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D-Index
65
Citations
22664
World Ranking
80
National Ranking
49

Robert S. Erikson publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert S. Erikson sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 231 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Robert S. Erikson D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert S. Erikson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 65 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Robert S. Erikson is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research spans several interdisciplinary subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Law, Sociology and Political Science, Education, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their major topics of work include Judicial and Constitutional Studies, Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, Legal and Constitutional Studies, Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies, School Choice and Performance, Labor market dynamics and wage inequality, as well as Game Theory and Voting Systems.

Among their recent academic papers are:

  • Appellate court assignments as a natural experiment: Gender panel effects in sex discrimination cases, 2022, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
  • Inequality of Educational Opportunity - The Role of Performance and Choice, 2020, European Review
  • Forecasting the 2020 Presidential Election: Leading Economic Indicators, Polls, and the Vote, 2020, PS Political Science & Politics
  • Electoral College bias and the 2020 presidential election, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Abortion Opinion and Partisan Choice: Untangling the Causal Dynamics, 2024, Political Science Quarterly

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert S. Erikson include Christopher Wlezien, Karl Sigman, and Linan Yao.

Their work has been published in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, European Review, PS Political Science & Politics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2007, Robert S. Erikson was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Macro Polity

    Robert S. Erikson;Michael B. Mackuen;James A. Stimson

  • Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States

    Robert S. Erikson;Gerald C. Wright;John P. McIver

  • Peasants or Bankers? The American Electorate and the U.S. Economy.

    Michael B. MacKuen;Robert S. Erikson;James A. Stimson

  • American public opinion: Its origins, content, and impact

    Robert S. Erikson;Kent L. Tedin

  • Dynamic Representation

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  • The Advantage of Incumbency in Congressional Elections

    Robert S. Erikson

  • Intergenerational Inequality: A Sociological Perspective

    Robert Erikson;John H. Goldthorpe

  • Economic Conditions and the Presidential Vote

    Robert S. Erikson

  • Measuring State Partisanship and Ideology with Survey Data

    Gerald C. Wright;Robert S. Erikson;John P. McIver

  • Constituency Opinion and Congressional Behavior: A Reexamination of the Miller-Stokes Representation Data

    Robert S. Erikson

  • Political Parties, Public Opinion, and State Policy in the United States

    Robert S. Erikson;Gerald C. Wright;John P. McIver

  • Malapportionment, Gerrymandering, and Party Fortunes in Congressional Elections

    Robert S. Erikson

  • Public Opinion and Policy Liberalism in the American States

    Gerald C. Wright;Robert S. Erikson;John P. McIver

  • The Puzzle of Midterm Loss

    Robert S. Erikson

  • Caught in the Draft: The Effects of Vietnam Draft Lottery Status on Political Attitudes

    Robert S. Erikson;Laura Stoker

  • Equilibria in Campaign Spending Games: Theory and Data

    Robert S. Erikson;Thomas R. Palfrey

  • The Scandinavian model : welfare states and welfare research

    Robert Erikson

  • Economic Conditions and the Congressional Vote: A Review of the Macrolevel Evidence

    Robert S. Erikson

  • Descriptions of Inequality : the Swedish Approach to Welfare Research

    Robert Erikson

  • State Political Culture and Public Opinion

    Robert S. Erikson;John P. McIver;Gerald C. Wright

  • Campaign Spending and Incumbency: An Alternative Simultaneous Equations Approach

    Robert S. Erikson;Thomas R. Palfrey

  • The Timeline of Presidential Election Campaigns

    Christopher Wlezien;Robert S. Erikson

  • Policy representation of constituency interests

    Robert S. Erikson;Gerald C. Wright

  • Candidate Equilibrium and the Behavioral Model of the Vote

    Robert S. Erikson;David W. Romero

  • Macropartisanship

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  • The Macro Polity: Macropartisanship: The Permanent Memory of Party Performance

    Robert S. Erikson;Michael B. Mackuen;James A. Stimson

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Wlezien
Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin
James A. Stimson
James A. Stimson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael B. Mackuen
Michael B. Mackuen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gerald C. Wright
Gerald C. Wright Indiana University
Kent L. Tedin
Kent L. Tedin University of Houston
John H. Goldthorpe
John H. Goldthorpe University of Oxford
Thomas R. Palfrey
Thomas R. Palfrey California Institute of Technology
James M. Snyder
James M. Snyder Harvard University
Olle Folke
Olle Folke Uppsala University
Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Michael S. Lewis-Beck University of Iowa

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