandemic" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Constitutional parliamentarism in Europe, 1800-2019" (2021, West European Politics)
  • "Dynamic party system fragmentation" (2022, Electoral Studies)
  • "Review symposium: Beyond presidentialism and parliamentarism" (2023, European Political Science)
  • "Electing presidents: A hidden facet of democratization" (2023, Presidential Studies Quarterly)

The researcher frequently collaborates with other scholars, including Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi, each collaborating on four publications. Other coauthors include Ji Yeon Hong, Bjørn Erik Rasch, and Thiago Moreira.

José Antonio Cheibub's work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, most frequently in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other journals featuring their research include West European Politics, Electoral Studies, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and European Political Science.

Their contributions to the field have been recognized with awards such as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990

    Adam Przeworski;Michael E. Alvarez;Jose Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Democracy and dictatorship revisited

    José Antonio Cheibub;Jennifer Gandhi;James Raymond Vreeland

  • Democracy and Development: List of Tables and Figures

    Adam Przeworski;Michael E. Alvarez;Jose Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Democracy and Development

    Adam Przeworski;Michael E. Alvarez;Jose Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Presidentialism, parliamentarism, and democracy

    Jose Antonio Cheibub

  • Classifying political regimes

    Mike Alvarez;José Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi;Adam Przeworski

  • What Makes Democracies Endure

    Adam Przeworski;Michael Alvarez;Jose Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Presidentialism and Parliamentarism

    José Antonio Cheibub;Adam Przeworski;Sebastian M. Saiegh

  • Political Regimes and the Extractive Capacity of Governments: Taxation in Democracies and Dictatorships

    José Antonio Cheibub

  • DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND REGIME SURVIVAL: Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies Reconsidered

    José Antonio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies

    José Antonio Cheibub

  • The democracy sourcebook

    Robert Alan Dahl;Ian Shapiro;José Antônio Cheibub

  • Latin American Presidentialism in Comparative and Historical Perspective

    Jose Antonio Cheibub;Zachary Elkins;Tom Ginsburg

  • Democracy, Accountability, and Representation: Democracy, Elections, and Accountability for Economic Outcomes

    José Antonio Cheibub;Adam Przeworski

  • Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism

    José Antonio Cheibub;Zachary S Elkins;Tom Ginsburg

  • Presidentialism, Electoral Identifiability, and Budget Balances in Democratic Systems

    José Antonio Cheibub

  • Political Parties and Governors as Determinants of Legislative Behavior in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, 1988–2006

    José Antonio Cheibub;Argelina Figueiredo;Fernando Limongi

  • Partidos políticos e governadores como determinantes do comportamento legislativo na câmara dos deputados, 1988-2006

    José Antonio Cheibub;Argelina Figueiredo;Fernando Limongi

  • Democracia e cultura : uma visão não culturalista

    Adam Przeworski;José Antônio Cheibub;Fernando Limongi

  • Elections and Civil War in Africa

    José A. Cheibub;Jude C. Hays

  • Rights and Deaths: Government Reactions to the Pandemic

    Jose Antonio Cheibub;Ji Yeon Jean Hong;Adam Przeworski

  • Are semi-presidential constitutions bad for democratic performance?

    José Antonio Cheibub;Svitlana Chernykh

  • Preference vote and intra-party competition in open list PR systems:

    José Antonio Cheibub;José Antonio Cheibub;Gisela Sin

  • The Anti-Incumbent Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

    Diego Sanches Corrêa;José Antonio Cheibub

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Limongi
Fernando Limongi Universidade de São Paulo
Adam Przeworski
Adam Przeworski New York University
Shane Martin
Shane Martin University of Essex
Tom Ginsburg
Tom Ginsburg University of Chicago
Zachary Elkins
Zachary Elkins The University of Texas at Austin
Robert A. Dahl
Robert A. Dahl Yale University
Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro Yale University
Sebastian M. Saiegh
Sebastian M. Saiegh University of California, San Diego
James Raymond Vreeland
James Raymond Vreeland Princeton University

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