2026 Roger D. Congleton: 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	39	524	475	292	252	205	12502

Overview

Roger D. Congleton is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily across social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with notable engagement in subfields such as economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, development, and general health professions.

Their publications address topics including taxation and compliance studies, economic theory and institutions, fiscal policy and economic growth, international development and aid, corruption and economic development, World Trade Organization law, and the intersection of religion, society, and development.

Recent scholarly articles by Roger D. Congleton include:

The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory, 2020, European Journal of Political Economy
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism, 2020, Constitutional Political Economy
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life, 2021, Public Choice
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact, 2021, Constitutional Political Economy
Ethics and good governance, 2020, Public Choice

Most frequently, Congleton publishes in the following journals:

Constitutional Political Economy
Public Choice
Kyklos
European Journal of Political Economy
International Journal of Economic Policy Studies

Collaborations include work with scholars such as Alex Marsella and Alexander Cardazzi.

Best Publications

Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity

Roger D. Congleton

5682
Citations
Political Institutions and Pollution Control

Roger D. Congleton

696
Citations
Politics by Principle, Not Interest

James M. Buchanan;Roger D. Congleton

585
Citations
Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy

James M. Buchanan;Roger D. Congleton

582
Citations
Rationality, Morality, and Exit

Viktor J. Vanberg;Roger D. Congleton

317
Citations
The Median Voter Model

Roger D. Congleton

265
Citations
Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Reform, Liberalism, and the Rise of Western Democracy

Roger D. Congleton

204
Citations
Efficient status seeking: Externalities, and the evolution of status games

Roger D. Congleton

202
Citations
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe

Roger D. Congleton

186
Citations
On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009

Roger D. Congleton

146
Citations
The Economic Analysis of Rent Seeking

Roger D. Congleton;Robert Tollison

142
Citations
Competitive Process, Competitive Waste, and Institutions

Roger Congleton

128
Citations
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion

Roger D. Congleton

126
Citations
A theory of menu federalism: Decentralization by political agreement

Roger D. Congleton;Andreas Kyriacou;Jordi Bacaria

121
Citations
The economic role of a work ethic

Roger D. Congleton

115
Citations
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview

Roger D. Congleton;Arye L. Hillman;Kai A. Konrad

113
Citations
On the political economy of state highway expenditures: Some evidence of the relative performance of alternative public choice models

Roger D. Congleton;Randall W. Bennett

109
Citations
40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2

Roger D. Congleton;Kai A. Konrad;Arye L. Hillman

109
Citations
Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking

Roger D. Congleton;Arye L. Hillman

107
Citations
Committees and rent-seeking effort

Roger D. Congleton

102
Citations
40 years of research on rent seeking, vol. 1: Theory of rent seeking

R. D. Congleton;A. L. Hillman;K. A. Konrad

102
Citations
THE GROWTH OF SOCIAL SECURITY: ELECTORAL PUSH OR POLITICAL PULL?

Roger D. Congleton;William F. ShughartII

101
Citations
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments

Roger D. Congleton

94
Citations
Democratic constitutional design and public policy : analysis and evidence

Roger D. Congleton;Birgitta Swedenborg

72
Citations
40-years-of-research-on-rent-seeking-1

Roger D. Congleton;Arye L. Hillman;Kai A. Konrad

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Arye L. Hillman Bar-Ilan University

Kai A. Konrad Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

Robert D. Tollison Clemson University

Viktor Vanberg Walter Eucken Institut

Bernard Steunenberg Leiden University

John R. Lott University of Chicago

External Links

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