2026 Stephan Haggard: 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	68	62	53	37	29	290	29038
Economics and Finance	68	507	454	334	293	270	28954

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Stephan Haggard is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Development, Strategy and Management, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research work encompasses several main topics, including:

Political Conflict and Governance
International Relations and Foreign Policy
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
International Development and Aid
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Global Trade and Economics
Philosophy and History of Science

Stephan Haggard's recent publications include:

The Anatomy of Democratic Backsliding, 2021, Journal of democracy
Stabilizing Authoritarian Rule: The Role of International Organizations, 2023, International Studies Quarterly (co-authored by Christina Cottiero)
Illiberal regimes and international organizations, 2024, The Review of International Organizations (co-authored by Christina Cottiero)
Political polarization in Korea, 2023, Democratization (co-authored by Yeilim Cheong)
Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): Causal Generalization in Case Study and Multimethod Research, 2023, Perspectives on Politics (co-authored by Gary Goertz)

Frequent co-authors include:

Richard F. Doner
Peter J. Katzenstein
Miles Kahler
Amitav Acharya
Thomas Christensen

Stephan Haggard has published extensively in several venues, most notably:

Journal of East Asian Studies
International Organization
The Developing Economies
Democratization
Perspectives on Politics

Their book publications include works from various university presses:

Backsliding (2021) and East Asia in the World (2020), both published by Cambridge University Press
From Silicon Valley to Singapore (2021) and Hard Target (2020), published by Stanford University Press eBooks
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States (2020), published by Princeton University Press

Best Publications

Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries

Stephan Haggard

3450
Citations
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions

Stephan Haggard;Robert R. Kaufman

3078
Citations
Theories of international regimes

Stephan Haggard;Beth A. Simmons

1640
Citations
Development, democracy, and welfare states

Stephan Haggard

1400
Citations
The Politics of Economic Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts and the State

Stephan Haggard;Robert R. Kaufman;Peter B. Evans

1366
Citations
Development, democracy, and welfare states : Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe

Stephan Haggard;Robert R. Kaufman

1361
Citations
The political economy of the Asian financial crisis

Stephan Haggard

930
Citations
The Politics of Economic Adjustment

William Diebold;Stephan Haggard;Robert R. Kaufman

704
Citations
The politics of decentralization in Latin America

E. Willis;C. D. C. B. Garman;S. Haggard

676
Citations
Presidents, Parliaments, And Policy

Stephan Haggard;Mathew D. McCubbins

498
Citations
Fiscal Decentralization: A Political Theory with Latin American Cases

Christopher Garman;Stephan Haggard;Eliza J. Willis

495
Citations
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions

Stephan Haggard;Robert R. Kaufman

456
Citations
The Rule of Law and Economic Development

Stephan Haggard;Andrew MacIntyre;Lydia Tiede

446
Citations
International Production Networks in Asia : Rivalry or Riches

Michael Borrus;Dieter Ernst;Stephan Haggard

441
Citations
The Rule of Law and Economic Growth: Where are We?

Stephan Haggard;Lydia Tiede

438
Citations
The political economy of financial internationalization in the developing world

Stephan Haggard;Sylvia Maxfield

435
Citations
Inequality and Regime Change: Democratic Transitions and the Stability of Democratic Rule

Stephan Haggard;Robert R. Kaufman

398
Citations
Institutions and growth in East Asia

Stephan Haggard

381
Citations
Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries

William Diebold;Stephan Haggard

367
Citations
Institutions and Economic Policy: Theory and a Korean Case Study

Stephan Haggard;Chung-in Moon

312
Citations
Famine in North Korea : markets, aid, and reform

Marcus Noland;Stephan Haggard

272
Citations
The transition to export-led growth in South Korea : 1954-1966

Stephan Byung-Kook Kim Chung-In Moon Haggard

247
Citations
Institutions and Growth in Korea and Taiwan: The Bureaucracy

Tun‐Jen Cheng;Stephan Haggard;David Kang

247
Citations
Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea

Stephan Haggard;Marcus Noland

214
Citations
Business, politics and policy in East and Southeast Asia

Stephan M. Haggard

148
Citations
Economic crisis and corporate restructuring in Korea : reforming the chaebol

Stephan Haggard;Wonhyuk Lim;Euysung Kim

135
Citations
The Politics of Industrialization in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan

Stephan Haggard;Helen Hughes

99
Citations
North Korea and the Sony hack : exporting instability through cyberspace

Stephan Haggard;Jon R. Lindsay

84
Citations
Political Change in Taiwan.

John F. Copper;Tun-jen Cheng;Stephan Haggard

67
Citations
Business–Government Relations under Kim Dae-jung

Jongryn Mo;Chung-In Moon;Stephan Haggard;Wonhyuk Lim

65
Citations
Newly Industrializing Asia in Transition: Policy Reform and American Response

Tun-jen Cheng;Stephan Haggard

60
Citations
Introduction: Cross-border production networks and the industrial integration of the Asia-Pacific region

Michael Borrus;Dieter Ernst;Stephan Haggard

57
Citations
After the crisis : the social contract and the middle class in East Asia

Nancy Birdsall;Stephan Haggard

57
Citations
The Organizational Architecture of the Asia-Pacific: Insights from the New Institutionalism

Stephan Haggard

43
Citations
Hunger and Human Rights: The Politics of Famine in North Korea

Marcus Noland;Stephan Haggard

36
Citations
Reform from Below: Behavioral and Institutional Change in North Korea

Marcus Noland;Stephan M. Haggard

26
Citations
The North Korean Refugee Crisis: Human Rights and International Response

Marcus Noland;Stephan Haggard;Yoonok Chang;Joshua Kurlantzick

25
Citations
North Korea's foreign economic relations

Stephan Haggard;Marcus Noland

25
Citations
Famine in North Korea Redux

Marcus Noland;Stephan M. Haggard

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert R. Kaufman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Marcus Noland Peterson Institute for International Economics

János Kornai Corvinus University of Budapest

Dieter Ernst Centre for International Governance Innovation

David A. Lake University of California, San Diego

John McMillan Stanford University

Christopher Woodruff University of Oxford

Beth A. Simmons University of Pennsylvania

Gary Gereffi Duke University

David G. Victor University of California, San Diego

External Links

Personal website of Stephan Haggard Google Scholar page

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