49 faculty and 0 courses in Government at University of Michigan.
- James Morrow, A.F.K. Organski Professor of World Politics h-index 70
International Relations; Methodology
Notable: “Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics” (2004) · 5,069 citations
- Arthur Lupia, Vice President for Research; Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor h-index 46
American Politics; Comparative Politics; Methodology
Notable: “Redefine statistical significance” (2017) · 2,790 citations
- George Tsebelis, Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor, Political Science h-index 45
Notable: “Veto Players. How Political Institutions Work” (2003) · 3,408 citations
- Allen Hicken, Professor h-index 40
Notable: “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach” (2011) · 944 citations
- Nicholas A. Valentino, Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science; Research Professor, Center for Political Studies h-index 38
Notable: “What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat” (2008) · 1,308 citations
- Christian Davenport, The Charles Tilly Distinguished University Professor of Political Science h-index 35
Comparative Politics; International Relations; American Politics
Notable: “State Repression and Political Order” (2007) · 1,549 citations
- Dan Slater, James Orin Murfin Professor; Director, Center for Emerging Democracies h-index 34
Comparative Politics; International Relations; Methodology
Notable: “Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective” (2005) · 707 citations
- Robert Franzese, Professor; Associate Chair; Director of ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods h-index 31
Center on the comparative and international political economy (C&IPE) of developed democracies and related aspects of empirical methodology. In C&IPE, his work has focused on how political and economic (a) institutions (e.g., electo
Notable: “Mixed Signals: Central Bank Independence, Coordinated Wage Bargaining, and European Monetary Union” (1998) · 688 citations
- John Barry Ryan, Associate Professor — Political Science; Communication and Media h-index 29
American Politics
Notable: “Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America” (2020) · 454 citations
- Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor h-index 28
Comparative Politics; International Relations
Notable: “Islam and Democracy in the Middle East: The Impact of Religious Orientations on Attitudes toward Democracy in Four Arab Countries” (2002) · 317 citations
- Christopher Fariss, Professor h-index 27
International Relations; Methodology
Notable: “A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization” (2012) · 2,604 citations
- Mark Dincecco, Professor; Director of Graduate Studies h-index 23
Comparative Politics; International Relations
Notable: “State Capacity and Long‐Run Economic Performance” (2014) · 255 citations
- Vincent Hutchings, Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Hanes Walton, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science h-index 21
American Politics
Notable: “Perceptions of Racial Group Competition: Extending Blumer's Theory of Group Position to a Multiracial Social Context” (1996) · 1,563 citations
- Ted Brader, Professor h-index 21
American Politics; Comparative Politics
Notable: “What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat” (2008) · 1,308 citations
- Pauline Jones, Professor; Edie N Goldenberg Endowed Director for Michigan in Washington h-index 20
Comparative Politics; Methodology
Notable: “Reconceptualizing the State: Lessons from Post-Communism” (2002) · 255 citations
- Lisa Disch, Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Toward a Mobilization Conception of Democratic Representation” (2011) · 452 citations
- Barbara Koremenos, Professor h-index 19
International Relations; Law, Courts, and Politics
Notable: “The Rational Design of International Institutions” (2001) · 2,307 citations
- Jenna Bednar, Professor of Political Science; Research Professor, Center for Political Studies h-index 19
American Politics; Comparative Politics; Methodology; Law, Courts, and Politics
Notable: “Behavioral spillovers and cognitive load in multiple games: An experimental study” (2011) · 168 citations
- Brian Min, Associate Professor of Political Science; Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies h-index 18
Comparative Politics; Methodology
Notable: “Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis” (2009) · 1,346 citations
- Walter Mebane, Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Genetic Optimization Using Derivatives: ThergenoudPackage forR” (2011) · 647 citations
- Ragnhild Nordås, Associate Professor h-index 16
Comparative Politics; International Relations
Notable: “Climate change and conflict” (2007) · 313 citations
- Cesi Cruz, Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “The Database of Political Institutions 2017 (DPI2017)” (2018) · 245 citations
- Kenneth Lowande, Associate Professor of Political Science; Associate Professor of Public Policy (by Courtesy) h-index 14
American Politics
Notable: “Descriptive and Substantive Representation in Congress: Evidence from 80,000 Congressional Inquiries” (2019) · 248 citations
- Andrew Murphy, Professor; Department Chair h-index 14
Notable: “Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America” (2002) · 123 citations
- Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong, Associate Professor; Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies h-index 13
Notable: “Modeling, identification, and feedback control of noise in an acoustic duct” (1996) · 127 citations
- Nancy Burns, Warren E. Miller Collegiate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Standards for Qualitative Research” (1989) · 253 citations
- Jowei Chen, Associate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography and Electoral Bias in Legislatures” (2013) · 442 citations
- Yuki Shiraito, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Methodology; International Relations
Notable: “Central Bank Independence and Fiscal Policy: Can the Central Bank Restrain Deficit Spending?” (2015) · 96 citations
- Robert Mickey, Associate Professor h-index 9
Es on U.S. politics in comparative and historical perspective. He is interested in the country's belated (as well as incomplete) democratization by the 1970s, its current democratic backsliding, and the place of racial conflict in each. He
Notable: “The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications” (2021) · 109 citations
- Deborah Beim, Assistant Professor h-index 9
American Politics; Law, Courts, and Politics; Methodology
Notable: “Whistleblowing and Compliance in the Judicial Hierarchy” (2014) · 96 citations
- Anne Pitcher, Joel Samoff Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies h-index 8
Notable: “Rethinking Patrimonialism and Neopatrimonialism in Africa” (2009) · 410 citations
- Alexander Gazmararian, Faculty h-index 8
Notable: “Fossil fuel communities support climate policy coupled with just transition assistance” (2023) · 28 citations
- Tyler Simko, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Notable: “The use of differential privacy for census data and its impact on redistricting: The case of the 2020 U.S. Census” (2021) · 109 citations
- David Myer Temin, Associate Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Custer’s Sins: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Settler-Colonial Politics of Civic Inclusion” (2017) · 58 citations
- Mika LaVaque-Manty, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor h-index 7
In eighteenth-century continental liberals, especially Immanuel Kant. In contemporary political theory, he focuses on liberal and democratic theory. His current projects focus on autonomy and agency in educational institutions and pract
Notable: “Dueling for Equality” (2006) · 51 citations
- Murad Idris, Associate Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Cascaded internal multiple attenuation with inverse scattering series: Western Canada case study” (2014) · 15 citations
- Elizabeth Wingrove, Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Politics that matter: Thinking about power and justice with the new materialists” (2014) · 105 citations
- Justine M. Davis, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Electoral violence, civil society, and the challenges to democratization efforts in post-conflict settings and weakly institutionalized democracies. Her dissertation, “Wartime Experiences of Civic Leaders: Legacies of Civil War, Reb
Notable: “Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies” (2021) · 31 citations
- Roberto F. Carlos, Assistant Professor h-index 5
American Politics
Notable: “Late to the Party: On the Prolonged Partisan Socialization Process of Second-Generation Americans” (2018) · 63 citations
- Pamela Brandwein, Professor h-index 5
American Politics; Law, Courts, and Politics
Notable: “Law and American Political Development” (2011) · 12 citations
- Mariah Zeisberg, Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 4
Law, Courts, and Politics; Political Theory; American Politics
Notable: “Democratic Processualism” (2010) · 15 citations
- Shea Streeter, Assistant Professor h-index 3
American Politics; Comparative Politics
Notable: “Lethal Force in Black and White: Assessing Racial Disparities in the Circumstances of Police Killings” (2019) · 38 citations
- Edgar Franco-Vivanco, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Comparative Politics; Methodology; Law, Courts, and Politics
Notable: “Justice as Checks and Balances” (2021) · 13 citations
- Ann Heffernan, Assistant Professor h-index 2
Notable: “Disability in Political Science” (2024) · 7 citations
- Christian Fong, Assistant Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Atomic structure and self-consistent electronic structure of periodic models of amorphous hydrogenated silicon” (1981) · 1 citations
- Charles Shipan, J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor
American Politics; Law, Courts, and Politics
- Elena Barham, LSA Collegiate Fellow
- Iain Osgood, Associate Professor
International Relations
- Licheng Liu, Assistant Professor
Methodology; International Relations
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.