James Dennison

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 953 citations indexed

About

James Dennison is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, James Dennison has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 953 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 25 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in James Dennison's work include Populism, Right-Wing Movements (16 papers), Migration, Refugees, and Integration (14 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (12 papers). James Dennison is often cited by papers focused on Populism, Right-Wing Movements (16 papers), Migration, Refugees, and Integration (14 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (12 papers). James Dennison collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. James Dennison's co-authors include Andrew Geddes, Matthew Goodwin, Hanspeter Kriesi, Noah Carl, Geoffrey Evans, Sarah Birch, Daniel Seddig, Eldad Davidov, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte and Lenka Dražanová and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Public Opinion Quarterly and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

In The Last Decade

James Dennison

45 papers receiving 908 citations

Hit Papers

A Rising Tide? The Salience of Immigration and the Rise o... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2023 50 100 150
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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.

  1. A Rising Tide? The Salience of Immigration and the Rise of Anti‐Immigration Political Parties in Western Europe
    2018 190 citations James Dennison, Andrew Geddes profile →
  2. European attitudes to refugees after the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    2023 45 citations James Dennison, Hanspeter Kriesi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Dennison Italy 15 602 557 145 64 49 48 953
Marisa Abrajano United States 17 590 1.0× 730 1.3× 272 1.9× 48 0.8× 177 3.6× 42 993
Terri E. Givens United States 12 509 0.8× 480 0.9× 134 0.9× 27 0.4× 97 2.0× 30 792
Guillem Rico Spain 16 729 1.2× 530 1.0× 206 1.4× 21 0.3× 70 1.4× 30 955
Daniel Stevens United Kingdom 16 366 0.6× 513 0.9× 203 1.4× 26 0.4× 124 2.5× 56 781
Ashley Jardina United States 13 590 1.0× 925 1.7× 177 1.2× 58 0.9× 168 3.4× 27 1.2k
David Denemark Australia 12 361 0.6× 306 0.5× 130 0.9× 21 0.3× 57 1.2× 44 601
Nazita Lajevardi United States 15 492 0.8× 657 1.2× 161 1.1× 50 0.8× 180 3.7× 46 885
Tereza Capelos United Kingdom 12 321 0.5× 547 1.0× 85 0.6× 42 0.7× 50 1.0× 39 793
Sofia Vasilopoulou United Kingdom 21 1.1k 1.8× 562 1.0× 114 0.8× 19 0.3× 44 0.9× 51 1.4k
Matthias Fatke Germany 12 331 0.5× 305 0.5× 101 0.7× 48 0.8× 21 0.4× 26 531

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dennison, James. (2025). The psychology of political attitudinal volatility. Political Psychology.
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Dennison, James & Alexander Kustov. (2025). Public Belief in the “Great Replacement Theory”. International Migration Review.
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Dennison, James & Hanspeter Kriesi. (2023). Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas. European Political Science Review. 15(4). 483–501. 14 indexed citations
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Seddig, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Basic Human Values and Preferences for an EU‐Wide Social Benefit Scheme. JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies. 62(2). 564–582. 4 indexed citations
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Dennison, James. (2023). Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication. Migration Studies. 12(1). 1–20. 12 indexed citations
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Dennison, James. (2023). The reliability of recall measurement in assessing migrant reintegration: Evidence from Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. International Migration. 61(6). 312–329. 1 indexed citations
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Dennison, James & Alexander Kustov. (2023). The Reverse Backlash: How the Success of Populist Radical Right Parties Relates to More Positive Immigration Attitudes. Public Opinion Quarterly. 87(4). 1013–1024. 3 indexed citations
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Dennison, James. (2022). A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration. Comparative Migration Studies. 10(1). 7 indexed citations
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Dennison, James. (2022). How Migrant Resource Centres affect migration decisions: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and Pakistan. International Migration. 61(4). 104–119. 5 indexed citations
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Dennison, James, Alexander Kustov, & Andrew Geddes. (2022). Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience. International Migration Review. 57(2). 557–577. 9 indexed citations
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Dennison, James & Andrew Geddes. (2021). The centre no longer holds: the Lega, Matteo Salvini and the remaking of Italian immigration politics. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 48(2). 441–460. 25 indexed citations
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Dennison, James, Alexander Kustov, & Andrew Geddes. (2021). Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Dennison, James. (2021). Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research. Comparative Migration Studies. 9(1). 34 indexed citations
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Dennison, James, Eldad Davidov, & Daniel Seddig. (2020). Explaining voting in the UK's 2016 EU referendum: Values, attitudes to immigration, European identity and political trust. Social Science Research. 92. 102476–102476. 21 indexed citations
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Dennison, James. (2019). A Review of Public Issue Salience: Concepts, Determinants and Effects on Voting. Political Studies Review. 17(4). 436–446. 81 indexed citations
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Evans, Geoffrey, Noah Carl, & James Dennison. (2017). Brexit : the causes and consequences of the UK's decision to leave the EU. Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute). 2 indexed citations
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Dennison, James, et al.. (2017). Making sense of Italy’s constitutional referendum. Mediterranean Politics. 23(3). 403–409. 5 indexed citations
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Dennison, James. (2015). The Other Insurgency? The Greens and the Election. Parliamentary Affairs. 68(suppl 1). 188–205. 5 indexed citations
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Dennison, James & Matthew Goodwin. (2015). Immigration, Issue Ownership and the Rise of UKIP. Parliamentary Affairs. 68(suppl 1). 168–187. 50 indexed citations
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Dennison, James. (1955). Henry S. Dennison (1877-1952) : New England industrialist who served America!. 1 indexed citations

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