| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms | Political Studies | 1996 | 4,394 |
| 2 | The New Governance: Governing without Government | Political Studies | 1996 | 2,725 |
| 3 | Who Learns What from Whom: A Review of the Policy Transfer Literature | Political Studies | 1996 | 1,515 |
| 4 | Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy | Political Studies | 1999 | 1,456 |
| 5 | Citizenship Norms and the Expansion of Political Participation | Political Studies | 2008 | 787 |
| 6 | Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output and ‘Throughput’ | Political Studies | 2013 | 784 |
| 7 | Productivist Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy in East Asia | Political Studies | 2000 | 717 |
| 8 | The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government? | Political Studies | 2005 | 562 |
| 9 | Model or Metaphor? A Critical Review of the Policy Network Approach | Political Studies | 1995 | 540 |
| 10 | Rethinking Populism: Politics, Mediatisation and Political Style | Political Studies | 2014 | 530 |
| 11 | Justice in Ideal Theory: A Refutation | Political Studies | 2007 | 457 |
| 12 | When Does Diversity Erode Trust? Neighborhood Diversity, Interpersonal Trust and the Mediating Effect of Social Interactions | Political Studies | 2008 | 432 |
| 13 | Understanding Policy Networks: Towards a Dialectical Approach | Political Studies | 2000 | 429 |
| 14 | Economic Growth and Social Capital | Political Studies | 2000 | 404 |
| 15 | Opinion Structure of Political Parties: The Special Law of Curvilinear Disparity | Political Studies | 1973 | 403 |
| 16 | Is Populism an Ideology? A Refutation and a New Perspective | Political Studies | 2016 | 398 |
| 17 | Populism versus Democracy | Political Studies | 2007 | 395 |
| 18 | Citizens' Juries and Deliberative Democracy | Political Studies | 2000 | 394 |
| 19 | Does Diversity Erode Social Cohesion? Social Capital and Race in British Neighbourhoods | Political Studies | 2008 | 394 |
| 20 | The Challenge of the All-Affected Principle | Political Studies | 2011 | 381 |
| 21 | If you can't Beat them, Join them? Explaining Social Democratic Responses to the Challenge from the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe | Political Studies | 2010 | 379 |
| 22 | Deliberative Democracy and Social Choice | Political Studies | 1992 | 376 |
| 23 | Structure, Agency and Historical Institutionalism | Political Studies | 1998 | 372 |
| 24 | Funding the Welfare State: Globalization and the Taxation of Business in Advanced Market Economies | Political Studies | 1998 | 366 |
| 25 | Inequalities in Non-Institutionalised forms of Political Participation: A Multi-Level Analysis of 25 Countries | Political Studies | 2010 | 353 |
| 26 | Overload: Problems of Governing in the 1970s | Political Studies | 1975 | 344 |
| 27 | Systematising Policy Learning: From Monolith to Dimensions | Political Studies | 2013 | 323 |
| 28 | Government, Interest Groups and Policy Change | Political Studies | 2000 | 320 |
| 29 | The Discipline of the New Democracy: Mrs Thatcher's Domestic Statecraft | Political Studies | 1986 | 314 |
| 30 | Immigration and the Imagined Community in Europe and the United States | Political Studies | 2008 | 313 |
| 31 | Critical Mass Theory and Women's Political Representation | Political Studies | 2008 | 307 |
| 32 | Integrated Deliberation: Reconciling Civil Society's Dual Role in Deliberative Democracy | Political Studies | 2006 | 302 |
| 33 | Is Nationalism a Distinct Ideology? | Political Studies | 1998 | 294 |
| 34 | Persistence and Change in Western Party Systems since 1945 | Political Studies | 1970 | 293 |
| 35 | The New Economics of Corruption: A Survey and some New Results | Political Studies | 1997 | 285 |
| 36 | It's Parties that Choose Electoral Systems (Or, Duverger's Laws Upside Down) | Political Studies | 2005 | 285 |
| 37 | The Politics of Perception: Use and Abuse of Transparency International's Approach to Measuring Corruption | Political Studies | 2009 | 282 |
| 38 | Legitimacy Problems in Deliberative Democracy | Political Studies | 2003 | 265 |
| 39 | The Growing Importance of Issue Competition: The Changing Nature of Party Competition in Western Europe | Political Studies | 2007 | 263 |
| 40 | A Liberal Theory of Secession | Political Studies | 1984 | 258 |
| 41 | Political Marketing: Lessons for Political Science | Political Studies | 1999 | 247 |
| 42 | The Democratic Peace is Not Democratic: On Behalf of Rawls' Decent Societies | Political Studies | 2009 | 237 |
| 43 | Interest Group Strategies: Navigating between Privileged Access and Strategies of Pressure | Political Studies | 2005 | 236 |
| 44 | Resources, Group Conflict and Symbols: Explaining Anti-Immigration Hostility in Britain | Political Studies | 2007 | 234 |
| 45 | Westminster Women: The Politics of Presence | Political Studies | 2003 | 232 |
| 46 | Local Autonomy, Local Democracy and the ‘New Localism’ | Political Studies | 2004 | 232 |
| 47 | Enfranchising the Earth, and its Alternatives | Political Studies | 1996 | 231 |
| 48 | Habermas: Discourse and Cultural Diversity | Political Studies | 2003 | 227 |
| 49 | Nudging and Manipulation | Political Studies | 2013 | 224 |
| 50 | New Philanthropy, New Networks and New Governance in Education | Political Studies | 2008 | 223 |
