2026 Michael Freeden: 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	31	1065	962	175	162	183	5944

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Political Science

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Research.com Recognitions

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Michael Freeden is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting fields including communication, literature and literary theory, philosophy, and political science and international relations.

The primary topics addressed in their work include:

Social Media and Politics
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Political and Economic History of the UK and US

Freeden has published in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

The Political Quarterly
Journal of Political Ideologies
Journal of Language and Politics
Historia y Política Ideas Procesos y Movimientos Sociales
Comparative Political Theory

Among recent papers authored by Freeden are:

'Discourse, concepts, ideologies' (2020), published in Journal of Language and Politics
'Comparative Political Thought: What Are We Looking At?' (2021), published in Comparative Political Theory
'Ideología: ¿Uniendo las piezas?' (2023), published in Historia y Política Ideas Procesos y Movimientos Sociales
'Democracy dis-integrated: the current conceptual confusion' (2020), published in Journal of Political Ideologies

Collaborations with other scholars form part of Freeden's research profile. Frequent co-authors include:

Willibald Steinmetz
Mathew Humphrey
Javiér Fernández Sebastián
Luke Lavender
Mónica Brito Vieira

Michael Freeden has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

Ideologies and political theory : a conceptual approach

Michael Freeden

724
Citations
Is Nationalism a Distinct Ideology

Michael Freeden

474
Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies

Michael Freeden;Lyman Tower Sargent;Marc Stears

400
Citations
Ideology: A Very Short Introduction

Michael Freeden

349
Citations
After the Brexit referendum: revisiting populism as an ideology

Michael Freeden

295
Citations
The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform

Paul Barton Johnson;Michael Freeden

218
Citations
Ideology and political theory

Michael Freeden

171
Citations
Ideologies and Political Theory

Michael Freeden

165
Citations
Eugenics and progressive thought: a study in ideological affinity.

Michael Freeden

127
Citations
The Ideology of New Labour

Michael Freeden

121
Citations
The Morphological Analysis of Ideology

Michael Freeden

110
Citations
Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction

Michael Freeden

109
Citations
Political concepts and ideological morphology

Michael Freeden

88
Citations
The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform

Michael Freeden

87
Citations
Liberalism Divided: A Study in British Political Thought, 1914-1939

Michael Freeden

76
Citations
The Political Theory of Political Thinking: The Anatomy of a Practice

Michael Freeden

76
Citations
What Should the ‘Political’ in Political Theory Explore?*

Michael Freeden

67
Citations
Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought

Michael Freeden

60
Citations
Editorial: Thinking politically and thinking ideologically

Michael Freeden

55
Citations
The new liberalism

Michael Freeden

51
Citations
Interpretative realism and prescriptive realism

Michael Freeden

34
Citations
Confronting the chimera of a ‘post‐ideological’ age

Michael Freeden

29
Citations
Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy

Michael Freeden

26
Citations
Comparative political thought : theorizing practices

Michael Freeden;Andrew Vincent

25
Citations
Practising Ideology and Ideological Practices

Michael Freeden

24
Citations
The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform

Henry S. Kariel;Michael Freeden

7
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Burke University of California, Riverside

External Links

Personal website of Michael Freeden

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