Rachel Sigman

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 426 citations indexed

About

Rachel Sigman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel Sigman has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 426 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Development. Recurrent topics in Rachel Sigman's work include Political Conflict and Governance (7 papers), International Development and Aid (4 papers) and Corruption and Economic Development (3 papers). Rachel Sigman is often cited by papers focused on Political Conflict and Governance (7 papers), International Development and Aid (4 papers) and Corruption and Economic Development (3 papers). Rachel Sigman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Rachel Sigman's co-authors include Jonathan K. Hanson, Staffan I. Lindberg, Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Adam S. Harris, Sirianne Dahlum, Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling and Brigitte Seim and has published in prestigious journals such as World Development, The Journal of Politics and Comparative Political Studies.

In The Last Decade

Rachel Sigman

19 papers receiving 400 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.

Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research

2021 147 citations Jonathan K. Hanson, Rachel Sigman The Journal of Politics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachel Sigman United States	10	220	194	89	70	36	21	426
Joshua Krusell Sweden	7	280 1.3×	228 1.2×	76 0.9×	52 0.7×	25 0.7×	11	481
Agnes Cornell Sweden	11	236 1.1×	197 1.0×	51 0.6×	72 1.0×	15 0.4×	19	413
Sirianne Dahlum Norway	12	233 1.1×	138 0.7×	69 0.8×	40 0.6×	23 0.6×	24	396
Catherine M. Conaghan Canada	13	242 1.1×	352 1.8×	53 0.6×	56 0.8×	39 1.1×	23	500
Moisés Arce United States	14	375 1.7×	371 1.9×	93 1.0×	91 1.3×	60 1.7×	45	671
Razvan Vlaicu United States	11	190 0.9×	344 1.8×	267 3.0×	43 0.6×	36 1.0×	33	569
Tore Wig Norway	14	482 2.2×	266 1.4×	74 0.8×	89 1.3×	60 1.7×	33	642
Monty G. Marshall United States	8	364 1.7×	213 1.1×	121 1.4×	137 2.0×	82 2.3×	13	580
Jason Sorens United States	13	236 1.1×	356 1.8×	187 2.1×	41 0.6×	56 1.6×	31	601
José Antonio Sanahuja Spain	11	161 0.7×	218 1.1×	41 0.5×	100 1.4×	32 0.9×	102	376

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Sigman, Rachel. (2023). Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Sigman, Rachel, Adam S. Harris, Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, & Christian Schuster. (2022). Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States. The Journal of Development Studies. 58(4). 639–655. 2 indexed citations

Harris, Adam S., Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, et al.. (2022). Varieties of connections, varieties of corruption: Evidence from bureaucrats in five countries. Governance. 36(3). 953–972. 8 indexed citations

Meyer‐Sahling, Jan‐Hinrik, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Christian Schuster, Brigitte Seim, & Rachel Sigman. (2021). The managerial determinants of honesty in public service: Behavioral evidence from 3,500 public servants in Asia and Africa. 1 indexed citations

Sigman, Rachel, et al.. (2021). Understanding the Mechanisms of International Influence in an Era of Great Power Competition. Journal of Global Security Studies. 6(4). 10 indexed citations

Sigman, Rachel. (2021). Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa. Comparative Political Studies. 55(3). 351–385. 11 indexed citations

Hanson, Jonathan K. & Rachel Sigman. (2021). Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research. The Journal of Politics. 83(4). 1495–1510. 147 indexed citations breakdown →

Harris, Adam S., Rachel Sigman, Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, & Christian Schuster. (2019). Oiling the bureaucracy? political spending, bureaucrats and the resource curse. World Development. 127. 104745–104745. 22 indexed citations

Leininger, Julia, Anna Lührmann, & Rachel Sigman. (2019). The relevance of social policies for democracy: preventing autocratisation through synergies between SDG 10 and SDG 16. Econstor (Econstor). 3 indexed citations

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Harris, Adam S., Brigitte Seim, & Rachel Sigman. (2019). Information, accountability and perceptions of public sector programme success: A conjoint experiment among bureaucrats in Africa. Development Policy Review. 38(5). 594–612. 5 indexed citations

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Sigman, Rachel. (2018). Will ‘Ghana First’ protests threaten a U.S military agreement?. Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School). 1 indexed citations

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Sigman, Rachel & Staffan I. Lindberg. (2018). Democracy for All: Conceptualizing and Measuring Egalitarian Democracy. Political Science Research and Methods. 7(3). 595–612. 37 indexed citations

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Lührmann, Anna, et al.. (2018). Democracy for All. 1 indexed citations

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Sigman, Rachel. (2018). States in the Developing World. Edited by Miguel A. Centeno, Atul Kohli, Deborah J. Yashar, and Dinsha Mistree. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 492p. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper.. Perspectives on Politics. 16(3). 866–868.

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Lührmann, Anna, et al.. (2018). V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2018. Democracy for All?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 19 indexed citations

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Sigman, Rachel, Valeriya Mechkova, Christian Schuster, Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling, & Kim Sass Mikkelsen. (2018). Civil service management practices for a more motivated, committed and ethical public service in Ghana. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Lührmann, Anna, Valeriya Mechkova, Sirianne Dahlum, et al.. (2018). State of the world 2017: autocratization and exclusion?. Democratization. 25(8). 1321–1340. 41 indexed citations

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Sigman, Rachel & Staffan I. Lindberg. (2017). Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa's Political Regimes. SSRN Electronic Journal. 24 indexed citations

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Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Staffan I. Lindberg, et al.. (2016). V-Dem Codebook V6. SSRN Electronic Journal. 64 indexed citations

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Sigman, Rachel. (2015). Which jobs for which boys? Party financing, patronage and state capacity in African democracies. 5 indexed citations

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