| The dialectics of oppression in Zaire MG Schatzberg Indiana University Press, 1991 | 524 | 1991 |
| Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family MG Schatzberg Food, 2001 | 376 | 2001 |
| Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: father, family, food MG Schatzberg Indiana University Press, 2001 | 288 | 2001 |
| Power, legitimacy and ‘democratisation’in Africa MG Schatzberg Africa 63 (4), 445-461, 1993 | 203 | 1993 |
| Politics and Class in Zaire: bureaucracy, business, and beer in Lisala MG Schatzberg (No Title), 1980 | 158 | 1980 |
| Mobutu or chaos?: the United States and Zaire, 1960-1990 MG Schatzberg (No Title), 1991 | 137 | 1991 |
| The political economy of Kenya MG Schatzberg (No Title), 1987 | 105 | 1987 |
| Beyond Mobutu: Kabila and the Congo MG Schatzberg J. Democracy 8, 70, 1997 | 80 | 1997 |
| The political economy of Zimbabwe MG Schatzberg | 54 | 1984 |
| La sorcellerie comme mode de causalité politique MG Schatzberg Politique africaine, 33-47, 2000 | 46 | 2000 |
| Soccer, science, and sorcery: causation and African football MG Schatzberg Africa Spectrum, 351-369, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| Islands of privilege: Small cities in Africa and the Dynamics of class formation MG Schatzberg Urban Anthropology, 173-190, 1979 | 39 | 1979 |
| The political economy of Cameroon MG Schatzberg, IW Zartman | 38 | 1986 |
| Military intervention and the myth of collective security: The case of Zaire MG Schatzberg The Journal of Modern African Studies 27 (2), 315-340, 1989 | 33 | 1989 |
| Ethnicity and Class at the Local Level: Bars and Bureaucrats in Lisala, Zaire MG Schatzberg Comparative Politics 13 (4), 461-478, 1981 | 30 | 1981 |
| The metaphors of father and family MG Schatzberg The political economy of Cameroon, 1-19, 1986 | 27 | 1986 |
| High jacking Change: Zaire’s “Transition” in Comparative Perspective MG Schatzberg Democracy in Africa: The hard road ahead, 113-134, 1997 | 25 | 1997 |
| The State and the Economy: The “Radicalization of the Revolution” in Mobutu's Zaire MG Schatzberg Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue canadienne des études …, 1980 | 20 | 1980 |
| Fidelité au guide: the JMPR in Zairian schools MG Schatzberg The Journal of Modern African Studies 16 (3), 417-431, 1978 | 19 | 1978 |
| The structural roots of the DRC's current disasters: Deep dilemmas MG Schatzberg African Studies Review 55 (1), 117-121, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
