2026 Kevin Featherstone: 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	1123	1016	184	171	265	8896

Overview

Kevin Featherstone is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily intersects the fields of social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, emphasizing political science and international relations, as well as finance and related subfields.

Their work extensively covers topics including European Union policy and governance, global financial crisis and policies, contemporary and historical Greek studies, social policy and reform studies, political influence and corporate strategies, electoral systems and political participation, and economic issues in Ukraine.

Among recent publications by Featherstone are:

When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis (2023), published in the Journal of European Public Policy
Still a "weak state"? Europeanization and structural reform in Greece (2024), published in London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Frequent co-authors include Christoph M. Abels, Helmut K. Anheier, Iain Begg, Dimitris Papadimitriou, and Spyros Economides.

Notable publication venues for Featherstone's work encompass Global Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, and the London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online. These outlets reflect the interdisciplinary and policy-oriented nature of their research contributions.

Best Publications

The politics of europeanization

Kevin Featherstone;Claudio M. Radaelli

1852
Citations
The road to Maastricht : negotiating economic and monetary union

Kenneth H. F. Dyson;Kevin Featherstone

1556
Citations
Introduction: in the name of "Europe"

Kevin Featherstone

795
Citations
The JCMS Annual Lecture: The Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis and EMU: A Failing State in a Skewed Regime*

Kevin Featherstone

599
Citations
Jean Monnet and the `democratic deficit' in the European Union

Kevin Featherstone

427
Citations
Italy and EMU as a 'Vincolo Esterno': Empowering the Technocrats, Transforming the State

Kenneth Dyson;Kevin Featherstone

385
Citations
The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece

Kevin Featherstone;Dimitris Papadimitriou

241
Citations
Socialist Parties and European Integration: A Comparative History

Kevin Featherstone

233
Citations
The Greek sovereign debt crisis and EMU: a failing state in a skewed regime

Kevin Featherstone

233
Citations
Europeanization and the Southern Periphery

Kevin Featherstone;George Kazamias

230
Citations
The road to Maastricht

Kenneth Dyson;Kevin Featherstone

207
Citations
Introduction: "modernisation" and the structural constraints of Greek politics

Kevin Featherstone

169
Citations
‘Europeanization’ and the Centre Periphery: The Case of Greece in the 1990s

Kevin Featherstone

160
Citations
External conditionality and the debt crisis: the ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece

Kevin Featherstone

159
Citations
‘Soft’ co-ordination meets ‘hard’ politics: the European Union and pension reform in Greece

Kevin Featherstone

122
Citations
Euros and Europeans

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120
Citations
The Limits of External Empowerment: EMU, Technocracy and Reform of the Greek Pension System

Kevin Featherstone;Georgios Kazamias;Dimitris Papadimitriou

107
Citations
The United States and the European Union in the 1990s: Partners in Transition

Kevin Featherstone;Roy H. Ginsberg

105
Citations
The Limits of Europeanization

Kevin Featherstone;Dimitris Papadimitriou

104
Citations
Introduction: Southern Europe and the Process of ‘Europeanization’

Kevin Featherstone;George Kazamias

99
Citations
'Varieties of Capitalism' and the Greek case: explaining the constraints on domestic reform?

Kevin Featherstone

97
Citations
Strapped to the mast: EU central bankers between global financial markets and regional integration

Kenneth Dyson;Kevin Featherstone;George Michalopoulos

85
Citations
Greece and EMU: Between External Empowerment and Domestic Vulnerability

Kevin Featherstone

80
Citations
Greece in a changing Europe: between European integration and Balkan disintegration?

Kevin Featherstone;Kostas Ifantis

66
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Dyson Cardiff University

Iain Begg London School of Economics and Political Science

George N. Pavlakis Emory University

Amedeo R. Odoni MIT

Claudio M. Radaelli European University Institute

Lucia Quaglia University of Bologna

External Links

Personal website of Kevin Featherstone

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