Samuel Merrill

Samuel Merrill publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

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Samuel Merrill 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 Samuel Merrill sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors

  James F. Adams;Samuel Merrill;Bernard Grofman

  921
  Citations

• A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models

  Samuel Iii Merrill;Bernard Grofman

  747
  Citations

• A Unified Theory of Party Competition

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  569
  Citations

• A unified theory of party competition

  James F. Adams;Samuel Merrill Iii;Bernard Grofman

  264
  Citations

• Candidate and Party Strategies in Two‐Stage Elections Beginning with a Primary

  James Adams;Samuel Merrill

  250
  Citations

• The political consequences of alienation-based and indifference-based voter abstention: Applications to Presidential Elections

  James Adams;Jay Dow;Samuel Merrill

  241
  Citations

• A Comparison of Efficiency of Multicandidate Electoral Systems

  Samuel Merrill

  208
  Citations

• Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic

  Samuel Merrill

  191
  Citations

• Voter Turnout and Candidate Strategies in American Elections

  James Adams;Samuel Merrill Merrill

  187
  Citations

• Assimilation and contrast effects in voter projections of party locations: Evidence from Norway, France, and the USA

  Samuel Merrill;Bernard Grofman;James Adams

  159
  Citations

• Policy-Seeking Parties in a Parliamentary Democracy with Proportional Representation: A Valence-Uncertainty Model

  James Adams;Samuel Merrill

  152
  Citations

• When Candidates Value Good Character: A Spatial Model with Applications to Congressional Elections

  James Adams;Samuel Merrill;Elizabeth N. Simas;Walter J. Stone

  141
  Citations

• Equilibrium strategies for final-offer arbitration: there is no median convergence

  Steven J. Brams;Samuel Merrill

  123
  Citations

• Centrifugal Incentives in Multi-Candidate Elections:

  Samuel Merrill;James Adams

  120
  Citations

• Why Small, Centrist Third Parties Motivate Policy Divergence by Major Parties

  James Adams;Samuel Merrill

  112
  Citations

• Binding versus final-offer arbitration: a combination is best

  Steven J. Brams;Samuel Merrill

  96
  Citations

• Discriminating between the directional and proximity spatial models of electoral competition

  Samuel Merrill

  89
  Citations

• Spatial Models of Candidate Competition and the 1988 French Presidential Election: Are Presidential Candidates Vote‐Maximizers?

  James Adams;Samuel Merrill

  79
  Citations

• Cycles in American national electoral politics, 1854-2006: Statistical evidence and an explanatory model

  Samuel Merrill;Bernard Grofman;Thomas L. Brunell

  78
  Citations

• A Unified Theory of Voting: Frontmatter

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  37
  Citations