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Overview

Robert Mattes is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Social Sciences, with specific work concentrated in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics, Communication, and Urban Studies.

The scientist's research topics cover various important areas including Electoral Systems and Political Participation, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, Social Media and Politics, Social Capital and Networks, Political Conflict and Governance, Urban and Rural Development Challenges, and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Mattes highlight diverse themes in political science and international affairs. These include:

  • "Africa First! Igniting a Growth Revolution," 2021, South African Journal of International Affairs
  • "A Lost Decade for Third-Wave Democracies?", 2020, Journal of Democracy
  • "Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach," 2024, Comparative Political Studies
  • "African Political Parties," 2024, African Studies
  • "Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Mattes include Matthias Krönke, George T. H. Ellison, Sarah J. Lockwood, Hanan Rhoma, and Thea de Wet. These collaborations involve multiple joint publications across related topics in political science.

The primary publication venues where Robert Mattes has contributed research include Party Politics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Preprints.org, Journal of Democracy, and Comparative Political Studies. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research, bridging political science and associated social science domains.

Best Publications

  • Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa

    Michael Bratton;Robert B. Mattes;Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi

  • Support for democracy in Africa: intrinsic or instrumental?

    Michael Bratton;Robert Mattes

  • Learning about democracy in Africa: Awareness, performance, and experience

    Robert Mattes;Michael Bratton

  • South Africa: Democracy without the people

    Robert B. Mattes

  • Does Ethnicity Determine Support for the Governing Party? The Structural and Attitudinal Basis of Partisan Identification in 12 African Nations

    Pippa Norris;Robert Mattes

  • The ‘Born Frees’: The Prospects for Generational Change in Post‐apartheid South Africa

    Robert Mattes

  • The election book: Judgement and choice in South Africa's 1994 election

    Robert B Mattes

  • AFRICANS' SURPRISING UNIVERSALISM

    Michael Bratton;Robert B Mattes

  • Consolidation and Public Opinion in South Africa

    Robert B Mattes;Hermann Thiel

  • The Material and Political Bases of Lived Poverty in Africa: Insights from the Afrobarometer

    Robert Mattes

  • Opposition Parties and the Voters in South Africa's General Election of 1999

    Robert Mattes;Jessica Piombo

  • South Africa’s emerging black middle class: a harbinger of political change?

    Robert Mattes

  • Poverty, survival and democracy in Southern Africa

    Robert Mattes;Michael Bratton;Yul Derek Davids

  • After a Decade of Growth in Africa, Little Change in Poverty at the Grassroots

    Boniface Dulani;Robert Mattes;Carolyn Logan

  • SA Tribes: Who We Are, How We Live and What We Want from Life in the New South Africa

    Steven M. Burgess;Mari Harris;Robert B. Mattes

  • Africa's growth dividend? Lived poverty drops across much of the continent

    Robert Mattes;Boniface Dulani;E Gyimah-Boadi

  • Support for Economic Reform? Popular Attitudes in Southern Africa

    Michael Bratton;Robert Mattes

  • Examining HIV / AIDS in Southern Africa through the eyes of ordinary Southern Africans.

    Whiteside A;Mattes R;Willan S;Manning R

  • In whose interest? Gender and mass-elite priority congruence in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Amanda Clayton;Cecilia Josefsson;Robert Mattes;Shaheen Mozaffar

  • South Africans' participation in local politics and government

    Robert Mattes

  • Does Ethnicity Determine Support for the Governing Party

    Robert Mattes;Pippa Norris

  • Judgement and choice in the 1999 South African election

    Robert Mattes;Helen Taylor;Cherrel Africa

  • South African Attitudes To Immigrants and Immigration

    Robert Mattes;Donald Taylor;Abigail Poore;Wayne Richmond

  • The limited impacts of formal education on democratic citizenship in Africa

    Robert Mattes;Dangalira Mughogho

  • Social and political trust in developing countries: sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

    Robert Mattes;Alejandro Moreno

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bratton
Michael Bratton Michigan State University
Pippa Norris
Pippa Norris Harvard University
Yun-han Chu
Yun-han Chu National Taiwan University
Jonathan Crush
Jonathan Crush Balsillie School of International Affairs
Donald M. Taylor
Donald M. Taylor McGill University

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