| Capital, coercion, and crime: Bossism in the Philippines JT Sidel Stanford University Press, 1999 | 848 | 1999 |
| Riots, pogroms, jihad: religious violence in Indonesia JT Sidel Cornell University Press, 2006 | 699 | 2006 |
| Philippine politics and society in the twentieth century: colonial legacies, post-colonial trajectories EL Hedman, J Sidel Routledge, 2005 | 288 | 2005 |
| Bossism and democracy in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia: towards an alternative framework for the study of ‘local strongmen’ JT Sidel Politicising democracy: The new local politics of democratisation, 51-74, 2005 | 284 | 2005 |
| Philippine politics in town, district, and province: Bossism in Cavite and Cebu JT Sidel The Journal of Asian Studies 56 (4), 947-966, 1997 | 185 | 1997 |
| Economic foundations of subnational authoritarianism: Insights and evidence from qualitative and quantitative research JT Sidel Democratization 21 (1), 161-184, 2014 | 115 | 2014 |
| Macet total: Logics of circulation and accumulation in the demise of Indonesia's New Order JT Sidel Indonesia, 159-195, 1998 | 105 | 1998 |
| Social origins of dictatorship and democracy revisited: colonial state and Chinese immigrant in the making of modern Southeast Asia JT Sidel Comparative Politics 40 (2), 127-147, 2008 | 93 | 2008 |
| The Islamist threat in Southeast Asia: a reassessment JT Sidel Institute of Southeast Asian, 2007 | 75 | 2007 |
| Siam and its Twin?: Democratization and bossism in contemporary Thailand and the Philippines JT Sidel IDs Bulletin 27 (2), 56-63, 1996 | 70 | 1996 |
| The fate of nationalism in the new states: Southeast Asia in comparative historical perspective JT Sidel Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 (1), 114-144, 2012 | 56 | 2012 |
| Walking in the shadow of the big man: Junstiniano Montano and failed dynasty building in Cavite 1935-1972 JT Sidel University of Wisconsin Press, 2009 | 47 | 2009 |
| The Philippines: the languages of legitimation JT Sidel Stanford University Press, 1995 | 42 | 1995 |
| Beyond patron-client relations: Warlordism and local politics in the Philippines JT Sidel Kasarinlan 4 (3), 19-30, 1989 | 42 | 1989 |
| Coercion, capital, and the post-colonial state: bossism in the postwar Philippines JT Sidel Cornell University, 1995 | 40 | 1995 |
| The manifold meanings of displacement: Explaining inter-religious violence, 1999-2001 JT Sidel Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008 | 39 | 2008 |
| Achieving reforms in oligarchical democracies: The role of leadership and coalitions in the Philippines JT Sidel Developmental Leadership Program, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| Riots, church burnings, conspiracies: The moral economy of the Indonesian crowd in the late twentieth century JT Sidel Violence in Indonesia, 47-63, 2001 | 32 | 2001 |
| The underside of progress: land, labor, and violence in two Philippine growth zones, 1985–1995 JT Sidel Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30 (1), 3-12, 1998 | 31 | 1998 |
| Response to Ileto: Or, why I am not an orientalist JT Sidel Philippine Political Science Journal 23 (46), 129-138, 2002 | 26 | 2002 |
