| Conceptualizing legitimacy, measuring legitimating beliefs M Levi, A Sacks, T Tyler American behavioral scientist 53 (3), 354-375, 2009 | 956 | 2009 |
| Network analysis and political science MD Ward, K Stovel, A Sacks Annual Review of Political Science 14 (1), 245-264, 2011 | 479 | 2011 |
| Legitimating beliefs: Sources and indicators M Levi, A Sacks Regulation & Governance 3 (4), 311-333, 2009 | 334 | 2009 |
| Bureaucracy and service delivery TB Pepinsky, JH Pierskalla, A Sacks Annual Review of Political Science 20 (1), 249-268, 2017 | 298 | 2017 |
| The separation plot: A new visual method for evaluating the fit of binary models B Greenhill, MD Ward, A Sacks American Journal of Political Science 55 (4), 991-1002, 2011 | 215 | 2011 |
| The paradox of export growth in areas of weak governance: The case of the ready made garment sector in Bangladesh FZ Ahmed, A Greenleaf, A Sacks World Development 56, 258-271, 2014 | 202 | 2014 |
| Can donors and non-state actors undermine citizens' legitimating beliefs? A Sacks World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2012 | 123 | 2012 |
| Personnel politics: Elections, clientelistic competition and teacher hiring in indonesia JH Pierskalla, A Sacks British Journal of Political Science 50 (4), 1283-1305, 2020 | 116 | 2020 |
| Open data World Bank Worldbank, 2020 | 111 | 2020 |
| Measuring government effectiveness and its consequences for social welfare in sub-Saharan African countries A Sacks, M Levi Social Forces 88 (5), 2325-2351, 2010 | 92 | 2010 |
| The reasons for compliance with law M Levi, TR Tyler, A Sacks Understanding social action, promoting human rights, 70-99, 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
| Why quality matters: rebuilding trustworthy local government in post-conflict Sierra Leone A Sacks, M Larizza World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
| Unpacking the effect of decentralized governance on routine violence: Lessons from Indonesia JH Pierskalla, A Sacks World Development 90, 213-228, 2017 | 62 | 2017 |
| Unpaved road ahead: The consequences of election cycles for capital expenditures JH Pierskalla, A Sacks The Journal of Politics 80 (2), 510-524, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
| African patrimonialism in historical perspective: Assessing decentralized and privatized tax administration E Kiser, A Sacks The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 636 (1 …, 2011 | 47 | 2011 |
| Democratization and representative bureaucracy: an analysis of promotion patterns in Indonesia's civil service, 1980–2015 JH Pierskalla, A Lauretig, AS Rosenberg, A Sacks American Journal of Political Science 65 (2), 261-277, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
| Nationalism and direct rule M Hechter, T Kuyucu, A Sacks The SAGE handbook of nations and nationalism, 84-93, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Improving tax administration in contemporary African states: lessons from history E Kiser, A Sacks The new fiscal sociology: Taxation in comparative and historical perspective …, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| Achieving Good Government--and Maybe Legitimacy M Levi, A Sacks World Bank Conference on" New Frontiers of Social Policy: Development in a …, 2005 | 35 | 2005 |
| Forced displacement, social cohesion, and the state: Evidence from eight new studies E Myers, A Sacks, JF Tellez, E Wibbels World Development 173, 106416, 2024 | 24 | 2024 |