| Playing with the boys: Why separate is not equal in sports E McDonagh, L Pappano Oxford University Press, 2007 | 390 | 2007 |
| Breaking the abortion deadlock: From choice to consent EL McDonagh Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 | 253 | 1996 |
| Political citizenship and democratization: The gender paradox E McDonagh American Political Science Review 96 (3), 535-552, 2002 | 169 | 2002 |
| The motherless state: Women's political leadership and American democracy E McDonagh University of Chicago Press, 2009 | 105 | 2009 |
| Woman suffrage in the Progressive Era: Patterns of opposition and support in referenda voting, 1910-1918 EL McDonagh, HD Price American Political Science Review 79 (2), 415-435, 1985 | 100 | 1985 |
| Representative democracy and state building in the progressive era EL McDonagh American Political Science Review 86 (4), 938-950, 1992 | 70 | 1992 |
| My body, my consent: securing the constitutional right to abortion funding EL McDonagh Alb. L. Rev. 62, 1057, 1998 | 60 | 1998 |
| To work or not to work: The differential impact of achieved and derived status upon the political participation of women, 1956-1976 EL McDonagh American Journal of Political Science, 280-297, 1982 | 48 | 1982 |
| The eclectic center of the new institutionalism: Axes of analysis in comparative perspective P Ethington, E McDonagh Social Science History 19 (4), 467-477, 1995 | 45 | 1995 |
| It takes a state: A policy feedback model of women's political representation E McDonagh Perspectives on Politics 8 (1), 69-91, 2010 | 44 | 2010 |
| Attitude changes and paradigm shifts: Social psychological foundations of the Kuhnian thesis EL McDonagh Social Studies of Science 6 (1), 51-76, 1976 | 39 | 1976 |
| The “welfare rights state” and the “civil rights state”: Policy paradox and state building in the progressive era EL McDonagh Studies in American Political Development 7 (2), 225-274, 1993 | 38 | 1993 |
| Issues and constituencies in the progressive era: House roll call voting on the Nineteenth Amendment, 1913-1919 EL McDonagh The Journal of Politics 51 (1), 119-136, 1989 | 36 | 1989 |
| The common space of social science inquiry PJ Ethington, EL McDonagh Polity 28 (1), 85-90, 1995 | 34 | 1995 |
| Race, class, and gender in the Progressive Era: Restructuring state and society EL McDonagh, SM Milkis, JM Mileur Progressivism and the new democracy, 145-91, 1999 | 33 | 1999 |
| Constituency influence on house roll-call votes in the progressive era, 1913-1915 EL McDonagh Legislative Studies Quarterly, 185-210, 1993 | 30 | 1993 |
| Ripples from the first wave: the monarchical origins of the welfare state E McDonagh Perspectives on Politics 13 (4), 992-1016, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| Adding Consent to Choice in the Abortion Debate. E McDonagh Society 42 (5), 2005 | 15 | 2005 |
| Social exchange and moral development: Dimensions of self, self-image, and identity EL McDonagh Human Relations 35 (8), 659-674, 1982 | 11 | 1982 |
| The Next Step After Roe: Using Fundamental Rights, Equal Protection Analysis to Nullify Restrictive State-Level Abortion Legislation E McDonagh Emory LJ 56, 1173, 2006 | 10 | 2006 |
