Jan Rovný

5.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
36 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Jan Rovný is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Rovný has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 6 papers in Strategy and Management and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jan Rovný's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (26 papers), Populism, Right-Wing Movements (18 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 papers). Jan Rovný is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (26 papers), Populism, Right-Wing Movements (18 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 papers). Jan Rovný collaborates with scholars based in France, Sweden and United States. Jan Rovný's co-authors include Jonathan Polk, Marco R. Steenbergen, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Milada Anna Vachudová, Ryan Bakker, Seth Jolly, Erica Edwards, Catherine E. De Vries and Filip Kostelka and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, World Politics and Comparative Political Studies.

In The Last Decade

Jan Rovný

32 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Measuring party positions in Europe

2012 598 citations Ryan Bakker, Catherine E. De Vries et al. Party Politics profile →
Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data

2017 469 citations Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovný et al. Research & Politics profile →
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019

2021 310 citations Seth Jolly, Ryan Bakker et al. Electoral Studies profile →
Where do radical right parties stand? Position blurring in multidimensional competition

2012 220 citations Jan Rovný profile →
The “losers of automation”: A reservoir of votes for the radical right?

2019 100 citations Nonna Mayer, Jan Rovný et al. Research & Politics profile →
The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine

2024 35 citations Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks et al. European Union Politics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Rovný France	20	2.5k	867	594	378	273	36	2.9k
Romain Lachat Switzerland	16	2.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	424 0.7×	493 1.3×	199 0.7×	40	3.2k
Martin Dolezal Austria	14	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	475 0.8×	511 1.4×	178 0.7×	37	3.3k
Milada Anna Vachudová United States	22	3.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	575 1.0×	331 0.9×	269 1.0×	41	3.6k
Markus Wagner Austria	31	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	456 0.8×	852 2.3×	384 1.4×	83	3.0k
Jonathan Polk Sweden	18	1.9k 0.8×	681 0.8×	431 0.7×	349 0.9×	239 0.9×	35	2.2k
Simón Bornschier Switzerland	15	2.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	335 0.6×	350 0.9×	156 0.6×	33	3.1k
Judith Bara United Kingdom	12	2.4k 1.0×	607 0.7×	838 1.4×	275 0.7×	251 0.9×	21	2.7k
Erica Edwards United States	8	1.8k 0.7×	538 0.6×	556 0.9×	309 0.8×	232 0.8×	11	2.1k
Cees van der Eijk Netherlands	23	3.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	611 1.0×	687 1.8×	290 1.1×	86	3.6k
Simon Hug Switzerland	29	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	585 1.0×	188 0.5×	197 0.7×	108	2.7k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rovný, Jan, Jonathan Polk, Ryan Bakker, et al.. (2025). The 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey on political party positioning in Europe: Twenty-five years of party positional data. Electoral Studies. 97. 102981–102981.

Kostelka, Filip, et al.. (2025). Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Political Science Research and Methods. 1–21. 1 indexed citations

Rovný, Jan. (2024). Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 3 indexed citations

Rovný, Jan. (2024). Comment populisme et euroscepticisme façonnent le rapport des partis politiques à l’Ukraine.

Rovný, Jan. (2023). Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience. American Political Science Review. 117(4). 1410–1428. 22 indexed citations

Rovný, Jan, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, et al.. (2022). Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic. European Journal of Political Research. 61(4). 1155–1164. 25 indexed citations

Marks, Gary, David Attewell, Liesbet Hooghe, Jan Rovný, & Marco R. Steenbergen. (2022). The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey. British Journal of Political Science. 53(1). 249–260. 28 indexed citations

Rovný, Jan & Jonathan Polk. (2019). Still blurry? Economic salience, position and voting for radical right parties in Western Europe. European Journal of Political Research. 59(2). 248–268. 79 indexed citations

Kostelka, Filip & Jan Rovný. (2019). It’s Not the Left: Ideology and Protest Participation in Old and New Democracies. Comparative Political Studies. 52(11). 1677–1712. 39 indexed citations

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Rovný, Jan. (2019). The content and nature of political competition in Europe: conceptualizing political space and axis of party competition. Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh). 66(17). 894–9.

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Rovný, Jan & Jonathan Polk. (2018). New wine in old bottles: Explaining the dimensional structure of European party systems. Party Politics. 25(1). 12–24. 54 indexed citations

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Polk, Jonathan, Jan Rovný, Ryan Bakker, et al.. (2017). Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data. Research & Politics. 4(1). 469 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rovný, Jan & Jonathan Polk. (2016). Stepping in the same river twice: Stability amidst change in Eastern European party competition. European Journal of Political Research. 56(1). 188–198. 19 indexed citations

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Rovný, Jan, et al.. (2016). Outsiders at the ballot box: operationalizations and political consequences of the insider–outsider dualism. Socio-Economic Review. mww039–mww039. 69 indexed citations

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Mayer, Nonna, et al.. (2015). Outsiderness, Social Class, and Votes in the 2014 European Elections. Revue européenne des sciences sociales. 53-1. 157–176. 6 indexed citations

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Rovný, Jan, et al.. (2015). Luck or luxury? Possible corruption in the car registration process in the Czech Republic. Journal of Public Policy. 36(4). 603–638. 2 indexed citations

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Rovný, Jan. (2013). Blurring the Issue: Competing Through Positional Ambiguity in Multiparty Democracies. 1 indexed citations

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Rovný, Jan. (2012). Who emphasizes and who blurs? Party strategies in multidimensional competition. European Union Politics. 13(2). 269–292. 181 indexed citations

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Hooghe, Liesbet, Ryan Bakker, Anna Brigevich, et al.. (2010). Reliability and validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys on party positioning. European Journal of Political Research. 49(5). 687–703. 288 indexed citations

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Rovný, Jan. (2004). Conceptualising party-based euroscepticism: magnitude and motivations. 1(29). 31–48. 15 indexed citations

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