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Overview

Richard S. Katz is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with a primary focus on Political Science and International Relations, and Ophthalmology. Katz's work also touches on Strategy and Management, Epidemiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's publication record includes papers that address various topics such as Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Glaucoma and retinal disorders, Ocular Diseases and Behçet's Syndrome, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Political and Economic history of the UK and US, and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies.

Recent papers by Katz include:

  • If the Cure for the Ills of Democracy Is More Democracy, Might the Cure Be Worse than the Disease?, 2021, Scandinavian Political Studies
  • The cartel party - the end of democratic party evolution?, 2022, Irish Political Studies
  • United States: Political Developments and Data in 2024, 2025, European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook

Frequent publication venues for Katz's work include:

  • European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook
  • Eye
  • Scandinavian Political Studies
  • Irish Political Studies
  • Clinical ophthalmology

Katz has collaborated regularly with co-authors such as Shaun Bowler, David M. Farrell, Quan Dong Nguyen, Yasir J. Sepah, and V. Diana.

In addition to journal articles, Katz has published a book titled PARTY DISCIPLINE AND PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT through Ohio State University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Retrospective voting in American national elections

    Morris P. Fiorina

  • Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy The Emergence of the Cartel Party

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair

  • How Parties Organize : Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair

  • The Cartel Party Thesis: A Restatement

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair

  • Democracy and elections

    Richard S. Katz

  • A theory of parties and electoral systems

    Richard S. Katz

  • The Evolution of Party Organizations in Europe: The Three Faces of Party Organization

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair

  • Party Organizations: A Data Handbook on Party Organizations in Western Democracies, 1960-90

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair

  • The Problem of Candidate Selection and Models of Party Democracy

    Richard S. Katz

  • From Catch-all Politics to Cartelisation: The Political Economy of the Cartel Party

    Mark Blyth;Richard Katz

  • Handbook of Party Politics

    Richard S. Katz;William J. Crotty

  • Chapter II Party Government: A Rationalistic Conception

    Richard S. Katz

  • Party government : a rationalistic conception

    Richard S. Katz

  • The membership of political parties in European democracies, 1960-1990

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair;Luciano Bardi;Lars Bille

  • The European Parliament, the national parliaments, and European integration

    Richard S. Katz;Bernhard Wessels

  • The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy

    William P. Cross;Richard S. Katz

  • Why Are There So Many (or So Few) Electoral Reforms

    Richard S. Katz

  • Party as linkage: A vestigial function?

    Richard S. Katz

  • A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems

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  • Cadre, Catch-All or Cartel? A Rejoinder

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair

  • The Ascendancy of the Party in Public Office: Party Organizational Change in Twentieth‐Century Democracies

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  • Party Organization as an Empty Vessel: Parties in American Politics

    Richard S. Katz;Robin Kolodny

  • Democracy and Political Parties: On the Uneasy Relationships between Participation, Competition and Representation

    Gideon Rahat;Reuven Y. Hazan;Richard S. Katz

  • Democracy and the Cartelization of Political Parties

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair

  • The Membership of Political Parties in European Democracies

    R. Katz;J. Pierre;T. Poguntke;J. Sundberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Mair
Peter Mair European University Institute
David M. Farrell
David M. Farrell University College Dublin
Shaun Bowler
Shaun Bowler University of California, Riverside
Wolfgang C. Müller
Wolfgang C. Müller University of Vienna
Thomas Poguntke
Thomas Poguntke Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jon Pierre
Jon Pierre University of Gothenburg
Leonardo Morlino
Leonardo Morlino Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
Piero Ignazi
Piero Ignazi University of Bologna
Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex
Caroline J. Tolbert
Caroline J. Tolbert University of Iowa

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