2026 Richard Nadeau: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	45	355	317	11	11	208	9199

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Richard Nadeau is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and focuses primarily on social sciences, with an emphasis on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, as well as modeling and simulation, economics and econometrics, and general health professions.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including electoral systems and political participation, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, food security and health in diverse populations, populism and right-wing movements, social capital and networks, social media and politics, and broader themes in social sciences and governance.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard Nadeau include:

Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy (2021, Political Studies)
Pandemic politics: policy evaluations of government responses to COVID-19 (2021, West European Politics)
How to Survey Citizens' Compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Measures: Evidence from Three Survey Experiments (2020, Journal of Experimental Political Science)
A guilt-free strategy increases self-reported non-compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures: Experimental evidence from 12 countries (2021, PLoS ONE)
Context matters: Economics, politics and satisfaction with democracy (2020, Electoral Studies)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nadeau include:

Jean-François Daoust
Éric Bélanger
Érick Lachapelle
Ruth Dassonneville
Valérie-Anne Mahéo

Publications by Richard Nadeau often appear in venues such as:

Harvard Dataverse
PS Political Science & Politics
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Experimental Political Science
International Journal of Forecasting

Their book publications include works released by several notable presses:

"Le nouvel électeur québécois" published twice in 2022 by Presses de l'Université de Montréal
"The Danish Voter" (2020) by University of Michigan Press
"Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy" (2023) by Cambridge University Press
"Framing Risky Choices" (2020) by McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks

Best Publications

National Economic Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections

Richard Nadeau;Michael S. Lewis-Beck

434
Citations
The electoral budget cycle

André Blais;Richard Nadeau

380
Citations
Economics, Party, and the Vote: Causality Issues and Panel Data

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

371
Citations
A cross-national analysis of economic voting: taking account of the political context across time and nations

Richard Nadeau;Richard G Niemi;Antoine Yoshinaka

359
Citations
Measuring strategic voting in multiparty plurality elections

André Blais;Richard Nadeau;Elisabeth Gidengil;Neil Nevitte

297
Citations
Measuring strategic voting: A two-step procedure

André Blais;Richard Nadeau

295
Citations
New Evidence About the Existence of a Bandwagon Effect in the Opinion Formation Process

Richard Nadeau;Edouard Cloutier;J.-H. Guay

293
Citations
INNUMERACY ABOUT MINORITY POPULATIONS

Richard Nadeau;Richard G. Niemi;Jeffrey Levine

265
Citations
Elite Economic Forecasts, Economic News, Mass Economic Judgments, and Presidential Approval

Richard Nadeau;Richard G. Niemi;David P.Fan;Timothy Amato

256
Citations
ISSUE IMPORTANCE AND PERFORMANCE VOTING

Patrick Fournier;André Blais;Richard Nadeau;Elisabeth Gidengil

254
Citations
Accepting the Election Outcome: The Effect of Participation on Losers' Consent

Richard Nadeau;André Blais

252
Citations
POLITICAL TRUST AND THE VOTE IN MULTIPARTY ELECTIONS: THE CANADIAN CASE

Éric Bélanger;Richard Nadeau

249
Citations
Economics and Elections Revisited

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

243
Citations
Time-of-voting decision and susceptibility to campaign effects

Patrick Fournier;Richard Nadeau;André Blais;Elisabeth Gidengil

240
Citations
Economic voting theory: Testing new dimensions

Michael Steven Lewis-Beck;Richard Nadeau

237
Citations
Measuring Party Identification: Britain, Canada, and the United States

André Blais;Elisabeth Gidengil;Richard Nadeau;Neil Nevitte

197
Citations
Making Sense of Regional Voting in the 1997 Canadian Federal Election: Liberal and Reform Support Outside Quebec

Elisabeth Gidengil;André Blais;Richard Nadeau;Neil Nevitte

160
Citations
Obama's Missed Landslide: A Racial Cost?

Michael S. Lewis-Beck;Charles Tien;Richard Nadeau

155
Citations
Election Campaigns as Information Campaigns: Who Learns What and Does it Matter?

Richard Nadeau;Neil Nevitte;Elisabeth Gidengil;André Blais

148
Citations
EDUCATED GUESSES THE PROCESS OF ANSWERING FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS IN SURVEYS

Richard Nadeau;Richard G. Niemi

146
Citations
French Electoral Institutions and the Economic Vote

Michael Steven Lewis-Beck;Richard Nadeau

140
Citations
Pandemic politics: policy evaluations of government responses to COVID-19

Argyrios Altiparmakis;Abel Bojar;Sylvain Brouard;Martial Foucault

100
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S. Lewis-Beck University of Iowa

André Blais University of Montreal

Neil Nevitte University of Toronto

Elisabeth Gidengil McGill University

Richard G. Niemi University of Rochester

Martial Foucault Sciences Po

Ruth Dassonneville KU Leuven

External Links

Personal website of Richard Nadeau

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