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Nicolas Van De Walle

Nicolas Van De Walle

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
48
Citations
16143
World Ranking
273
National Ranking
157

Nicolas Van De Walle 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 Nicolas Van De Walle sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 174 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nicolas Van De Walle 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 Nicolas Van De Walle sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nicolas Van De Walle was affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research work mainly focused within the broad field of Social Sciences, with a specialization in several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Anthropology, Demography, and Information Systems.

Their research interests covered multiple core topics such as Political Conflict and Governance, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, Economic Growth and Development, Economic Growth and Productivity, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Local Government Finance and Decentralization, as well as Judicial and Constitutional Studies.

Van De Walle contributed to several publication venues, reflecting a diverse range of research outputs. These venues included:

  • World Development
  • Comparative Political Studies
  • Journal of Eastern African Studies
  • The American Historical Review
  • Harvard Dataverse

Some of their recent papers included:

  • "José-María Muñoz. Doing Business in Cameroon: An Anatomy of Economic Governance." (2020, The American Historical Review)
  • "The cash crop revolution, colonialism and economic reorganization in Africa" (2022, World Development)
  • "The Politics of Legislative Expansion in Africa" (2022, Comparative Political Studies)
  • "Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections" (2022, Journal of Eastern African Studies)
  • "Replication Data for: 'The Politics of Legislative Expansion'" (2021, Harvard Dataverse)

Throughout their career, Van De Walle collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Thalia Gerzso
  • Philip Roessler
  • Yannick Pengl
  • Robert Marty
  • Kyle Sorlie Titlow

Best Publications

  • African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999

    Nicolas Van de Walle

  • Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa

    Daniel N. Posner

  • Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa

    Michael Bratton;Nicolas van de Walle

  • Patrons, Clients and Policies

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  • Presidentialism and clientelism in Africa's emerging party systems

    Nicolas van de Walle

  • An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Todd Moss;Gunilla Pettersson Gelander;Nicolas van de Walle

  • The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

    Scott Straus

  • Popular Protest and Political Reform in Africa

    Michael Bratton;Nicolas van de Walle

  • An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Todd Moss;Gunilla Pettersson;Nicolas van de Walle;Nicolas van de Walle

  • Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

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  • Privatization in developing countries: a review of the issues

    Nicolas van de Walle

  • Africa's Range of Regimes

    Nicolas Van de Walle

  • Improving aid to Africa

    Nicolas Van de Walle;Timothy A. Johnston

  • Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide

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  • When states fail : causes and consequences

    David Carment;Christopher S Clapham;Nat J Colletta;Jeffrey Ira Herbst

  • Political parties and party systems in Africa's illiberal democracies

    Nicolas Van De Walle;Kimberly Smiddy Butler

  • Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries

    Nicolas Van de Walle

  • Opposition Weakness in Africa

    Lise Rakner;Nicolas van de Walle

  • Time and Power in Africa

    Henry Bienen;Nicolas van de Walle

  • Valence Issues in African Elections Navigating Uncertainty and the Weight of the Past

    Jaimie Bleck;Nicolas van de Walle

  • Electoral Politics in Africa since 1990: Continuity in Change

    Jaimie Bleck;Nicolas van de Walle

  • The fate of Africa : from the hopes of freedom to the heart of despair : a history of fifty years of independence

    Nicolas Van De Walle;Martin Meredith

  • The Institutional Origins of Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Nicolas van de Walle

  • US policy towards Africa: The Bush legacy and the Obama administration

    Nicolas van de Walle

  • States at work: : Dynamics of African bureaucracies.

    Nicolas Van De Walle

  • Unfinished business : South Africa, apartheid, and truth

    Nicolas Van De Walle;Gail M. Gerhart

  • Ethnicity and Leadership Succession in Africa

    John Londregan;Henry Bienen;Nicolas van de Walle

  • AID'S CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY: CURRENT PROPOSALS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

    Nicolas Van De Walle

  • African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999

    Gail M. Gerhart;Nicolas Van De Walle

  • Agenda for Africa's economic renewal

    B. J. Ndulu;Nicolas Van de Walle

  • The politics of african industrial policy: : A comparative perspective

    Nicolas Van De Walle

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bratton
Michael Bratton Michigan State University
Thomas S. Jayne
Thomas S. Jayne Michigan State University
Gail M. Gerhart
Gail M. Gerhart Columbia University
Goran Hyden
Goran Hyden University of Florida
John C. Campbell
John C. Campbell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeremy M. Weinstein
Jeremy M. Weinstein Harvard University
Jeffrey Herbst
Jeffrey Herbst Princeton University

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