| Democracia, pluralização da representação e sociedade civil AG Lavalle, PP Houtzager, G Castello Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 49-103, 2006 | 523 | 2006 |
| Widgets or watchdogs? Conceptual explorations in social accountability A Joshi, PP Houtzager Public Management Review 14 (2), 145-162, 2012 | 397 | 2012 |
| Representação política e organizações civis: novas instâncias de mediação e os desafios da legitimidade AG Lavalle, PP Houtzager, G Castello Revista brasileira de ciências sociais 21, 43-66, 2006 | 275 | 2006 |
| Beyond comparative anecdotalism: lessons on civil society and participation from São Paulo, Brazil AG Lavalle, A Acharya, PP Houtzager World development 33 (6), 951-964, 2005 | 223 | 2005 |
| Introduction: from polycentrism to the polity P Houtzager Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion …, 2003 | 173 | 2003 |
| Os últimos cidadãos: conflito e modernização no Brasil rural (1964-1995) PP Houtzager, AG Lavalle Globo Livros, 2004 | 135 | 2004 |
| Changing paths: International development and the new politics of inclusion PP Houtzager, MP Moore University of Michigan Press, 2009 | 118 | 2009 |
| Polity qualities: how governance affects poverty M Moore, J Leavy, P Houtzager, H White | 114 | 1999 |
| Associations, active citizenship, and the quality of democracy in Brazil and Mexico PP Houtzager, AK Acharya Theory and society 40 (1), 1-36, 2011 | 108 | 2011 |
| Civil society’s claims to political representation in Brazil PP Houtzager, A Gurza Lavalle Studies in Comparative International Development 45 (1), 1-29, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| Atores da sociedade civil e atores políticos. Participação nas novas políticas democráticas em São Paulo A Acharya | 90 | 2004 |
| Collective action and political authority: Rural workers, church, and state in Brazil PP Houtzager Theory and Society 30 (1), 1-45, 2001 | 89 | 2001 |
| State and Unions in the Transformation of the Brazilian Countryside, 1964-1979 PP Houtzager Latin American Research Review 33 (2), 103-142, 1998 | 88 | 1998 |
| The institutional roots of popular mobilization: State transformation and rural politics in Brazil and Chile, 1960–1995 PP Houtzager, MJ Kurtz Comparative studies in society and history 42 (2), 394-424, 2000 | 86 | 2000 |
| Who participates?: Civil society and the new democratic politics in São Paulo, Brazil PP Houtzager, A Gurza Lavalle, A Acharya The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2003 | 79 | 2003 |
| Civil society representation in the participatory budget and deliberative councils of São Paulo, Brazil A Acharya, AG Lavalle, PP Houtzager IDS Bulletin 35 (2), 40-48, 2004 | 54 | 2004 |
| The Movement of the Landless (MST), juridical field, and legal change in Brazil PP Houtzager Law and globalization from below: Towards a cosmopolitan legality, 218-240, 2005 | 52 | 2005 |
| Lugares e atores da democracia: arranjos institucionais participativos e sociedade civil em São Paulo AG Lavalle, PP Houtzager, A Acharya Nobre & Coelho, Participação e deliberação, Ed 34, 343-367, 2004 | 52 | 2004 |
| Introduction: contours of a research project and early findings PP Houtzager, A Joshi The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| A construção política das sociedades civis AG Lavalle, P Houtzager, G Castello LAVALLE, A. G. Horizonte da política: questões emergentes e agendas de …, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |