47 faculty and 40 courses in Government at University of Notre Dame.
- Kenneth Scheve, Dean; Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Political Science h-index 54
Notable: “Theories of international regimes” (1987) · 776 citations
- David Campbell, Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy h-index 47
Notable: “Comparing bibliometric statistics obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus” (2009) · 793 citations
- Michael J. Coppedge, Alfred C. DeCrane Jr. Professor of International Studies h-index 39
Notable: “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach” (2011) · 944 citations
- Anibal Perez-Linan, Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs h-index 34
Notable: “Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America” (2007) · 419 citations
- Geoffrey C. Layman, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science h-index 25
Notable: “Party Polarization and "Conflict Extension" in the American Electorate” (2002) · 889 citations
- Daniel Philpott, Professor h-index 23
Notable: “Has the Study of Global Politics Found Religion?” (2009) · 262 citations
- Michael C. Desch, Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations h-index 21
Notable: “Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment” (2000) · 226 citations
- Dana Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Science h-index 20
Notable: “Postmodernism and the Public Sphere” (1992) · 208 citations
- Emilia Justyna Powell, Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Domestic Judicial Institutions and Human Rights Treaty Violation” (2009) · 384 citations
- Eugene Gholz, Associate Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation” (1997) · 238 citations
- Christina Wolbrecht, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “See Jane Run: Women Politicians as Role Models for Adolescents” (2006) · 631 citations
- Saad Gulzar, Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs h-index 17
Notable: “Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Development: Evidence from India” (2016) · 202 citations
- Joseph M. Parent, Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great Power Retrenchment” (2011) · 133 citations
- Debra Javeline, Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges” (2012) · 301 citations
- Matthew E.K. Hall, David A. Potenziani Memorial College Professor of Constitutional Studies h-index 15
Notable: “The Semiconstrained Court: Public Opinion, the Separation of Powers, and the U.S. Supreme Court's Fear of Nonimplementation” (2013) · 148 citations
- Sebastian Rosato, Professor h-index 13
Notable: “A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800–2007” (2012) · 1,090 citations
- Guillermo Trejo, Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence” (2017) · 205 citations
- Dianne Pinderhughes, Rev. Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science h-index 13
Notable: “The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America” (1988) · 453 citations
- Angela McCarthy, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 12
Notable: “The complexity of trauma exposure and response: Profiling PTSD and CPTSD among a refugee sample.” (2018) · 63 citations
- Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History” (2007) · 138 citations
- Susan D. Collins, Associate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics” (2005) · 122 citations
- James M. Curry, Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Effect of dropped plies on the strength of graphite-epoxy laminates” (1992) · 86 citations
- Eileen M. Hunt, Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Wollstonecraft in Europe, 1792–1904: A Revisionist Reception History” (2012) · 74 citations
- Mary M. Keys, Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Service Users’ Experiences of Involuntary Hospital Admission Under the Mental Health Act 2001 in the Republic of Ireland” (2017) · 48 citations
- Karrie J. Koesel, Associate Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Diffusion-Proofing: Russian and Chinese Responses to Waves of Popular Mobilizations against Authoritarian Rulers” (2013) · 233 citations
- Andrew C. Gould, Associate Professor h-index 10
Notable: “DEMOCRACY ANDTAXATION” (2002) · 90 citations
- Susanne Wengle, Associate Professor h-index 10
Notable: “The monetisation ofl'goty: Changing patterns of welfare politics and provision in Russia” (2008) · 65 citations
- Vincent Phillip Munoz, Tocqueville Professor of Political Science h-index 8
Notable: “Church and State in the Founding-Era State Constitutions” (2015) · 14 citations
- Ricardo Ramirez, Associate Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Citizens by Choice, Voters by Necessity: Patterns in Political Mobilization by Naturalized Latinos” (2001) · 407 citations
- Patrick J. Deneen, Professor h-index 7
Notable: “The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism” (2007) · 59 citations
- Steven T. Landis, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Applications of Automated Document Classification Using Support Vector Machines” (2014) · 63 citations
- Luis Schiumerini, Associate Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Why Do People Join Backlash Protests? Lessons from Turkey” (2017) · 125 citations
- Michael Hoffman, Associate Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Religion in the Arab Spring: Between Two Competing Narratives” (2014) · 131 citations
- Dan Lindley, Associate Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Historical, Tactical, and Strategic Lessons from the Partition of Cyprus” (2007) · 34 citations
- Erin Rossiter, Nancy Reeves Dreux Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Measuring Agenda Setting in Interactive Political Communication” (2021) · 22 citations
- David Cortez, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Notable: “En busca del sumak Kawsay. Presentación del Dossier” (2014) · 55 citations
- Rachel Porter, Notre Dame du Lac Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 4
Notable: “Evaluating (in)experience in congressional elections” (2024) · 22 citations
- Jazmin Sierra, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Transnational Activist Networks and Rising Powers: Transparency and Environmental Concerns in the Brazilian National Development Bank” (2017) · 24 citations
- Christina Bambrick, Filip Family Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 2
Notable: ““Neither Precisely National nor Precisely Federal”: Governmental and Administrative Authority in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America” (2018) · 23 citations
- Richard Clark, Associate Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Replication Data for: Breadwinner Backlash: The Gendered Effects of Industrial Decline” (2025)
- Darren W. Davis, Snyder Family Mission Professor
- Jeff Harden, Andrew J. McKenna Family College Professor
Notable: “Elected officials' online anti-vaccination statements respond to online engagement” (2026)
- Ken Kollman, Dr. William M. Scholl Professor of Politics
- Rev. Robert A. Dowd C.S.C., President of The University of Notre Dame
- Scott Mainwaring, Eugene and Helen Conley Professor
- Susan Pratt Rosato, Teaching Professor
- Thomas Kellenberg, Teaching Professor
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.