| Rethinking patrimonialism and neopatrimonialism in Africa A Pitcher, MH Moran, M Johnston African Studies Review 52 (1), 125-156, 2009 | 600 | 2009 |
| Transforming Mozambique: the politics of privatization, 1975–2000 MA Pitcher Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 548 | 2002 |
| Forgetting from above and memory from below: Strategies of legitimation and struggle in postsocialist Mozambique MA Pitcher Africa 76 (1), 88-112, 2006 | 159 | 2006 |
| Party politics and economic reform in Africa's democracies MA Pitcher Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 140 | 2012 |
| African socialisms and postsocialisms MA Pitcher, KM Askew Africa 76 (1), 1-14, 2006 | 140 | 2006 |
| The ‘basket case’and the ‘poster child’: explaining the end of civil conflicts in Liberia and Mozambique MH Moran &, MA Pitcher Third world quarterly 25 (3), 501-519, 2004 | 136 | 2004 |
| Recreating colonialism or reconstructing the state? Privatisation and politics in Mozambique MA Pitcher Journal of Southern African Studies 22 (1), 49-74, 1996 | 115 | 1996 |
| Politics in the Portuguese empire: the state, industry, and cotton, 1926-1974 MA Pitcher (No Title), 1993 | 114 | 1993 |
| Disruption without transformation: Agrarian relations and livelihoods in Nampula Province, Mozambique 1975–1995 MA Pitcher Journal of Southern African Studies 24 (1), 115-140, 1998 | 93 | 1998 |
| Ordering power? The politics of state-led housing delivery under authoritarianism–the case of Luanda, Angola S Croese, MA Pitcher Urban Studies 56 (2), 401-418, 2019 | 60 | 2019 |
| Varieties of residential capitalism in Africa: Urban housing provision in Luanda and Nairobi MA Pitcher African Affairs 116 (464), 365-390, 2017 | 54 | 2017 |
| Sowing the seeds of failure: early Portuguese cotton cultivation in Angola and Mozambique, 1820–1926 MA Pitcher Journal of Southern African Studies 17 (1), 43-70, 1991 | 50 | 1991 |
| Was privatisation necessary and did it work? The case of South Africa A Pitcher Review of African Political Economy 39 (132), 243-260, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| Mozambique elections 2019: Pernicious polarization, democratic decline, and rising authoritarianism MA Pitcher African Affairs 119 (476), 468-486, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
| From coercion to incentives: The Portuguese colonial cotton regime in Angola and Mozambique, 1946-1974 MA Pitcher Cotton, colonialism, and social history in Sub-Saharan Africa (Isaacman, A …, 1995 | 37 | 1995 |
| Sobreviver à transição: o legado das antigas empresas coloniais em Moçambique MA Pitcher Análise Social, 793-820, 2003 | 33 | 2003 |
| What's missing from ‘What's missing’? A reply to C. Cramer and N. Pontara,‘Rural poverty and poverty alleviation in Mozambique: what's missing from the debate?’ MA Pitcher The Journal of Modern African Studies 37 (4), 697-709, 1999 | 25 | 1999 |
| City building in post-conflict, post-socialist Luanda: burying the past with phantasmagorias of the future A Pitcher, M Moorman African Cities Reader 3, 123-136, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| What Has Happened to Organized Labor in Southern Africa? 1 MA Pitcher International Labor and Working-Class History 72 (1), 134-160, 2007 | 22 | 2007 |
| Conditions, commitments, and the politics of restructuring in Africa MA Pitcher Comparative politics, 379-398, 2004 | 20 | 2004 |
