| Tanzania: a de facto one party state? AB Makulilo Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008 | 62 | 2008 |
| Independent electoral commission in Tanzania: a false debate? AB Makulilo Representation 45 (4), 435-453, 2009 | 34 | 2009 |
| Unleveled playfield and democracy in Tanzania AB Makulilo J. Pol. & L. 5, 96, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| ‘Watching the watcher’: an evaluation of local election observers in Tanzania AB Makulilo The Journal of Modern African Studies 49 (2), 241-262, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| Beyond polarity in Zanzibar? The ‘silent’referendum and the government of national unity M Bakari, A Makulilo Journal of Contemporary African Studies 30 (2), 195-218, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| 'Where Have All Researchers Gone?'Use and Abuse of Polls for the 2010 Elections in Tanzania AB Makulilo International Journal of Peace and Development Studies 3 (3), 33-56, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Election management bodies in East Africa AB Makulilo, E Ntaganda, M Sekaggya, P Osodo African Minds, 2016 | 21 | 2016 |
| Rebooting democracy? Political data mining and biometric voter registration in Africa A Makulilo Information & Communications Technology Law 26 (2), 198-212, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| The Zanzibar Electoral Commission and its feckless independence AB Makulilo Journal of Third World Studies 28 (1), 263-283, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| Poll-" pollution"?: The politics of numbers in the 2013 elections in Kenya AB Makulilo The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and …, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| State Party and Democracy: Tanzania and Zambia in Comparative Perspective AB Makulilo Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| “Whose affirmative action is affirmative?” Lessons from Tanzania AB Makulilo CEU Political Science Journal, 607-637, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| “JOIN A PARTY OR I CANNOT ELECT YOU”: THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE QUESTION IN TANZANIA AB Makulilo CEU Political Science Journal, 111-137, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| “Where to Publish?” Avoiding Mediocrity for Academic Staff Promotion at the University of Dar es Salaam A Makulilo The African Review 48 (2), 621-646, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| The future of elections in Africa: Critical Issues and Perspectives A Makulilo, R Henry Tanzania Journal of Sociology 2, 103-115, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| Why the CCM is still in power in Tanzania? A reply AB Makulilo CEU Political Science Journal 9 (1-2), 88-106, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| Populism and democracy in Africa AB Makulilo Contemporary Populism: A Controversial Concept and Its Diverse Forms, 167-202, 2013 | 9 | 2013 |
| The fallacy of de facto independent candidacy in Tanzania: a rejoinder AB Makulilo CEU Political Science Journal, 196-213, 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
| Authoritarian stability across space: the case of Tanzania AB Makulilo Democratization and competitive authoritarianism in Africa, 173-190, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| Against foreign capital: the populist temptation in Tanzania AB Makulilo Whitehead J. Dipl. & Int'l Rel. 18, 49, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
