2026 Margaret Levi: 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	37	602	549	330	288	170	20845

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science For "having laid the foundations of our understanding of why citizens accept state coercion, by combining theoretical acumen and historical knowledge
2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2014 - William H. Riker Prize for Political Science For advancing the scientific study of politics by systematically linking formal and empirical inquiry into the enduring features of legal and representative institutions.
2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Margaret Levi is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with notable focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Safety Research, Health Informatics, Political Science and International Relations, and Oceanography.

Their scholarly output addresses several main topics, including:

Ethics in Clinical Research
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Economic Theory and Institutions
Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Margaret Levi has co-authored frequently with the following researchers:

Quinn Waeiss
Michael S. Bernstein
David Magnus
Betsy Rajala
Debra Satz

Contributions have been published in a range of venues, with multiple works appearing in Daedalus, Annual Review of Political Science, The American Journal of Bioethics, arXiv (Cornell University), and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

Best Publications

Of Rule and Revenue

Margaret Levi

4074
Citations
Political Trust and Trustworthiness

Margaret Levi;Laura Stoker

2515
Citations
Social and Unsocial Capital: A Review Essay of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work:

Margaret Levi

1634
Citations
Analytic Narratives Revisited

Robert H. Bates;Avner Greif;Margaret Levi;Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

1606
Citations
Consent, dissent, and patriotism

Margaret Levi

1351
Citations
A state of trust

Margaret Levi

1345
Citations
Conceptualizing Legitimacy, Measuring Legitimating Beliefs:

Margaret Levi;Audrey Sacks;Tom Tyler

870
Citations
The Limits of Rationality

Karen Schweers Cook;Margaret Levi

621
Citations
Cooperation Without Trust

Karen S. Cook;Russell Hardin;Margaret Levi

619
Citations
Trust and Governance

Valerie Braithwaite;Margaret Levi

604
Citations
Fair Trade: A Cup at a Time?:

Margaret Levi;April Linton

346
Citations
Legitimating beliefs: Sources and indicators

Margaret Levi;Audrey Sacks

318
Citations
The Predatory Theory of Rule

Margaret Levi

302
Citations
Leadership: What It Means, What It Does, and What We Want to Know About It

John S. Ahlquist;Margaret Levi

296
Citations
Coalitions of Contention: The Case of the WTO Protests in Seattle

Margaret Levi;Gillian H. Murphy

279
Citations
Why We Need a New Theory of Government

Margaret Levi

259
Citations
The comparative analysis of ethnoregional movements

Michael Hechter;Margaret Levi

257
Citations
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Thomas A. Koelble;Karen Schweers Cook;Margaret Levi;Mark Granovetter

239
Citations
The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System

Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Christopher B. Field;Eric A. Appel;Ines L. Azevedo

223
Citations
In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism

John S. Ahlquist;Margaret Levi

214
Citations
The Analytic Narrative Project

Robert H. Bates;Avner Greif;Margaret Levi;Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

168
Citations
Examining Crowd Work and Gig Work Through The Historical Lens of Piecework

Ali Alkhatib;Michael S. Bernstein;Margaret Levi

145
Citations
Whom Can We Trust?: How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible

Karen S. Cook;Margaret Levi;Russell Hardin

117
Citations
Provoking Preferences: Unionization, Trade Policy, and the ILWU Puzzle

John S. Ahlquist;Amanda B. Clayton;Margaret Levi

103
Citations
Union Democracy Reexamined

Margaret Levi;David Olson;Jon Agnone;Devin Kelly

98
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry R. Weingast Stanford University

Karen S. Cook Stanford University

Robert H. Bates Harvard University

Avner Greif Stanford University

James E. Alt Harvard University

Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

Valerie Braithwaite Australian National University

Galen A. McKinley Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Arlene M. Fiore MIT

Tom R. Tyler Yale University

External Links

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