| The politics of blame avoidance RK Weaver Journal of public policy 6 (4), 371-398, 1986 | 2885 | 1986 |
| Do institutions matter?: government capabilities in the United States and abroad RK Weaver, BA Rockman Brookings Institution Press, 2010 | 1779 | 2010 |
| Ending welfare as we know It RK Weaver Brookings Institution Press, 2000 | 720 | 2000 |
| The changing world of think tanks RK Weaver PS: Political Science & Politics 22 (3), 563-578, 1989 | 697 | 1989 |
| Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and Action JG McGann Transaction Publishers, 2000 | 514 | 2000 |
| When policies undo themselves: Self‐undermining feedback as a source of policy change AM Jacobs, RK Weaver Governance 28 (4), 441-457, 2015 | 425 | 2015 |
| Assessing the Effects of Institutions K Weaver Do Institutions Matter, 1-41, 1993 | 408 | 1993 |
| Automatic government: The politics of indexation RK Weaver Brookings Institution Press, 2010 | 363 | 2010 |
| Paths and forks or chutes and ladders?: Negative feedbacks and policy regime change K Weaver Journal of Public Policy 30 (2), 137-162, 2010 | 360 | 2010 |
| Compliance regimes and barriers to behavioral change RK Weaver Governance 27 (2), 243-265, 2014 | 215 | 2014 |
| Imposing losses in pension policy P Pierson, RK Weaver Do institutions matter 87, 1993 | 205 | 1993 |
| Think tanks in the US media A Rich, RK Weaver Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 5 (4), 81-103, 2000 | 168 | 2000 |
| Getting people to behave: Research lessons for policy makers RK Weaver Public Administration Review 75 (6), 806-816, 2015 | 164 | 2015 |
| The polls—trends: welfare RK Weaver, RY Shapiro, LR Jacobs Public Opinion Quarterly 59 (4), 606-627, 1995 | 161 | 1995 |
| Think tanks and civil societies in a time of change RK Weaver, JG McGann Think tanks and civil societies, 1-36, 2017 | 122 | 2017 |
| Separation of powers and cleavage management A Lijphart, R Rogowski, RK Weaver Do institutions matter, 302-344, 1993 | 112 | 1993 |
| The government taketh away: The politics of pain in the United States and Canada CH Tuohy, RJ Schultz, DT Studlar, PW Lackenbauer, AG Stalnaker, ... Georgetown University Press, 2003 | 109 | 2003 |
| Unraveling from within? The affordable care act and self-undermining policy feedbacks J Oberlander, RK Weaver The Forum 13 (1), 37-62, 2015 | 107 | 2015 |
| But will it work? Implementation analysis to improve government performance RK Weaver Contract, 2009 | 107 | 2009 |
| Target compliance: The final frontier of policy implementation RK Weaver Governance Studies at Brookings, 2009 | 99 | 2009 |
