41 faculty and 9 courses in Government at Yale University.
- Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor h-index 69
Notable: “What Are the Origins of Political Trust?” (2001) · 1,370 citations
- Steven Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor h-index 59
Notable: “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method” (1971) · 3,076 citations
- Alan Gerber, Sterling Professor h-index 55
Es on the political economy of evidence production and use in public policy and organizations. He has published extensively on the application of experimental methods to the study of campaign communications, and he has designed and performe
Notable: “The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment” (2000) · 1,384 citations
- Gregory Huber, Forst Family Professor h-index 46
In American Politics and Political Economy, including work on political institution and behavior. For a complete listing of ongoing research as well as current and former graduate students and postdocs, see
Notable: “Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk” (2012) · 4,082 citations
- Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Professor h-index 46
American Constitutionalism Comparative Constitutionalism Theories of Justice C.V. Published Books We the People, Volume 2: Transformations We the People, Vol. 1 Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance The Stakeholder Societ
Notable: “Social Justice in the Liberal State” (1982) · 737 citations
- Nicholas Sambanis, Kalsi Family Professor h-index 39
Notable: “Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy” (2003) · 2,436 citations
- Hélène Landemore, Damon Wells '58 Professor h-index 35
Notable: “Democratic reason: politics, collective intelligence, and the rule of the many” (2013) · 648 citations
- Jacob Hacker, Stanley B. Resor Professor h-index 34
American Politics Public Policy Inequality Published Books Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health S
Notable: “Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States” (2004) · 1,521 citations
- Elisabeth Wood, Crosby Professor h-index 29
Notable: “The Social Processes of Civil War: The Wartime Transformation of Social Networks” (2008) · 657 citations
- Adam Meirowitz, Damon Wells Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Spatial Models of Delegation” (2004) · 301 citations
- Isabela Mares, Arnold Wolfers Professor h-index 26
Notable: “The politics of social risk: business and welfare state development” (2004) · 368 citations
- Joshua Kalla, Associate Professor h-index 25
S American Politics Quantitative Methods
Notable: “Durably reducing transphobia: A field experiment on door-to-door canvassing” (2016) · 782 citations
- Milan Svolik, Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor h-index 23
Notable: “The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government: Institutions, Commitment, and Power-Sharing in Dictatorships” (2013) · 967 citations
- Steven Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Measuring the Effect of “Ethnicity”” (2008) · 255 citations
- Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah Perit Professor h-index 21
Notable: “Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics” (1984) · 1,215 citations
- Kevin DeLuca, Assistant Professor h-index 18
Political institutions and the political economy of media, with a focus on election laws and the role of local newspapers in politics.
Notable: “From public sphere to public screen: democracy, activism, and the "violence" of Seattle” (2002) · 412 citations
- Jennifer Gandhi, Howard Wang '95 Professor h-index 17
In comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on authoritarian regimes and transitions to and from democracy. Professor Gandhi’s work includes an award-winning Cambridge University book, Political Institutions under Dictat
Notable: “Democracy and dictatorship revisited” (2009) · 2,501 citations
- Soyoung Lee, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Comparative Politics International Relations Fields of Interest: International Relations Yale Accessibility at Yale · Privacy policy Copyright © 2026 Yale University · All rights reserved
Notable: “Roles of gender, race, and SES in the college choice process among first-generation and nonfirst-generation students.” (2008) · 98 citations
- Daniel Mattingly, Associate Professor h-index 13
Comparative Politics International Relations Articles - “China’s Soft Sell of Autocracy Is Working” , Foreign Affairs - ” Chinese State Media Persuades a Global Audience that the ‘China Model’ is Superior: Evidence Fro
Notable: “Racing to the Bottom or to the Top? Decentralization, Revenue Pressures, and Governance Reform in China” (2017) · 176 citations
- Ian Turner, Assistant Professor h-index 13
Es primarily on political institutions and democratic accountability and representation. His current projects use applied formal modeling to study various topics in bureaucratic politics and special interest politics. Some of this research
Notable: “An Independent System for the Evaluation of Contract Tenders” (1988) · 80 citations
- Adam Auerbach, Associate Professor h-index 12
Notable: “How Clients Select Brokers: Competition and Choice in India's Slums” (2018) · 258 citations
- Bryan Garsten, Professor h-index 12
Notable: “The Rhetoric Revival in Political Theory” (2011) · 137 citations
- Shiro Kuriwaki, Assistant Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Unrepresentative big surveys significantly overestimated US vaccine uptake” (2021) · 251 citations
- Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Labor scarcity, land tenure, and historical legacy: Evidence from Mexico” (2018) · 54 citations
- Didac Queralt, Associate Professor h-index 8
Comparative Politics International Relations Political Economy
Notable: “The Non-Democratic Origins of Income Taxation” (2015) · 134 citations
- Lucia Rubinelli, Assistant Professor h-index 8
The history of nineteenth and twentieth century European political thought, democratic theory, and constitutional theory. Her first book Constituent power. A History (CUP, Ideas in Context, 2020) explores the variety of ways in whic
Notable: “How to think beyond sovereignty: On Sieyes and constituent power” (2016) · 74 citations
- Allison Harris, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Bias and Judging” (2019) · 141 citations
- Charles McClean, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “No causal effect of school closures in Japan on the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020” (2021) · 86 citations
- Egor Lazarev, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Es on law and state-building in the former Soviet Union. His first book State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. The book explores the use of state and
Notable: “Trial by Fire: A Natural Disaster's Impact on Support for the Authorities in Rural Russia” (2014) · 106 citations
- Christina Kinane, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments” (2021) · 51 citations
- Nazmul Sultan, Assistant Professor h-index 3
The history of political thought, empire and anticolonial thought, democratic theory, and ideas of the global. His first book, Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap
Notable: “Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India” (2019) · 25 citations
- Mellissa Meisels, Assistant Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Giving to the Extreme? Experimental Evidence on Donor Response to Candidate and District Characteristics” (2024) · 12 citations
- Noam Reich, Assistant Professor h-index 1
Es on diplomacy, violence, war and international environmental cooperation. For details and ongoing research, see his website:
Notable: “Signaling Strength with Handicaps” (2022) · 8 citations
- Alex Debs, Professor
Es on the causes of war, nuclear proliferation, and democratization. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in top political science and international relations journals, such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal
- Ana De La O Torres, Associate Professor
- Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Assistant Professor
Es on autocratic and contentious politics, with a focus on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. She is currently writing a book about the activism and organizations of state workers in the region.
- Gerard Padro, Professor and Chair
- Giulia Oskian, Assistant Professor
Early modern and modern political thought, constitutionalism, democratic theory, the history of ideologies, and political psychology. Her book Tocqueville and the Legal Basis of Democracy was published in Italian and is now being tr
- Kate Baldwin, Associate Professor
- Melody Huang, Assistant Professor
- Peter Aronow, Professor
Notable: “Ideologically Extreme Candidates in U.S. Presidential Elections” (2017)
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.