| Courtiers en développement: les villages africains en quête de projets JP Chauveau, JPO De Sardan APAD, 2000 | 746 | 2000 |
| States at work: dynamics of African bureaucracies T Bierschenk, JP Olivier de Sardan Brill, 2014 | 543 | 2014 |
| Les pouvoirs au village: le Bénin rural entre démocratisation et décentralisation T Bierschenk Karthala, 1998 | 382 | 1998 |
| DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AS ARENAS OF NEGOTIATION FOR STRATEGIC GROUPS. T Bierschenk Sociologia ruralis 28, 1988 | 332 | 1988 |
| Local development brokers in Africa: The rise of a new social category T Bierschenk, JP Chauveau, JP Olivier de Sardan Universitätsbibliothek Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2002 | 323 | 2002 |
| Local powers and a distant state in rural Central African Republic T Bierschenk, JPO De Sardan The Journal of modern african studies 35 (3), 441-468, 1997 | 290 | 1997 |
| Powers in the village: Rural Benin between democratisation and decentralisation T Bierschenk, JPO De Sardan Africa 73 (2), 145-173, 2003 | 277 | 2003 |
| ECRIS: Rapid collective inquiry for the identification of conflicts and strategic groups T Bierschenk, JP de Sardan Human Organization 56 (2), 238-244, 1997 | 197 | 1997 |
| DEVELOPMENT AID AS AN INTERVENTION IN DYNAMIC SYSTEMS. G Elwert, T Bierschenk Sociologia ruralis 28, 1988 | 134 | 1988 |
| Les courtiers locaux du développement JP Olivier de Sardan, T Bierschenk Bulletin de l'APAD, 1993 | 133 | 1993 |
| Studying the dynamics of African bureaucracies. An introduction to states at work T Bierschenk, JPO De Sardan States at Work, 3-33, 2014 | 131 | 2014 |
| States at work in West Africa: Sedimentation, fragmentation and normative double-binds T Bierschenk Inst. für Ethnologie u. Afrikastudien, Johannes-Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz, 2010 | 120 | 2010 |
| Transitions between cultivation and pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa [and comments and reply] R Mace, DM Anderson, T Bierschenk, L Cronk, I Köhler-Rollefson, ... Current Anthropology 34 (4), 363-382, 1993 | 117 | 1993 |
| From the anthropology of development to the anthropology of global social engineering T Bierschenk Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 73-97, 2014 | 114 | 2014 |
| ECRIS: Enquête Collective Rapide d'Identification des conflits et des groupes Stratégiques... T Bierschenk, JP Olivier de Sardan Bulletin de l'APAD, 1994 | 104 | 1994 |
| Democratization without development: Benin 1989–2009 T Bierschenk International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society IJPS 22, 337-357, 2009 | 100 | 2009 |
| Introduction: Les courtiers entre développement et État T Bierschenk, JP Chauveau, JPO de Sardan Courtiers en développement. Les villages africains en quête de projets, 5-42, 2000 | 99* | 2000 |
| The local appropriation of democracy: an analysis of the municipal elections in Parakou, Republic of Benin, 2002–03 T Bierschenk The Journal of Modern African Studies 44 (4), 543-571, 2006 | 97 | 2006 |
| The everyday functioning of an African public service: informalization, privatization and corruption in Benin’s legal system T Bierschenk The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 40 (57), 101-139, 2008 | 96 | 2008 |
| Sedimentation, fragmentation and normative double-binds in (West) African public services T Bierschenk States at Work, 221-245, 2014 | 95 | 2014 |
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