| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Dilemmas in a general theory of planning | Policy Sciences | 1973 | 10,934 |
| 2 | Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital | Journal of Democracy | 1995 | 8,341 |
| 3 | A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS? | Public Administration | 1991 | 5,680 |
| 4 | The Science of "Muddling Through" | Public Administration Review | 1959 | 5,677 |
| 5 | International Norm Dynamics and Political Change | International Organization | 1998 | 5,497 |
| 6 | Introduction: epistemic communities and international policy coordination | International Organization | 1992 | 5,489 |
| 7 | Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games | International Organization | 1988 | 5,260 |
| 8 | Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics | American Political Science Review | 2000 | 5,129 |
| 9 | "Creeping Democratization" in China | Journal of Democracy | 1995 | 5,016 |
| 10 | The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media | Public Opinion Quarterly | 1972 | 5,004 |
| 11 | What To Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data | American Political Science Review | 1995 | 4,876 |
| 12 | Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy | American Political Science Review | 1959 | 4,787 |
| 13 | Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War | American Political Science Review | 2003 | 4,754 |
| 14 | The governance of global value chains | Review of International Political Economy | 2005 | 4,647 |
| 15 | Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses | Political Analysis | 2006 | 4,464 |
| 16 | Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms | Political Studies | 1996 | 4,394 |
| 17 | Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards* | Social Science Quarterly | 2003 | 3,713 |
| 18 | Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics | International Organization | 1992 | 3,695 |
| 19 | E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture | Scandinavian Political Studies | 2007 | 3,162 |
| 20 | The Populist Zeitgeist | Government and Opposition | 2004 | 3,107 |
| 21 | Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk | Political Analysis | 2012 | 3,101 |
| 22 | International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order | International Organization | 1982 | 3,002 |
| 23 | Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference | Political Analysis | 2007 | 2,997 |
| 24 | Logistic Regression in Rare Events Data | Political Analysis | 2001 | 2,955 |
| 25 | Two Faces of Power | American Political Science Review | 1962 | 2,739 |
| 26 | Rationalist explanations for war | International Organization | 1995 | 2,729 |
| 27 | The New Governance: Governing without Government | Political Studies | 1996 | 2,725 |
| 28 | Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs | American Journal of Political Science | 2006 | 2,710 |
| 29 | Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development | American Political Science Review | 1993 | 2,687 |
| 30 | “Effective” Number of Parties | Comparative Political Studies | 1979 | 2,630 |
| 31 | Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects: A Multivariate Reweighting Method to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational Studies | Political Analysis | 2012 | 2,628 |
| 32 | Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy | Party Politics | 1995 | 2,559 |
| 33 | An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein | Policy Sciences | 1988 | 2,514 |
| 34 | Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation | American Journal of Political Science | 2000 | 2,429 |
| 35 | When Work Disappears | Political Science Quarterly | 1996 | 2,379 |
| 36 | The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life | American Political Science Review | 1983 | 2,343 |
| 37 | A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997 | American Political Science Review | 1998 | 2,291 |
| 38 | Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research | Political Research Quarterly | 2008 | 2,245 |
| 39 | HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS | Annual Review of Political Science | 1999 | 2,243 |
| 40 | Framing Theory | Annual Review of Political Science | 2007 | 2,229 |
| 41 | Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching | Political Analysis | 2012 | 2,218 |
| 42 | Does Oil Hinder Democracy? | World Politics | 2001 | 2,212 |
| 43 | Multipart pricing of public goods | Public Choice | 1971 | 2,189 |
| 44 | Territoriality and beyond: problematizing modernity in international relations | International Organization | 1993 | 2,106 |
| 45 | The Influence of Source Credibility on Communication Effectiveness | Public Opinion Quarterly | 1951 | 2,097 |
| 46 | Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse | Annual Review of Political Science | 2008 | 2,089 |
| 47 | Learning from Abroad: The Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy-Making | Governance | 2000 | 2,084 |
| 48 | Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism | British Journal of Political Science | 1995 | 2,079 |
| 49 | How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits | Policy Sciences | 1978 | 2,056 |
| 50 | Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms | American Journal of Political Science | 1984 | 2,039 |
| 51 | A Decade of System Justification Theory: Accumulated Evidence of Conscious and Unconscious Bolstering of the Status Quo | Political Psychology | 2004 | 2,027 |
| 52 | Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies | British Journal of Political Science | 1986 | 2,021 |
| 53 | A Re-assessment of the Concept of Political Support | British Journal of Political Science | 1975 | 2,008 |
| 54 | NINE SECOND-ORDER NATIONAL ELECTIONS - A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS | European Journal of Political Research | 1980 | 2,008 |
| 55 | Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics | American Political Science Review | 1970 | 1,996 |
| 56 | American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory | World Politics | 1964 | 1,969 |
| 57 | Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda | Perspectives on Politics | 2004 | 1,968 |
| 58 | Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation | American Political Science Review | 1995 | 1,967 |
| 59 | Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics | International Organization | 1997 | 1,965 |
| 60 | The Functional Approach to the Study of Attitudes | Public Opinion Quarterly | 1960 | 1,954 |
| 61 | “Let's Argue!”: Communicative Action in World Politics | International Organization | 2000 | 1,926 |
| 62 | The Motivational Bases of Public Service | Public Administration Review | 1990 | 1,913 |
| 63 | Incentives to cultivate a personal vote: A rank ordering of electoral formulas | Electoral Studies | 1995 | 1,896 |
| 64 | The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism | Journal of Democracy | 2002 | 1,893 |
| 65 | When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions | Political Behavior | 2010 | 1,877 |
| 66 | Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method | American Political Science Review | 1971 | 1,864 |
| 67 | Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts | Political Analysis | 2013 | 1,857 |
| 68 | Taking Time Seriously: Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable | American Journal of Political Science | 1998 | 1,851 |
| 69 | Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes" | Journal of Politics | 1999 | 1,841 |
| 70 | A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus | British Journal of Political Science | 2009 | 1,832 |
| 71 | Nonresponse Rates and Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys | Public Opinion Quarterly | 2006 | 1,825 |
| 72 | Democracy and dictatorship revisited | Public Choice | 2010 | 1,813 |
| 73 | Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy | American Political Science Review | 1977 | 1,806 |
| 74 | Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study | American Journal of Political Science | 1996 | 1,801 |
| 75 | When Effect Becomes Cause: Policy Feedback and Political Change | World Politics | 1993 | 1,799 |
| 76 | The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders | International Organization | 1998 | 1,798 |
| 77 | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. | Political Science Quarterly | 1936 | 1,797 |
| 78 | A Theory of the Calculus of Voting | American Political Science Review | 1968 | 1,785 |
| 79 | Constituency Influence in Congress | American Political Science Review | 1963 | 1,740 |
| 80 | Hard and Soft Law in International Governance | International Organization | 2000 | 1,732 |
| 81 | Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy | American Political Science Review | 1993 | 1,730 |
| 82 | Uses and Gratifications Research | Public Opinion Quarterly | 1973 | 1,720 |
| 83 | Thinking About Hybrid Regimes | Journal of Democracy | 2002 | 1,712 |
| 84 | The Study of Administration | Political Science Quarterly | 1887 | 1,710 |
| 85 | The territorial trap: The geographical assumptions of international relations theory | Review of International Political Economy | 1994 | 1,690 |
| 86 | A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System | American Political Science Review | 1954 | 1,679 |
| 87 | Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible | American Political Science Review | 1992 | 1,664 |
| 88 | The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis | American Political Science Review | 1978 | 1,662 |
| 89 | Delegative Democracy | Journal of Democracy | 1994 | 1,660 |
| 90 | Cooperation under the Security Dilemma | World Politics | 1978 | 1,658 |
| 91 | Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes | American Political Science Review | 1994 | 1,647 |
| 92 | Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital | American Journal of Political Science | 1997 | 1,644 |
| 93 | Incumbent performance and electoral control | Public Choice | 1986 | 1,639 |
| 94 | The New Politics of the Welfare State | World Politics | 1996 | 1,632 |
| 95 | Global production networks and the analysis of economic development | Review of International Political Economy | 2002 | 1,631 |
| 96 | The End of the Transition Paradigm | Journal of Democracy | 2002 | 1,626 |
| 97 | What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? | American Political Science Review | 2004 | 1,608 |
| 98 | The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations | International Organization | 1999 | 1,603 |
| 99 | Affect, Not Ideology | Public Opinion Quarterly | 2012 | 1,578 |
| 100 | Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective | Revista Espanola De Investigaciones Sociologicas | 1997 | 1,561 |
