2026 Wolfgang C. Müller: 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	48	274	242	2	2	233	12821

Wolfgang C. Müller publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang C. Müller sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 333+

This scientist: 233 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Wolfgang C. Müller 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 Wolfgang C. Müller sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Political Science in Austria Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Political Science in Austria Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Austria Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Political Science in Austria Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Wolfgang C. Müller is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research is situated primarily within the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations. This scholar's work spans 29 publications in social sciences, of which 23 are devoted to political science and international relations. Additional areas of interest include strategy and management, communication, language and linguistics, and public administration.

The main research topics covered by Müller include electoral systems and political participation, political influence and corporate strategies, social policy and reform studies, social media and politics, local government finance and decentralization, populism and right-wing movements, and public administration and political analysis.

Significant publication venues for Müller comprise AUSSDA - The Austrian Social Science Data Archive, with eight publications, West European Politics, Party Politics, Harvard Dataverse, and Comparative Political Studies. Co-authorship is a notable element within Müller's work; frequent collaborators include Thomas M. Meyer, Katrin Praprotnik, Anita Bodlos, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, and Matthias Kaltenegger.

Recent papers by Müller, along with their publication years and venues, are as follows:

Coalition agreements and governments' policy-making productivity, 2023, West European Politics
Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies, 2021, Comparative Political Studies
Participation in the administration of elections and perceptions of electoral integrity, 2022, Electoral Studies
AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017-2019 (SUF Edition), 2020, AUSSDA - The Austrian Social Science Data Archive
How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: A comparative analysis of the 'left-right' and the 'European integration' dimensions, 2021, Party Politics

Best Publications

Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies

Kaare Strom;Wolfgang C. Müller;Torbjörn Bergman

2185
Citations
Policy, office, or votes? : how political parties in Western Europe make hard decisions

Wolfgang C. Müller;Kaare Strøm

1140
Citations
Coalition Governments in Western Europe

Wolfgang C. Müller;Kaare Strom

1009
Citations
Political parties in parliamentary democracies: Making delegation and accountability work

Wolfgang C. Müller

672
Citations
Cabinets and coalition bargaining : The democratic life cycle in Western Europe

Kaare Strom;Wolfgang C. Müller;Torbjörn Bergman

540
Citations
Policy, Office, or Votes?: Political Parties and Hard Choices

Kaare Strøm;Wolfgang C. Müller

416
Citations
The membership of political parties in European democracies, 1960-1990

Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair;Luciano Bardi;Lars Bille

357
Citations
Political Parties and Electoral Change: Party Responses to Electoral Markets

Peter Mair;Wolfgang C. Müller;Fritz Plasser

355
Citations
Democratic Delegation and Accountability : Cross-National Patterns

Torbjörn Bergman;Wolfgang C Müller;Kaare Strøm;Magnus Blomgren

315
Citations
Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies How parties organize in the 21st century

Thomas Poguntke;Susan E Scarrow;Paul D Webb;Elin H Allern

249
Citations
Parliamentary Control of Coalition Governments

Kaare Strøm;Wolfgang C. Müller;Daniel Markham Smith

241
Citations
How parties compete for votes: A test of saliency theory

Martin Dolezal;Laurenz P. Ennser-Jedenastik;Wolfgang C. Müller;Anna Katharina Winkler

214
Citations
The keys to togetherness: Coalition agreements in parliamentary democracies

Kaare Strøm;Wolfgang C. Müller

192
Citations
Parliamentary Democracy : Promise and Problem

Wolfgang C Müller;Torbjörn Bergman;Kaare Strøm

167
Citations
Introduction: Parliamentary democracy and the chain of delegation

Torbjörn Bergman;Wolfgang C. Müller;Kaare Strøm

140
Citations
Meeting the Challenges of Representation and Accountability in Multi-party Governments

Wolfgang C. Müller;Thomas M. Meyer

122
Citations
The Life Cycle of Party Manifestos: The Austrian Case

Martin Dolezal;Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik;Wolfgang C. Müller;Anna Katharina Winkler

120
Citations
Inside the Black Box A Confrontation of Party Executive Behaviour and Theories of Party Organizational Change

Wolfgang C. Müller

115
Citations
Members of Parliament in Western Europe: Roles and Behaviour

Wolfgang C. Müller;Thomas Saalfeld

114
Citations
Coalition theory and cabinet governance : an introduction

Wolfgang C Müller;Torbjörn Bergman;Kaare Strøm

106
Citations
Reshaping the state in Western Europe: The limits to retreat

Wolfgang C. Müller;Vincent Wright

104
Citations
Political Institutions and Linkage Strategies

Wolfgang C. Müller

103
Citations
The Membership of Political Parties in European Democracies

R. Katz;J. Pierre;T. Poguntke;J. Sundberg

20
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Dolezal University of Graz

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik University of Vienna

Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego

Hanna Bäck Lund University

Ulrich Sieberer University of Bamberg

Sylvia Kritzinger University of Vienna

Markus Wagner University of Vienna

Hajo G. Boomgaarden University of Vienna

Richard S. Katz Johns Hopkins University

Peter Mair European University Institute

External Links

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