Bernardo Zacka

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 631 citations indexed

About

Bernardo Zacka is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernardo Zacka has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 631 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 1 paper in Law. Recurrent topics in Bernardo Zacka's work include Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 papers), Torture, Ethics, and Law (2 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 papers). Bernardo Zacka is often cited by papers focused on Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 papers), Torture, Ethics, and Law (2 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 papers). Bernardo Zacka collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Bernardo Zacka's co-authors include Lisa Herzog, Steven C. Caton, Paul Sagar, Brooke A. Ackerly and Humeira Iqtidar and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science and British Journal of Political Science.

In The Last Decade

Bernardo Zacka

12 papers receiving 577 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

When the State Meets the Street

2017 378 citations Bernardo Zacka Harvard University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernardo Zacka United States	8	316	258	162	128	70	12	631
Sanford F. Schram United States	10	229 0.7×	172 0.7×	116 0.7×	185 1.4×	63 0.9×	22	570
Brandi Blessett United States	16	387 1.2×	139 0.5×	257 1.6×	90 0.7×	134 1.9×	30	739
Ian Hall Australia	18	435 1.4×	483 1.9×	186 1.1×	142 1.1×	110 1.6×	92	972
Clarissa Rile Hayward United States	14	383 1.2×	274 1.1×	41 0.3×	52 0.4×	63 0.9×	24	666
Ricardo Blaug United Kingdom	12	130 0.4×	103 0.4×	110 0.7×	73 0.6×	54 0.8×	26	413
H. Gibbs Knotts United States	11	278 0.9×	249 1.0×	46 0.3×	30 0.2×	64 0.9×	46	556
José Harris United Kingdom	15	276 0.9×	267 1.0×	178 1.1×	149 1.2×	131 1.9×	32	791
Staffan Kumlin Norway	16	625 2.0×	634 2.5×	92 0.6×	127 1.0×	41 0.6×	40	1.1k
Meryl Aldridge United Kingdom	14	222 0.7×	59 0.2×	87 0.5×	87 0.7×	58 0.8×	28	629
Peo Hansen Sweden	14	560 1.8×	407 1.6×	59 0.4×	117 0.9×	74 1.1×	42	865

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernardo Zacka

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Zacka, Bernardo, et al.. (2022). The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation. Contemporary Political Theory. 22(2). 266–283. 2 indexed citations

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Zacka, Bernardo. (2022). Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration. Annual Review of Political Science. 25(1). 21–42. 16 indexed citations

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Zacka, Bernardo, et al.. (2021). The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds. American Political Science Review. 116(3). 1025–1037. 4 indexed citations

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Zacka, Bernardo, et al.. (2020). Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility. Contemporary Political Theory. 20(2). 385–418. 13 indexed citations

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Zacka, Bernardo, et al.. (2019). Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key. American Political Science Review. 113(4). 1066–1070. 51 indexed citations

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Zacka, Bernardo. (2018). The policy state: An American predicament. Contemporary Political Theory. 18(S1). 28–31. 5 indexed citations

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Herzog, Lisa & Bernardo Zacka. (2017). Fieldwork in Political Theory: Five Arguments for an Ethnographic Sensibility. British Journal of Political Science. 49(2). 763–784. 67 indexed citations

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Zacka, Bernardo. (2017). When the State Meets the Street. Harvard University Press eBooks. 378 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zacka, Bernardo. (2017). When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency. 58 indexed citations

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Zacka, Bernardo. (2015). Adhocracy, security and responsibility: Revisiting Abu Ghraib a decade later. Contemporary Political Theory. 15(1). 38–57. 5 indexed citations

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Zacka, Bernardo. (2014). Every twelve seconds: Industrialized slaughter and the politics of sight. Contemporary Political Theory. 13(2). e1–e3. 22 indexed citations

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Caton, Steven C. & Bernardo Zacka. (2010). Abu Ghraib, the security apparatus, and the performativity of power. American Ethnologist. 37(2). 203–211. 10 indexed citations

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