Robert Ford

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Robert Ford is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Ford has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Robert Ford's work include Migration, Refugees, and Integration (17 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (16 papers) and Populism, Right-Wing Movements (15 papers). Robert Ford is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Refugees, and Integration (17 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (16 papers) and Populism, Right-Wing Movements (15 papers). Robert Ford collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Robert Ford's co-authors include Matthew Goodwin, Will Jennings, Maria Sobolewska, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Scott Blinder, David Cutts, Frank McLaughlin, Ingrid Storm, Anthony Heath and Nic Cheeseman and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Journal, American Journal of Political Science and British Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Robert Ford

55 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.

The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe

2020 201 citations Robert Ford, Will Jennings profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Ford United Kingdom	21	1.4k	1.4k	197	162	145	60	2.3k
Matthew Goodwin United Kingdom	26	2.4k 1.7×	1.7k 1.2×	209 1.1×	220 1.4×	180 1.2×	75	3.3k
Benjamin J. Newman United States	21	825 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	157 0.8×	147 0.9×	106 0.7×	50	1.8k
Rogers M. Smith United States	25	1.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	170 0.9×	110 0.7×	82 0.6×	112	2.7k
Aina Gallego Spain	23	1.0k 0.7×	897 0.6×	246 1.2×	427 2.6×	122 0.8×	40	1.7k
Tom van der Meer Netherlands	29	1.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	138 0.7×	451 2.8×	202 1.4×	78	2.9k
Melissa Marschall United States	20	607 0.4×	846 0.6×	161 0.8×	132 0.8×	127 0.9×	37	1.7k
Elias Dinas United Kingdom	22	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	134 0.7×	275 1.7×	40 0.3×	70	1.9k
Rodney E. Hero United States	22	1.1k 0.8×	935 0.7×	403 2.0×	263 1.6×	118 0.8×	65	1.8k
Charles Kurzman United States	24	910 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	125 0.6×	108 0.7×	51 0.4×	67	2.2k
Lauren M. McLaren United Kingdom	19	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	79 0.4×	179 1.1×	73 0.5×	37	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Ford

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Ford

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Ford

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ford, Robert, et al.. (2025). What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?. West European Politics. 49(2). 321–349. 1 indexed citations

Ford, Robert. (2024). Changing Attitudes, Changing Coalitions: The Politics of Immigration Before and After Brexit. The Political Quarterly. 95(2). 224–233.

Martinović, Borja, et al.. (2023). “These benefits are ours because we were here first”: relating autochthony to welfare chauvinism and welfare ethnocentrism. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 46(15). 3199–3223. 4 indexed citations

Heath, Anthony, Eldad Davidov, Robert Ford, et al.. (2019). Contested terrain: explaining divergent patterns of public opinion towards immigration within Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 46(3). 475–488. 61 indexed citations

Sobolewska, Maria & Robert Ford. (2019). British Culture Wars? Brexit and the Future Politics of Immigration and Ethnic Diversity. The Political Quarterly. 90(S2). 142–154. 10 indexed citations

Ford, Robert & Jonathan Mellon. (2019). The skills premium and the ethnic premium: a cross-national experiment on European attitudes to immigrants. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 46(3). 512–532. 29 indexed citations

Storm, Ingrid, Maria Sobolewska, & Robert Ford. (2017). Is ethnic prejudice declining inBritain?Change in social distance attitudes among ethnic majority and minorityBritons. British Journal of Sociology. 68(3). 410–434. 55 indexed citations

Ford, Robert, et al.. (2016). Do white voters support welfare policies targeted at ethnic minorities? Experimental evidence from Britain. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 43(1). 80–101. 13 indexed citations

Heath, Anthony, Péter Schmidt, Eva G. T. Green, et al.. (2014). Attitudes towards immigration and their antecedents. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 11 indexed citations

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Blinder, Scott, Robert Ford, & Elisabeth Ivarsflaten. (2013). The Better Angels of Our Nature: How the Antiprejudice Norm Affects Policy and Party Preferences in Great Britain and Germany. American Journal of Political Science. 57(4). 841–857. 138 indexed citations

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Ford, Robert. (2012). Euroscepticism is now a powerful force for the radical right in the UK – and UKIP is well placed to harness it. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science).

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Ford, Robert, Matthew Goodwin, & David Cutts. (2011). Strategic Eurosceptics and polite xenophobes: Support for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2009 European Parliament elections. European Journal of Political Research. 51(2). 204–234. 94 indexed citations

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Pickup, Mark, J. Scott Matthews, Will Jennings, Robert Ford, & Stephen D. Fisher. (2011). Why Did the Polls Overestimate Liberal Democrat Support? Sources of Polling Error in the 2010 British General Election. Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties. 21(2). 179–209. 11 indexed citations

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Cutts, David, Robert Ford, & Matthew Goodwin. (2010). Anti‐immigrant, politically disaffected or still racist after all? Examining the attitudinal drivers of extreme right support in Britain in the 2009 European elections. European Journal of Political Research. 50(3). 418–440. 84 indexed citations

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Curtice, John, Stephen D. Fisher, & Robert Ford. (2010). The British General Election of 2010: The Results Analysed. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Ford, Robert. (2008). Is racial prejudice declining in Britain?¹. British Journal of Sociology. 59(4). 609–636. 94 indexed citations

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Ford, Robert. (1999). World public debt and real interest rates. Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 15(2). 77–94. 46 indexed citations

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Ford, Robert, Thomas M. Krueger, David T. Coe, & Liam Ebrill. (1995). Exchange Rate Movements and Inflation Performance: The Case of Italy. IMF Working Paper. 95(41). 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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Ford, Robert, et al.. (1995). World Public Debt and Real Interest Rates. IMF Working Paper. 95(30). i–i. 16 indexed citations

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Ford, Robert. (1982). Exchange Rate and Trade Flow Equilibrium in a Stochastic Macro Model. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique. 15(2). 294–294. 1 indexed citations

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