| Decentralization: Fueling the fire or dampening the flames of ethnic conflict and secessionism? D Brancati International organization 60 (3), 651-685, 2006 | 947 | 2006 |
| The origins and strengths of regional parties D Brancati British journal of political science 38 (1), 135-159, 2008 | 473 | 2008 |
| Peace by Design: Managing intrastate conflict through decentralization D Brancati Oxford University Press, 2009 | 370 | 2009 |
| Political aftershocks: The impact of earthquakes on intrastate conflict D Brancati Journal of Conflict Resolution 51 (5), 715-743, 2007 | 323 | 2007 |
| Democratic authoritarianism: Origins and effects D Brancati Annual Review of Political Science 17, 313-326, 2014 | 286 | 2014 |
| Time to kill: The impact of election timing on postconflict stability D Brancati, JL Snyder Journal of Conflict Resolution 57 (5), 822-853, 2013 | 267* | 2013 |
| Can federalism stabilize Iraq? (RPT in "Reshaping Rogue States") D Brancati Washington Quarterly 27 (2), 5-21, 2004 | 172* | 2004 |
| Democracy Protests: Origins, Features and Significance D Brancati Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 169 | 2016 |
| Rushing to the polls: The causes of premature postconflict elections D Brancati, JL Snyder Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (3), 469-492, 2011 | 153 | 2011 |
| Pocketbook Protests Explaining the Emergence of Pro-Democracy Protests Worldwide D Brancati Comparative Political Studies 47, 1503-1530,, 2014 | 148* | 2014 |
| Winning alone: The electoral fate of independent candidates worldwide D Brancati The Journal of Politics 70 (3), 648-662, 2008 | 138 | 2008 |
| Global Elections Database D Brancati www.globalelectionsdatabase.com, 2007 | 111* | 2007 |
| Socially relevant ethnic groups, ethnic structure, and AMAR JK Birnir, J Wilkenfeld, JD Fearon, DD Laitin, TR Gurr, D Brancati, ... Journal of Peace Research 52 (1), 110-115, 2015 | 104* | 2015 |
| Social scientific research D Brancati Social Scientific Research, 1-384, 2018 | 102 | 2018 |
| Another Great Illusion: The Advancement of Separatism through Economic Integration D Brancati Political science research and methods 2 (1), 69-95, 2014 | 59* | 2014 |
| Pawns take queen: The destabilizing effects of regional parties in Europe D Brancati Constitutional Political Economy (special issue) 16 (2), 143-159, 2005 | 54 | 2005 |
| The determinants of US public opinion towards democracy promotion D Brancati Political Behavior 36, 705-730, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Building confidence in elections: The case of electoral monitors in Kosova D Brancati Journal of Experimental Political Science 1 (1), 6-15, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| Why Democracy Protests Do Not Diffuse D Brancati, A Lucardi Journal of Conflict Resolution, 0022002718815957, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| Democracy Protests B Dawn Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
