| The political economy of benefits and costs: A neoclassical approach to distributive politics BR Weingast, KA Shepsle, C Johnsen Journal of political Economy 89 (4), 642-664, 1981 | 2704 | 1981 |
| Making and breaking governments: Cabinets and legislatures in parliamentary democracies M Laver, KA Shepsle (No Title), 1996 | 2269 | 1996 |
| Institutional arrangements and equilibrium in multidimensional voting models KA Shepsle American journal of political science, 27-59, 1979 | 2170 | 1979 |
| The institutional foundations of committee power KA Shepsle, BR Weingast American Political Science Review 81 (1), 85-104, 1987 | 1993 | 1987 |
| Studying institutions: Some lessons from the rational choice approach KA Shepsle Journal of theoretical politics 1 (2), 131-147, 1989 | 1718 | 1989 |
| Politics in plural societies A Rabushka, KA Shepsle Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill 232, 1972 | 1614 | 1972 |
| Analyzing politics: rationality, behavior, and institutions KA Shepsle, MS Bonchek (No Title), 1997 | 1563 | 1997 |
| Structure-induced equilibrium and legislative choice KA Shepsle, BR Weingast Public choice 37, 503-519, 1981 | 1204 | 1981 |
| Institutional equilibrium and equilibrium institutions KA Shepsle Political Science: the science of politics/Agathon Press, 1986 | 1012 | 1986 |
| The strategy of ambiguity: Uncertainty and electoral competition KA Shepsle American Political Science Review 66 (2), 555-568, 1972 | 900 | 1972 |
| Decision making and problem solving HA Simon, GB Dantzig, R Hogarth, CR Plott, H Raiffa, TC Schelling, ... Interfaces 17 (5), 11-31, 1987 | 889 | 1987 |
| Political preferences for the pork barrel: A generalization KA Shepsle, BR Weingast American journal of political science, 96-111, 1981 | 856 | 1981 |
| The giant jigsaw puzzle: Democratic committee assignments in the modern House KA Shepsle (No Title), 1978 | 855 | 1978 |
| Rational choice KA Shepsle The Oxford handbook of political institutions 2, 23, 2006 | 831 | 2006 |
| Congress is a “they,” not an “it”: Legislative intent as oxymoron KA Shepsle International Review of Law and Economics 12 (2), 239-256, 1992 | 795 | 1992 |
| Coalitions and cabinet government M Laver, KA Shepsle American Political Science Review 84 (3), 873-890, 1990 | 739 | 1990 |
| Cabinet ministers and parliamentary government M Laver, KA Shepsle CUP Archive, 1994 | 616 | 1994 |
| Positive theories of congressional institutions KA Shepsle, BR Weingast Legislative Studies Quarterly, 149-179, 1994 | 566 | 1994 |
| Uncovered sets and sophisticated voting outcomes with implications for agenda institutions KA Shepsle, BR Weingast American Journal of Political Science, 49-74, 1984 | 537 | 1984 |
| Positive theories of congressional institutions KA Shepsle, BR Weingast University of Michigan Press, 1995 | 456 | 1995 |
