2026 Joshua D. Clinton: 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	30	1155	1043	585	507	114	5346

Overview

Joshua D. Clinton is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the social sciences. Their work focuses on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, communication, and social psychology.

Their research encompasses a variety of topics including electoral systems and political participation, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, social media and politics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, social and intergroup psychology, media influence and politics, and health disparities and outcomes.

Joshua D. Clinton has published several academic papers. Notable recent publications include:

Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals' social mobility during COVID-19, 2021, Science Advances
Partisan Pandemic: How Partisanship and Public Health Concerns Affect Individuals' Social Distancing During COVID-19, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
Polling place changes and political participation: evidence from North Carolina presidential elections, 2008-2016, 2020, Political Science Research and Methods

Other relevant papers in the broader coauthor network or related research fields include work on the effects of media on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic and the use of synthetic data in political analysis.

Joshua D. Clinton frequently collaborates with several researchers. Key coauthors include:

John S. Lapinski
Marc Trussler
Michael E. Shepherd
Michael Sances
Gregory A. Huber

Their work has been published in multiple academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Harvard Dataverse
The Journal of Politics
Public Opinion Quarterly
Election Law Journal Rules Politics and Policy

Best Publications

The Statistical Analysis of Roll Call Data

Joshua Clinton;Simon Jackman;Douglas Rivers

1639
Citations
Representation in Congress: Constituents and Roll Calls in the 106th House

Joshua D. Clinton

412
Citations
Expert Opinion, Agency Characteristics, and Agency Preferences

Joshua D. Clinton;David E. Lewis

402
Citations
Separated Powers in the United States: The Ideology of Agencies, Presidents, and Congress

Joshua D. Clinton;Anthony Bertelli;Christian R. Grose;David E. Lewis

315
Citations
Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals' social mobility during COVID-19.

J. Clinton;J. Cohen;J. Lapinski;M. Trussler

256
Citations
Measuring Legislative Accomplishment, 1877–1994

Joshua D. Clinton;John S. Lapinski

204
Citations
An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States

Courtney Kennedy;Mark Blumenthal;Scott Clement;Joshua D. Clinton

200
Citations
Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

Scott Ashworth;Joshua D. Clinton;Adam Meirowitz;Kristopher W. Ramsay

126
Citations
The Politics of Policy: The Initial Mass Political Effects of Medicaid Expansion in the States

Joshua D. Clinton;Michael W. Sances

123
Citations
Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional Oversight

Joshua D. Clinton;David E. Lewis;Jennifer L. Selin

122
Citations
Lawmaking and Roll Calls

Joshua D. Clinton

118
Citations
Agenda Constrained Legislator Ideal Points and the Spatial Voting Model

Joshua D. Clinton;Adam Meirowitz

106
Citations
Using Roll Call Estimates to Test Models of Politics

Joshua D. Clinton

104
Citations
The National News Media’s Effect on Congress: How Fox News Affected Elites in Congress

Joshua D. Clinton;Ted Enamorado

94
Citations
Testing Explanations of Strategic Voting in Legislatures: A Reexamination of the Compromise of 1790

Joshua D. Clinton;Adam Meirowitz

89
Citations
Integrating Voting Theory and Roll Call Analysis: A Framework

Joshua D. Clinton;Adam Meirowitz

88
Citations
More a Molehill than a Mountain: The Effects of the Blanket Primary on Elected Officials’ Behavior from California

Will Bullock;Joshua D. Clinton

85
Citations
To Simulate or NOMINATE

Joshua D. Clinton;Simon Jackman

78
Citations
Does Advertising Exposure Affect Turnout

Scott Ashworth;Joshua D. Clinton

63
Citations
The effect of big-city news on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eunji Kim;Michael E. Shepherd;Joshua D. Clinton

56
Citations
''The Most Liberal Senator''?: Analyzing and Interpreting Congressional Roll Calls

Joshua D. Clinton;Simon Jackman;Doug Rivers

52
Citations
Laws and Roll Calls in the U.S. Congress, 1891–1994

Joshua D. Clinton;John Lapinski

50
Citations
Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill

Mark D. Richardson;Joshua D. Clinton;David E. Lewis

42
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Lewis Princeton University

Jason A. Grissom Vanderbilt University

Barry R. Weingast Stanford University

Alan S. Gerber Yale University

Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin

Ira Katznelson Columbia University

Eric Schickler University of California, Berkeley

Anthony M. Bertelli Pennsylvania State University

External Links

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