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Mitchell A. Seligson

Mitchell A. Seligson

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Political Science

D-Index
46
Citations
9993
World Ranking
320
National Ranking
183

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Helen Dinerman Prize, World Association of Public Opinion Research

Overview

Mitchell A. Seligson was affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research intersected multiple disciplines including sociology, political science, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

Their work covered a diverse range of topics such as social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and cultural differences and values.

Among the documented papers, two can be highlighted: "How Bad is Bad?: Dispositional Negativity in Political Judgment" (2021), published in Political Behavior, and "Replication Data for: The Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990-2003" (2022), published in Harvard Dataverse.

Frequent collaborators in their research included Damarys Canache, Jeffery J. Mondak, Bryce Tuggle, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán.

Their publications appeared primarily in the venues Political Behavior and Harvard Dataverse.

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Cultural Differences and Values

  • Damarys Canache
  • Jeffery J. Mondak
  • Bryce Tuggle
  • Juliana Martínez Franzoni
  • Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

  • Political Behavior
  • Harvard Dataverse

Mitchell A. Seligson received the Helen Dinerman Prize from the World Association of Public Opinion Research in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Corruption on Regime Legitimacy: A Comparative Study of Four Latin American Countries

    Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Personality and Civic Engagement: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Trait Effects on Political Behavior

    Jeffery J. Mondak;Matthew V. Hibbing;Damarys Canache;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Inequality and Insurgency

    Edward N. Muller;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Meaning and Measurement in Cross-National Research on Satisfaction with Democracy

    Damarys Canache;Jeffery J. Mondak;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Civic Culture and Democracy: The Question of Causal Relationships.

    Edward N. Muller;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe.

    Mitchell A. Seligson;John Hiley;Richard Gunther

  • The Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990–2003

    Steven E. Finkel;Aníbal Pérez-Liñán;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • The Measurement and Impact of Corruption Victimization: Survey Evidence from Latin America

    Mitchell A. Seligson

  • The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations

    John A. Booth;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Diffuse Political Support and Antisystem Political Behavior: A Comparative Analysis

    Edward N. Muller;Thomas O. Jukam;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Pitfalls of Power to the People: Decentralization, Local Government Performance, and System Support in Bolivia

    Jonathan T. Hiskey;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • THE RISE OF POPULISM AND THE LEFT IN LATIN AMERICA

    Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Economic Crisis, Incumbent Performance and Regime Support: A Comparison of Longitudinal Data from West Germany and Costa Rica

    Steven E. Finkel;Edward N. Muller;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Foreign Policy Belief Systems in Comparative Perspective: The United States and Costa Rica

    Jon Hurwitz;Mark Peffley;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Trust, Efficacy and Modes of Political Participation: A Study of Costa Rican Peasants

    Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Land Inequality and Political Violence

    Edward N. Muller;Mitchell A. Seligson;Hung-der Fu;Manus I. Midlarsky

  • Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality

    Mitchell A. Seligson;John T. Passé-Smith

  • Authoritarians and Democrats: Regime Transition in Latin America

    Robert D. Crassweller;James Malloy;Mitchell Seligson

  • Political Support, Political Skepticism, and Political Stability in New Democracies: An Empirical Examination of Mass Support for Coups d’Etat in Peru

    Mitchell A. Seligson;Julio F. Carrión

  • The Participatory Personality: Evidence from Latin America

    Jeffery J Mondak;Damarys Josefina Canache;Mitchell A. Seligson;Matthew V. Hibbing

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    Patrick J. Conge;Samuel H. Barnes;Max Kaase;Joan M. Nelson

  • The Impact of Corruption on Regime Legitimacy: A Comparative Study of Four Latin

    Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP).

    Mitchell Seligson

  • Land Reform and Democratic Development

    Mitchell A. Seligson;Roy L. Prosterman;Jeffrey M. Riedinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffery J. Mondak
Jeffery J. Mondak University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán University of Notre Dame
Richard Gunther
Richard Gunther The Ohio State University
Abraham F. Lowenthal
Abraham F. Lowenthal University of Southern California
Karen L. Remmer
Karen L. Remmer Duke University
Juan J. Linz
Juan J. Linz Yale University
Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond Stanford University
Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset George Mason University
Marc Edelman
Marc Edelman City University of New York
Mark Peffley
Mark Peffley University of Kentucky

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