Jonathan Polk

4.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
35 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Polk is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Polk has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 8 papers in Strategy and Management and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Polk's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (27 papers), Populism, Right-Wing Movements (15 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 papers). Jonathan Polk is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (27 papers), Populism, Right-Wing Movements (15 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 papers). Jonathan Polk collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and France. Jonathan Polk's co-authors include Seth Jolly, Jan Rovný, Ryan Bakker, Marco R. Steenbergen, Milada Anna Vachudová, Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Erica Edwards, Ryan Bakker and Catherine E. De Vries and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies and European Journal of Political Research.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Polk

33 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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, Erica Edwards 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 →
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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jonathan Polk	1.9k	681	431	349	239	35	2.2k
Ryan Bakker	1.7k 0.9×	549 0.8×	474 1.1×	285 0.8×	213 0.9×	13	2.0k
Seth Jolly	1.8k 0.9×	667 1.0×	388 0.9×	286 0.8×	200 0.8×	25	2.1k
Jan Rovný	2.5k 1.3×	867 1.3×	594 1.4×	378 1.1×	273 1.1×	36	2.9k
Erica Edwards	1.8k 1.0×	538 0.8×	556 1.3×	309 0.9×	232 1.0×	11	2.1k
Martin Dolezal	2.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	475 1.1×	511 1.5×	178 0.7×	37	3.3k
Milada Anna Vachudová	3.1k 1.6×	1.2k 1.8×	575 1.3×	331 0.9×	269 1.1×	41	3.6k
Romain Lachat	2.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.8×	424 1.0×	493 1.4×	199 0.8×	40	3.2k
Markus Wagner	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	456 1.1×	852 2.4×	384 1.6×	83	3.0k
Simón Bornschier	2.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.8×	335 0.8×	350 1.0×	156 0.7×	33	3.1k
Jeremy C. Pope	1.5k 0.8×	926 1.4×	392 0.9×	567 1.6×	370 1.5×	36	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Polk

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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.

Bakker, Ryan, et al.. (2025). A global scale of economic left-right party positions: cross-national and cross-expert perceptions of party placements. The Journal of Politics. 1 indexed citations

Ibenskas, Raimondas & Jonathan Polk. (2024). Party responsiveness to public opinion in a multi-dimensional policy space. Journal of European Public Policy. 33(3). 767–794. 1 indexed citations

Hooghe, Liesbet, Gary Marks, Ryan Bakker, et al.. (2024). The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine. European Union Politics. 25(3). 459–482. 35 indexed citations breakdown →

Polk, Jonathan & Guri Rosén. (2023). Trade and the transnational cleavage in European party politics. Journal of European Public Policy. 31(1). 104–130. 8 indexed citations

Boräng, Frida, Daniel Naurin, & Jonathan Polk. (2023). Making space: citizens, parties and interest groups in two ideological dimensions. Journal of European Public Policy. 31(7). 1799–1830. 9 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

Ibenskas, Raimondas & Jonathan Polk. (2021). Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion in Young Democracies. Political Studies. 70(4). 919–938. 9 indexed citations

Bakker, Ryan, Seth Jolly, & Jonathan Polk. (2020). Analyzing the cross-national comparability of party positions on the socio-cultural and EU dimensions in Europe. Political Science Research and Methods. 10(2). 408–418. 16 indexed citations

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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

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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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Bakker, Ryan, Seth Jolly, & Jonathan Polk. (2018). Multidimensional incongruence and vote switching in Europe. Public Choice. 176(1-2). 267–296. 22 indexed citations

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Polk, Jonathan & Ann‐Kristin Kölln. (2017). Electoral infidelity: Why party members cast defecting votes. European Journal of Political Research. 57(2). 539–560. 14 indexed citations

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Kölln, Ann‐Kristin & Jonathan Polk. (2017). Emancipated party members: Examining ideological incongruence within political parties. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 4 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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Polk, Jonathan. (2016). Multidimensional Congruence and European Parliament Electoral Performance. 1 indexed citations

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Crepaz, Markus M. L., et al.. (2016). What's Trust Got to Do With It? The Effects of In‐Group and Out‐Group Trust on Conventional and Unconventional Political Participation*. Social Science Quarterly. 98(1). 261–281. 32 indexed citations

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Polk, Jonathan, Johannes Karreth, & Christopher S. Allen. (2010). Catch-All or Catch and Release? The Electoral Consequences of Social Democratic Parties' March to the Middle in Western Europe. 13 indexed citations

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Horsfall, Sara, et al.. (2001). Views of euthanasia from an east Texas university. The Social Science Journal. 38(4). 617–627. 13 indexed citations

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