James Dawson

676 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 298 citations indexed

About

James Dawson is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, James Dawson has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 298 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in James Dawson's work include European Union Policy and Governance (6 papers), Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 papers). James Dawson is often cited by papers focused on European Union Policy and Governance (6 papers), Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 papers). James Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. James Dawson's co-authors include Seán Hanley, Licia Cianetti, Karim Dabbagh, Robin J. McAnulty, Geoffrey J. Laurent, Stephan Sanders, Robina K Coker, Christopher Walker, Ian Heywood and Jonathan S. Kenyon and has published in prestigious journals such as Biochemical Journal, Journal of European Public Policy and Journal of democracy.

In The Last Decade

James Dawson

17 papers receiving 261 citations

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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.

Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland

2018 127 citations Licia Cianetti, James Dawson et al. East European Politics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Dawson United Kingdom	6	239	135	15	14	14	20	298
Marek Rybář Slovakia	9	165 0.7×	75 0.6×	6 0.4×	9 0.6×	8 0.6×	34	234
Julio C. Teehankee Philippines	9	162 0.7×	178 1.3×	12 0.8×	34 2.4×	10 0.7×	29	261
Bálint Magyar Hungary	5	152 0.6×	105 0.8×	6 0.4×	6 0.4×	4 0.3×	11	218
Dirk Jörke Germany	9	99 0.4×	88 0.7×	4 0.3×	20 1.4×	5 0.4×	47	211
Paige Johnson Tan United States	7	186 0.8×	177 1.3×	3 0.2×	12 0.9×	12 0.9×	11	231
James Ockey New Zealand	12	268 1.1×	223 1.7×	4 0.3×	4 0.3×	15 1.1×	28	311
Bilge Yabancı Italy	9	226 0.9×	189 1.4×	9 0.6×	14 1.0×	29 2.1×	18	288
Enrique A. Baloyra United States	8	185 0.8×	194 1.4×	7 0.5×	15 1.1×	12 0.9×	28	292
Dániel Hegedüs	3	155 0.6×	89 0.7×	3 0.2×	16 1.1×	6 0.4×	5	206
Laura Gamboa United States	8	150 0.6×	151 1.1×	4 0.3×	16 1.1×	7 0.5×	20	215

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Dawson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Smirnov, O., Aaron Golden, B. Ngcebetsha, et al.. (2025). Mining the time axis with TRON – II. MeerKAT detects a stellar radio flare from a distant RS CVn candidate. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 538(1). L89–L93. 3 indexed citations

Smirnov, O., Ian Heywood, M. Geyer, et al.. (2025). Mining the time axis with TRON – I. Millisecond pulsars in Omega Centauri, Terzan 5, and 47 Tucanae detected through MeerKAT interferometric imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 538(1). L62–L68. 2 indexed citations

Dawson, James, et al.. (2025). Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies. Problems of Post-Communism. 72(5). 476–490.

Dawson, James, et al.. (2023). A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015). Comparative European Politics. 22(3). 329–351. 1 indexed citations

Dawson, James, et al.. (2023). Cultural liberalism in Eastern and Western Europe: a societal antidote to democratic backsliding?. Journal of European Public Policy. 31(3). 801–824. 5 indexed citations

Dawson, James. (2019). A review of chromatography methods for the large scale downstream protein purification of monoclonal antibodies. Research@THEA. 1 indexed citations

Dawson, James & Seán Hanley. (2019). Foreground Liberalism, Background Nationalism: A Discursive‐institutionalist Account of EU Leverage and ‘Democratic Backsliding’ in East Central Europe. JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies. 57(4). 710–728. 27 indexed citations

Dawson, James. (2018). “Everyday Democracy”: an ethnographic methodology for the evaluation of (de-) democratisation. East European Politics. 34(3). 297–316. 9 indexed citations

Cianetti, Licia, James Dawson, & Seán Hanley. (2018). Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland. East European Politics. 34(3). 243–256. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dawson, James & Seán Hanley. (2016). What’s Wrong with East-Central Europe?: The Fading Mirage of the “Liberal Consensus”. Journal of democracy. 27(1). 20–34. 88 indexed citations

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Walker, Christopher, Lucan A. Way, James Dawson, et al.. (2016). The Authoritarian Threat. 1 indexed citations

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Dawson, James, et al.. (2016). East Central Europe: The Fading Mirage of the ‘Liberal Consensus’. UCL Discovery (University College London). 4 indexed citations

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Dawson, James. (2016). Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria. 7 indexed citations

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Dawson, James. (2014). Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria: How Ideas Shape Publics. Pure (Coventry University). 9 indexed citations

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Dawson, James. (2012). The ethnic and non-ethnic politics of everyday life in Bulgaria's southern borderland. Nationalities Papers. 40(3). 473–489. 2 indexed citations

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Dawson, James, et al.. (2011). Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme. Oxford University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Dawson, James, et al.. (2008). Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Coker, Robina K, Geoffrey J. Laurent, Karim Dabbagh, James Dawson, & Robin J. McAnulty. (1998). A novel transforming growth factor β2 antisense transcript in mammalian lung. Biochemical Journal. 332(2). 297–301. 5 indexed citations

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Dawson, James. (1985). The Religion of Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century America. Journal of Church and State. 27(1). 47–63. 1 indexed citations

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Vogel, Julia, et al.. (1980). A System for Establishing Occupationally-Related Gender-Free Physical Fitness Standards. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations

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