| The logic of congressional action RD Arnold Yale University Press, 1990 | 3394 | 1990 |
| Congress and the bureaucracy: A theory of influence RD Arnold Yale University Press, 1979 | 834 | 1979 |
| Congress, the press, and political accountability RD Arnold Princeton University Press, 2004 | 442* | 2004 |
| Holding mayors accountable: New York's executives from Koch to Bloomberg RD Arnold, N Carnes American Journal of Political Science 56 (4), 949-963, 2012 | 116 | 2012 |
| Can inattentive citizens control their elected representatives? RD Arnold Congress reconsidered 5, 401-16, 1993 | 109 | 1993 |
| Political control of administrative officials RD Arnold The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 3 (2), 279-286, 1987 | 101 | 1987 |
| Issues in privatizing Social Security PA Diamond, RD Arnold, BD Bernheim, G Burtless MIT Press, 1999 | 99 | 1999 |
| The local roots of domestic policy RD Arnold The new congress, 250-287, 1981 | 95 | 1981 |
| Overtilled and undertilled fields in American politics RD Arnold Political Science Quarterly 97 (1), 91-103, 1982 | 73 | 1982 |
| Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics RD Arnold, MJ Graetz, AH Munnell Brookings Institution Press, 1998 | 59 | 1998 |
| Legislators, bureaucrats, and locational decisions RD Arnold Public Choice, 107-132, 1981 | 43 | 1981 |
| The politics of reforming social security RD Arnold Political Science Quarterly 113 (2), 213-240, 1998 | 28 | 1998 |
| The Political Feasibility of Social Security Reform RD Arnold Framing the Social Security Debate’, R. Douglas Arnold, Michael J. Graetz …, 1998 | 12 | 1998 |
| Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age RD Arnold Princeton University Press, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
| The electoral connection, age 40 RD Arnold Governing in a polarized age: Elections, parties, and political …, 2017 | 6 | 2017 |
| Congressmen, bureaucrats, and constituency benefits: The case of military employment, 1952-1974 RD Arnold meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, 1977 | 6 | 1977 |
| Politics at the Precipice: Fixing Social Security in 2033 RD Arnold The Forum 13 (1), 3-18, 2015 | 5 | 2015 |
| Strategies for Coalition Leaders RD Arnold Herbert F. Weisberg, Eric S, 1999 | 2 | 1999 |
| Congressmen, Bureaucrats, and Constituency Benefits: The Politics of Geographic Allocaiton RD Arnold Yale University, 1977 | 1 | 1977 |
| Fred I. Greenstein: In Memoriam RD Arnold, JP Burke PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS 52 (2), 381-383, 2019 | | 2019 |
