| The second face of hegemony: Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws and the American Walker Tariff of 1846 SC James, DA Lake International Organization 43 (1), 1-29, 1989 | 240 | 1989 |
| Presidents, parties, and the state: A party system perspective on democratic regulatory choice, 1884-1936 SC James Cambridge University Press, 2006 | 138* | 2006 |
| Patronage Regimes and American Party Development from ‘The Age of Jackson’to the Progressive Era SC James British Journal of Political Science 36 (1), 39-60, 2006 | 74 | 2006 |
| The political economy of voting rights enforcement in America's Gilded Age: Electoral College competition, partisan commitment, and the federal election law SC James, BL Lawson American Political Science Review 93 (1), 115-131, 1999 | 58 | 1999 |
| The evolution of the presidency: Between the promise and the fear SC James Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch, 3-40, 2005 | 34 | 2005 |
| Historical institutionalism, political development, and the presidency SC James The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency, 2009 | 33 | 2009 |
| Timing and Sequence in Congressional Elections: Interstate Contagion and America's Nineteenth-Century Scheduling Regime SC James Studies in American Political Development 21 (2), 181-202, 2007 | 15 | 2007 |
| Prelude to Progressivism: Party Decay, Populism, and the Doctrine of “Free and Unrestricted Competition” in American Antitrust Policy, 1890–1897 SC James Studies in American Political Development 13 (2), 288-336, 1999 | 11 | 1999 |
| A Theory of Presidential Commitment and Opportunism: Swing States, Pivotal Groups and Civil Rights under Truman and Clinton SC James | 10 | 1995 |
| Building a Democratic Majority: The Progressive Party Vote and the Federal Trade Commission SC James Studies in American Political Development 9 (2), 331-385, 1995 | 9 | 1995 |
| Book Reviews: Robert Harrison, Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.£ 45.00 (US $75.00), xiii+ 293 pp. ISBN 0 … SC James Party Politics 13 (3), 397-399, 2007 | | 2007 |
| P RESIDENTS CONFRONT A YAWNING GULF BETWEEN THE duties oftheir office and the inadequate formal powers at their command. SC James Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch, 2005 | | 2005 |
| Coalition-building, the democracy, and the development of American regulatory institutions, 1884-1936: a party system perspective SC James University of California, Los Angeles, 1993 | | 1993 |
| Reply to Sanders SC James Studies in American Political Development 6 (1), 206-210, 1992 | | 1992 |
| Electoral Order and Political Participation: Election Scheduling, Calendar Position, and Antebellum Congressional Turnout SM Butler, SC James | | |
| CONFERENCE PANEL: ON POLITICAL IDENTITY MPRA Norton, GM Shulman, SC James | | |
| THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF VOTING RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA’S GILDED AGE: PARTISAN COMMITMENT, ELECTORAL COLLEGE CONSTRAINT AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FEDERAL ELECTION LAW SC James, BL Lawson, M Kousser, D Mayhew, E Monkonnen, K Orren, ... | | |
| BUILDING A NEW AMERICAN PARTY: PATRONAGE DISCIPLINE AND THE EMERGENCE OF STRONG PARTY GOVERNMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CONGRESS SC James, D Carpenter, R Franzese, G Gamm | | |
