37 faculty and 40 courses in Government at University of California, San Diego.
- James H. Fowler, Professor h-index 82
Notable: “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years” (2007) · 5,064 citations
- J. Lawrence Broz, Professor h-index 68
Notable: “The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981–2002” (2007) · 1,247 citations
- Kaare Strom, Distinguished Professor h-index 40
Notable: “A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties” (1990) · 1,686 citations
- Erik A. Gartzke, Professor h-index 40
Notable: “The Capitalist Peace” (2007) · 743 citations
- Margaret E. Roberts, Professor h-index 38
Notable: “Structural Topic Models for Open‐Ended Survey Responses” (2014) · 1,936 citations
- Emilie Hafner-Burton, MacArthur Professor h-index 38
Notable: “Labor Market Competition and Individual Preferences Over Immigration Policy” (2001) · 1,354 citations
- Clark C. Gibson, Professor h-index 28
Es on Africa, he has also explored these topics in Central and South America, Asia, and the United States. Professor Gibson has written or edited six books and written dozens of articles and chapters. Education & CV Ph.D. Duke Universit
Notable: “Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation” (1999) · 2,872 citations
- Thad Kousser, Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics” (2023) · 168 citations
- Sebastian M. Saiegh, Professor h-index 26
Cut across the fields of comparative politics, positive political theory and political economy. They include the study of institutional design/change and of the effects of political institutions on policy outcomes. His primary focus is
Notable: “Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Presidentialism and Parliamentarism” (2004) · 459 citations
- Christina J. Schneider, Professor h-index 26
Es on how international cooperation and bargaining interact with democratic politics at the national level—particularly in the context of European Union governance, regional organizations, and international development. She is the aut
Notable: “Foreign Aid and Undeserved Credit Claiming” (2016) · 141 citations
- Seth J. Hill, Professor h-index 23
Notable: “Legislative Malfeasance and Political Accountability” (2010) · 310 citations
- Scott W. Desposato, Professor h-index 23
Notable: “Parties for Rent? Ambition, Ideology, and Party Switching in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies” (2005) · 425 citations
- Michael Joseph, Assistant Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Test-Retest Reliability and Minimal Detectable Change for the 10-Meter Walk Test in Older Adults With Parkinson's disease” (2015) · 139 citations
- Branislav L. Slantchev, Professor h-index 21
Notable: “The Principle of Convergence in Wartime Negotiations” (2003) · 368 citations
- Marisa A. Abrajano, Professor h-index 20
In American politics, particularly racial and ethnic politics, political participation, voting and campaigns, and the mass media. She is the author of several books, the most recent one entitled White Backlash: Immigration, Race a
Notable: “Agenda Setting, Public Opinion, and the Issue of Immigration Reform” (2010) · 245 citations
- Philip G. Roeder, Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Soviet Federalism and Ethnic Mobilization” (1991) · 488 citations
- Simeon Nichter, Associate Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Vote Buying or Turnout Buying? Machine Politics and the Secret Ballot” (2008) · 992 citations
- Karen E. Ferree, Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Fiscal Policy Outcomes and Electoral Accountability in American States” (1998) · 307 citations
- David Wiens, Associate Professor h-index 14
Notable: “Prescribing Institutions Without Ideal Theory*” (2011) · 151 citations
- Sean Ingham, Associate Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Demographic Objections to Epistocracy: A Generalization” (2021) · 58 citations
- Christopher Stout, Professor h-index 12
Es on the politics of underrepresented groups in the United States. Much of this research seeks to explore how political elites of color use messaging strategies to boost electoral support and investigates how political and social factors s
Notable: “Gender Linked Fate, Race/Ethnicity, and the Marriage Gap in American Politics” (2017) · 115 citations
- Megumi Naoi, Associate Professor h-index 11
Es on the politics of trade, redistribution, and inequality in East Asia. Education & CV Ph.D. Columbia University, 2006 International & Comparative political economy, East Asia
Notable: “Explaining Mass Support for Agricultural Protectionism: Evidence from a Survey Experiment During the Global Recession” (2011) · 120 citations
- Tom K. Wong, Associate Professor h-index 11
Es on the politics of immigration, citizenship, and migrant "illegality." As these issues have far-reaching implications, his work also explores the links between immigration, race and ethnicity, and the politics of identity. His first
Notable: “287(g) and the Politics of Interior Immigration Control in the United States: Explaining Local Cooperation with Federal Immigration Authorities” (2012) · 125 citations
- Germaine A. Hoston, Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan.” (1987) · 102 citations
- Jakana Thomas, Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Rewarding Bad Behavior: How Governments Respond to Terrorism in Civil War” (2014) · 210 citations
- Fonna Forman, Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Unearthing grounded normative theory: practices and commitments of empirical research in political theory” (2021) · 178 citations
- Pamela Ban, Associate Professor h-index 7
In American politics and political economy. She focuses on electoral politics, legislatures, political parties, and how these institutions influence the behavior of political actors. Currently, she is working on various proj
Notable: “Presence and influence in lobbying: Evidence from Dodd-Frank” (2019) · 54 citations
- Agustina Paglayan, Associate Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building” (2022) · 117 citations
- Umberto Mignozzetti, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Of Nickell Bias and its Cures: Comment on Gaibulloev, Sandler, and Sul” (2014) · 37 citations
- LaGina Gause, Associate Professor h-index 5
In American politics with a focus on the participation and representation of low income and racial and ethnic minority communities. She is the author of The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marg
Notable: “Revealing Issue Salience via Costly Protest: How Legislative Behavior Following Protest Advantages Low-Resource Groups” (2020) · 62 citations
- Valerie Soon, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Social structural explanation” (2021) · 37 citations
- Soichiro Yamauchi, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Using Multiple Pretreatment Periods to Improve Difference-in-Differences and Staggered Adoption Designs” (2022) · 26 citations
- Benjamin Noble, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Presidential Cues and the Nationalization of Congressional Rhetoric, 1973–2016” (2023) · 12 citations
- Guoer Liu, Assistant Professor h-index 2
Lie in Chinese political institutions and the politics of data. She focuses on bureaucracy, delegation strategies, and the political determinants of automated administrative data. One line of her work explores how political influences disto
Notable: “Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis” (2023) · 33 citations
- Amna Salam, Assistant Professor
- David A. Lake, Distinguished Professor
- Maysa Nichter, Assistant Teaching Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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.