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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
74
Citations
40002
World Ranking
37
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award

Overview

Russell J. Dalton is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily falls within the Social Sciences with significant contributions to Political Science and International Relations. Additional subfields include Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Communication, and Physiology.

Their research addresses various topics related to electoral systems, political participation, populism, right-wing movements, social policy reforms, European Union governance, and political systems. Key research themes in their work include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Political Systems and Governance
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Political Conflict and Governance

Russell J. Dalton has published numerous papers, often appearing in venues such as Harvard Dataverse and Party Politics, as well as Electoral Studies, European Union Politics, and American Behavioral Scientist. Notable recent papers include:

  • Modeling ideological polarization in democratic party systems, 2021, Electoral Studies
  • National/European identities and political alignments, 2021, European Union Politics
  • The Representation Gap and Political Sophistication: A Contrarian Perspective, 2020, Comparative Political Studies
  • Political Action, Protest, and the Functioning of Democratic Governance, 2021, American Behavioral Scientist
  • The Good Politician: Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics, 2020, Perspectives on Politics

Their research collaborations include work with frequent co-authors such as Willy Jou, L. Perez-Kempner, R Cautiero, and S Budhia, indicating a broad network in political science research.

Best Publications

  • Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies

    Russell J. Dalton

  • Democratic challenges, democratic choices : the erosion of political support in advanced industrial democracies

    Russell J. Dalton

  • Citizen politics in western democracies : public opinion and political parties in the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, and France

    Russell J. Dalton

  • Citizenship Norms and the Expansion of Political Participation

    Russell J. Dalton

  • 1. Electoral Change In Advanced Industrial Democracies

    Russell J. Dalton;Paul Allen Beck;Scott C. Flanagan

  • Parties without partisans : political change in advanced industrial democracies

    Russell J. Dalton;Martin P. Wattenberg

  • Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Realignment or Dealignment?

    Russell J. Dalton;Scott E. Flanagan

  • Europeans and the European Community: the dynamics of public support for European integration

    Richard C. Eichenberg;Russell J. Dalton

  • Cognitive Mobilization and Partisan Dealignment in Advanced Industrial Democracies

    Russell J. Dalton

  • Parties Without Partisans

    Russell J. Dalton;Martin P. Wattenberg

  • The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems: Party System Polarization, Its Measurement, and Its Consequences

    Russell J. Dalton

  • The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation Is Reshaping American Politics

    Russell J. Dalton

  • The decline of party identification

    R.J. Dalton

  • The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe

    Russell J. Dalton

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

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

  • Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy

    Russell J. Dalton;David M. Farrell;Ian McAllister

  • The Individual–Institutional Nexus of Protest Behaviour

    Russell Dalton;Alix Van Sickle;Steven Weldon

  • Parties without members? : party organization in a changing electoral environment

    Susan E. Scarrow;Russell J. Dalton;Martin P. Wattenberg

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

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

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

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

  • Political Support in Advanced Industrial

    Russell J. Dalton

  • The Oxford handbook of political behavior

    Russell J. Dalton;Hans-Dieter Klingemann

  • Political Parties and Political Representation: Party Supporters and Party Elites in Nine Nations

    Russell J. Dalton

  • A Quarter-Century of Declining Confidence

    Susan J. Pharr;Robert D. Putnam;Russell J. Dalton

  • Public images of political parties: A necessary evil?

    Russell J. Dalton;Steven A. Weldon

  • Communists and Democrats: Democratic Attitudes in the Two Germanies

    Russell J. Dalton

  • 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

  • Citizens, context, and choice : how context shapes citizens' electoral choices

    Russell J. Dalton;Christopher J. Anderson

  • ADVANCED DEMOCRACIES AND THE NEW POLITICS

    Russell J. Dalton;Susan E. Scarrow;Bruce E. Cain

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister Australian National University
David M. Farrell
David M. Farrell University College Dublin
Christian Welzel
Christian Welzel Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Robert Huckfeldt
Robert Huckfeldt University of California, Davis
Robert Rohrschneider
Robert Rohrschneider University of Kansas
Susan E. Scarrow
Susan E. Scarrow University of Houston
Bruce E. Cain
Bruce E. Cain Stanford University
Nicholas P. Lovrich
Nicholas P. Lovrich Washington State University
Christopher J. Anderson
Christopher J. Anderson London School of Economics and Political Science
Kaare Strøm
Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego

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