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68
Citations
130452
World Ranking
57
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Hellman Fellow
  • 2004 - Helen Dinerman Prize, World Association of Public Opinion Research
  • 2002 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science For his penetrating empirical analysis of political participation and its significance for the functioning of democracy.
  • 1983 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Sidney Verba was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic career involved collaborations with several frequent co-authors including Kay Lehman Schlozman, R. Blakeslee Gilpin, Richard Wollheim, David M. Kreps, and E.J.W. Barber.

Throughout their career, Verba was recognized with several awards. These included the Hellman Fellow award in 2009, the Helen Dinerman Prize from the World Association of Public Opinion Research in 2004, and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2002, awarded for empirical analysis of political participation and its significance for the functioning of democracy. Earlier distinctions included becoming a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1980.

While specific recent papers and publication venues were not detailed, Verba's work was anchored in political science and empirical research related to political participation and democracy. Their collaborations and citations indicate multidisciplinary engagement across political behavior and theory.

Best Publications

  • The Civic Culture

    Gabriel Abraham Almond;Sidney Verba

  • The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations

    Gabriel Abraham Almond;Sidney Verba

  • Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics

    Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry E. Brady

  • Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research

    Gary King;Robert O. Keohane;Sidney Verba

  • Designing Social Inquiry

    Gary King;Robert O. Keohane;Sidney Verba

  • Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation

    Henry E. Brady;Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman

  • Participation in America : Political Democracy and Social Equality

    Sidney Verba;Norman H. Nie

  • The Civic Culture Revisited

    Gabriel Abraham Almond;Sidney Verba

  • The Unheavenly Chorus

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba;Henry E. Brady

  • Participation and Political Equality: A Seven-Nation Comparison

    Sidney Verba;Norman H. Nie;Jae-on Kim

  • Knowing and Caring About Politics: Gender and Political Engagement

    Sidney Verba;Nancy Burns;Kay Lehman Schlozman

  • The Changing American Voter

    Norman H. Nie;Sidney Verba;John R. Petrocik

  • The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba;Henry E. Brady

  • The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation

    Nancy Burns;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba

  • Citizen Activity: Who Participates? What Do They Say?.

    Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry Brady;Norman H. Nie

  • Race, Ethnicity and Political Resources: Participation in the United States

    Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry Brady;Norman H. Nie

  • Gender and the Pathways to Participation: The Role of Resources

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Nancy Burns;Sidney Verba

  • The Voice of the People

    Sidney Verba

  • Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists

    Henry E. Brady;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba

  • Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba;Henry E. Brady

  • Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics.

    Nina Eliasoph;Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry E. Brady

  • The Private Roots of Public Action

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  • Gender and Citizen Participation: Is There a Different Voice?

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Nancy Burns;Sidney Verba;Jesse Donahue

  • The Changing American Voter

    Christopher T. Husbands;Norman H. Nie;Sidney Verba;John R. Petrocik

  • "What Happened at Work Today?": A Multistage Model of Gender, Employment, and Political Participation

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Nancy Burns;Sidney Verba

  • Would the Dream of Political Equality Turn out to Be a Nightmare

    Sidney Verba

  • Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equality

    Robert E. Dowse;S. Verba;N. Nie

  • The Civic Culture. Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations

    Gabriel A. Almond;Sidney Verba

  • The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations.

    Robert R. Alford;Gabriel A. Almond;Sidney Verba

  • Participation and Political Equality: A Seven-Nation Comparison

    Harvey W. Kushner;Sidney Verba;Norman Nie;Jae-On Kim

  • Political Culture and Political Development

    Stephen Clarkson;Lucian W. Pye;Sidney Verba

  • Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics

    Robert Y. Shapiro;Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry E. Brady

Frequent Co-Authors

Kay Lehman Schlozman
Kay Lehman Schlozman Boston College
Henry E. Brady
Henry E. Brady University of California, Berkeley
Gabriel A. Almond
Gabriel A. Almond Stanford University
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University
Robert O. Keohane
Robert O. Keohane Princeton University
Richard A. Brody
Richard A. Brody Stanford University
Morris P. Fiorina
Morris P. Fiorina Stanford University
Philip E. Converse
Philip E. Converse University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman University of Chicago
Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman University of California, San Francisco

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