Research
Publications
Forthcoming Woo, Byung-Deuk, Hyein Ko, Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Yue Hu, and Frederick Solt. Forthcoming. “Public Support for Gay Rights Across Countries and Over Time.” Social Science Quarterly.
Forthcoming Hu, Yue, and Frederick Solt. Forthcoming. “Macrointerest Across Countries.” British Journal of Political Science.
Forthcoming Hu, Yue, Yuehong Cassandra Tai, and Frederick Solt. Forthcoming. “Revisiting the Evidence on Thermostatic Response to Democratic Change: Degrees of Democratic Support or Researcher Degrees of Freedom?” Political Science Research and Methods.
Tai, Yuehong ‘Cassandra’, Yue Hu, and Frederick Solt. 2024. “Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty.” American Political Science Review 118(1):512-518.
Woo, Byung-Deuk, Lindsey A. Goldberg, and Frederick Solt. 2023. “Public Gender Egalitarianism: A Dataset of Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion Toward Egalitarian Gender Roles in the Public Sphere.” British Journal of Political Science 53(2), 766-775.
Frederick Solt. 2020. “Measuring Income Inequality Across Countries and Over Time: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database.” Social Science Quarterly 101(3):1183-1199.
Ritter, Michael, and Frederick Solt. 2019. “Economic Inequality and Campaign Participation.” Social Science Quarterly 100(3):678-688
Kim, Mi-son, and Frederick Solt. 2017. “The Dynamics of Party Relabeling: Why Do Parties Change Names?” Party Politics 23(4):437-447.
Solt, Frederick, Yue Hu, Kevan Hudson, Jungmin Song, and Dong ‘Erico’ Yu. 2017. “Economic Inequality and Class Consciousness.” Journal of Politics 79(3):1079-1083.
Solt, Frederick. 2016. “The Standardized World Income Inequality Database.” Social Science Quarterly. 97(5):1267-1281.
Solt, Frederick, Yue Hu, Kevan Hudson, Jungmin Song, and Dong ‘Erico’ Yu. 2016. “Economic Inequality and Belief in Meritocracy in the United States.” Research & Politics 3(4):1-7.
Solt, Frederick. 2015. “On the Assessment and Use of Cross-National Income Inequality Datasets.” Journal of Economic Inequality 13(4):683-691.
Solt, Frederick. 2015. “Economic Inequality and Nonviolent Protest.” Social Science Quarterly 96(5):1314-1327.
Solt, Frederick. 2014. “Reversing the Arrow? Economic Inequality’s Effect on Religiosity.” In Religion and Inequality in America: Research and Theory on Religion’s Role in Stratification, L. Keister and D. Sherkat, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Solt, Frederick, Dongkyu Kim, Kyu Young Lee, Spencer Willardson, and Seokdong Kim. 2014. “Neoliberal Reform and Protest in Latin American Democracies: A Replication and Correction.” Research and Politics 1(2):1-13.
Solt, Frederick. 2012. “The Social Origins of Authoritarianism.” Political Research Quarterly 65(4):703-713.
Solt, Frederick. 2011. “Diversionary Nationalism: Economic Inequality and the Formation of National Pride.” Journal of Politics 73(3):821-830.
Solt, Frederick, Philip Habel, and J. Tobin Grant. 2011. “Economic Inequality, Relative Power, and Religiosity.” Social Science Quarterly 92(2):447-465.
Solt, Frederick. 2010. “Does Economic Inequality Depress Electoral Participation? Testing the Schattschneider Hypothesis.” Political Behavior 32(2):285-301.
Solt, Frederick. 2009. “Standardizing the World Income Inequality Database.” Social Science Quarterly 90(2):231-242.
Solt, Frederick. 2008. “Economic Inequality and Democratic Political Engagement.” American Journal of Political Science 52(1):48-60. American Journal of Political Science 52(1):48-60.
Searing, Donald, Frederick Solt, Pamela Johnston Conover, and Ivor Crewe. 2007. “Public Discussion in the Deliberative System: Does It Make Better Citizens?” British Journal of Political Science 37(4):587-618.
Huber, Evelyne, and Frederick Solt. 2004. “Successes and Failures of Neoliberalism in Latin America.” Latin American Research Review 39(3):150-164.
Solt, Frederick. 2004. “Civics or Structure? Revisiting the Origins of Democratic Quality in the Italian Regions.” British Journal of Political Science 34(1):123-135.
Solt, Frederick. 2004. “Electoral Competition, Legislative Pluralism, and Institutional Development: Evidence from Mexico’s States.” Latin American Research Review 39(1):155-167.
Solt, Frederick. 2001. “Institutional Effects on Democratic Transitions: Neo-Patrimonial Regimes in Africa, 1989-1994.” Studies in Comparative International Development 36(2):82-91.
Working Papers
Under Review Yuehong Cassandra Tai, and Frederick Solt. 2024. “Trust in Civil Servants: A Cross-National Dataset for Public Policy Research, 1986–2022.” SocArXiv.
Under Review Chrisendo, Daniel, Venla Niva, Roman Hoffmann, Sina Masoumzadeh Sayyar, Juan Rocha, Vilma Sandström, Frederick Solt, and Matti Kummu. 2024. “Income Inequality Has Increased For Over Two-Thirds of the Global Population.” ResearchSquare.
Under Review Ma, Haofeng, Jeongho Choi, Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Yue Hu, and Frederick Solt. 2024. “Macrodiscontent Across Countries.” SocArXiv.
Revise & Resubmit Hu, Yue, Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Hyein Ko, Byung-Deuk Woo, and Frederick Solt. 2023. “An Incomplete Recipe: One-Dimensional Latent Variables Do Not Capture the Full Flavor of Democratic Support.” SocArXiv.
Hu, Yue, Yuehong Cassandra Tai, and Frederick Solt. 2022. “On Data ‘Janitor Work’ in Political Science: The Case of Thermostatic Support for Democracy.” SocArXiv.
Solt, Frederick. 2020. “Modeling Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion.” SocArXiv.