| Democracy in Ghana: Everyday politics in urban Africa JW Paller Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 125 | 2019 |
| Informal institutions and personal rule in urban Ghana JW Paller African Studies Review 57 (3), 123-142, 2014 | 99 | 2014 |
| Informal networks and access to power to obtain housing in urban slums in Ghana JW Paller Africa Today 62 (1), 31-55, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
| Democratic ruptures and electoral outcomes in Africa: Ghana's 2016 election GM Bob-Milliar, JW Paller Africa Spectrum 53 (1), 5-35, 2018 | 56 | 2018 |
| Defending the city, defending votes: Campaign strategies in urban Ghana K Klaus, JW Paller The Journal of Modern African Studies 55 (4), 681-708, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Slum politics in Africa JM Klopp, JW Paller Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| Who really governs urban Ghana? M Awal, J Paller Africa Research Institute (ARI), 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Political accountability in Ghanaian slums: Evidence from the grassroots JW Paller Ghana Center for Democratic Development, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Dignified public expression: A new logic of political accountability JW Paller Comparative Politics 52 (1), 85-116, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| Political struggle to political sting: A theory of democratic disillusionment JW Paller Polity 45 (4), 580-603, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| Everyday politics and sustainable urban development in the Global South JW Paller Area Development and Policy 6 (3), 319-336, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Building permanence: fire outbreaks and emergent tenure security in urban Ghana JW Paller Africa 89 (3), 437-456, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Political Accountability in Ghana: Evidence from Afrobarometer Round 5 Survey D Armah-Attoh, EF Ampratwum, J Paller Afrobarometer, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| African slums: Constructing democracy in unexpected places JW Paller The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| The contentious politics of African urbanization JW Paller Current History 116 (790), 163-169, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| The social embeddedness of elections: Ghana’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns GM Bob-Milliar, JW Paller Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 61 (3), 293-314, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| Informal practices of accountability in urban Africa JW Paller Oxford University Press, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| From urban crisis to political opportunity: African slums JW Paller Africa under neoliberalism, 76-94, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| The contentious politics of urbanization: Insights from Africa JW Paller APSA Comparative Politics 30 (1), 57-65, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Sustainability politics and housing development in urban Brazil and Ghana MM Donaghy, JW Paller International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 36 (3), 329-347, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
