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73
Citations
21515
World Ranking
43
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1976 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Peter John is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom, contributing extensively to the field of social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, applied psychology, communication, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics of their scientific work include electoral systems and political participation, behavioral health and interventions, social media and politics, decision-making and behavioral economics, social and intergroup psychology, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, and media influence and politics.

Recent published papers by Peter John include:

  • "Nudge plus: incorporating reflection into behavioral public policy", 2021, Behavioural Public Policy
  • "Sustainable dietary choices improved by reflection before a nudge in an online experiment", 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • "Loss aversion fails to replicate in the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from an online experiment", 2020, Economics Letters
  • "Immediate backfire? Nudging sustainable food choices and psychological reactance", 2023, Food Quality and Preference
  • "Co-designing behavioural public policy: lessons from the field about how to 'nudge plus'", 2021, Evidence & Policy

Peter John frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Sanchayan Banerjee
  • Florian Foos
  • Christian Mueller
  • Kevin Cunningham
  • Sarah Cotterill

They publish regularly in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, SSRN Electronic Journal, Behavioural Public Policy, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, and Research & Politics.

In addition to journal articles, Peter John has contributed to book literature, including a publication titled British Politics in 2021 published by Oxford University Press.

Their academic work has been recognized with awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1976.

Best Publications

  • Analyzing Public Policy

    Peter John

  • Local governance in Western Europe

    Peter John

  • Is There Life After Policy Streams, Advocacy Coalitions, and Punctuations: Using Evolutionary Theory to Explain Policy Change?

    Peter John

  • Analysing Public Policy

    Peter John

  • Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action

    Helen Margetts;Peter John;Scott Hale;Taha Yasseri

  • Exit, voice and loyalty: Analytic and empirical developments

    Keith Dowding;Peter John;Thanos Mergoupis;Mark Van Vugt

  • Tiebout : A Survey of the Empirical Literature:

    Keith Dowding;Peter John;Stephen Biggs

  • A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis

    Bryan Davidson Jones;Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christopher Wlezien

  • Cytokinin controls the cell cycle at mitosis by stimulating the tyrosine dephosphorylation and activation of p34cdc2-like H1 histone kinase

    Kerong Zhang;David S. Letham;Peter C. L. John

  • Effect of Water Stress on Cell Division and Cell-Division- Cycle 2-Like Cell-Cycle Kinase Activity in Wheat Leaves'

    Ute Schuppler;Ping-Hua He;Peter C.L. John;Rana Munns

  • Nudge nudge, think think: Two strategies for changing civic behaviour

    Peter John;Graham Smith;Gerry Stoker

  • The Transformation of Urban Political Leadership in Western Europe

    Olivier Borraz;Peter John

  • Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour

    Peter John;Sarah Cotterill;Liz Richardson;Alice Moseley

  • The Europeanisation of Sub-national Governance

    Peter John

  • Democracy and government performance: holding incumbents accountable in English local governments

    George Alexander Boyne;Oliver James;Peter John;Nicolai Petrovsky

  • Public Management at the Ballot Box: Performance Information and Electoral Support for Incumbent English Local Governments

    Oliver James;Peter John

  • The Dynamics of Political Attention: Public Opinion and the Queen's Speech in the United Kingdom

    Will Jennings;Peter John

  • Local Governance in England and France

    Alistair Mark Cole;Peter John

  • Political leadership in the new urban governance: Britain and France compared

    Peter John;Alistair Mark Cole

  • When Do Institutions, Policy Sectors, and Cities Matter?: Comparing Networks of Local Policy Makers in Britain and France

    Peter John;Alistair Cole

  • Policy punctuations in the UK: fluctuations and equilibria in central government expenditure since 1951

    Peter John;Helen Margetts

  • Agendas and Instability in American Politics

    Peter John

  • The Three Exit, Three Voice and Loyalty Framework: A Test with Survey Data on Local Services

    Keith Dowding;Peter John

  • Policy Agendas in British Politics

    Peter John;Anthony Bertelli;Will Jennings;Shaun Bevan

  • Targeting Benefits for Electoral Gain: Constituency Marginality and the Distribution of Grants to English Local Authorities

    Hugh Ward;Peter John

  • How Far to Nudge?: Assessing Behavioural Public Policy

    Peter John

  • Social information and political participation on the internet: an experiment

    Helen Margetts;Peter John;Tobias Escher;Stéphane Reissfelder

  • Exits, Voices and Social Investment: Citizens' Reaction to Public Services

    Keith M. Dowding;Peter John

  • The Great Survivor: The Persistence and Resilience of English Local Government

    Peter John

  • Why study urban politics

    Peter John

  • The Policy Agendas Project: a Review

    Peter John

  • The BNP: the Roots of its Appeal

    Peter John;Helen Z Margetts;David Rowland;Stuart Weir

  • Leadership without Leaders? Starters and Followers in Online Collective Action

    Helen Z. Margetts;Peter John;Scott A. Hale;Stéphane Reissfelder

  • Local Government Policy Making

    P C. John

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerry Stoker
Gerry Stoker University of Southampton
Keith Dowding
Keith Dowding Australian National University
Will Jennings
Will Jennings University of Southampton
Anthony M. Bertelli
Anthony M. Bertelli Pennsylvania State University
Helen Margetts
Helen Margetts University of Oxford
Oliver James
Oliver James University of Exeter
George Alexander Boyne
George Alexander Boyne University of Aberdeen
Hugh Ward
Hugh Ward University of Essex
Sylvain Brouard
Sylvain Brouard Sciences Po
Graham Smith
Graham Smith University of Westminster

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