31 faculty and 0 courses in Government at Brigham Young University.
- Kirk Hawkins, Professor h-index 23
Es on political organization and populism, and I direct Team Populism, a global scholarly network studying populism's causes and consequences. Projects include the creation of a global populism dataset, experimental research on populism's r
Notable: “Is Chávez Populist?” (2009) · 646 citations
- Michael Barber, Professor h-index 21
American politics, Congress, political polarization, political ideology Publications Barber, M., Bolton, A., & Thrower, S. (2019). Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism in Separation of Powers Systems. Legislative Studies Q
Notable: “Как лучшие системы школьного образования продолжают совершенствоваться (пер. с англ. Н. Микшиной, Е. Шадриной)” (2013) · 353 citations
- Darren Hawkins, Professor h-index 20
Notable: “More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData” (2011) · 577 citations
- Jeremy Pope, Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Does Party Trump Ideology? Disentangling Party and Ideology in America” (2018) · 521 citations
- Alejandra Aldridge, Assistant Professor h-index 17
Notable: “The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance” (1977) · 599 citations
- Sven Wilson, Professor h-index 15
Notable: “More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData” (2011) · 577 citations
- Ethan Busby, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Notable: “Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples” (2023) · 577 citations
- Kelly Patterson, Professor h-index 14
Campaigns and elections, public opinion, and political parties. His publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior. He regularly teaches courses in American polit
Notable: “The Human Dimension of Elections” (2008) · 140 citations
- Jessica Preece, Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Why women don’t run: Experimental evidence on gender differences in political competition aversion” (2015) · 161 citations
- Jay Goodliffe, Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Explaining Commitment: States and the Convention against Torture” (2006) · 249 citations
- Joel Selway, Associate Professor h-index 12
Selway's research addresses the design of democratic political institutions for ethnically-divided societies. He has analyzed topics as diverse as civil war, riots, economic growth and public goods provision. Selway's work has appeared in W
Notable: “Horizontal Inequality, Crosscutting Cleavages, and Civil War” (2012) · 229 citations
- Adam Brown, Associate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Twitter” (2010) · 236 citations
- Christopher Krewson, Assistant Professor h-index 11
American Politics; Law and Courts; American Political Institutions; Public Opinion; Political Behavior
Notable: “The Effect of Conspiratorial Thinking and Motivated Reasoning on Belief in Election Fraud” (2017) · 194 citations
- Adam Dynes, Associate Professor h-index 10
American politics, representation, legislative politics, distributive politics, political parties, state and local politics, experimental methods, causal inference Publications Dynes, A. (forthcoming). Who Benefits from the Party Organizati
Notable: “Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence” (2015) · 204 citations
- Quinn Mecham, Associate Professor h-index 6
Quinn's research interests focus on the political mobilization in the Islamic world, including elections, protest, and political violence. He also focuses on political participation in authoritarian regimes. He has written extensively on th
Notable: “Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics” (2003) · 246 citations
- Scott Cooper, Associate Professor h-index 6
Es on economic and security cooperation, including regional currencies such as the euro and franc zone and alliances such as NATO. This has led him to study regional institutions all over the world, including Western and Eastern Europe, Cen
Notable: “STATE-CENTRIC BALANCE-OF-THREAT THEORY:” (2003) · 43 citations
- Ryan Davis, Associate Professor h-index 6
Justice; rights; democratic ethics; Kantian ethics
Notable: “Gaslighting Citizens” (2021) · 31 citations
- Darin Self, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Focus on democracy and authoritarianism with a specific interest in how political parties and militaries affect the development of these regimes. Current Dr. Self is teaching the core course on Comparative Politics and a course on Democracy
Notable: “The V-Dem Party Institutionalization Index: A New Global Indicator )” (2017) · 79 citations
- David Romney, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Anti-Americanism and Anti-Interventionism in Arabic Twitter Discourses” (2015) · 68 citations
- Douglas Atkinson, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Propofol Compared with Isoflurane Inhibits Mitochondrial Metabolism in Immature Swine Cerebral Cortex” (2014) · 46 citations
- Ralph Hancock, Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics.” (1990) · 97 citations
- Celeste Beesley, Associate Professor h-index 4
International Political Economy, Globalization and Public Opinion Publications Beesley, C. (2016). "Euromaidan and the Role of Protest in Democracy.". PS: Political Science and Politics , 49 (2), 244-249. Beesley, C. (2015). Globalization a
Notable: “Corruption, institutional trust and political engagement in Peru” (2021) · 66 citations
- Chad Nelson, Associate Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Revolution and War: Saddam's Decision to Invade Iran” (2018) · 20 citations
- Quin Monson, Professor h-index 2
Notable: “The Origins and Impact of Votes for Third-Party Candidates: A Case Study of the 1998 Minnesota Gubernatorial Election” (2002) · 19 citations
- Rebecca Dudley, Assistant Professor h-index 2
Es on conflict resolution and foreign policy, emphasizing the role that third parties play in the dynamics of conflict and conflict resolution. She was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow with the America in the World Consortium, a Graduate Fellow with t
Notable: “Crossing Borders: Preliminary Research on Human Trafficking in Northern Ireland” (2006) · 8 citations
- Chris Karpowitz, Professor
Political psychology, civic engagement and political participation, democratic and deliberative theory, political communication, experimental methods, public opinion, political behavior, the presidency, American political thought Awards Mar
- Daniel Milton, Visiting Professor
- Josh Gubler, Associate Professor
Intergroup Cooperation and ConflictPolitical PsychologyMiddle East
- Ken Stiles, Professor
- Reed Rasband, Visiting Professor
- Ricardo Vernet, Visiting Assistant Professor
Comparative politics, social movements, democratization, authoritarianism, Latin American politics
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.