2026 Michael Laver: 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	64	89	78	54	45	286	26372

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Political Science

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Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1990 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Michael Laver is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple areas within social sciences and quantitative modeling.

Laver has published several papers in recent years across notable academic venues. Selected papers include:

"John Gerring and Wouter Veenendaal, Population and Politics: The Impact of Scale" (2021, Society)
"Correction to: Alexander A. Schuessler, A Logic of Expressive Choice" (2022, Society)
"Helen Thompson, Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century" (2022, Society)
"Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (2022, Society)

Laver frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

Cristina Bodea
Tobias Böhmelt
Paul Bou-Habib
Shaun Bowler
Lucas Leemann

Their work is commonly published in the following venues:

Society
British Journal of Political Science

Laver has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including:

"Agent-Based Models of Polarization and Ethnocentrism" (2020)
"Agent-Based Models of Social Life" (2020)

The main subfields of study related to Laver's research include:

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Modeling and Simulation
Statistics and Probability

Key research topics covered in their work are:

Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Mental Health Research Topics
COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques

Recognition of Laver's academic contributions includes:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
Member of the Royal Irish Academy (1990)

Best Publications

Multiparty Government: The Politics of Coalition in Europe

Michael Laver;Norman Schofield

2644
Citations
Party Policy in Modern Democracies

Kenneth Benoit;Michael Laver

2475
Citations
Making and breaking governments : cabinets and legislatures in parliamentary democracies

Michael Laver;Kenneth A. Shepsle

2134
Citations
Extracting policy positions from political texts using words as data

Michael Laver;Kenneth Benoit;John Garry

1950
Citations
Policy and Party Competition

Michael Laver;W. Ben Hunt

1563
Citations
Estimating policy positions from political texts

Michael Laver;John Garry

907
Citations
Scaling policy preferences from coded political texts

Will Lowe;Kenneth Benoit;Slava Mikhaylov;Michael Laver

802
Citations
COALITIONS AND CABINET GOVERNMENT

Michael Laver;Kenneth A. Shepsle

694
Citations
A Unified Model of Cabinet Dissolution in Parliamentary Democracies

Gary King;James E. Alt;Nancy Elizabeth Burns;Michael Laver

654
Citations
Representative Government in Modern Europe

Michael Gallagher;Michael Laver;Peter Mair

618
Citations
Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government

Michael Laver;Kenneth A. Shepsle;Kenneth A. Shepsle

610
Citations
Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions

Kenneth Benoit;Michael Laver;Slava Mikhaylov

483
Citations
Making and breaking governments

Michael Laver

482
Citations
Estimating party policy positions: Comparing expert surveys and hand-coded content analysis

Kenneth Benoit;Michael Laver

475
Citations
Constraints on cabinet formation in parliamentary democracies

Kaare Strom;Ian Budge;Michael J. Laver

454
Citations
Party Policy and Government Coalitions

Michael Laver;Ian Budge

436
Citations
Policy and the Dynamics of Political Competition

Michael Laver

394
Citations
Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors

Michael Laver

324
Citations
MODELS OF GOVERNMENT FORMATION

Michael Laver

315
Citations
Crowd-sourced Text Analysis: Reproducible and Agile Production of Political Data

Kenneth Benoit;Drew Conway;Benjamin E. Lauderdale;Michael Laver

299
Citations
Institutions and Strategy in Parliamentary Democracy: A Review Article@@@Rationalizing Parliament: Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France@@@Making and Breaking Governments: Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies

Kaare Strom;John D. Huber;Michael Laver;Kenneth A. Shepsle

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Benoit Singapore Management University

Kenneth A. Shepsle Harvard University

Ian Budge University of Essex

Peter Mair European University Institute

Michael Gallagher Trinity College Dublin

Gary King Harvard University

Norman Schofield Washington University in St. Louis

Michael Marsh Trinity College Dublin

James H. Fowler University of California, San Diego

James E. Alt Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Michael Laver

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