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Paul K. MacDonald

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16

Publications

772

Citations

14

H-Index

2001

Active since

Affiliations

Wellesley College(Current)

Columbia University

Paul K. MacDonald is an author at Wellesley College specializing in social sciences, political science, and international relations.

Top concepts

Social SciencesPoliticsGeopoliticsWorld PoliticsInternational RelationsDemocracyPublic PolicyPolitical PowerPolitical TheoryPolitical Behavior

Publications per year

2001–2021

16

Publications

16

Useful Fiction or Miracle Maker: The Competing Epistemological Foundations of Rational Choice Theory

Paul K. MacDonald · American Political Science Review · 2003 · 162 citations

Public Policy, Universal Theory, Rational Choice Theory +14

Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great Power Retrenchment

Paul K. MacDonald, Joseph M. Parent · International Security · 2011 · 133 citations

Regime Analysis, Democracy, Public Policy +14

The Status of Status in World Politics

Paul K. MacDonald, Joseph M. Parent · World Politics · 2021 · 95 citations

Democracy, Societal Fragility, Status Literature +13

Embedded authority: a relational network approach to hierarchy in world politics

Paul K. MacDonald · Review of International Studies · 2017 · 75 citations

Regime Analysis, Democracy, International Relations +15

Repertoires of statecraft: instruments and logics of power politics

Stacie E. Goddard, Paul K. MacDonald, Daniel H. Nexon · International Relations · 2019 · 59 citations

Cooperation Theory, Political Theory, Relational-processual Literature +19

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