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Michael S. Lewis-Beck

Michael S. Lewis-Beck

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Political Science
USA
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
69
Citations
23270
World Ranking
55
National Ranking
32

Michael S. Lewis-Beck publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 380 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Michael S. Lewis-Beck 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 S. Lewis-Beck sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award

Overview

Michael S. Lewis-Beck is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States and primarily works within the social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, with a focus on political science and international relations, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, strategy and management, and gender studies.

The scientist's main research topics include electoral systems and political participation, populism and right-wing movements, social policy and reform studies, fiscal policies and political economy, political influence and corporate strategies, European Union policy and governance, and gender politics and representation.

Michael S. Lewis-Beck has contributed to various publication venues, frequently appearing in Harvard Dataverse, PS Political Science & Politics, the International Journal of Forecasting, Electoral Studies, and Polity.

Recent papers by the scientist include:

  • Latent class analysis, 2022, Elsevier eBooks
  • Policy Polarization, Income Inequality and Turnout, 2020, Political Studies
  • Election forecasting: Too far out?, 2020, International Journal of Forecasting
  • Candidate authenticity and the Iowa Caucus, 2021, Electoral Studies
  • Support for progressive taxation: self-interest (rightly understood), ideology, and political sophistication, 2021, Journal of European Public Policy

In terms of book publications, Michael S. Lewis-Beck has published with the University of Michigan Press, including the book The Danish Voter (2020).

The scientist often collaborates with several colleagues, including Andreas Murr with 26 joint works, Stephen Quinlan with 9, Bruno Jérôme and Charles Tien each with 6, and Ruth Dassonneville with 5 joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Applied Regression: An Introduction

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Economics and Elections: The Major Western Democracies

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Economic Determinants of Electoral Outcomes

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck;Mary Stegmaier

  • The American Voter Revisited

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck;Helmut Norpoth;William Jacoby;Herbert Weisberg

  • Comparative Democracy: the Economic Development Thesis

    Ross E. Burkhart;Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Economic voting: an introduction

    Michael Steven Lewis-Beck;Martin Paldam

  • The American Voter Revisited

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  • Economic Models of Voting

    Michael S. Lewis‐Beck;Mary Stegmaier

  • Pocketbook Voting in U.S. National Election Studies: Fact or Artifact?

    Michael S Lewis-Beck

  • National Economic Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections

    Richard Nadeau;Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Comparative Economic Voting: Britain, France, Germany, Italy*

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • The VP-function revisited: a survey of the literature on vote and popularity functions after over 40 years

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck;Mary Stegmaier

  • Economics, Party, and the Vote: Causality Issues and Panel Data

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck;Richard Nadeau;Angelo Elias

  • Economics and Elections

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Economics and Politics: The Calculus of Support

    Helmut Norpoth;Michael S Lewis-Beck;Jean-Dominique Lafay

  • Data Analysis: An Introduction

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Election Forecasting: Principles and Practice

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods

    Micah Altman;Michael Lewis-Beck;Alan E. Bryman;Tim F. Liao

  • Can Government Regulate Safety? The Coal Mine Example

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck;John R. Alford

  • Economics and Elections Revisited

    Richard Nadeau;Michael S. Lewis-Beck;Éric Bélanger

  • The Relative Importance of Socioeconomic and Political Variables For Public Policy

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Economic voting theory: Testing new dimensions

    Michael Steven Lewis-Beck;Richard Nadeau

  • The Economic Vote in Transitional Democracies

    Michael S. Lewis‐Beck;Mary Stegmaier

  • Does Economics Still Matter? Econometrics and the Vote

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Forecasting Presidential Elections: A Comparison of Naive Models

    Michael S. Lewis-Beck;Tom W. Rice

  • Anchoring the French Voter: Ideology versus Party

    Christopher J. Fleury;Michael S. Lewis-Beck

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Nadeau
Richard Nadeau University of Montreal
Mary Stegmaier
Mary Stegmaier University of Missouri
Martial Foucault
Martial Foucault Sciences Po
Sylvia Kritzinger
Sylvia Kritzinger University of Vienna
Alan Bryman
Alan Bryman University of Leicester
Peverill Squire
Peverill Squire University of Missouri
James E. Campbell
James E. Campbell University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Christopher Wlezien
Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin
Helmut Norpoth
Helmut Norpoth Stony Brook University

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