| The fourth wave of democracy and dictatorship: noncooperative transitions in the postcommunist world M McFaul World politics 54 (2), 212-244, 2002 | 1335 | 2002 |
| Transitions from postcommunism M McFaul Journal of democracy 16 (3), 5-19, 2005 | 671 | 2005 |
| Russia's unfinished revolution: Political change from Gorbachev to Putin M McFaul Cornell University Press, 2001 | 607 | 2001 |
| Democracy promotion as a world value M McFaul The Washington Quarterly 28 (1), 147-163, 2004 | 495 | 2004 |
| A tale of two worlds: core and periphery in the post-cold war era JM Goldgeier, M McFaul International Organization 46 (2), 467-491, 1992 | 486 | 1992 |
| State power, institutional change, and the politics of privatization in Russia M McFaul World Politics 47 (2), 210-243, 1995 | 382 | 1995 |
| Revolution in orange: the origins of Ukraine's democratic breakthrough A Aslund, M McFaul < bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …, 2006 | 349 | 2006 |
| Power and purpose: US policy toward Russia after the Cold War JM Goldgeier, M McFaul Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 | 319 | 2003 |
| Popular choice and managed democracy: The Russian elections of 1999 and 2000 TJ Colton, M McFaul Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 | 308 | 2003 |
| Ukraine imports democracy: External influences on the Orange Revolution M McFaul International security 32 (2), 45-83, 2007 | 279 | 2007 |
| The Myth of the Authoritarian Model-How Putin's Crackdown Holds Russia Back M McFaul, K Stoner-Weiss Foreign Aff. 87, 68, 2008 | 257 | 2008 |
| Should democracy be promoted or demoted? F Fukuyama, M McFaul Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide, 147-168, 2009 | 201 | 2009 |
| Promoting democracy and the rule of law: American and European strategies A Magen, T Risse, M McFaul Springer, 2009 | 197 | 2009 |
| Between dictatorship and democracy: Russian post-communist political reform M McFaul, N Petrov, A Ryabov Carnegie Endowment, 2010 | 194 | 2010 |
| Advancing democracy abroad: why we should and how we can M McFaul Rowman & Littlefield, 2009 | 171 | 2009 |
| Faulty powers: Who started the Ukraine crisis? M McFaul, S Sestanovich, JJ Mearsheimer Foreign Affairs 93 (6), 167-178, 2014 | 162 | 2014 |
| Russia's 1996 presidential election: the end of polarized politics M McFaul Hoover Press, 1997 | 159 | 1997 |
| From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia M McFaul (No Title), 2018 | 155 | 2018 |
| Are Russians Undemocratic? TJ Colton, M McFaul Post-Soviet Affairs 18 (2), 91-121, 2002 | 155 | 2002 |
| A precarious peace: domestic politics in the making of Russian foreign policy M McFaul International security 22 (3), 5-35, 1997 | 147 | 1997 |
