| Mapping policy preferences II: estimates for parties, electors, and governments in Eastern Europe, European Union, and OECD 1990-2003 HD Klingemann Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 | 1796 | 2006 |
| Elections, parties, democracy: Conferring the median mandate MD McDonald, I Budge Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 | 695 | 2005 |
| The election of blacks to city councils: Clarifying the impact of electoral arrangements on the seats/population relationship RL Engstrom, MD McDonald American Political Science Review 75 (2), 344-354, 1981 | 327 | 1981 |
| What are elections for? Conferring the median mandate MD McDonald, SM Mendes, I Budge British Journal of Political Science 34 (1), 1-26, 2004 | 284 | 2004 |
| Mapping policy preferences from texts: statistical solutions for manifesto analysts A Volkens, J Bara, I Budge, MD McDonald, HD Klingemann OUP Oxford, 2013 | 261 | 2013 |
| Ideology, party factionalism and policy change: An integrated dynamic theory I Budge, L Ezrow, MD McDonald British Journal of Political Science 40 (4), 781-804, 2010 | 204 | 2010 |
| The policy space of party manifestos MD McDonald, SM Mendes Estimating the policy position of political actors, 90-114, 2003 | 178 | 2003 |
| Cross-temporal and cross-national comparisons of party left-right positions MD McDonald, SM Mendes, M Kim Electoral Studies 26 (1), 62-75, 2007 | 170 | 2007 |
| Organizing democratic choice: Party representation over time I Budge Oxford University Press (UK), 2012 | 157 | 2012 |
| Party platforms, mandates, and government spending G King, M Laver, RI Hofferbert, I Budge, MD McDonald American Political Science Review 87 (3), 744-750, 1993 | 142 | 1993 |
| The underrepresentation of blacks on city councils: Comparing the structural and socioeconomic explanations for South/non-South differences RL Engstrom, MD McDonald The Journal of Politics 44 (4), 1088-1099, 1982 | 112 | 1982 |
| Putting severity of punishment back in the deterrence package SM Mendes, MD McDonald Policy Studies Journal 29 (4), 588-610, 2001 | 108 | 2001 |
| Unfair partisan gerrymanders in politics and law: A diagnostic applied to six cases MD McDonald, RE Best Election Law Journal 14 (4), 312-330, 2015 | 106 | 2015 |
| Election and party system effects on policy representation: bringing time into a comparative perspective I Budge, MD McDonald Electoral studies 26 (1), 168-179, 2007 | 101 | 2007 |
| Checking the party policy estimates: Convergent validity MD McDonald, SM Mendes Oxford University Press, 2001 | 95 | 2001 |
| The effect of at-large versus district elections on racial representation in US municipalities R Engstrom, MD McDonald Electoral laws and their political consequences, 203-25, 1986 | 93 | 1986 |
| Choices parties define: Policy alternatives in representative elections, 17 countries 1945–1998 I Budge, MD McDonald Party Politics 12 (4), 451-466, 2006 | 86 | 2006 |
| Quantitative evidence in vote dilution litigation: Political participation and polarized voting RL Engstrom, MD McDonald Urb. Law. 17, 369, 1985 | 59 | 1985 |
| Crowded growth leads to the spontaneous evolution of semistable coexistence in laboratory yeast populations EM Frenkel, MJ McDonald, JD Van Dyken, K Kosheleva, GI Lang, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (36), 11306-11311, 2015 | 51 | 2015 |
| Considering the prospects for establishing a packing gerrymandering standard RE Best, SJ Donahue, J Krasno, DB Magleby, MD McDonald Election Law Journal 17 (1), 1-20, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
