2026 Tali Mendelberg: 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	23	1733	1590	866	768	92	5875

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2002 - Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Tali Mendelberg is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and contributes to the field of social sciences with a focus on political science and related disciplines. Their research spans various subfields, emphasizing sociology and political science, political science and international relations, communication, gender studies, and education.

Their work covers several main topics, including electoral systems and political participation, social media and politics, gender politics and representation, criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, disaster management and resilience, and risk perception and management.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Mendelberg include:

"Education and Political Participation" (2021), published in Annual Review of Political Science
"When Poor Students Attend Rich Schools: Do Affluent Social Environments Increase or Decrease Participation?" (2020), published in Perspectives on Politics
"Improving Women's Advancement in Political Science: What We Know About What Works" (2020), published in PS Political Science & Politics
"Jailed While Presumed Innocent: The Demobilizing Effects of Pretrial Incarceration" (2022), published in The Journal of Politics
"The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames" (2022), published in The Journal of Politics

Mendelberg frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Tanika Raychaudhuri, Anne McDonough, Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, Vittorio Mérola, and Adam Thal.

The most common venues for Mendelberg's publications are Harvard Dataverse, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, and Annual Review of Political Science.

Awards recognizing Mendelberg's contributions include the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2002.

Best Publications

The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality

Tali Mendelberg

1127
Citations
THE DELIBERATIVE CITIZEN: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

Tali Mendelberg

867
Citations
Reconsidering the Environmental Determinants of White Racial Attitudes

J. Eric Oliver;Tali Mendelberg

675
Citations
Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation

Christopher F. Karpowitz;Tali Mendelberg;Lee Shaker

475
Citations
Executing Hortons: Racial Crime in the 1988 Presidential Campaign

Tali Mendelberg

383
Citations
The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions

Christopher F. Karpowitz;Tali Mendelberg

373
Citations
Cracks in American Apartheid: The Political Impact of Prejudice among Desegregated Whites

Donald R. Kinder;Tali Mendelberg

327
Citations
Race and Public Deliberation

Tali Mendelberg;John Oleske

311
Citations
Racial Priming Revived

Tali Mendelberg

230
Citations
The Indirect Effects of Discredited Stereotypes in Judgments of Jewish Leaders

Adam J. Berinsky;Tali Mendelberg

144
Citations
Education and Political Participation

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138
Citations
Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women's Distinctive Voice? How Gender Composition and Decision Rules Affect Deliberation

Tali Mendelberg;Christopher F. Karpowitz;Nicholas Goedert

133
Citations
Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction

Tali Mendelberg;Christopher F. Karpowitz;J. Baxter Oliphant

126
Citations
College Socialization and the Economic Views of Affluent Americans

Tali Mendelberg;Katherine T. McCabe;Adam Thal

96
Citations
Sex and Race: Are Black Candidates More Likely to be Disadvantaged by Sex Scandals?

Adam J. Berinsky;Vincent L. Hutchings;Tali Mendelberg;Lee Shaker

84
Citations
Groups and Deliberation

Christopher F. Karpowitz;Tali Mendelberg

81
Citations
How People Deliberate about Justice: Groups, Gender, and Decision Rules

Tali Mendelberg;Christopher Karpowitz

73
Citations
The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality

Matthew Schneirov;Tali Mendelberg

67
Citations
Racial Priming: Issues in Research Design and Interpretation

Tali Mendelberg

35
Citations
Women's authority in political decision-making groups

Tali Mendelberg;Christopher F. Karpowitz

35
Citations
Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: An Experimental Approach to Citizen Deliberation

Christopher F. Karpowitz;Tali Mendelberg

33
Citations
Why women's numbers elevate women's influence, and when they do not: rules, norms, and authority in political discussion

Christopher F. Karpowitz;Tali Mendelberg;Lauren Mattioli

25
Citations
When Poor Students Attend Rich Schools: Do Affluent Social Environments Increase or Decrease Participation?

Tali Mendelberg;Vittorio Mérola;Tanika Raychaudhuri;Adam Thal

17
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam J. Berinsky MIT

Nicholas A. Valentino University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Donald R. Kinder University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Personal website of Tali Mendelberg

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