Michael M. Franz

Michael M. Franz publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael M. Franz sits on this spectrum.

Michael M. Franz D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael M. Franz sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Campaign Advertising and Democratic Citizenship

  Paul Freedman;Michael Franz;Kenneth Goldstein

  549
  Citations

• Latino Phenotypic Discrimination Revisited: The Impact of Skin Color on Occupational Status *

  Rodolfo Espino;Michael M. Franz

  341
  Citations

• Political Advertising in 2016: The Presidential Election as Outlier?

  Erika Franklin Fowler;Travis N. Ridout;Michael M. Franz

  141
  Citations

• Does Political Advertising Persuade

  Michael M. Franz;Travis N. Ridout

  133
  Citations

• Political Advertising Online and Offline

  Erika Franklin Fowler;Michael M. Franz;Gregory J. Martin;Zachary Peskowitz

  132
  Citations

• Political Advertising and Persuasion in the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Elections

  Michael M. Franz;Travis N. Ridout

  119
  Citations

• Evaluating Measures of Campaign Advertising Exposure on Political Learning

  Travis N. Ridout;Dhavan V. Shah;Kenneth M. Goldstein;Michael M. Franz

  100
  Citations

• Separation by Television Program: Understanding the Targeting of Political Advertising in Presidential Elections

  Travis N. Ridout;Michael Franz;Kenneth M. Goldstein;William J. Feltus

  93
  Citations

• Evaluating Measures of Campaign Tone

  Travis N. Ridout;Michael Franz

  75
  Citations

• Understanding the Effect of Political Advertising on Voter Turnout: A Response to Krasno and Green

  Michael M. Franz;Paul Freedman;Ken Goldstein;Travis N. Ridout

  65
  Citations

• Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity

  Unknown

  62
  Citations

• Coherent campaigns? Campaign broadcast and social messaging

  Leticia Bode;David S. Lassen;Young Mie Kim;Dhavan V. Shah

  48
  Citations

• Political Advertising in the United States

  Unknown

  44
  Citations

• Megastudy identifying effective interventions to strengthen Americans’ democratic attitudes

  Unknown

  42
  Citations

• The Influence of Goals and Timing: How Campaigns Deploy Ads on Facebook

  Travis N. Ridout;Erika Franklin Fowler;Michael M. Franz

  24
  Citations

• The Issue Focus of Online and Television Advertising in the 2016 Presidential Campaign

  Michael M. Franz;Erika Franklin Fowler;Travis Ridout;Meredith Yiran Wang

  22
  Citations

• The Blue Wave: Assessing Political Advertising Trends and Democratic Advantages in 2018

  Erika Franklin Fowler;Michael M. Franz;Travis N. Ridout

  17
  Citations

• Choices and Changes: Interest Groups in the Electoral Process

  Michael M. Franz

  16
  Citations

• The Long-Term and Geographically Constrained Effects of Campaign Advertising on Political Polarization and Sorting:

  Travis N. Ridout;Erika Franklin Fowler;Michael M. Franz;Kenneth Goldstein

  14
  Citations

• The Interest Group Response to Campaign Finance Reform

  Michael M Franz

  2
  Citations