David Waldner

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 916 citations indexed

About

David Waldner is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Development and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, David Waldner has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 916 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in Development and 2 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Recurrent topics in David Waldner's work include Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research (3 papers), International Development and Aid (3 papers) and Political Conflict and Governance (2 papers). David Waldner is often cited by papers focused on Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research (3 papers), International Development and Aid (3 papers) and Political Conflict and Governance (2 papers). David Waldner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Kenya. David Waldner's co-authors include Ellen Lust, Benjamin Smith, Gary Goertz, Kendra Koivu and Jennifer Cyr and has published in prestigious journals such as Political Science Quarterly, Annual Review of Political Science and Perspectives on Politics.

In The Last Decade

David Waldner

13 papers receiving 795 citations

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Unwelcome Change: Coming to Terms with Democratic Backsliding

2018 400 citations David Waldner, Ellen Lust Annual Review of Political Science profile →

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13 of 13 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Rethinking the Resource Curse 2021 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Benjamin Smith, David Waldner	28
2	Survivorship Bias in Comparative Politics: Endogenous Sovereignty and the Resource Curse 2020 ·Perspectives on Politics ·David Waldner, Benjamin Smith	6
3	Review symposium: multimethod research, causal mechanisms, and case studies 2018 ·European Political Science ·David Waldner, Jennifer Cyr, Kendra Koivu, Gary Goertz	1
4	Unwelcome Change: Coming to Terms with Democratic Backsliding breakdown → 2018 ·Annual Review of Political Science ·David Waldner, Ellen Lust	400
5	Schrödinger’s Cat and the Dog That Didn’t Bark: Why Quantum Mechanics is (Probably) Irrelevant to the Social Sciences 2017 ·Critical Review ·David Waldner	9
6	Invariant Causal Mechanisms 2016 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·David Waldner	6
7	Against the Grain of Urban Bias: Elite Conflict and the Logic of Coalition Formation in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa 2016 ·Studies in Comparative International Development ·David Waldner, (unknown), (unknown)	6
8	Process Tracing and Qualitative Causal Inference 2015 ·Security Studies ·David Waldner	32
9	Process Tracing and Causal Mechanisms 2012 ·Oxford University Press eBooks ·David Waldner	50
10	It Ain'T Necessarily So-Or Is It? 2005 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·David Waldner	2
11	State Building and Late Development 1999 ·Cornell University Press eBooks ·David Waldner	176
12	Business and the State in Developing Countries 1998 ·Political Science Quarterly ·David Waldner	195
13	The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post-Soviet Era: Going West and Looking East? 1998 ·Political Science Quarterly ·David Waldner	5

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