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43
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14679
World Ranking
396
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224

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Robert Huckfeldt is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Social Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a particular focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Finance.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics such as Social Policy and Reform Studies, Race, History, and American Society, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, and the Political and Economic history of the UK and US.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Among the recent papers authored by Robert Huckfeldt are:

  • Response to Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens's Review of Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American Populism since the New Deal, 2021, Perspectives on Politics
  • Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do about It. Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 391p. $19.00 paper., 2021, Perspectives on Politics
  • Race, Class, and Social Welfare, 2020, Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Index, 2020, Cambridge University Press eBooks

Robert Huckfeldt frequently collaborates with coauthor Erik J. Engstrom, with whom they have worked on 14 publications.

In recognition of their contributions, Robert Huckfeldt has received the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2016 and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Citizens, Politics and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign

    R. Robert Huckfeldt;John D. Sprague

  • Citizens, Politics and Social Communication

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  • NETWORKS IN CONTEXT: THE SOCIAL FLOW OF POLITICAL INFORMATION

    Robert Huckfeldt;John Sprague

  • Social Capital, Social Networks, and Political Participation

    Ronald La Due Lake;Robert Huckfeldt

  • Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks

    R. Robert Huckfeldt;P. E. Johnson;John D. Sprague

  • Partisan Cues and the Media: Information Flows in the 1992 Presidential Election

    Russell J. Dalton;Paul A. Beck;Robert Huckfeldt

  • Disagreement, Ambivalence, and Engagement: The Political Consequences of Heterogeneous Networks

    Robert Huckfeldt;Jeanette Morehouse Mendez;Tracy Osborn

  • The Social Calculus of Voting: Interpersonal, Media, and Organizational Influences on Presidential Choices

    Paul Allen Beck;Russell J. Dalton;Steven Greene;Robert Huckfeldt

  • POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL MOBILIZATION: POLITICAL STRUCTURE, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND THE PARTY CANVASS

    Robert Huckfeldt;John Sprague

  • Political Environments, Cohesive Social Groups, and the Communication of Public Opinion

    Robert Huckfeldt;Paul Allen Beck;Russell J. Dalton;Jeffrey Levine

  • Political Participation and the Neighborhood Social Context

    R. Robert Huckfeldt

  • Politics in Context: Assimilation and Conflict in Urban Neighborhoods

    R. Robert Huckfeldt

  • Political Disagreement

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  • Social Contexts, Social Networks, and Urban Neighborhoods: Environmental Constraints on Friendship Choice

    R. Robert Huckfeldt

  • The Social Communication of Political Expertise

    Robert Huckfeldt

  • Discussant Effects on Vote Choice: Intimacy, Structure, and Interdependence

    R. Robert Huckfeldt;John Sprague

  • Alternative Contexts of Political Behavior: Churches, Neighborhoods, and Individuals

    Robert Huckfeldt;Eric Plutzer;John Sprague

  • Race and the Decline of Class in American Politics

    Robert Huckfeldt;Carol Weitzel Kohfeld

  • Accessibility and the Political Utility of Partisan and Ideological Orientations

    Robert Huckfeldt;Jeffrey Levine;William Morgan;John Sprague

  • A Test of Media-Centered Agenda Setting: Newspaper Content and Public Interests in a Presidential Election

    Russell J. Dalton;Paul Allen Beck;Robert Huckfeldt;William Koetzle

  • The Dynamics of Collective Deliberation in the 1996 Election: Campaign Effects on Accessibility, Certainty, and Accuracy

    Robert Huckfeldt;John Sprague;Jeffrey Levine

  • Political Environments, Political Dynamics, and the Survival of Disagreement

    Robert Huckfeldt;Paul E. Johnson;John Sprague

  • Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication: Networks in context: The social flow of political information

    R. Robert Huckfeldt;John Sprague;James H. Kuklinski;Robert S. Wyer

  • Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication: Political parties and electoral mobilization: Political structure, social structure, and the party canvass

    R. Robert Huckfeldt;John Sprague;James H. Kuklinski;Robert S. Wyer

Frequent Co-Authors

James H. Kuklinski
James H. Kuklinski University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert S. Wyer
Robert S. Wyer University of Cincinnati
Jeffery J. Mondak
Jeffery J. Mondak University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Edward G. Carmines
Edward G. Carmines Indiana University
Russell J. Dalton
Russell J. Dalton University of California, Irvine
Stanley Wasserman
Stanley Wasserman Indiana University
Milton Lodge
Milton Lodge Stony Brook University
David Knoke
David Knoke University of Minnesota
Diana C. Mutz
Diana C. Mutz University of Pennsylvania

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