Gideon Rahat

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Gideon Rahat is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Gideon Rahat has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Gideon Rahat's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (26 papers), Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (17 papers) and Political Conflict and Governance (12 papers). Gideon Rahat is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (26 papers), Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (17 papers) and Political Conflict and Governance (12 papers). Gideon Rahat collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Russia and United States. Gideon Rahat's co-authors include Reuven Y. Hazan, Tamir Sheafer, Ofer Kenig, Shaul R. Shenhav, Meital Balmas, Richard S. Katz, Helene Helboe Pedersen, William Cross, Scott Pruysers and Mario Sznajder and has published in prestigious journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics and Political Communication.

In The Last Decade

Gideon Rahat

48 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Democracy within Parties 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Democracy within Parties
    2010 385 citations Reuven Y. Hazan, Gideon Rahat Oxford University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gideon Rahat Israel 23 2.0k 727 708 543 524 51 2.4k
Reuven Y. Hazan Israel 20 1.7k 0.9× 632 0.9× 604 0.9× 520 1.0× 237 0.5× 60 2.0k
Kim Fridkin Kahn United States 19 1.3k 0.6× 856 1.2× 1.3k 1.8× 287 0.5× 920 1.8× 28 2.3k
Erica Edwards United States 8 1.8k 0.9× 538 0.7× 232 0.3× 556 1.0× 309 0.6× 11 2.1k
Seth Jolly United States 16 1.8k 0.9× 667 0.9× 200 0.3× 388 0.7× 286 0.5× 25 2.1k
Ryan Bakker United States 9 1.7k 0.9× 549 0.8× 213 0.3× 474 0.9× 285 0.5× 13 2.0k
Walter J. Stone United States 25 1.6k 0.8× 545 0.7× 697 1.0× 442 0.8× 309 0.6× 56 1.9k
Philip Cowley United Kingdom 19 1.1k 0.6× 385 0.5× 478 0.7× 164 0.3× 177 0.3× 69 1.3k
Tim Bale United Kingdom 24 2.0k 1.0× 928 1.3× 157 0.2× 252 0.5× 264 0.5× 125 2.3k
Thomas M. Meyer Austria 20 1.0k 0.5× 385 0.5× 120 0.2× 376 0.7× 400 0.8× 56 1.3k
David Denver United Kingdom 23 1.3k 0.7× 596 0.8× 296 0.4× 174 0.3× 380 0.7× 118 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gideon Rahat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gideon Rahat

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All Works

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Rahat, Gideon. (2025). What constitutes a new party? The lack of a standard operationalization and the way forward. Frontiers in Political Science. 7. 1 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon, et al.. (2024). Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy. 1 indexed citations
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Kenig, Ofer & Gideon Rahat. (2023). The personalization of the Likud in the era of Netanyahu. Social Science Quarterly. 105(3). 444–460. 1 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon & Ofer Kenig. (2018). From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?. Oxford University Press eBooks. 132 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon & Ofer Kenig. (2018). Party Change and Political Personalization. Oxford University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon & Ofer Kenig. (2018). Party Change and Political Personalization. Oxford University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Shamir, Michal & Gideon Rahat. (2017). Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Israeli Politics: at a Crossroads. 123–146. 2 indexed citations
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Cross, William, Ofer Kenig, Scott Pruysers, & Gideon Rahat. (2016). Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections. McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks. 45 indexed citations
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Kenig, Ofer, William Cross, Scott Pruysers, & Gideon Rahat. (2015). PARTY PRIMARIES: TOWARDS A DEFINITION AND TYPOLOGY. Representation. 51(2). 147–160. 26 indexed citations
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Kenig, Ofer, et al.. (2013). Party Membership in Israel: An Overview. Israeli Studies Review. 28(1). 6 indexed citations
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Balmas, Meital, Gideon Rahat, Tamir Sheafer, & Shaul R. Shenhav. (2012). Two routes to personalized politics. Party Politics. 20(1). 37–51. 155 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon. (2009). Which Candidate Selection Method is the Most Democratic?. Government and Opposition. 44(1). 68–90. 40 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon. (2008). Which Candidate Selection Method Is More Democratic. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon. (2008). Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies, The: Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective. State University of New York Press eBooks. 22 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon. (2007). Determinants of Party Cohesion: Evidence from the Case of the Israeli Parliament. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon & Tamir Sheafer. (2007). The Personalization(s) of Politics: Israel, 1949–2003. Political Communication. 24(1). 65–80. 293 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon. (2007). Determinants of Party Cohesion: Evidence from the Case of the Israeli Parliament1. Parliamentary Affairs. 60(2). 279–296. 32 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon & Reuven Y. Hazan. (2005). ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY WITHIN PARTIES AND DEMOCRACY WITHIN STATES: THE UNEASY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARTICIPATION, COMPETITION AND REPRESENTATION. 1 indexed citations
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Rahat, Gideon & Mario Sznajder. (1998). Electoral engineering in Chile: the electoral system and limited democracy. Electoral Studies. 17(4). 429–442. 30 indexed citations

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