| Policy making in Britain: an introduction (2nd edition) P Dorey Sage, 2014 | 232* | 2014 |
| British Conservatism: The Politics and Philosophy of Inequality P Dorey I. B. Tauris, 2010 | 106* | 2010 |
| A new direction or another false dawn? David Cameron and the crisis of British Conservatism P Dorey British Politics 2 (2), 137–166, 2007 | 97 | 2007 |
| From crisis to coalition: The Conservative Party, 1997-2010 P Dorey, M Garnett, A Denham Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 | 64* | 2011 |
| A Poverty of Imagination: Blaming the Poor for Inequality P Dorey The Political Quarterly 81 (3), 333-343, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform: A History of Constitutional Conservatism P Dorey Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher AS Crines, T Heppell, P Dorey Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 | 54 | 2016 |
| ‘The Longest Suicide Vote in History’: The Labour Party Leadership Election of 2015 P Dorey, A Denham British Politics, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| The Labour Governments 1964-1970 PE Dorey Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2006 | 45 | 2006 |
| House of Lords reform since 1911: Must the Lords Go? P Dorey, A Kelso Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| 'O, brother, where art thou?' The Labour Party leadership election of 2010 P Dorey, A Denham British Politics 6 (3), 286-316, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| Faltering before the finishing line: The Conservative Party's performance in the 2010 general election P Dorey British Politics 5 (4), 402-435, 2010 | 33 | 2010 |
| No such thing as the 'Big Society'? The Conservative Party's unnecessary search for 'narrative' in the 2010 general election P Dorey, M Garnett British Politics 7 (4), 389-417, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| Wage Politics in Britain: The Rise and Fall of Income Policies since 1945 P Dorey Sussex Academic Press, 2001 | 32 | 2001 |
| British Conservatism and Trade Unionism, 1945–1964. P Dorey Ashgate, 2009 | 26* | 2009 |
| ‘The weaker-willed, the craven-hearted’: the decline of One Nation Conservatism P Dorey, M Garnett Global Discourse 5 (1), 69-91, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| ‘Well, Harold Insists on Having It!’—The Political Struggle to Establish The Open University, 1965–67 P Dorey Contemporary British History 29 (2), 241-272, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| 1949, 1969, 1999: The Labour Party and House of Lords reform P Dorey Parliamentary Affairs 59 (4), 599-620, 2006 | 20 | 2006 |
| Developments in British Public Policy PE Dorey Sage, 2005 | 19 | 2005 |
| The Legacy of Thatcherism - Public Sector Reform P Dorey Observatoire de la Société Britannique 17, 33-60, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
