2026 Peter DeLeon: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	30	1142	580	90	6015

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D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Political Science

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6015

Overview

Peter DeLeon was affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States during their academic career.

There is no detailed public record of recent papers authored by Peter DeLeon, nor information about frequent co-authors or venues where they commonly published.

No book publications or specific main fields and subfields of study have been documented in available records. Similarly, there are no identified main topics of research or academic focus areas that have been publicly noted.

There are no recorded awards or honors attributed to Peter DeLeon in accessible academic or professional databases. The scientist is reported as deceased.

Best Publications

Social Construction and Policy Design

Helen Ingram;Anne L. Schneider;Peter Deleon

696
Citations
The foundations of policy analysis

Garry D. Brewer;Peter DeLeon

530
Citations
A Quarter Century of the Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Christopher M. Weible;Paul A. Sabatier;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Daniel Nohrstedt

502
Citations
What Ever Happened to Policy Implementation? An Alternative Approach

Peter deLeon;Linda deLeon

463
Citations
Understanding and influencing the policy process

Christopher M. Weible;Tanya Heikkila;Peter deLeon;Paul A. Sabatier

371
Citations
Municipal Reinvention: Managerial Values and Diffusion among Municipalities

M. Jae Moon;Peter deLeon

302
Citations
Democracy and the policy sciences

Peter DeLeon

268
Citations
The Democratization of the Policy Sciences

Peter deLeon

179
Citations
Toward a Theory of Collaborative Policy Networks: Identifying Structural Tendencies

Peter DeLeon;Danielle M. Varda

177
Citations
THE MISSING LINK REVISITED

Peter DeLeon

151
Citations
Advice and Consent: The Development of the Policy Sciences

Peter DeLeon

113
Citations
Models of Policy Discourse: insights versus Prediction

Peter DeLeon

106
Citations
Contexts and Corporate Voluntary Environmental Behaviors Examining the EPA's Green Lights Voluntary Program

Seong-Gin Moon;Peter deLeon

99
Citations
Comparative policy analysis

Unknown

92
Citations
Reinventing the policy sciences: Three steps back to the future

Peter Deleon

80
Citations
Democratic Values and the Policy Sciences

Peter deLeon

75
Citations
The Democratic Ethos and Public Management

Linda Deleon;Peter Deleon

74
Citations
The Historical Roots of the Field

Peter DeLeon

66
Citations
Business responses to environmental and social protection policies: toward a framework for analysis

Jorge Rivera;Jennifer Oetzel;Peter deLeon;Mark Starik

63
Citations
Democracy's discontent: America in search of a public philosophy

Peter deLeon

55
Citations
Comparative policy analysis: Déjà vu all over again?

Peter Deleon;Phyllis Resnick‐Terry

55
Citations
The Design and Promise of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

William Blomquist;Peter deLeon

46
Citations
Voluntary Environmental Programs: Are Carrots without Sticks Enough?

Jorge E. Rivera;Peter deLeon

27
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver

Frank Fischer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Paul A. Sabatier University of California, Davis

William R. Shadish University of California, Merced

Dale Whittington University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith University of Oklahoma

Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver

Daniel Nohrstedt Uppsala University

External Links

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