| The surprising instability of competitive authoritarianism C Carothers Journal of Democracy 29 (4), 129-135, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Taking authoritarian anti-corruption reform seriously C Carothers Perspectives on Politics 20 (1), 69-85, 2022 | 28 | 2022 |
| When Can Dictators Go It Alone? Personalization and Oversight in Authoritarian Regimes A Leber, C Carothers, M Reichert Politics and Society, 1-42, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes C Carothers Cambridge University Press, 2022 | 14 | 2022 |
| The rise and fall of anti-corruption in North Korea C Carothers Journal of East Asian Studies 22 (1), 147-168, 2022 | 10 | 2022 |
| From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China C Carothers, Z Zhang Journal of Contemporary China, 2022 | 10 | 2022 |
| The autocrat's corruption dilemma C Carothers Government and Opposition 58 (1), 22-38, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign: An All-Purpose Governing Tool C Carothers China Leadership Monitor, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Does External Threat Unify? Chinese Pressure and Domestic Politics in Taiwan and South Korea C Carothers Foreign Policy Analysis 19 (1), orac039, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bipartisanship on China in a polarized America C Carothers, T Sun International Relations, 00471178231201484, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Is the Saudi Purge Really About Corruption? C Carothers, A Leber Foreign Affairs, 2017 | 3* | 2017 |
| Controlling Corruption: The Social Contract Approach. By Bo Rothstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 208p. 35.00 paper. C Carothers Perspectives on Politics 20 (2), 756-757, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Global Rise of Corruption-Driven Political Change C Carothers Taiwan Journal of Democracy 16 (2), 147-168, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaigns, and Performance. By Julia C. Strauss, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2020. 292 pp. $81.69 (cloth) C Carothers Governance 36 (3), 994-995, 2023 | | 2023 |
| America the Failure: Understanding a Rising Narrative in Chinese State Propaganda C Carothers, J Freedman 2023 AAS Annual Conference, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Review of State Formation through Emulation: The East Asian Model C Carothers JOURNAL OF CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Review of INDO-PACIFIC EMPIRE: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region by Rory Medcalf C Carothers Pacific Affairs, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Review of The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy, and Power by Xuezhi Guo C Carothers Perspectives on Politics 18 (1), 301–2, 2020 | | 2020 |
| Combating Corruption in Authoritarian Regimes C Carothers Harvard University, 2019 | | 2019 |
