| The rise of the therapeutic state AJ Polsky Princeton University Press, 1993 | 361 | 1993 |
| When business speaks: Political entrepreneurship, discourse and mobilization in American partisan regimes A Polsky Journal of Theoretical Politics 12 (4), 455-476, 2000 | 49 | 2000 |
| Political time reconsidered: Unbuilding and rebuilding the state under the Reagan administration DM Cook, AJ Polsky American Politics Research 33 (4), 577-605, 2005 | 43 | 2005 |
| Partisan regimes in American politics AJ Polsky Polity 44, 51-80, 2012 | 42 | 2012 |
| Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War AJ Polsky Oxford University Press, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| Building the new American nation: Economic development, public goods, and the early US Army WD Adler, AJ Polsky Pol. Sci. Q. 125, 87, 2010 | 24 | 2010 |
| No tool is perfect: Periodization in the study of American political development AJ Polsky Polity 37 (4), 523-530, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| The 1996 elections and the logic of regime politics AJ Polsky Polity 30 (1), 153-166, 1997 | 15 | 1997 |
| “Mr. Lincoln's Army” Revisited: Partisanship, Institutional Position, and Union Army Command, 1861–1865 AJ Polsky Studies in American Political Development 16 (2), 176-207, 2002 | 14 | 2002 |
| Staying the course: Presidential leadership, military stalemate, and strategic inertia AJ Polsky Perspectives on Politics 8 (1), 127-139, 2010 | 13 | 2010 |
| Shifting currents: Dwight Eisenhower and the dynamic of presidential opportunity structure AJ Polsky Presidential Studies Quarterly 45 (1), 91-109, 2015 | 11 | 2015 |
| The presidency at war AJ Polsky The presidency and the political system 8, 557-75, 2006 | 11 | 2006 |
| Why regimes? Ideas, incentives, and policies in American political orders AJ Polsky Polity 29 (4), 625-640, 1997 | 10 | 1997 |
| A theory of American partisan regimes AJ Polsky San Francisco: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American …, 2001 | 9 | 2001 |
| The political economy of partisan regimes: Lessons from two Republican eras AJ Polsky Polity 35 (4), 595-612, 2003 | 8 | 2003 |
| The odyssey of the juvenile court: Policy failure and institutional persistence in the therapeutic state AJ Polsky Studies in American Political Development 3, 157-198, 1989 | 8 | 1989 |
| The State in a Blue Uniform AJ Polsky, WD Adler Polity 40, 348-354, 2008 | 7 | 2008 |
| Legacies Versus Politics: Herbert Hoover, Partisan Conflict, and the Symbolic Appeal of Associationalism in the 1920s AJ Polsky, O Tkacheva International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 16, 207-235, 2002 | 7 | 2002 |
| The Eisenhower Presidency: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century AJ Polsky Lexington Books, 2015 | 6 | 2015 |
| Seeing your name in print: Unpacking the mysteries of the review process at political science scholarly journals AJ Polsky PS: Political Science & Politics 40 (3), 539-543, 2007 | 6 | 2007 |
