Robert Mattes

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

30h-index3.9kcitations273works6.92yr avg
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Research Topics

International Development and Aid(75), Legal Issues in South Africa(25), Political Conflict and Governance(24), Global Peace and Security Dynamics(23), African history and culture studies(17)

Publications273 total

353Chapter 15 African political parties: A citizens’ perspective
2025
Polling for Peace in Pre-War Germany: Geoffrey Pyke’s Extraordinary Experiment in Covert Sentiment Analysis
Preprints.org·2024Open Access
Polling for Peace in Pre-War Germany: Geoffrey Pyke’s Extraordinary Experiment in Covert Sentiment Analysis
Preprints.org·2024Open Access
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach
Comparative Political Studies·2024· 37 citedOpen Access
Political Parties and Democracy in South Africa
2024Open Access
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?
Journal of Southern African Studies·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Long-range interacting systems are locally non-interacting
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
African Political Parties
African Studies·2024· 17 cited
Harmonization in the Afrobarometer
2023· 2 cited
It takes two to <i>toyi-toyi</i> : one party dominance and opposition party failure in South Africa’s 2019 national election
Democratization·2023· 6 cited
South Africa’s ruling party is performing dismally, but a flawed opposition keeps it in power
2023
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Economic vulnerability and poor service delivery made it more difficult for shack-dwellers to comply with COVID-19 restrictions
South African Journal of Science·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Economic vulnerability and poor service delivery made it more difficult for shack-dwellers to comply with COVID-19 restrictions: The impracticability and inequitable burden of universal/unstratified public health policies
2022Open Access
Might first-hand experience of ill-health and economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic strengthen public support for vaccination and the reallocation of health sector funding towards health emergency preparedness in South Africa?
2021Open Access
Political Culture in Africa
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics·2021· 1 cited
Party structures and organization building in Africa
Party Politics·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
Party footprints in Africa: Measuring local party presence across the continent
Party Politics·2021· 17 citedOpen Access
South Africa
2021· 2 cited
Africa First! Igniting a Growth Revolution
South African Journal of International Affairs·2021· 30 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Michaël Bratton(9), Pippa Norris(3), Shaheen Mozaffar(3), E. Gyimah-Boadi(2), Joel D. Barkan(2), E. Gyimah‐Boadi(2), Christopher Claassen(2), Kathrin Ackermann(2), Eri Bertsou(2), Lucas Borba(2), Ryan E. Carlin(2), Amnon Cavari(2), Sirianne Dahlum(2), Sergiu Gherghina(2), Darren Hawkins(2), Yphtach Lelkes(2), Pedro C. Magalhães(2), Maurits J. Meijers(2), Anja Neundorf(2), Dániel Oross(2)