| The political relevance of political trust MJ Hetherington American political science review 92 (4), 791-808, 1998 | 2514 | 1998 |
| Why trust matters: Declining political trust and the demise of American liberalism MJ Hetherington Princeton University Press, 2005 | 1683 | 2005 |
| Resurgent mass partisanship: The role of elite polarization MJ Hetherington American political science review 95 (3), 619-631, 2001 | 1370 | 2001 |
| Authoritarianism and polarization in American politics MJ Hetherington, JD Weiler Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 1219 | 2009 |
| Why Washington won't work: Polarization, political trust, and the governing crisis MJ Hetherington, TJ Rudolph University of Chicago Press, 2020 | 741 | 2020 |
| Anatomy of a rally effect: George W. Bush and the war on terrorism MJ Hetherington, M Nelson PS: Political Science & Politics 36 (1), 37-42, 2003 | 704 | 2003 |
| The media's role in forming voters' national economic evaluations in 1992 MJ Hetherington American journal of political science, 372-395, 1996 | 687 | 1996 |
| Authoritarianism, threat, and Americans’ support for the war on terror M Hetherington, E Suhay American Journal of Political Science 55 (3), 546-560, 2011 | 641 | 2011 |
| Putting polarization in perspective MJ Hetherington British Journal of Political Science 39 (2), 413-448, 2009 | 613 | 2009 |
| The effect of political trust on the presidential vote, 1968–96 MJ Hetherington American Political Science Review 93 (2), 311-326, 1999 | 600 | 1999 |
| How trust matters: The changing political relevance of political trust MJ Hetherington, JA Husser American Journal of Political Science 56 (2), 312-325, 2012 | 380 | 2012 |
| Priming, performance, and the dynamics of political trust MJ Hetherington, TJ Rudolph The Journal of Politics 70 (2), 498-512, 2008 | 318 | 2008 |
| Political trust and racial policy preferences MJ Hetherington, S Globetti American Journal of Political Science, 253-275, 2002 | 312 | 2002 |
| Prius or pickup?: How the answers to four simple questions explain America's great divide MJ Hetherington, J Weiler Mariner Books, 2018 | 294 | 2018 |
| The price of leadership: Campaign money and the polarization of congressional parties E Heberlig, M Hetherington, B Larson The Journal of Politics 68 (4), 992-1005, 2006 | 169 | 2006 |
| Turned off or turned on? How polarization affects political engagement MJ Hetherington Red and blue nation 2, 1-33, 2008 | 149 | 2008 |
| Explaining public support for devolution: The role of political trust MJ Hetherington, JD Nugent What is it about government that Americans dislike, 134-151, 2001 | 123 | 2001 |
| Authoritarianism in black and white: Testing the cross-racial validity of the child rearing scale EO Pérez, MJ Hetherington Political Analysis 22 (3), 398-412, 2014 | 115 | 2014 |
| The redistricting cycle and strategic candidate decisions in US House races MJ Hetherington, B Larson, S Globetti The Journal of Politics 65 (4), 1221-1234, 2003 | 104 | 2003 |
| Revisiting the myth: New evidence of a polarized electorate MJ Hetherington, MT Long, TJ Rudolph Public Opinion Quarterly 80 (S1), 321-350, 2016 | 89 | 2016 |
